{"id":450615,"date":"2026-09-29T00:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T00:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450615\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T00:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T00:54:14","slug":"diocese-of-el-paso-to-host-blue-mass-honoring-first-responders-at-st-mark-catholic-church-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450615\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of El Paso to host Blue Mass honoring first responders at St. Mark Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The Diocese of El Paso will hold its annual Blue Mass on Tuesday to honor law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical personnel and other first responders.<\/p>\n<p>The Mass is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Sept. 29 at St. Mark Catholic Church, located at 11700 Pebble Hills Blvd. in East El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>The annual service brings together the Catholic community to pray for those who serve and protect the region. <\/p>\n<p>Organizers said the Mass will include prayers of gratitude for first responders\u2019 work, as well as prayers for their safety, their families and those who died in the line of duty.<\/p>\n<p>Community members, first responders and their families are invited to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Mark J. Seitz is expected to be available for questions after the Mass.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/circle-k-offers-one-free-medium-hot-or-iced-coffee-per-customer-for-national-coffee-day?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Circle K offers one free medium hot or iced coffee per customer for National Coffee Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The Diocese of El Paso will hold its annual Blue Mass on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-450615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}