Box 2
Container
Contains 104 Results:
"Take away our hearts of stone", sheet music, 1972
File — Box: 2, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1972
"That we may live", sheet music, 1972
File — Box: 2, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1972
"There is none like Him", sheet music, 1972
File — Box: 2, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1972
"Toward one goal", sheet music, 1972
File — Box: 2, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1972
"Trisagion", sheet music, 1972
File — Box: 2, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1972
"Witness of Christ", sheet music, 1972
File — Box: 2, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1972
William Cross, ordination Mass, photographs, 1974 May
File — Box: 2, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents
Cross was the second Black priest ordained in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Rivers personally coordinated his first Mass and was the homilist, giving a homily titled "A Black Priest is still a Rare Thing".
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1974 May
William Cross, ordination and first Masses, program and sermon by Rivers, 1974 May
File — Box: 2, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents
Cross was the second Black priest ordained in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Rivers personally coordinated his first Mass and was the homilist, giving a homily titled "A Black Priest is still a Rare Thing".
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1974 May
"Praise Christ!", sheet music, 1975
File — Box: 2, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1975
The Gift of Blackness liturgy, 41st Eucharistic Congress, Philadelphia, photographs, 1976 August 5
File — Box: 2, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1976 August 5
"Black Thankfulness", sheet music, 1976
File — Box: 2, Folder: 36
Scope and Contents
A processional on a theme and idea of Clarence Joseph Rivers, by Henry Papale. Especially commissioned for the Black Heritage Program of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1976
Turn me loose, script, 1976
File — Box: 2, Folder: 37
Scope and Contents
A musical play based on the life of Frederick Douglass.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1976
Turn me loose, sheet music, 1976
File — Box: 2, Folder: 38
Scope and Contents
A musical play based on the life of Frederick Douglass.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1976
"Freeing the Spirit", concert by the Catholic Central City Choir, Buffalo, program, 1978 April 23
File — Box: 2, Folder: 39
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1978 April 23
A reading celebrating the African American Catholic Congress and Federated Colored Catholics, Athenaeum Chapel, Cincinnati, photographs, approximately 1978
File — Box: 2, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
approximately 1978
"When from our exile", liturgy for the National Conference of Major Religious Superiors of Men, 1980 August 12
File — Box: 2, Folder: 41
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1980 August 12
"The Presidential Prayers" for the sacrament of confirmation, 1983
File — Box: 2, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1983
Peter Kwasi Sarpong, visit program and photographs, 1986 August
File — Box: 2, Folder: 43
Scope and Contents
Special ceremony and Mass on the occasion of the visit of Peter Kwasi Sarpong, Bishop of Kumasi, Ghana, sponsored by St. Mark's Church and the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. The ceremony was to establish awards for outstanding stewardship for increasing the presence of the Catholic Church among the peoples of African American descent in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. The Mass, held at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral, Cincinnati, was sponsored by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Mission Office, with...
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Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1986 August
Macram Max Gassis, forum and Mass focusing on the Sudan, program and photographs, 1994 August-September
File — Box: 2, Folder: 44
Scope and Contents
The forum program was titled "Cincinnati Reaches Out to the Sudan and Beyond," at the University of Cincinnati’s Afro-American Cultural Center. It featured Sudanese guests of honor: Macram Max Gassis, Bishop of El Obeid; Bona Malival, editor and former member of parliament; David Mayo, University of Michigan at Lansing; and Manute Bol, professional athlete and philanthropist. The Mass celebrated by Gassis took place at St. Francis Xavier’s Church, Cincinnati, with Rivers as the Liturgist.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1994 August-September
"Anaphora of the Lion and Lamb", sheet music, 1994
File — Box: 2, Folder: 45
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1994
Praise Him XII, Diocese of Brooklyn, program and photographs, 1999 October 2
File — Box: 2, Folder: 46
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1999 October 2
An American Mass Program, 60th anniversary celebration, 2024
File — Box: 2, Folder: 47
Scope and Contents
Hosted by the Rivers family and held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C. with Cardinal Wilton Gregory as the celebrant and the Archdiocese of Washington Gospel Choir.
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Collection is open for research.
Dates:
2024
Sermon notes, approximately 1955-approximately 1965
File — Box: 2, Folder: 48
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
approximately 1955-approximately 1965
"Attempting the Great Christian Dream", sermon, 1959 January 10, 1963 April 27
File — Box: 2, Folder: 49
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1959 January 10, 1963 April 27
Feast of Christ the King, 5th talk in a Mass series, 1959
File — Box: 2, Folder: 50
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1959