Sweet, Sweet Spirit: Prayer Services from the Black Catholic Church
JOSEPH A. BROWN,S.J., a professor in the Black American Studies Program at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, has graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Yale University. He wroteAccidental Grace(Callaloo Press),A Retreat With Thea Bowman and Bede Abram: Leaning on the Lord(St. Anthony Messenger Press) andTo Stand on the Rock: Meditations on Black Catholic Identity(Orbis), and many essays on African American literature.FERNAND CHERI,III,O.F.M., a guidance counselor and administrative staff member at Althoff Catholic High School in Belleville, Illinois, has graduate degrees from Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans, and the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans. He is a choir director and an archivist of Black religious music, with a collection of 3,500 recordings of gospel music and files of gospel sheet music. He works with the Archbishop James P. Lyke Liturgical Conferences.