MLK Mass of Remembrance - Jan. 16
December 29, 2021
The Archdiocese will honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and remember his call to achieve peace through service to one another at its annual Mass at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 16, at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, 1111 St. Joseph Pkwy., in Houston.
Catholics from all 10 counties of the Archdiocese will celebrate King’s legacy at the 36th annual Archdiocesan Mass honoring his birthday, which will be celebrated by Daniel Cardinal DiNardo as principal celebrant and Father Houston Okonma, parochial vicar at St. Vincent De Paul, as homilist.
The civil rights leader was born Jan. 15, 1929, and was fatally shot April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Societies today need “artisans of peace,” like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., “who can be messengers and authentic witnesses of God the Father, who wills the good and the happiness of the human family,” said Daniel Cardinal DiNardo. Rev. King “was a messenger and true witness to the power of the Gospel lived in action through public life.”