Posted by Bill Parsons on 8/19/06

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For the interest of forum readers, I will post the revised
2004 Court Reporter's Creed and the Blessing of Court
Reporters from the St. Cassian of Tangiers patron saint's
card.

Copies of both items are available. The creed is always
free. The patron saint's cards are free, but donations
are accepted to Father Nadolny's Good News Fund.

To request the items, contact williamparsons2@yahoo.com.

THE COURT REPORTER'S CREED

My profession stems from humanity's desire and its
necessity to preserve the happenings of yesterday and
tomorrow.

My profession was born with the rise of civilization in
ancient Greece.

I was known as a scribe in Judea, Persia and the Roman
Empire.

I preserved the Ten Commandments for posterity and was
with King Solomon while building the temple.

I was with the founding fathers of the United States when
they drafted the Declaration of Independence. My hand
labored upon the scroll that set forth the Bill of Rights.

The immortal Abraham Lincoln entrusted me to record the
Emancipation Proclamation.

I was commissioned to be with Roosevelt at Yalta. I was
with Eisenhower on D-Day and with MacArthur at Tokyo.

I put into written language man's first landing on the
moon for the world to read. I translate spoken words
into written words for deaf and hard-of-hearing people.

I create the instantaneous closed captions on television
for all people to read.

I have kept confidence reposed with me by those in high
places, as well as those in lowly places.

My profession protects the truthful witness, and I am a
nemesis of the perjurer. I am a party to the
administration of justice under the law and the court I
serve.

I discharge my duties with devotion and honor. Perhaps I
haven't made history, but I have preserved it through the
ages.

In the past I was called a scribe. Today I am the court
reporter that sits in the courts of my country. I am the
reporter who is the keeper of the Congressional Record of
the United States.

I am the verbatim Court Reporter.

*** (William Parsons’ revised 2004 adaptation of a speech
given by C.W. Jones to the 1964 meeting of the Kansas
Shorthand Reporters Association) ***

Blessing for Court Reporters

Bless the hands
and the skills of
those who record
with accuracy the facts
of the spoken word.

They assure that honor
and justice prevail,
performing their duties
with a devotion
that never fails.

What greater mission
on earth than to engage
in a duty to record
the word of truth
on history's every page?

From the 2005 St. Cassian of Tangiers patron saint of
court reporting saint's card prepared by Rev. Ed Nadolny,
Sacred Heart Church, East Berlin, Connecticut and
distributed by Court Reporter Bill Parsons,
236 Old Stagecoach Road, Meriden, CT 06450.
williamparsons2@yahoo.com

creeds and patron saint's cards available, 8/19/06, by Bill Parsons.

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