The Tablet March 1, 2021
The following is the full text from homilist Father Franklin Ezeorah, for the Feb. 28, 2021 Black History Month Mass:
“I like to begin by thanking your excellency Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio, the Catholic Bishop of Brooklyn Diocese, and the Very Reverend Father Alonzo Cox, the Vicar for the Black Catholic Concerns of the Diocese of Brooklyn, for graciously allowing me to be the homilist of this year’s Diocesan Black History celebration. This Diocese is arguably the most diverse in the US because of its openness to welcome immigrants and its diversified nature of pastoral ministration… and the credit goes to you, Bishop, and your collaborators for realizing that there is strength in diversity. We essentially embrace diversity because although we have different people globally, we have only one human race.
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The Tablet January 21, 2021
By Father Alonzo Cox
Since the year 1983, our country has deemed the birthday of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to be a federal holiday. For some, this is just another holiday to relax from work, get errands done, or to catch up with friends and family.
Holidays are meant to be moments of celebration. Over these last several months, holidays have become very different. Thanksgiving and Christmas are just two examples of holidays that were celebrated much differently than before.
Many of us spent these days at home using the gift of modern technology to communicate with loved ones. Many of my parishioners have told me that they were just not in the “holiday spirit,” which is completely understandable. I think the same can be said for this holiday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Each year we recall the life and legacy of this man who fought tirelessly for equality and justice.
The Tablet January 19, 2021
Father Alonzo Cox (right), who led the prayer service, said that while African-Americans had not yet reached the promised land of racial justice as King had predicted, “We will get there.” (Photos: Paula Katinas)
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT Maria Stange has vivid memories of the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. She was only eight years old at the time, but April 4, 1968, is burned into her brain.
“It was incredible. People who didn’t even know each other were hugging each other on the street. That’s how emotional everybody felt,” she said.
Stange was one of a small group of people who attended a special prayer service at Our Lady of Victory Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Jan. 18, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, to celebrate the civil rights icon’s life and legacy.