Rock Mass - Woodstock Edition 08-07-2022

 

Rock Mass on the first Sunday of the month.

Rock Mass for Sunday August 7, 2022

Woodstock Edition

“It was about spirituality, about love,

about sharing, about helping each other,

living in peace and harmony.”

 ~Richie Havens, the opening performer at Woodstock 1969

In August 1969 the Woodstock Music & Art Fair took place on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, NY with over half a million people in attendance. In the midst of all the self indulgent sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll the Gospel could be found at Woodstock.

 

Hippie Sunday School Bus at Woodstock, August 1969

Nun flashing Peace Sign at Woodstock, August 1969

 

"Well, I came upon a child of God he was walking along the road..."

"I had a dream last night, what a lovely dream it was, I dreamed we all were alright..."

"I got a telephone in my bosom and I can call him up from heart..."

"There's always a little bit of heaven in a disaster area." Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney)

"God bless you"

"Oh happy day, When Jesus washed, He washed my sins away"

"...Any day now, any day now I shall be released"

"...Following you I climb the mountains I get excitement at your feet"

"Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound..."

 

“The time has come for America to help the whole world with spirituality also”

 

"God loves America" Hippie School Bus at Woodstock, August 1969

 

 

 

Here are some of my other Woodstock related posts:

The Gospel According To Woodstock - The Golden Rule

The Gospel According To Woodstock - You Did It Unto Me

The Gospel According To Woodstock - Blessed Are The Peacemakers

The Gospel According To Woodstock - What God Hath Joined Together, Let No Man Put Asunder

The Gospel According To Woodstock - Amazing Grace 

The Gospel According To Woodstock - We Are Stardust 

 

 

Peace, Love and Light!
Kevin (Cloud) 

(Originally posted 08-05-2018, revised 08-04-2019)

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)

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The Theology of Redwoods

I don't think I could ever leave California with the Pacific Coastline, Big Sur, the Sierras, the Redwoods. The Redwoods are such a spiritually renewing experience for me. The massive size, the thousands years of existence, the contrasting reds and greens, the scent... oh the aromatherapy of a Redwood forest!

I don't pretend to understand the mysteries of God and the Universe, but in the Redwoods there is this sense of "deep calling unto deep" that supercedes man's best attempts at theology.

“I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.” 

~ Anne Lamott

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Photo: My photo of Giant Sequoias in the Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park

Rock Mass 07-03-2022

Rock Mass on the first Sunday of the Month

Rock Mass July 3, 2022

This Sunday's Rock Mass is more like Rocks and Moss with water Rolling over them. It's about a much needed retreat to a quiet place in the Cathedral of Nature.

And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed. (Luke 5:16)

Peace, 

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)

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Shine A Light!

 

Most mass shootings are planned for 6 months to a year. In almost every documented case, warning signs were given off that were not understood, were not acted upon quickly or was not shared with someone who could help. In 4 out of 5 school shootings, at least one other person had knowledge of the attacker's plan but failed to report it.*

How has the ownership of firearms and ammunition become so acceptable that no one questions the amassing of a large collection of handguns, rifles, assault weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and high capacity magazines beyond any rational explanation of personal protection or hunting?

Federal, State and Local gun safety laws are inadequate. Mental health services need to be more accessible. Local law enforcement is highly overburdened. Federal and State criminal databases are poorly integrated.

But the biggest breakdown may not be in our legal system but rather a possible breakdown in society itself. As members of a civilized society we have an obligation to each other to question behavior that could pose a potential threat to others. Shine a light. If you see something, say something!

 

Therefore, to him who knows to do good

and does not do it, to him it is sin.

(James 4:17)

 

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

 

*mass shooting statistics from www.sandyhookpromise.org

The Purpose of Life

"The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.

I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly."

~Jesus

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Rock Mass 06-05-2022 - Let the Shooting End

 

Rock Mass on the first Sunday of the Month

 

Rock Mass for June 5, 2022 - Let the Shooting End

 

Prayer: Let the Shooting End

"God, our hearts are broken with pain at the senseless deaths caused by gun violence. Families mourn, children live in fear, and some in our nation respond by arming themselves with more guns with greater capacity to end life. Our disconnection and alienation has caused some to turn to guns for protection and safety. We ask that you touch our hearts with your love, heal our brokenness, and turn us away from violence toward peace. Help us to transform our own hearts and to seek peaceful ways of resolving our differences. Let our hands reach out and connect with those who feel alone, those who live in fear, and those suffering from mental illness. Let our voices be raised asking our legislators to enact gun laws to protect all in our society, especially those most vulnerable. Let our pens write messages demanding change while also scripting words of hope and transformation. We ask this in the name of the God who desires that we live together in peace.  Amen"

 

-Sisters of Mercy of the Americas 

 

 

 

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)

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I Ain't No Saint

 I ain't no saint, but I was named after one. My mom was raised Catholic and she noticed St. Kevin's Catholic Church in Los Angeles and decided to name me after the Irish saint Kevin of Glendalough.

June 3rd is Saint Kevin's Feast Day.

Here is some info about St. Kevin:

https://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/ASaints/Kevin.html

Peace, Love and Light!

Kevin (Cloud)

Rock Mass - 05-01-2022

 

Rock Mass on the first Sunday of the Month

Rock Mass for May 1, 2022

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

~Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890 - 1969

"Blessed are the peacemakers,

for they shall be called the children of God."

~Jesus (Matthew 5:9)

"...Seek peace and pursue it!"

Psalm 34:14

 

 

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)

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