Going Home Like a Shooting Star: Thea Bowman's Journey to Sainthood
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"Going Home Like a Shooting Star: Thea Bowman’s Journey to Sainthood," presents the riveting life of Sister Thea Bowman, an African American Catholic Franciscan Sister who used her powerful gifts to educate and challenge the church and society to grow in racial inclusivity. Her skills of preaching, music, and teaching moved many Catholics to begin to confront their own racism while she urged her African American brothers and sisters to claim their gifts and share their “fully functioning” personhood. Thea worked tirelessly to proclaim this message until her untimely death from breast cancer in 1990.
The film makes a strong connection between Thea’s Gospel call for justice, love and unity and the current effort of Black Lives Matter activists and efforts to combat systemic racism. Many in the film cite Thea’s voice as an influence on their ongoing efforts to achieve social and racial justice.
Production of "Going Home Like a Shooting Star: Thea Bowman’s Journey to Sainthood" was made possible with funding from the Catholic Communications Campaign of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops as well as support from various foundations and congregations of U.S. men and women religious.
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I am deeply moved. The church needs more saints like her…
A beautiful tribute to a beautiful soul. Thank you I was truly blessed by it. ♥️❤️
What a remarkable woman! I hope and pray she is canonised in due course.
Pray for us S[t] Thea Bowman. 🙏🙏
St. Thea Bowman, pray for us.
Her smile never fade wow.
This was a remarkable tribute not only to one woman, but to all black women, women everywhere that they are needed, capable, and called to proclaim the love of Jesus to the world and especially to the downtrodden, the weak, the sinful, the outcast, the doubter, and all God's chidren regardless of cultures, ethnicities, backgrounds, or any other matter that might divide us as a people of God. Thank you, thank you for sharing the life of this woman in such a beautiful way. God open the doors and windows of our Church to the needs of your people today.
Thank you so much for documenting this wonderful story - of a WOMAN living in TODAY'S world! I remember listening to Sr. Thea at a conference in Cleveland, Ohio.
Oh gosh it's Holy Thursday and I am not allowing myself to watch anything that is not appropriate to this holy day before I leave for Holy Thursday services. I happened upon this and started to watch and I have fallen in love with this holy, saintly woman... I've wept and smiled throughout at her incredible spirt, true deep and fully faithful Catholic witness, even in a time the Church was not very welcoming to blacks. Definitely praying for her canonization. Rest in peace dear Saint Sister Thea.
I THANK GOD THAT I WAS ABLE 2 GIVE HER FLOWERS UPON MEETING HER!!! SO FULL OF LIFE! WHAT A GIFT TO THE BODY OF CHRIST!!! THE TIME IS NOW 4 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 2 MAKE HER AND THE OTHERS A SAINT!!! ASHE!!!
and she always had a smile on her face.
Sister Thea, pray for us.
I so enjoyed, remember, as she was one of my favorite teachers @ Viterbo College.❤
I have no words. Lord Jesus where are the Thea Bowmans in our Church today. And as I write these words I can hear Fr. Maurice's words - You are it and as are so many others.
What a great follower of Christ ❤
This biography is an AMAZING CELEBRATION of our Blessed Sister Thea Bowman.. ❤️
My sister Melvene was a student and friend of Dr. Thea Bowman at Holy Child Jesus School in Canton, Mississippi.. She was a member of the choir when they recorded the album. We played that album over and over again. I remember going through the house while cleaning on Saturday morning singing and mimicking Dr. Thea Bowman's beautiful soprano voice singing Down by The Riverside and Go Down Moses.
bless her, she helped mzke possible the hymnal that all Black Catholics ini the US have used since the eighties-the one i grew up with "Lead Me Guide Me"
Sister Thea was the main speaker at a music conference I attended. This biography is awesome.
Wow beautiful life story❤❤❤❤❤❤
Praise God for this ! She is a prize for all Mississippians especially those of us who are African and Catholic! We are blessed to have her and we pray soon the world will know she is the saint we always knew her to be. Sister Thea pray for us!
AMEN
I am watching this from Nigeria, never been to the USA and don't plan to. But I can tell you she is a prize for all Africans ...and every human being on the surface of the planet...if they realize it. Saint Thea: Pray for us.
A Sister that was and is a blessing in our world. She is a Saint in my life!
Sister Thea taught me more than words can describe and became my mentor while I lived in the parish in her hometown of Canton, MS. Sister Thea absolutely lived until her final breath and now lives on in the legacy she gave us.
Incredible!
Oh my!
Her living has moved me to LIVE fully functioning. Loving, laughing, teaching, preaching FULLY.
May the memory of Sister Thea Bowman remain a blessing.
Thanks for sharing
I’m so moved and in tears! WOW! The courage of this anointed woman is astounding. Everyone should see this. Sister Thea please help our world and church. Amen!
Such a heartwarming documentary. Thank you very much!
This is absolutely wonderful!!! Great to see our Bishop Cheri and, Veronica Downs Dorsey, Sister Thea, Pray for us!!
by the end of this documentary I felt like I knew her, im in tears
Thank you for such a wonderful video about the life of Sr. Thea. Thanks to all who had a hand in making this video. Sr. Thea led a very inspiring life!
What a wonderful presentation. God bless our sister and welcome her to sainthood
I am in tears. Such inspiration... such a a joy-filled, faith-in-action! I am deeply affected by her spirit conveyed through this, through her voice, through her friends (some of whom are also my friends). Sr. Thea, pray for us (and I am sure it will be a song!) - John Bouc
Pope Francis! what more do you need to say --- Amen --- to her song of praise and thanksgiving!
Santa subito.
Thank you for this! Was Shawn Copeland the narrator? I didn't see her in the credits, but maybe I missed her.
@ 47:36 She wore a boxing glove. Please what is the story behind who gave her the gloves...Thanks.
It's probably just a prop placed in the photo-- perhaps to indicate she was "a fighter" and was doing her best to live through the pain of cancer.
She lived to death