endstream endobj startxref His fellow students loved him too, and his professors held him in high regard. As he did so he gazed at the three children sleeping and began to talk of his hopes for their future, one in which they would be free. He was buried in Quincy at his request. Although the Venerable Augustus Tolton lived over a hundred years ago his spirituality still speaks to us with incredible clarity and inspirational vitality for our times. 1854: Augustus is born to Martha Jane and Peter Paul Tolton in Missouri on April 1. His solemn Requiem Mass was attended by more than 100 brother priests and a crowd that overflowed the church. 0000051258 00000 n We presented to the Church Tolton as a model Christian and priest during a time of paradox, an era of social deficits that attempted to derail his priestly ministry. His parents were slaves, so he too became one. Through his experiences of racial negation by a society that would separate black and white by force of the law and lawless custom, Tolton found the love of God, found his own vocation and ultimately has received his reward from God as a figure of Christian faith in action, indiscriminate love of neighbor and pastoral charity despite the bigotry that was thrown at him. K. V. Turley is a London based freelance writer and filmmaker with a degree in theology from the Maryvale Institute. We desperately need more priests from the US. That was not an unusual sight; however, that day there was a change. Yet, essentially, the results of this struggled reasoning are pretty much the same for us as they are for anyone else regardless of faith perspective or lack thereof. I must now give praise to that son of the Emerald Isle, Father Peter McGirr, pastor of St. Peters Church in Quincy, who promised me that I would be educated and who kept his word. A religious figure like Tolton arises with unique inspiration amidst the chasms that remain apparent between black and white races in this country. Tolton had asked to be buried in Quincy. Cause website: https://tolton.archchicago.org. Suffering can result in strengthened faith or disbelief, agnosticism or outright atheism. But Father McGirr and the sisters who ran the school knew they needed to prepare both parents and students for the schools first black student. Throughout, Tolton remained steady in his ministry thinking only the best about everyone, with a resolve to labor in a pastoral situation that would offer hope to a people, poor people, any people. I am a 72 year old african american grandmother. When Augustus was 14, the pastor of the Irish parish, St. Peters, invited the boy who could barely read to enroll. WebTolton is a powerful multi-media live production, filled with music, drama and inspiring performances. My father was actually in the Jesuit seminary for a number of years. Gus was not insensitive to what that victory actually meant to many of the freed slaves whom he lived alongside, including his own family: servile work for some, lives of poverty for most. 0000001549 00000 n Father Tolton was not the first black (priest) in America. Mass is celebrated there until 1889. As long as I was at the school, I was safe. I was a poor slave boy but the priests of the Church did not disdain me. Next, the Irish priest wrote to the bishop of the diocese in Alton about Augustus becoming a diocesan priest. What Tolton experienced in that time of social ambivalence is stuff we read about in history books or view in certain documentaries. Learn about six holy lives in an upcoming EWTN documentary. This post originally appeared at Catholic Exchange and is reprinted with permission. He had won his freedom first by flight and his priesthood by perseverance. Seven years after Augustine, or Gus as he was known, was born, war broke out between the States. She endeavors to free us of both. He also celebrated his first Mass with Franciscan Sisters in Hoboken, New Jersey on July 7, and he celebrates his first Mass in Quincy at St. Boniface Church on July 18 and becomes pastor of St. Joseph Church. For some time previously Fr. 1862: Martha Jane escapes withher children to Quincy, Illinois. ZeS6N ;'pw! McGirr had wanted to ask him a question. There is a German priest here who is jealous and contemptuous, Augustus wrote in his second report to the Propaganda. It worked. The touching story of Augustus Tolton reminds us of the glaring social deficits of a former time. He was born on the Hagar farm in Bush Creek, Missouri, in 1854. Nonetheless, as detected in his handwritten letters to personages and church authority figures, he felt keenly the humiliations inflicted by others, that underneath he felt deeply the sting of verbal assaults and impatience others threw at him, the harshness and humiliations inflicted upon him, and he felt deeply the indignities and insults his people suffered. Toltons earliest schooling was interrupted by the protests of his peers and adults or while having to work as a laborer in bottling and saddle making factories and as a church janitor to help his mother support their family. In the 1880s, a black man becoming a priest was thought to be impossible and, in fact, might never have been set in motion were there not a few priests and religious of courageous, visionary and unselfish choices made by them; Fathers Peter McGirr and Theodore Wegmann, School Sister of Notre Dame Herlinde Sick, Franciscan Fathers Michael Richardt and Francis Ostrop who were some of the best representatives of Catholics in action for their time. One day the Parish Priest saw Gus praying alone in church. They ran through several nights to the Mississippi River and Hannibal, Missouri, where they were about to be apprehended by Confederate soldiers before two Union soldiers stepped in to defend them. Augustus, his mother, and three brothers and sisters escaped to the North where they could live as free In the beginning was the Word and words are the way that the Word can be better understood and communicated. Interviewed by the St. Thomas More Cougar Cast Student Show for Black History Month! When, finally, the Tolton family arrived in the Illinois town of Quincy, they were to live in a segregated neighbourhood. He abuses me in many ways and has told the bishop to send me out of this place. Site Map ; Contact Us ; Privacy Policy He was called some pretty nasty names. Father Tolton shows us in his own lifes pattern that we can find blessing in everything, even what is most painful. SubscribeStart your Register subscription today. They knew the odds that stood against them and the Church. It was the priests of the Church who taught me to pray and to forgive my persecutors it was through the direction of a Sister of Notre Dame, Sister Herlinde, that I learned to interpret the Ten Commandments; and then I also beheld for the first time the glimmering light of truth and the majesty of the Church. %PDF-1.5 % 0000009119 00000 n God pulled him through a sinful situation. This has become, unfortunately, an indelible stigma in the American psyche. It was the priests of the Church who taught me to pray and to forgive my persecutors it was through the direction of a Sister of Notre Dame, Sister Herlinde, that I learned to interpret the Ten Commandments; and then I also beheld for the first time the glimmering light of truth and the majesty of the Church. 1889: Father Tolton begins his ministry in Chicago on December 19. We may not be connected by hand but we are always connected by heart. Nevertheless the priesthood is a deep mystery and as deep as the holy Eucharist. 1897: Father Tolton dies at Mercy Hospital in Chicago on July 9. I appealed to Bishop Ryan and he also advises me to go elsewhere.. Small sins lead to big sins, and big sins bring about a terrible spiritual darkness. As Cardinal Gibbons retired to his dais [on the altar at the Mass], the reporters in the improvised press gallery noticed for the first time, not six feet away from him in the sanctuary among the abbots and other special dignitaries, the black face of Father Tolton of Chicago, the first colored Catholic priest ordained in America. Fr. Tolton reminds us of the courage we have within our hearts to continue to work for racial and ethnic solidarity while eradicating all forms of hesitancy and intolerances. Peter Tolton then headed north and joined the Union Army. It takes a strong person of faith to place their suffering on the paten and in the chalice of the sacrifice we offer each day. hb```f`` AX,3>71-``^ 9o&fR%'0Htt0pt40 )d]@ LV@ZF20g,p,9L3]fp$yW ,M With help from an Irish Franciscan priest, Peter McGirr, he was accepted to study in Rome. Their efforts were remarkable in face of those odds and likely those odds could have proven too high to overcome. His human virtues and obvious piety did not go unremarked by the redoubtable Fr. That day, however, there was one who stood apart from the crowd and quietly watched with tears in her eyes as her son returned to her a priest. It brings a message of hope and healing for the wounds that plague our culture. We have seen over the many years a variety of ways to confront the evil of racism, social protest violent and non-violent, academically through oratory, literature, prose and story-telling. The Church is broad and liberal. I am so glad that I now belong to the diocese where Father Tolton was ordained and where he is buried. Augustine Tolton was declared: Servant of God. The formality of applying to a seminary proved, however, more complicated for the young recently freed slave, especially as there had never been a man of his race at any seminary in America. His life story embodies the seminal verse from Isaiah 53:3 that points to the Messiah, He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. I will end with three quotes: America has been called the most enlightened nation in the world. Augustus Tolton. They had fled Missouri and were crossing over into the Northern state of Illinois, and to freedom. Theres ALOT more to his story, but I just wanted to have this much here. I am a Ethiopian American diocesan priest by the grace of God and prayers of our Lady. What message is God sending through repeated instances of human agony and crucifixion? Also, what a blessing as it sounds as if your grandson and a fellow young parishioner are BOTH considering vocations to the priesthoodthere is certainly room for both of them! At Quincy station there was a large and noisy crowd to welcome him. Reproduction of material from this website without written permission, or unlicensed commercial use or Among the best known of these six is Fr Augustus Tolton (1854-1897), the first recognized American Black priest. Our Lady teaches us to place our faith and trust Jesus. In hindsight, however, looking at that days generous welcome from all quarters, it was bitter sweet. No one understood how impossible that was. They leave us with good thoughts and smiles on our faces; each of them with a strong sense of justice pushing critically through the moral and ethical paradoxes of those times; each of them unafraid to permit their pastoral efforts to be reflective of their views and values. With all this said and for the fact that this apostolate was started on April 1, 2018, the 132nd anniversary of his birth, it is only right that Fr. After he finished his basic education at 18, Tolton received the help of Father McGirr, who began to help him find a seminary. Subscribe to get email notifications of new posts and special offers PLUS a St. Joseph digital poster. Tolton is a patron for BLACKCATHOLIC. endstream endobj startxref 1878: Augustus Tolton enrolls in St. Francis College, now Quincy University. His congregation was largely poor, ill-educated ex-slaves, with all the resultant ills of depression and violence attending those who, for varying reasons, had given up on life. In his first year, he took over the school he had founded and also created a flourishing parish at St. Josephs, attended by both blacks and whites. Augustus and his mother both worked at the Harris Cigar Factory. %%EOF He was, however, the first priest whose identity as an African-American was publicly acknolwedged at the time of his ordination. Required fields are marked *. The First Colored Priest in the United States Augustus Tolton, in full John Augustine Tolton, also called Augustine John Tolton or Father Gus, (born April 1, 1854, Brush Creek, Ralls county, Missouri, Martha readily agreed that her husband must go and that some day they would all be together again, and free. Father Augustus Tolton | CatholicSaints.Info, Fr. God must be watching to what has happened to Jews, African Americans, Native Americans, indeed anyone and everyone who has sought freedom, be they white, black or brown, this side of the world to over on the other side of the world. 1`' E,D2`%XX\DrE +LRZ*IF `6J5=@ 6w In the meantime, we look to the scriptures to find inspiration for our Christian lifestyle in the choices we make, solutions to problems and to simply live each days challenges. And, with that, one of her children, Augustine Tolton, later to become the first African-American to be ordained priest, was freed. 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MOTHER MARIA KAUPAS WebO God, we give you thanks for your servant and priest, Father Augustus Tolton, who labored among us in times of contradiction, times that were both beautiful and paradoxical. He had his moments of self-doubt and stark loneliness that in retrospect took their toll on his emotional and physical well-being. The next day Father Tolton said his first Mass, with thousands left standing outside since there was no more room in the church. It was the way he handled this challenge to his Christian faith that presents him remarkable and therefore a model for how we can handle protracted disappointment, and seeming hopelessness. Mass is celebrated there until 1889. WebU.S. Sponsor this show, and be inspired by Father Augustus Tolton's perseverance and faith. The crucifixion of Jesus reminds us that black suffering is a means through which God has loved his dark children. 262 0 obj <> endobj Father Augustus Tolton is considered, along with the Healy Brothers, among the very first African American priests in the United States. In todays Catholic Church the same problems exist. Requiescat in Pace. His kind-heartedness, no doubt, was derived from certain innate virtues of his person and his friendship with God. He was a bright light in a dark time. The touching story of Augustus Tolton reminds us of the glaring social deficits of a former time. Much has improved since that time but much still remains to be done to build on a society that can be an emblem of interracial peace. If the United States has never before seen a black Fr. Just over three years after his triumphal return, Fr. Tolton had brought to Quincy was now loosed upon a poor district of Chicagos south side. His mom and dad were Catholic. Web1878 Augustus Tolton enrolls in St. Francis College, now Quincy University. Y.1+Xr-S*2iQ`e On the other hand, Christians worship a suffering Messiah and so have theologized about this conundrum over the course of two thousand years and counting. The Parish Priest was an Irishman, Brian McGirr, and he was having none of it. Mrs Henderson, please know that your grandson will be in my prayers. On June 12, 2019, Tolton was declared Venerable by Pope Francis I, the second step towards canonization. Augustus Tolton Quote Catholic Quote Catholic Nursery - Etsy GloryBePrints 4,004 sales | Fr. His goodness easily elicits our affection and our empathy, a goodness that attracted people of whatever background to his sermons and ministrations and counsel. Toltons Canonization Timeline 2019 June 11, 2019 Pope Francis issues the declaration that His story is one of suffering service. After many years he was eventually accepted at a Pontifical university in Rome. Tolton, a man of deep feeling, viewed himself a priest for anyone and everyone who approached the Church for the grace and mercy of God. The truth is He is not only a priest in the order of Melchizedek order but a victim and this is united as one reality of His identity. WebTop Augustus Tolton Quotes I've always tried to do the smartest and best thing. Banners announcing the Servant of God Father Augustus Tolton as the first African American diocesan priest were displayed in locations around the City of Chicago that had special significance for Father Tolton's life and legacy. He suffered genuinely in that these priestly things were administered from a black face, black hands and a black heart. The musical Passion play comes to the big screen as a Fathom event on March 6 and 7. Many others thought so: Following the required six years of study, Augustus was ordained a priest with his class Easter Vigil 24 April 1886 at St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome. 286 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<302BB52D3863B64BA3B976C1397EBCB0><8D3543A6425E274CB40BF7885AC937E9>]/Index[262 48]/Info 261 0 R/Length 115/Prev 162616/Root 263 0 R/Size 310/Type/XRef/W[1 3 1]>>stream Augustus was born of the marriage union of two slaves, Peter Paul Tolton and his wife Martha Jane, in Ralls County, Missouri, April 1, 1854. He receives special instruction because he was far advanced than other students. We believers try to make sense of our own experiences of being victims along lifes way by gazing back at what happened to the Savior in his own mistreatment. His modeling shows us how to witness to the Gospel in midst of racial tension and instances of racial hatred that erupt still from time to time. Proudly powered by WordPress | 0000001964 00000 n We give our all to the Lord yet blacks are the most under evangelized Father Augustine Tolton Patron of Black Priests and Seminarians, Pray for us! She endeavors to 19th century America placed dark skin at the bottom of the color pyramid. From the time he was 14, he served Mass every morning before going to work or school. America has been called the most enlightened nation in the world. Without a national program to assist the assimilation of freed slaves into the fabric of the country, its schools, social and educational institutions and politics were found generally off limits to blacks especially where whites were invested. Laid to rest on that July day in 1897, and having entered into the mysterious freedom of the Children of God where there is neither Greek nor Jew, neither freed nor slave Fr. During this period, only his mother and Fr. Webdetermined that Augustus was a non-Christian name and, therefore, as so frequently happened at baptisms, the priest at the baptismal font Christianized the name by WebAugustus Tolton: the Church is the True Liberator, by Joyce Duriga, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN, 2018; Audio Book (From Slave to Priest) by Lighthouse Catholic Media: On 21 February 1880, Gus left America bound for Europe, destined to be a missionary in Africa. Tolton conducted his first Mass at St. Peters Basilica in Rome on April 25. He expects to become a missionary priest in Africa. Your email address will not be published. Before anything else, however, the nearest Catholic Church, St. Peters, was identified and the family started to worship there. There are conflicting accounts of his journey to freedom. Jesus experienced the worse that a man could deal out to another and, therefore, leaves us an example. A Marked Man: Should Catholics Get Tattoos? Worship at the altar is always a commemoration of Jesus Christ as victim. In this Church we do not have to fight for our rights because we are black. His canonization we hope will elicit an appreciation by the wider Catholic community for the contributions that Catholics of African descent offer the Church. I will pray for your grandson Ignatius in his discernment of his call to the priesthood. ~z'bct3rCYv kt\L@w !^tJa`stV^Oq!^6 zQP04ib@jhXZ8@%`fH &r\\d0Sa+llHV3BRS$h1M 'q"@SX80X?`pAA2f& G5c $uCV*L*XC`]*(x'@ ] endstream endobj 64 0 obj <>>> endobj 65 0 obj <> endobj 66 0 obj <>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0]/Type/Page>> endobj 67 0 obj <> endobj 68 0 obj <>stream Religiously inclined in his boyhood, nurtured by promptings of his mother Martha, he was found spending hours in church in prayer in between job schedules. 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