Author Topic: Happy Feast Day of Saint Peter Claver! (Read 2673 times)

Hobbledehoy · « **on:** September 08, 2012, 09:50:28 PM »

Happy Feast Day of Saint Peter Claver!

From Butler's Lives of the Saints, Vol. III: July, August, September (ed. Rev. Fr. Herbert Thurston, S.J., and Donald Attwater; New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1956), here is a hagiographical narration of the life of St. Peter Claver, the illustrious Apostle of the Negroes and the heavenly Patron of Missions amongst the selfsame peoples.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #1 on:** September 08, 2012, 09:59:13 PM »

Here is the very beautiful Mass of the Feast of Saint Peter Claver, taken from a Supplement containing the proper Masses for the Feasts observed throughout the Dioceses of the American Republic, found in The Saint Andrew Daily Missal with Vespers for Sundays and Feasts by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., and the Monks of the Abbey of St. Andrew (Saint Paul, MN: The E. M. Lohmann Co., 1959).

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #2 on:** September 08, 2012, 10:02:56 PM »

From the work of Rev. Fr. Charles J. Callan, O. P., The Parables of Christ: With Notes for Preaching and Meditation (New York: Joseph F. Wagner, Inc., 1940), here is a commentary upon the Parable of the Good Samaritan, the narration of which constitutes the Gospel lesson for the Mass of the Feast of Saint Peter Claver.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #3 on:** September 08, 2012, 10:08:44 PM »

From the tome Kyrie Eleison: Two Hundred Litanies with Historico-Liturgical Introduction and Notes by Rev. Fr. Benjamin Francis Musser, O.F.M. (Westminster, MD: The Newman Bookshop, 1944), here is a Litany in honor of Saint Peter Claver.

Sigismund · « **Reply #4 on:** September 09, 2012, 10:31:45 PM »

Perhaps a prayer for black Catholics in this hemisphere on the feast of their patron would be in order too.

Matthew · « **Reply #5 on:** September 10, 2012, 04:49:11 AM »

Thank you for posting those extremely edifying texts, Hobbledehoy.

The Catholic Faith is infused in every sentence of them.

Reading the Lives of the Saints always does my soul good.

poche · « **Reply #6 on:** September 10, 2012, 06:11:39 AM »

Happy feast day to you too. St Peter Claver was a wonderful gift to the church.