August 10, 2019: Chapel Readings

 

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.

 

Click here to watch this week’s readings on YouTube. (3:56 minutes)

 

ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM SAYINGS

A Reading from the Gospel of John:

Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
I have revealed to you those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word.
Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you.
For I gave theme the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours.
All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them.
I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one.
While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.
I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.
I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
As your sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.

For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.
My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,
that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be one in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one:
I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

 

 

Dea. Radheka Patel Savoy

 

Click here to watch this week’s readings on YouTube. (3:56 minutes)

 



“Ancient stone pillars offer clues of comet strike that changed human history”

 

Pillar 43, Enclosure D, also known as the Vulture Stone of Göbekli Tepe. Credit: Martin B. Sweatman and Dimitrios Tsikritsis

 

A team of researchers with the University of Edinburgh has found what they describe as evidence of a comet striking the Earth at approximately the same time as the onset of the Younger Dryas in carvings on an ancient stone pillar in southern Turkey. The group has published their findings in the journal Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry.

 

Read the entire article by Bob Yirka posted online April 24, 2017 at phys.org.

 

link submitted by Stephan Fuelling

 



“Sun Period of Higher Consciousness and Enlightenment”

 

 

“The second of the great periods of evolution that have been mentioned, the ‘Sun period,’ effects the raising of man’s being to a higher stage of consciousness. … The higher stage which man reaches on the Sun may therefore be characterized in this way: the physical body, already formed in the germ-state on Saturn, is raised to a second stage of perfection by becoming the vehicle of an etheric or vital body. This last-named etheric body attains the first degree of perfection on its own account during Sun evolution. In order, however, that the second degree of perfection .. may be reached, the intervention of still other spirit-beings is necessary during the further course of the Sun life.” ~Rudolf Steiner

Periods of Evolution

A common belief among both materialists and occultists like Steiner is that man has been on a constant upward path of evolution. Spiritual Mystery schools tell a different story. They say that man devolved from spirit into a being of half spirit, half matter. Over time, we have become denser and denser, more and more material. The average human now is probably more like 90{1fa2ef75e2e78439128d99df03acfe1d8ee3047374abe3d4676fe3470ff8b909} matter.

While we have gone through various periods or cycles of development, I’m not sure we can label them the Saturn period and the sun period. Nonetheless, cycles do exist. Unfortunately for us, those cycles have been more in a downward direction rather than upward. We may have gone through brief periods of spiritual growth, only to have it followed by a longer period of further descent into matter.

Sun Period

That is all changing now. We are still going through cycles of various length, but one major thing has changes. The Sun of Righteousness, promised by the prophet Malachi, has arrived. This makes the spiritual sun far more powerful than before. As a result, we know have the opportunity to turn that descent into matter around and become spiritual beings again. God is in charge of this transforming age, but we have to participate as well.

 

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

 

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on MAY 7, 2019

 



Amanda Buchanan Receives Appointment as Canon

 

Rev. Canon Amanda Buchanan PHOTO CREDIT: Jim Elliott

 

Rev. Amanda Buchanan was appointed to the role of Church Canon on June 6, 2019.

Rev. Buchanan has a long and varied history of working in the Church Community. She has been a member of the Jamilian Handbell Choir since 1984 and played on some of the recordings made in the 1980s. During those years, she also worked as an assistant instructor in the Jamilian Parochial School and started working at the Chancellery in the department of records.

In the 1990s she was assigned to the department of Liturgy, and since that time she has overseen the minor order of acolytes and rehearsals for Chapel Services. During this time, she was also on the board of the Foundation Orchestra, where she did fund raising and worked with the orchestra director, her husband Rev. Gary Buchanan, to contract and pay the musicians.

Rev. Buchanan received third-level ordination and the rank of presbyter on October 10, 2002, and on January 30, 2017, the anniversary of the commemoration of The Child, she was appointed director of the Department of Sacramental and Liturgical Rites.

For the past several years, she has been a member of the Jamilian University staff, working with inquiries and with new students as a preceptor.

 



WEEKLY MESSAGE: August 7, 2019

 

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

 

 

 

 

August 7, 2019

Let us continue with our review of The Secret Sayings of Jamil with the Second Saying and its commentary. (Please note that while the original text refers to “men” and “man,” both men and women are implied.)

The Second Saying

The New Religion shall be founded on the teachings given by my person come as The Child. My ministry announces the birth of God’s Messianic Sun which shall fill the spirits of men with manifold blessings. Every revealed religion of past ages has prophesied the coming of this cosmic religion at the final age of the world. This revealed religion shall teach all men everywhere the secret power in God’s New Sun. The Image and the Word shall be as a living force in this religion. In olden times the founders and the prophets of sacred scripture did hide the meaning of the writings, keeping knowledge of the Image and the Word from the profane. This New Religion shall restore the meaning of all sacred scripture. And all will be made to see that the written word, like Law, has no power in itself. And the ministry I shall cause to be established shall teach man that he can be created in the Image of God, which is Intelligible Light. And herein is the secret of life which man has sought. And man will have regained his lost immortality. This New Religion shall be a fellowship of Immortals having Communion with God. And they shall possess such a knowledge of this world and the next that they shall challenge the institutions of learning for leadership of men’s minds. No man shall be able to explain the source of their great wisdom for it shall come from the living Word within the light of the Sun and not from books. In this way the lost knowledge, magical formulas and mystical teachings of the ancient world shall be reclaimed.

“And after The Man completed his reading of the Second Saying one of The Companions asked: ‘Are we to understand that we have the responsibility of deciphering or decoding all of the world’s sacred scripture?’ And The Man answered saying: ‘All scripture written by the ancients is shrouded in the symbolic language of the old scribes to keep the hidden meaning from being understood by those not initiated into the mysteries. Since these writings are the property of solar cults, our task is to decipher them and make them available to the fellowship within the Community. We have the knowledge necessary to accomplish this for we have an understanding of the code which was shared by all the classical writers of antiquity.’

“And another question was asked by one of the Companions: ‘In addition to the hidden knowledge of ancient religious literature we hope to recover, are we to expect new scripture for the time and era?’ And The Man replied: ‘The Child has endowed the Community with Prophecies, Statutes, Teachings, and Scripture which have been preserved and hidden in the archives. This material will serve as an inspiration to the Community for centuries to come here on the planet or anywhere else in the physical universe; for this religion is cosmic and a blueprint for the survival of the race wherever it may be forced to go in the future.’

“And one of them asked for an explanation of this statement. And The Man answered that the world could expect to be irradiated from the New Sun with new cosmic and solar emissions of a kind that would produce new conditions for the race. The New Religion, being cosmic and solar in nature, would teach the uses of techniques to build up immunity by the race to these radiations. In this respect the Community would be concerned with man’s survival anywhere in the universe….”

We will continue with the Third Saying next week.

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

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene
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Services for the Week of August 10, 2019

 

 

Saturday, August 10, 2019 
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Ted Staver
Cantor: Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Reader: Dea. Radheka Patel-Savoy
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

 

 

Sunday, August 11, 2019
5:58 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Cathedral Church of  the Americas
Leave: 5:15
Gate: 5:45
Sunrise: 6:13
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistants: RC Ted Staver
RC Peter Foust
Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

 

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Christian Churches    Rev. Robert Roy
Church of the Universal Theocracy    Dea. Noriko Roy

 

 

Wednesday, August 14, 2019
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
Rev. Michael McIntyre

 

 

Friday, August 16, 2019
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RM Elizabeth Reece

 



“Vatican Library Being Digitalized”

 

Pre-Columbian Aztec manuscript, written probably near Puebla (Mexico) at the end of the fifteenth century (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana)

 

“The Vatican Apostolic Library is now digitising its valuable ancient religious manuscripts and putting them online via its website, available for the public to view for free, as well as turning to crowdfunding to help it complete its work.

“The Vatican Library was founded in 1451 AD and holds over 80,000 manuscripts, prints, drawings, plates and incunabula (books printed prior to 1500 AD) written throughout history by people of different faiths from across the world.”

 

Read the entire article online at theeventchronicle.com.

 

CLICK HERE TO VISIT VATICAN ONLINE LIBRARY CATALOGUE

 

submitted by Robert DeFord

 



“Thought-Substance is Powerful Energy”

 

 

“When interest, sympathy, and good will meet to present pleasantly their opinions or thoughts on any special subject to each other, for an hour, there goes from that company a wave of thought-substance, which strikes other minds, and awakens or renews interest in that especial business, art, or cause, in proportion to the sensitiveness or capacity of such minds to receive thoughts. The new thought coming suddenly to you, comes because somewhere it is being talked out or agitated.

“The wave so caused acts n unseen elements precisely like that made by throwing a stone in calm water. The waves so radiate from the talk center; and they will continue to spread out in every direction. …

‘The same idea, or parts or shades of that idea, may float into a thousand minds within an hour, when once started, through a few people taking it. … Through thought-substance so sent far and wide you awaken desire or interest for the thing talked of.” ~Prentice Mulford

Wave of Thought-Substance

Mulford uses the term “thought-substance” to make it clear that thought is a substance. More accurately, it is an energy and energy does work. That is a basic law of science we all learned in grade school. Thought-substance or thought energy does work just as any other energy does. The main difference is that with most other kinds of energy, we are intentionally using that energy to do a specific task. We intentionally hit the nail with a hammer. The hammer doesn’t just jump up on its own and start hitting the nail. But with thought, most of us are unaware of the work being done by that energy.

 

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

 

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on MAY 29 2019

 



Services for the Week of August 3, 2019

 

 

Saturday, August 3, 2019 
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RM Rebecca Willis
Cantor: Rev. Greg Klinedinst
Reader: Sonya Savoy
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

 

6:00 PM 125TH PANNUCHES MEAL RITE
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant:
RM Elizabeth Reece

 

 

Sunday, August 4, 2019
5:54 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Cathedral Church of  the Americas
Leave: 5:00
Gate: 5:30
Sunrise: 6:09
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistants: RC Ted Staver
RC Peter Foust
RM Rebecca Willis
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

 

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of New Philadelphia    RC Ted Staver
Church of New Qumrany    Rev. Barbara Whitney

 

 

Wednesday, August 7, 2019
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
RC Ted Staver

 

 

 

Friday, August 9, 2019
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RC Peter Foust

 



WEEKLY MESSAGE: August 2, 2019

 

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

 

 

 

 

August 2, 2019

Yesterday was the 38th observance of the New Light of God Confirming the Active Principle of Divine Law. And what an observance it was! The Community in Reno gathered at the Red Rock Consecrated Sanctuary at the Cathedral Church of the Americas and witnessed a splendor of brilliance emanating out of the Sun. There was not a cloud in the sky, and it was something quite beautiful to behold.

As we approach this year’s annual Community Convocation next month, we will be focusing on The Secret Sayings of Jamil, of which there are 27. Sayings 1 through 24 have previously been published by The Community. However, Sayings 25, 26 and 27 have not. So these last three Sayings will be one of our major focuses in September. We often concentrate on The Prophecies of Jamil, sometimes at the expense of The Sayings, which are also magnificent.

Please bear in mind that The Sayings are of little value to individuals who merely practice the techniques of The System on their own without giving thought to the Community of which they are a part. However, The Sayings are profound to those gather together in Community and in fellowship. Community, as you know and as we stress, is essential to The Teachings. If one is to benefit to the fullest extent possible, it can only be accomplished in Community. We also know and teach that too much knowledge should not be given to the initiate before they can assimilate it. This is because something which one does not fully understand, one either rejects, criticizes, or flees from.

For those of you who have received the published Sayings of Jamil, you know that The Sayings are accompanied by extensive commentary. Let us review The Sayings over the next several weeks. We will begin this week with the First Saying and an excerpt from the commentary made on it in Volume I of The Image and The Word.

The First Saying

Twelve revealed religions, come to the world in the previous age, were founded by the inspiration of God’s Image and Word in the suns of that age. These religions flowered with the light of these suns, then withered making way for the new. Like the spokes of a wheel, these religions were intended to support the inner hub of a universal religion destined to usher forth out of the Central Sun of the final age of the world. Together with the New Sun this revealed religion will regenerate religion and restore the world to good order. If the New Religion is resisted by the older and traditional religions, then the Central Sun will go out casting a darkness over the face of the earth forever.

“After a moment’s pause one of the Companions asked: ‘If God inspired twelve earlier religions out of the sun, could not any one of them serve to regenerate religion in the world today?’ And The Man replied saying: ‘Each religion was for a specific time and people. Therefore, each is incomplete, forming part of the whole, but being not the whole. The religion to come is universal, for it is related to all the former religions. Yet, it is a newly revealed religion representing supplemental teachings in harmony with the Image and the Word of the New Sun of God. No religion of antiquity, which is but a fragment of a greater whole, can hope to convert the entire world in this age of social, religious, economic, political and scientific revolution wherein human freedom from traditional teachings is emphasized.’

“And another asked: ‘If God’s Image and Word appeared in the suns of former times, then the ancients had a knowledge of what we are teaching. I fail to see why there has to be a continuance of new suns and new religions’ And The Man answered: ‘Like the twelve months of the year, each having its own character, with an abundance or lack of sun and heat according to the season, so are religions seasonal, some being more brilliant than others, but all making up the whole. With the coming of the New Sun we have the promise of a new condition, a Golden Age in which God’s Light will shine ever more. This New Religion is for such an Age, teaching and instructing the human family how to live under the new condition. The older religions cannot accomplish this purpose for they were for another time and place. Knowing this, we must-needs encourage the growth of this New Religion, teaching the new ways of the sun in order to prevent it from dying out and casting the world into a spiritual darkness from which it will not recover. For, like older suns and older religions, the world appears destined to die of old age in making way for the new. With all religions of the world laboring together for the creation of the one new universal religion of the sun, a new world can come into being as a fulfillment of religion. Without this fulfillment, religion will cease to serve any useful purpose in the world.’

“‘What are the twelve revealed religions by name?’ inquired one of the Companions. And The Man said: ‘I saw the Light forms of many Holy Prophets and founders of world religions in company with the Angelic Host about the Child. There was Abraham, Moses, Zoroaster, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Quetzalcoatl and Viracocha, Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna, Akhnaton, Mithra, Manu, Pythagoras, Plato, and many others I could not name.’”

We will continue with The Secret Sayings next week.

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

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene
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