MARY, OUR MOTHER: Audience Breaks Into Silent Night After School's Secular Holiday Program

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Audience Breaks Into Silent Night After School's Secular Holiday Program

100th Anniversary of Silent Night Christmas Carol. Image via Wikipedia

by Teresa Neumann : Dec 22, 2009 : Jennifer Moody - Albany Democrat Herald

"Really, the complaint should go the other way: The program was too darned secular. To change that program for one person is almost a violation of everyone else's rights."

REPORTER'S NOTE: This article was both a wake-up call and a source of civic pride to me as Lebanon, Oregon is my own "backyard" so to speak. We're a small community here, with a strong Christian presence. I'm used to reading about "lone wolves" highjacking Christmas programs in other areas of the country, but here in little ol' Lebanon? The response of the audience was inspiring; I only wish I could have been there. And kudos to Mike Martin—a dear friend of ours—for not holding back when he spoke with reporters! -Teresa Neumann

(Lebanon, Oregon)—A report in the Albany Democrat Herald states that although the Christmas carol Silent Night was not on the program at Pioneer School's concert recently, it was sung anyway—by the audience, after the kids were done. It was estimated that at least 100 of the 700 in attendance joined in the singing. Applause and cheers erupted afterwards.

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It started this fall when Principal Mark Finch eliminated the song from the program after a parent complained that the carol's emphasis was "too single-religion."

Sam Long, a Pioneer volunteer and grandmother of a Pioneer student, said: "I'm very proud they stood up for what they believe. I am so proud, because have a godson fighting (in Baghdad) for our rights and to keep us free, and if we can't sing just a little song, what's he over there for?"

"There were 18 songs on the program, of which one has a sacred theme to it and 17 don't," said school board member Mike Martin. "Really, the complaint should go the other way: The program was too darned secular. To change that program for one person is almost a violation of everyone else's rights."

From http://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=7426

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Audience Breaks Into Silent Night After School's Secular Holiday Program

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