World's Largest Flag

Father Al has been planning a project for years, and now it is time.  He has a program and a proposal.  Watch this You Tube of the unfurling of the World's Largest Flag.  It will touch your heart.

Father Al would love to have a flag like this for September's Anniversary!

We counted the people unfurling this flag.  We think there might be 300 people.

25 at each end yardline

+ about 75 along the leading edge as flag is unfurled = 125

+ about 75 remaining along the edge (top) = 200

+ 9 rows of 8 or ten each (about 100)  at 20 yard intervals = 300

300 people.

We are in search of 300 volunteers and $30,000.00 for this project. We need financial donors and we need 300 people to unfurl the flag. Are you willing to help? Please contact us today with your support.

Now you have the opportunity to help with this cause. You can donate funds through www.paypal.com/ the safe secure way to transfer funds without compromising your credit card information. You can use any credit card, even your checking or savings accounts can be used to help Father Al.

Please be supportive of this beautiful chapel and the memory of the Heroes of Flight 93. Please donate what you can today and then register to continue to receive information about this project and updates from Bishop Alphonse Mascherino.

CHAPEL SUNDAY AFTERNOON CONCERTS AT TWO

Flight 93 Chapel Concert and Healing Service schedule begins Sunday, April 22 and is scheduled each Sunday afternoon throughout the Summer,
All events are open to the public. A freewill offering will be taken.

Mass is scheduled every Sunday at the Chapel at 11:00AM.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Chapel Sunday Praise Concert

2:00PM – Apostles Creed/Rod Stempill

Unity United Church of Christ, Shanksville, Pennsylvania

3:00PM – Healing and Anointing Service

Healing Broken Hearts and Wounded Bodies

Rev. Jay Shaffer, Presiding

Unity United Church of Christ, Shanksville, Pennsylvania

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Chapel Sunday Praise Concert

2:00PM – Glory Guys/ Dan Graboski, Mike Grebeck

Somerset Anglican Fellowship, Somerset, Pennsylvania

3:00PM – Healing and Anointing Service

Healing Broken Hearts and Wounded Bodies

Rev. Kathy Grebeck, Associate Pastor, Presiding

Somerset Christian Fellowship, Somerset, Pennsylvania

Report from News 2

Shanksville, PA -- In the years since 9/11, the U.S. has changed in many ways. One of those ways is faith.

While the terrorist attacks of that day made some people question their faith, many were drawn to it. News 2's Lauren Melvin visited a place where what happened on 9/11 brought faith back and brought together people of every denomination.

The reporter, Melvin, is from Somerset.  She came "home" to do a story for her down south TV station. Please take a moment to watch this touching video.

http://www.digtriad.com/news/national/article/190115/175/flight93memorialchapel.org

The Boston Chapter of Clipped Wings is sponsoring a T Shirt to support the Flight 93 Memorial Chapel. Please take time to remember and support Bishop Masherino and this beautiful Chapel in memory of the Heroes of Flight 93.

FLIGHT 93 CREW MONUMENT

HEROES GARDEN – FLIGHT 93 CHAPEL

The CAUSE Foundation of United Airlines Flight Attendants chose as their final project a monumental memorial honoring the seven member crew of Flight 93. The Heroes Garden at the Flight 93 Chapel in Shanksville was chosen as the location for the Monument and plaza, and designs were unveiled in October, 2004. Two years later, in 2006, construction of the plaza was begun in July and the entire installation was completed in time for the solemn dedication on September 11, 2006.

The twelve foot black granite octagonal obelisk is engraved with seven portraits and names of the Captain, First Officer and five Flight Attendants of United Flight 93. The obelisk is crowned by a bronze replica of the Flight 93 aircraft, engineered from actual blueprints of the plane.

The center Monument is surrounded by four monumental black granite benches engraved with the names of the 33 heroic Passengers of Flight 93. The obelisk weighs 31,000 pounds, fifteen and a half tones, and the monumental benches weigh 3,000 pounds each, totaling six tons.

A 3,000 pound remnant of the World trade Center was sent by the New Jersey Port Authority in honor of the dedication of the Crew Monument, and is temporarily displayed adjacent to the Monument. The remnant will be decorated with a red white and blue pattern and will be installed and displayed on a monumental pedestal in the Heroes Garden.

Date: September 20, 2006

The Monument was was dedicated on September 11, 2006.

Over 500 people attended. They came from all over the United States to join in celebration of the Crew of Flight 93.

View more images at Association of Flight Attendants web pages and in our Gallery.

Thunder on the Mountain

    Tread gently on our hills, be aware of where you are. You are welcome here among us. We were quiet once, secluded and alone. These mountains and our checkered fields are not much changed. Their appearance endures in much the same way as it has been for a very long time. Something is different now. It cannot be explained or defined. Our world is shattered and we have been touched even as the entire world has been shaken. From the terrible events of that September morning have emerged Giants who are specially honored here. Strangers to us all, they have become the Heroes of our towns, our people, of our nation and the world. In the final moments of their lives, they demonstrated courage, strength, purpose and commitment. Their message is clear: to be free, completely free, let no one, let no thing take control. We are Captains of our Destiny, Masters of our soul. We can make a difference in our own lives, we can make a difference in the destiny of the world.

    These Heroes of Flight 93 have hallowed our land. We honor them and hold in our hearts a special gratitude for what they have done for us all. Their relatives and friends have walked among us, and for awhile we shared their grief. Our lingering grief is the sadness of the Nation and it will make us stronger and more determined to adhere to the principles that have made our Nation great. These are the very principles guiding the Heroic Passengers of Flight 93. Theirs is the Spirit of America, the spirit of human nature to be free.

    There is a sanctity here. Be aware of the silence in your heart. Remember what they have done. Treasure the gift they have given, together with so many others who have demonstrated bravery, so many of whom will never be known to us. Honor the sacrifice they have made, and take from here the memories of your life. Honor this land and this place. It is sacred to us now. We see our sky in a different way, we travel our countryside in awe. There are tears in our hearts. We will remember the Thunder that has shaken our mountains. They traveled our sky for a moment, they have touched our land forever.

    Tread gently on our hills, Welcome Visitor, tread gently. You are on hallowed ground.

(c) 2001 A. T. Mascherino

About "Thunder on the Mountain"

   There were some who came those days so soon after September eleventh, trampling over these hills, as if unknowing where they were. This placid, tranquil place of solitude was sanctified now by the visitation of Heroes from the sky. For us who saw our land transformed, we saw ourselves transformed as well. For those whose lives were touched and forever changed by so great a loss, many reached out, not with answers, but with grasps of friendship and consolation.

   There were some who came among us, who did not know what this place was or what it had become. They could not know who we are and what we had become. In those days so soon thereafter, thoughts and feelings found form in the words of an essay of exhortation, declaration, appeal, prayer and welcome. The essay, Thunder on the Mountain was written in response and in tribute to those events at Shanksville, and was printed and distributed as a greeting for those who came into the region looking for the place where Flight 93 came to earth and as a suggestion that perhaps more, much more than what they came to seek could be found here.

   The impact of Flight 93 is an experience to be treasured, preserved, shared and proclaimed. In a single instant of time, at 10:06AM on September eleventh at Shanksville, Pennsylvania, time stood still. The thunder of that impact will never be silent, will never stop reverberating on our hills and on our mountains and on our hearts. Everyone who comes to see what really happened in Shanksville cannot be indifferent. They must know that Heroes came among us and changed the destiny of the world. From this quiet place, they will bring the message into their lives and hearts and homes, and the impact of that single moment in time will be an eternal message never to be forgotten, always and forever remembered: a message of bravery, sacrifice, hope, and glory of the forty brave Heroes of Flight 93 who left for us an example and a message that can never be silenced, Thunder on the Mountain.

A Spiritual Memorial

Flight 93 Memorial Chapel is a spiritual memorial and perpetual tribute in honor of the Heroes of Flight 93, and all others who perished September 11, 2001. The founder and Director-Curator is Bishop Alphonse T. Mascherino, an ordained Catholic priest for twenty-six years. Bishop Mascherino is a Bishop of the Catholic Church of the East.

The Chapel is non denominational and is not owned or controlled by any church or religion and is open to all religious groups. The Chapel is not a Catholic Church of the East institution and serves only as a location for the Mass and for other services of other religions who are free and welcome to schedule worship service at the Chapel.The Chapel is a secular non-denominational Chapel, and serves as a spiritual refuge and place of meditation and prayer. The Chapel is open to people of all faiths and is available for individual faith groups to worship together under the direction of their respective religious leaders.

Prayer and worship services will be conducted on a regular basis to honor the Heroes who have fallen, to pray for our Nation, our President, public officials and religious leaders.

The theme of the Chapel is One Nation Under God. Appropriate ceremonies on national holidays will celebrate the religious diversity of America and the unity of the American people.The Chapel will present multi-media programs to the public celebrating the Memory of the Heroes of Flight 93, The Spirit of America, and the theme of One Nation Under God. A program of lectures and addresses by professionals in the fields of Religion, Education, Psychology and Public Service will be presented. Chorales, and Concerts by performing groups and visiting Church choirs centered on the theme of the American Spirit, with audience participation are planned in the Chapel and on the Chapel grounds.

The church building was first dedicated in 1902 as The Mizpah Church, and is recognized to be one hundred years old. The church was used for services for seventy years. In recent years the building served as a seed warehouse of the Servos Seed Corporation. The building was purchased privately from the Kurt Servos Family.

The Chapel was founded November 29, 2001. Flight 93 Memorial Chapel is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit corporation. The Chapel is non denominational and is not owned or controlled by any church or religion and is open to all religious groups.  Bishop Mascherino is a Bishop of the Catholic Church of the East. The Chapel is not a Catholic Church of the East institution and serves only as a location for the Mass and for other services of other religions who are free and welcome to schedule worship service at the Chapel.