Day: September 9, 2024

September 9, 2024
Theological College of the Catholic University of America
Washington, D.C.

Isaiah 58:6-11
Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4, 6
Matthew 25:31-40

Saint Peter Claver was born in Spain and began life with a very shy disposition. One day, while he was praying, Peter Claver had a spiritual experience of being called by Christ, a vocation. At the encouragement of Saint Alfonso Rodriguez, he joined the Jesuits and received his assignment to serve in the missions of the Spanish colony of Colombia where he was ordained a priest in 1615. In that sense he was very much part of a system of colonization by a European power that included human trafficking and slavery.