for they shall be called the children of God." - Jesus (Matthew 5:9)
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)
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)
Jesus said to them, “But, whom do you say that I am?”
Then Simon Peter answered, and said, “You are the Christ; the Son of the living God.”
And Jesus answered, and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon, the son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father Who is in Heaven."
(Matthew 16:15-17)
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)
Rock Mass - Woodstock Edition with a couple of the bands that were invited to play at Woodstock but for one reason or another didn't take the stage that August weekend in 1969.
Woodstock - Joni Mitchell
Gotta Serve Somebody - Bob Dylan
I've Been Searching So Long - Chicago
Wind Up - Jethro Tull
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
People Get Ready - Jeff Beck w/Rod Stewart
Jesus is Just Alright - The Byrds
“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
Here's a link to Rock Mass on the 50th anniversary of Woodstock:
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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And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."
(Luke 17:20-21)
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)
Rev Kev Sez: the Law of Love is greater than the law of the land!
No matter what SCOTUS says is legal, we are held to a higher law. The commandment to love your neighbor as yourself and the principle of treating others as you wish to be treated doesn't allow any room for religiously motivated discrimination.
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.” ~ Jesus (John 13:34)
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)
"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)
I haven't written much in a while, life has been particularly difficult lately and has handed us some challenges with no clear path to take. Finding the time to post has not been easy and being able to string together a few complete sentences to create a coherent paragraph has been nearly impossible for me.
Raising an autistic teenager who now refuses to take prescribed medication is turning out to be one of the most challenging experiences ever in my life and right now that responsibly is all consuming.
At this moment, I'm sitting in a church parking lot on a rainy May morning. Not because I thought that's where God would be but mostly because I needed a quiet place to think. I like it when I can be by myself and in my own head away from the noise of other's thoughts and demands and away from an un-medicated emerging mental health crisis.
But, it is in those quiet places that do I meet God. Those quiet places can be almost anywhere, most often for me it's out in nature.
I must go now and take care of some responsibilities, but I'll try to post more often. And I'll keep trying to find those quiet moments alone with myself and God.
