February 1, 2017

"If standing up for justice and for peace for all people should call us to leave behind what's comfortable and what's safe, will we, too, be compelled?"

- Sr. Nicole Trahan, from Dr. King's lessons for today: standing against the status quo, published on Global Sisters Report

National Day of Prayer for the African American and African Family was created by Franciscan Fr. James Goode in 1989 as a day set aside "to give special thanks to God for our families and place our every care in the arms of Jesus."