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May 28
Saint Bernard of Montjoux and Maya Angelou
David Barnhart
May 28, 2025
Graffiti in Boston, January 2025. Own photo.
Today in 1830, the President of the United States, a genocidal white supremacist named Andrew Jackson, signed the Indian Removal Act.
Today is the feast day of Saint Bernard of Montjoux, a missionary in the Swiss Alps who lived from 923 until 1008. Because French and German pilgrims to Rome would go through dangerous passes, part of his ministry was to care for travelers and keep them from danger. Both the passes and the rescue dogs who worked there bear his name.
Today marks the death, in 2014, of Maya Angelou, author, poet, and civil rights activist.
Reflection:
Maya Angelou wrote:
“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."
and
"I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous."
Prayer: Mother and Father of all, help us to see ourselves and our neighbors as your children. Amen.