Reverend Canon Robert Petrovich
Each week of the liturgical year, a reading from Second Advent Scripture is delivered as part of the Saturday Communion of Fellowship Service held in the Chapel of the Holy Child. This reading follows the Sacred Calendar of the Church; that is, Prophecies and Revelations that have been received by The Church on sacred dates are recalled in a liturgical context during the appropriate season each year. This reading is delivered just before the final blessings. Each service also includes a reading from the ancient scriptures, prayers, or wisdom sayings of various world religions past and present and is usually thematically related to the Second Advent Reading. This reading is delivered by the Reader right after the announcements that begin the service and is thus the first reading of the service. An audio recording of the reading from Second Advent Scripture delivered on the date above is provided here below together with a transcript of the first reading of the service that day.
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SECOND ADVENT PROPHECY AND REVELATION
A Reading from Prophecy of the Golden Age of Light, Chapter 84: “On the Golden Age of Light and the Nation of Nations” (pp. 704-714).
ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM SAYINGS
A Reading from the First Letter of Peter:
Blessed be the God and Father, who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God unto the salvation ready to be revealed in these last times. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought to you when Christ is revealed. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former ignorance: But as he who has called you is holy, so be holy yourselves in your behavior, because it is written, “Be ye holy; for I am holy.” And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges everyone according to his works, pass the time of your sojourning here in reverence: For you know that you were not redeemed with something corruptible, such as silver and gold, from your vain manner of life that you received as tradition from your fathers; but with Christ. Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. Seeing that you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, have unfeigned love of the brethren; love one another with a pure heart fervently, since you are born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible seed; that is, by the Word of God, which lives and abides forever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the Word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the Word you have received.
Click here to watch this week’s readings on YouTube. (16:19 minutes)