Going Home Like a Shooting Star: Sister Thea Bowman's Journey to Sainthood

Sister Thea was an advocate for racial justice and intercultural understanding. She spoke passionately about full participation in the Church. She brought her ‘whole black self’ to the community of faith and to the altar. She was a teacher, public speaker, musician, and woman religious who founded the National Black Sisters’ Conference. Thea Bowman’s long struggle to open the Catholic Church to African-American spirituality is a story all American Catholics should know. Her love of Black Catholic music and spirituals led her as she became an integral participant in the publication of the Catholic hymnal, “Lead Me, Guide Me: The African Catholic Hymnal.” This is the hymnal that is used at the Church of the Resurrection. The movement calling for her canonization was opened in 2018 and she remains one of the Six “Black Catholics in Waitng” to be declared a saint by the Catholic Church.

We invite you to become a participant in the grassroots movement calling on the church to move forward with the sainthood causes of the African American Catholics on the road to sainthood. Again, save the date and join us in the Undercroft at St. Saviour on Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 3:00pm. This event is being sponsored by the Church of the Resurrection's Peace, Justice, and Social Action Commission