Sunday, April 20, 2025

Rock Mass - Easter Sunday 04-20-2025


Rock Mass

Rock Mass - Easter Edition 2025








While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” (Luke 24:4-7)



Peace, Love, and Light!
Kevin (Cloud)



The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".

(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)

Saturday, April 19, 2025

This Is How We Know What Love Is


This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.
And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
(1 John 3:16-18)


Peace, Love and Light!
Kevin (Cloud)

(Commissioned illustration by L. Patterson)  

Sunday, April 06, 2025

Rock Mass 04-06-2025 Earth Day

 

Rock Mass on the first Sunday of the month.


Rock Mass for Sunday April 6, 2025 - Earth Day Edition








The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, 
the world, and all who live in it (Psalms 24:1) 

Ever since God created the world, his invisible qualities,
both his eternal power and his divine nature,
have been clearly seen; they are perceived in the things that God has made.
So those people have no excuse at all! (Romans 1:20) 

And Jehovah God took the man,
and caused him to rest in the garden of Eden,
to serve it, and to keep it. (Genesis 2:15)


We have been entrusted by the Father to be custodians of his Creation, it is our responsibility to care for and protect the Earth. The Earth is God's primary revelation of himself, his ever present means of revealing his great creative power and his loving provision of the life giving miracle that we call home - Earth. What a powerful witness it would be if those who claim to love God and who want to evangelize the world would actually protect and care for God's Creation.


Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)


The inspiration for creating "Rock Mass" came from the Rock Mass at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena California back in the early 1970’s. On the first Friday night of each month All Saints held a Rock Mass which was a mix of traditional Episcopalian Mass and rock concert. A live band would play popular rock music which couldn’t necessarily be called “Christian” but contained spiritual phrases and references to God or Jesus. During the 1960’s and early 1970’s there was an explosion of these songs coming out of the "secular" music industry way before there was “Contemporary Christian Music”, in a way, it could be called "The Gospel According To Billboard's Top 10".


(Stained glass guitar angel found at www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber)