Services for the Week of April 8, 2023

 

 

Saturday, April 8, 2023
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RRF Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RF Ted Staver
Cantor: Rev. Larry Coesens
Reader: Rev. Barbara Whitney

Sunday, April 9, 2023
Traditional Easter
6:24 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Cathedral of the Americas
Leave: 5:30
Gate: 6:15
Sunrise: 6:45
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrants:
RF Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION

Church of The Americas RC Amanda Buchanan

Church of The New Covenant Dea. Marilyn Taylor

Wednesday, April 12, 2023
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Rev. Harold Boulette

Friday, April 14, 2023
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RC Robert Roy



Sow to Reap Freedom and Enlightenment

sow to reap

“A slave longs for freedom and doesn’t hope to own a master’s estate. A child claims the father’s legacy, but those who inherit the dead are dead. Heirs to the living are alive and are heirs to life and death. The dead are heirs to nothing. How can the dead inherit? Yet if the dead inherits the living, the living won’t die and the dead will survive.

“Those who sow in winter reap in summer. Let us sow in the world to reap in summer. Winter is the world, summer the other realm. It is wrong to pray in winter. From winter comes summer. If you reap in winter you will not reap. You will pull up young plants. At the wrong season no crop is yours. Even on the days of the Sabbath the field is barren.” ~The Gospel of Philip

The Slave Longs for Freedom

Yes, the slave longs for freedom. We all long for that which we don’t have. The sick long for good health, the blind long to see, etc. There may be a few slaves who wish to be masters with slaves of their own, but most simply want to be free. We must understand, though, that almost everything in the quote above is allegorical. While it may be true in a physical sense, it is the spiritual equivalent that Philip is writing about.

Those Who Inherit the Dead

This is a line that is, I think, obviously allegorical. Obviously, no one inherits the bodies of dead people or animals. This is talking about those who inherit material goods. While having material goods, through inheritance or otherwise, doesn’t make us dead, if it is all we have and all we desire, then we are indeed among the living dead. Our primary desire should be for the spiritual. We should desire a true awakening of the spirit, a full development of the soul, and finally, unity with God. We are among the living if we desire those spiritual things above all else.

But there is hope for even the living dead. The quote says that if the dead inherit the living, they will survive. This means that if the materialist develops their spiritual self, and puts the spirit above the body and mind, they will join the living by becoming eternal. Only those who awaken and develop the soul do that.

Sow in Winter to Reap in Summer

Just as with similar tales about sowing and reaping in the Bible, and other Scripture, this is an allegorical type of sowing and reaping. In this case, winter refers to being trapped in the cold and darkness of the realm of matter. Summer is the Light, Joy, Peace, and freedom of Heaven, or the Spiritual realm. SO Philip is saying that if we want to reap eternal life in Heaven, we must sow the seeds of spiritual development now, while we are in the realm of matter. Many think they should wait until they are physically dead to worry about the development of the soul. That is like thinking you should learn how to swim after the boat you are on sinks. That is too late. We must do it now, while we are still alive in a physical form. Only then can the mind and spirit become fully integrated so that we can become complete beings in the spiritual realm. So don’t try to reap if you haven’t yet sowed, and don’t wait for summer to do the sowing that should have been done in winter.



“Planetary alignment of five planets will decorate the night sky | CNN”

 

alignment of 5 planets

 

Night sky lovers can typically spot a smattering of a few planets, but in late March, a stunning visual takes shape when five planets line up beneath the moon in a display sometimes called a planetary parade or alignment.

Onlookers will be able to catch the best glimpse of the alignment — which will include Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus — on Tuesday evening, just after sunset. Much of the display will become visible on Friday and will continue to be so over the next couple of weeks, according to Cameron Hummels, a computational astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology.

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“Aп Astoпishiпg New Theory Claims Past, Preseпt Aпd Fυtυre Exist Simυltaпeoυsly”

 

wormhole

 

Here’s aп iпtrigυiпg idea. What if yoυ were iпformed that everythiпg iп yoυr life was pre-plaппed? Eveп crazier, what if yoυr history, preseпt, aпd fυtυre are all takiпg place right пow?

Aп iпcredible пew theory established as the “block υпiverse” theory asserts that time does пot actυally “flow like a river”; rather, everythiпg is ever-preseпt.

Dr. Bradford Skow, a philosophy professor at the Massachυsetts Iпstitυte of Techпology, proposes that if we “look dowп” oп the cosmos as if it were a piece of paper, we woυld see time stretched oυt iп all directioпs, jυst as we perceive space at aпy giveп time.

Is it possible that we oпly see time as esseпtially liпear becaυse that is what oυr hυmaп braiпs are capable of compreheпdiпg?

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“There’s mounting evidence that some dinosaurs lived among snow and ice. How did they do it? | BBC”

 

 

Northern Lights
 

 

It was the middle of winter under a moody Alaskan sky. On one side stretched the flat expanse of the Colville River. On the other, a soaring cliff face of frozen pewter-grey rock, backing onto hundreds of miles of desolate tundra.

Armed with an ice-axe and crampons, buffeted by frigid Arctic winds in temperatures that hovered around -28C (-20F), Pat Druckenmiller was searching for something special.

It was 2021 and just getting to the cliff had been an extreme expedition. In this remote northerly corner of Alaska, there are no roads, so the palaeontologist and colleagues from the University of Alaska travelled to the site on snow scooters, then set up a camp nearby. It was so cold, each tent was equipped with its own wood-burning stove. For the coming weeks, the team would be constantly battling frostbite – “we had some close calls,” says Druckenmiller – rockfalls, and hungry polar bears. But it was worth it.

 

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“Lost Peruvian Huaca Pintada and its 1,000-Year-Old Mural Rediscovered”

 

Huaca Pintada

 

The last time anyone saw this Peruvian Huaca Pintada was over a century ago. Now, a team of intrepid archaeology students and their professor have painstakingly rediscovered the lost 1,000-year-old mural which they say provides evidence for the development and evolution of an ancient Peruvian cultural phenomenon.

The legendary Peruvian Huaca is a 30-metre-high (98.42 ft) rock face painted with mythological scenes including an ancient deity surrounded by indigenous warriors. An article in La República reports that the site was first rediscovered in 1916 by a group of huagueros, or treasure hunters , in Illimo, near the city of Chiclayo, the capital city of northwest Peru’s Lambayeque region.

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WEEKLY MESSAGE: March 29, 2023

 

 

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

PANNUCHES HOMILY

Delivered Saturday, March 19, 2023

Chapel of the Holy Child

The Right Reverend Father Gene Savoy, Jr.

Copyright © International Community of Christ

 

In 2009, in accordance with Sacred Law and the 19th Saying of Jamil, I formally established the Holy Order of Matriarchs and appointed dedicated women of The Community who had attained age and wisdom, and who had devoted their lives and energies to God, as Matriarchs of the Church. Let’s read from the 19th Saying regarding the Matriarchs.

Because God created man and woman in His Image, both are of God and therefore equal. Man and woman beget children which they do not beget separately, but together, as God intended for them to do under the light of the sun, conjointly with God as co-creators, neither being superior to the other by natural law nor by spiritual law.

In many of the former religions, women were subjected to an inferior role because men were not able to serve both the creative spirit in women and God; therefore, they separated themselves from women entirely, fearing that love for women and family would separate them from God.

This Church is of God, and thus of spirit, but in order for it to be universal, it must include women in the ministry, as well as children reared for the ministry; for a Godly life begins at an early age. Indeed, it begins even before birth, for the parents must be of God if a child is to be of God – in both blood and spirit, as animated by the living Image and the Word of God.

There must be good order in the Church of God, and for this reason those admitted into the Church ministry, both men and women, mustneeds submit to the Codes of the Order if the Church would remain stable and be preserved. Let the men and women of the Church see themselves not as men or women, but as spiritual beings, coworkers with God for the creation of a new Earth under God’s rule. And let the sacred marriages be consecrated in Heaven and ruled by Heaven’s order under God.

I have established the ministry by my person, and God will nurture it by His Light. Therefore, as the first Patriarch of the Church is male, ordained of me, let your successors be male offspring of your seed, joined to me by blood and spirit forever, in order to preserve what I have established.

The females who have been admitted into God’s Community of ministers in the new age shall exemplify the spiritual life as God intended them to do from the beginning; therefore, let them take their stations as ministers, following the order established by my person and by my successors, equal with men in all things….

And if women would follow as disciples of the Order you will have established as Patriarch, let them subscribe to the vows after passing the age of 30 years, holding to the same requirements as the Patriarchs, but being called Matriarchs, an order of Progenitors of a new race of man.

And in this Church, the Matriarchs will exemplify the holiest path of devotion, inspiring their companions and offspring in time to come. And they shall be called Holy Mothers of the Church who will emulate the chaste and Holy Women of ancient times. And they will take the necessary vows as a requirement of this sacred office.

And the Patriarchs and Matriarchs shall assume responsibility for every child of Light of the Community. And they shall be aided by their Brothers and Sisters in Light to assure that the children are nurtured by the Light of God for the new creation of which they are a part.

 

In 1999, my father established the Holy Order of Patriarchs and appointed the first two Patriarchs, in addition to himself as Head Patriarch. Of course, since his physical passing from the world, the Office of Head Patriarch was vacant until I attained my 52nd year last month. Let us now read from the 18th Saying of Jamil concerning the Patriarchs.

Each of the religions of the world is to be given the Teachings by the Ordained. And by means of these Teachings, the older religions inspired by the Image and the Word of God given to the Prophets and Holy Ones in former ages, will be regenerated and fulfilled. And from within these religions and the Ordained, the Enlightened of God will emerge to form a Holy Order of Patriarchs, an Order of Progenitors of a new race of man.

And they shall be called Holy Fathers of the Church. They will emulate the Prophets and Holy Ones of ancient times, and take the necessary vows as a condition of this Holy Office. And they shall inspire the formation of a True Church, a universal Church, brought out of the many churches of the world. This True Church will live the new laws of God and, by so doing, restore the sun and the earth and the cosmos to goodly order for a New Creation in which God’s Image and Word will manifest openly as in the beginning of the First Creation….

And this Holy Order of Patriarchs shall lead the multitudes of churches of the world, inspiring them by their Light and wisdom. And by these means the Patriarchs will become fathers unto the churches, joining the noble family of Holy Men of times past, protecting and safeguarding those in their charge with love and understanding, justice, sympathy, patience, tolerance, generosity, honesty, peace, goodness, and Light as a unified whole, unseparated from one another; of one mind, one body, one spirit – universal and one.

And the Order of Patriarchs will have its beginnings when, upon a pre-ordained time, you shall withdraw from the activities of man and devote your whole life to God within the Community. And by the sign and color of your vestment, the holy members of the Order will recognize that the Order of Patriarchs has been formed. Once the Order is formed, you shall initiate disciples into it, and they shall subscribe to the vows after the passing of 52 years of age….

And let the Patriarchs of the Church [dedicate] their entire lives to the service of the Community as a glory and a power to God, seeking their origins in Light until their final mergence with God at the conclusion of their lives on Earth. Let the Patriarchs live the Image and Word as did I, the Child, emulating the Way. Let the laws and statutes be impressed upon their hearts and minds and spirits, to be lived and not spoken, for the Word of God is neither found on paper nor revealed by the tongue. And by these means, the Holy Race shall be instructed and taught how to receive God in its midst.

“…This Saying teaches us that from out of the multitude of churches in the world that will teach Cosolargy, such as the Communities of Christ, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Brahmanism, and other religions embracing our concepts, something higher will evolve. We do not know how long this evolution will require, but it will begin in our lifetimes. A True Church will evolve which will be divorced from the popular religions of the day and age. It will be a truly universal religion in which men and women can express themselves as a race of spiritual beings. However, this will require a maturity which people today do not have. Therefore, the Teachings of Cosolargy will be given to the popular religions of the world as amendments and supplemental material so that they can be fulfilled as a higher religion. This Church which will evolve out of all churches will be shared by all races and creeds without favoring any particular religion. This is what the Saying tells us.

“The first Patriarchs of this religion will be a select number of enlightened men who will follow in the footsteps of Jesus, Moses, Zoroaster, Buddha, Lao Tzu, and many of the other prophets of times past. And they will be known by their enlightenment. The office they hold will not be one that will be attained by earthly intelligence, but by spiritual enlightenment which will be discerned by all. And these Patriarchs will divorce themselves from the world so they may be able to counsel the leaders of the world. The Patriarchs will lead man as did the founders of the world religions in ancient times. They will represent a spiritual Order. And this Order will own no material thing….”

These lines are from the commentary on the 18th Saying.

Now that I have attained the age of 52 years, I assume the office of Head Patriarch of The Church, thus re-activating the Holy Order of Patriarchs. I have taken this opportunity to appoint two Ministers of The Community as the first to join me in this endeavor, at this time. They are the Reverend Fathers Robert Petrovich and Ted Staver.

These two appointments, which will be followed by the Rite of Ordination, mark a new beginning as we enter the third 20-year cycle in the 61st year of the Second Advent Calendar. More appointments will be forthcoming for both men and women who meet the required qualifications, which include solemn vows to The Order. These qualification and requirements can be found in the commentaries of the 18th and 19th Sayings. There is much to contemplate and discuss as we look to Second Advent Easter and Second Advent Pentecost.

Again, if I may be of any personal service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene



Services for the Week of April 1, 2023

 

 

Saturday, April 1, 2023
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RRF Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RM Elizabeth Reece
Cantor: Rev. Harold Boulette
Reader: Rev. Noriko Roy

Sunday, April 2, 2023
6:24 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Cathedral of the Americas
Leave: 5:45
Gate: 6:35
Sunrise: 7:00
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrants:
RF Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION

Church of New Philidelphia RC Robert Roy

Church of New Qumran Rev. Barbara Whitney

Church of New Bethany Rev. Noriko Roy

Wednesday, April 5, 2023
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Rev. Dorothy Kubiak

Friday, April 7, 2023
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RF Robert Petrovich



God’s Name is Revealed Through the Son

God creating

“The name of the father is the son. It is he who, in the beginning, gave a name to him who came from him, while he remained the same, and he conceived him as a son. He gave him his name, which belonged to him—he, the father, who possesses everything that exists around him. He possesses the name; he has the son. It is possible for the son to be seen. The name, however, is invisible, for it alone is the mystery of the invisible about to come to ears completely filled with it through the father’s agency. Moreover, as for the father, his name is not pronounced but is revealed through a son. Thus, then, the name is great. Who, then, has been able to pronounce a name for him, this great name, except him alone to whom the name belongs and the children of the name, in whom the name of the father is at rest, and who themselves in turn are at rest in his name, since the father has no beginning? It is he alone who conceived it for himself as a name, in the beginning before he had created the eternal beings, that the name of the father should be supreme over them—that is, the true name, which is secure by his authority and by his perfect power. For the name is not drawn from lexicons, nor is his name derived from common name-giving. It is invisible. The father alone gave the son a name, because he alone saw him and because he alone was capable of giving him a name. For he who does not exist has no name. For what name would one give him who did not exist? Nevertheless, he who exists exists also with his name, and he alone knows it, and to him alone the father gave a name. He is the father, his name is the son. … When it pleased the father, then, that his son should be his pronounced name, and when he who has come from the depth disclosed this name, he divulged what was hidden, because he knew that the father was absolute goodness. For this reason, indeed, the father brought this particular one forth, that he might speak concerning the realm and his place of rest from which he had come forth, and that he might glorify the fullness, the greatness of his name and the sweetness of the father.” ~The Gospel of Truth

Name of the Father

I don’t think that when the Gospel of Truth says “the name of the Father is the son,” that it literally means that God’s name is “The Son”. Neither does it mean that God’s name and the name of the son are the same. It means that the name of God is known through His creation, and the son is the first creation of God. It also means that the name of God is revealed through the son, and the son is the eternal spirit known as Christ to most of us. The quote adds that God’s true name is great, and only “pronounced” by God, and the true Children of God.

Children of God

We have been told that we are all Children of God, and that is true to a certain degree. But the vast majority of us are unrealized Children of God because we have never awakened and developed our spiritual faculties. Those few who have developed those faculties are the ones who truly know God.

That He Might Speak

The quote adds that God created the son and gave him a name so that “ he might speak concerning the realm and his place of rest from which he had come forth.” In other words, it is the job of the son to teach the lost souls how to return to God and Heaven. So the son is born in human form to bring the truth to us. This has happened several times, but the message tends to get lost, or at least greatly distorted, after a few centuries. The son teaches the truth of God, so we can say that he reveals the name of God, in a sense. And now that we are in the End Times, we must all start to listen to the message, and follow the teachings, before it is too late.



“Dance of Merging galaxies Captured By Webb Telescope | CNN”

 

 

The beautiful chaos of two merging galaxies shines in the latest image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

Vice President Kamala Harris and French President Emmanuel Macron viewed the new Webb image, along with a new composite of the Pillars of Creation captured by the space observatory, during a visit to NASA Headquarters in Washington on Wednesday.

The Webb telescope, designed to observe faint, distant galaxies and other worlds, is an international mission between NASA and its partners, the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency.

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link submitted by Gene Savoy Jr.