To Stand on the Rock

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If I could, I surely would stand on the rock where Moses stood. –from the Spiritual Elijah Rock Taking its theme from the pastoral letter of the Black Catholic bishops of the United States, which spoke of the challenge of being authentically Black and truly Catholic, To Stand on the Rock invites us to linger awhile in the garden of our imagination and try to see with the eyes of faith and art how the old ones … took a twisted version of Christianity and re-twisted it into a culture of liberation, transcendence, creativity and wholeness. Father Brown begins by recalling the religion and identity of those Africans who were brought to these shores in bondage: the original source in the quest for what it means to be authentically Black. He then explores the style of Christianity they forged through the sufferings of slavery, which found expression in the Spirituals. Brown then reflects on the struggle of Black Catholics to claim their own style of faith and spirituality and to assert their distinctive gifts to the church universal.