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september 9 marks the feast day of St. Peter claver
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The Racial Justic Task Force of the Diocese of Oakland was launched on the Feast Day of St. Peter Claver in 2020. Each year, we join USCCB in celebrating this feast day. The history of St. Peter Claver as well as worship resources can be found below.
“Seek God in all things and you shall find God by your side.”
- St. Peter ClaverSt. Peter Claver, a Jesuit missionary who ministered to enslaved Africans, is the patron saint of African-Americans as well as enslaved people everywhere.
Born in Catalonia, St. Peter Claver joined the Jesuits after studying at the University of Barcelona. When he became a priest, he went to Cartagena, Columbia where he would minister to an estimated 300,000 enslaved people in his four decades there. Claver communicated by means of generosity and expressions of love, giving food and drink to the ailing workers and visiting them when they were sick. "We must speak to them with our hands," he reasoned, "before we try to speak to them with our lips."
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USCCB lifts up the feast day of st. peter claver as a national day of prayer
"St. Peter Claver is a model for us in understanding that hard work and perseverance is required to combat the sin of racism and build community; we must begin and end this effort in prayer together, even as we seek to act in concrete ways," Bishop Murry continued. "To help dioceses, parishes and other places of worship, communities, and families observe this National Day of Prayer, the Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism and USCCB staff offer pastoral and prayer resources which can be found at www.usccb.org/racism."
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worship resources
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