[Chat] Fwd: [northerncommunitycouncil] Digest Number 47
jberlin
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Thu Apr 5 12:28:58 EDT 2007
in case anyone is interested. judy
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> Tuesday, April 24th, 6:30 pm, St. John's BLUE MASS From: JOSEPH
> STEWART
> 2.
> Northern District Community Council Meeting, 4/18/2007, 7:00 pm
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> Tuesday, April 24th, 6:30 pm, St. John's BLUE MASS
> Posted by: "JOSEPH STEWART" JStewart at dat.state.md.us joeonavon
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> Wed Apr 4, 2007 9:16 am (PST)
> The Annual Baltimore 'BLUE MASS'
> A Community-wide Service of Prayer for the Police, Fire-fighters, and
> Paramedic Teams of Baltimore City
>
> Tuesday, 24 April, 6.30 PM
>
> SAINT JOHN'S CHURCH 3009 GREENMOUNT AVENUE
> Greenmount Avenue at Thirtieth Street
>
> A Reception follows the Service to thank our Fire-fighters, Police,
> and
> Paramedic Teams for all their good work on our behalf.
>
> N.B. This is a sacred Service of Prayer to help meet the Pastoral
> needs of the men and women of the Police and Fire Departments,
> sponsored
> by Saint John's Church as an act of gratitude for the many acts of
> courage and sacrifice made on our behalf. This sacred time and place
> of
> reconciliation is NOT the forum for complaints or politics!
> Could you do it??
>
> Could you do what they do? Could you rush into raging flames for a
> stranger? Could you put yourself between a gun and someone you've
> never met? Could you chase down and tackle someone twice you size?
> Could you carry out a dead child to its parents? Could you put in the
> IV drip? Could you close a gaping, bleeding wound? They can, and do-
> your fire-fighters, police and paramedics. They do it on a weekly
> basis.
>
> Why have a service of prayer for our Police, Fire-fighters, and
> Paramedic Teams? Because these individuals do for our city and its
> communities what we ourselves are not able to do, or choose not to do,
> but know needs to be done; because they engage in work which is both
> physically and spiritually dangerous on our behalf and in our place;
> because for us these individuals routinely expose themselves to an
> underground society and the underside of ordinary life that most of us
> can scarcely imagine. A public service of prayer is a gift to them
> which makes us mindful of their particular need for spiritual support,
> and of our responsibility to help them to bear what we ask of them.
>
> There is a long tradition in Baltimore of a religious service for the
> Legal Profession, commonly called the "Red Mass" because of the
> colour of the vestments of the clergy for the patron saint of the
> Profession. In this case, because Fire-fighters, Police, and
> Paramedics
> all have different patron saints, a common date was chosen: the feast
> of
> Saint George, a martyred Christian soldier (ca.304 AD) who was devoted
> to the ideals of his faith, the duty of his office, and who gave his
> life in the course of service. He is honoured for his courage and
> devotion to his companions, for his fearless willingness to put
> himself
> in danger for others, and above all for the zeal of his faith. The
> special colour of his day would customarily be the red of a martyr, or
> white, which can always be used for any saint. It is a happy
> coincidence that in the English customs followed at Saint John's
> Church, blue is an equivalent substitute for white, and so our
> offering
> of a "Blue Mass", is especially appropriate for "our men and women
> in blue".
>
> The Service takes the form of a Christian rite and uses Christian
> language, but it is prayer to the God of us all, the God of every
> language, people and nation. Everyone is invited to enter into the
> prayer, the Spirit, and the meaning of this Service as deeply as
> possible. If the forms seem somewhat traditional, it is because
> Christian worship is very ancient, and because its language
> deliberately
> recalls the eternal presence of those who have gone before us in life,
> faith, and hope. The forms are Christian, but the prayer is universal,
> embracing the living with the dead and soaring through God's eternity
> which we experience as our present.
>
> The form of prayer for this Service is our most sacred ritual, in
> which
> Christians believe Holy Communion may be made with God himself, and
> with
> those who have loved Him. In this rite we offer to God our praise, our
> prayers for ourselves and on behalf of others, our sorrow for
> wrong-doing, our promise of renewal, and all our very being. We join
> these to the supreme offering of the Son of God who gave his own life
> as
> a ransom for many. On this occasion, baptised Christians who are
> communicant members in good standing in their own church are
> encouraged
> to receive the Holy Communion. Those whose faith does not permit the
> reception of Holy Communion in other Churches, non-Christians, or
> those
> who for any reason whatsoever are unable to join in receiving the Holy
> Sacrament, are invited to come forward with others at the time of Holy
> Communion to receive instead a personal blessing by the priest. We
> hope
> that everyone will engage in all aspects of the Service and in the
> Holy
> Spirit in which it is offered.
>
> We encourage you to come to this celebration with a heart full of
> gratitude, and full of prayer for those who serve, protect, and
> preserve
> us as our Police, Fire-fighters, and Paramedic Teams.
>
> ...The People, Rector, Churchwardens and Vestry of Saint John's in
> the Village
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> Northern District Community Council Meeting, 4/18/2007, 7:00 pm
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> Wed Apr 4, 2007 11:57 am (PST)
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