“The soul that really loves God and Christ, though it may do ten thousand righteousnesses, esteems itself as having wrought nothing, by reason of its insatiable aspiration after God. Though it should exhaust the body with fastings, watchings, its attitude towards the virtues is as if it had not yet even begun to labor for them. Though divers gifts of the Spirit, or revelations and heavenly mysteries should be vouchsafed to it, it feels in itself to have acquired nothing at all, by reason of its unlimited and insatiable love to the Lord. … It continues to be insatiable for the mysteries of grace, and for the accomplishment of every virtue. It is smitten with passionate love of the heavenly Spirit, …desiring to be perfectly admitted to the mystical, ineffable fellowship with Him.” ~St. Macarius the Egyptian

Spiritual Humility

“Many people do good deeds. Some do it for God, some not. Some do it primarily for recognition. They will donate only to charities who publicly announce the donations. They are not being charitable, they are buying acclaim.

“St. Macarius says this is the wrong approach. No matter how many good deeds we do, spiritual or physical, we should not brag about it, but give the credit to God who inspires that devotion. In doing that, we show proper humility. Sadly, today, humility is not a popular virtue on Earth, but it still matters a great deal in Heaven. Spiritual humility is an important spiritual attribute.”

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Dr. Rollier’s main heliotherapy clinic at Leysin, Switzerland

Dr. Auguste Rollier opened the first European “Sun Clinic” in 1903 at Leysin, Switzerland. He also wrote a very influential book: Heliotherapy. And during his time, Dr. Rollier was considered the most famous heliotherapist in the world. At his peak, he operated 36 clinics.

Dr. Rollier espoused that the sun was an unsurpassed broad-spectrum medicine. He healed his patients using a wholesome diet combined with the power of the sun. By 1933, there were over 165 different diseases successfully treated with heliotherapy including tuberculosis, wounds, rickets, and much more.

Dr. Rollier’s death in 1954 marked the end of sun therapy — not because it was ineffective but because it had been replaced by Big Pharma’s “miracle drugs.”

Visit the Facebook page for Dr. Rollier.

Read the 2007 article to the Los Angeles Times “The rise and fall of sunlight therapy” by Elena Conis.

by Robert Petrovich

Saturday, February 2, 2019
SECOND ADVENT VIGIL
7:01 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:30
Sunrise: 7:13
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

 
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Service suspended due to Second Advent Vigil

Sunday, February 3, 2019
SECOND ADVENT VIGIL
7:00 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:30
Sunrise: 7:12
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Races of Man       Rev. Robert Roy
Church of the New Covenant       Dea. Noriko Roy

Monday, February 4, 2019
SECOND ADVENT VIGIL
7:03 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:30
Sunrise: 7:11
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

Tuesday, February 5, 2019
SECOND ADVENT VIGIL
7:02 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:30
Sunrise: 7:11
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

Wednesday, February 6, 2019
SECOND ADVENT VIGIL
7:02 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:30
Sunrise: 7:10
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

12:00 N COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
Service suspended due to Second Advent Vigil
Chancellery Closed

Friday, February 8, 2019
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
Rev. Barbara Whitney

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

It is good to be writing to you again. I apologize for the delay since my last communication, however, things gave been very active here at the Community Center during and since the Christmas-Epiphany Season and Vigil.

I would like to focus today on the Second Advent Vigil which begins in earnest tonight, January 29th at midnight. It has been my lifelong habit to read the book, Jamil: Child of Light, especially the last three chapters (25-27): “The Child Returns to the Worlds of Light,” “At the Sepulcher,” and “The Sun of Righteousness Proclaimed,” which describe the events that took place some 57 years ago.

Tonight at midnight is when The Child, Jamil, passed in 1962. I have shared with you previously a ritual of mine which I have observed every year since I was about ten years old. It is very simple. It certainly is not mandatory, but if you like, you may also do it somewhere in your home, especially at your Cosolargy Shrine, if you have erected one. Again, it is very simple.

As said, The Child, Jamil, passed at midnight on the cusp of January 29/30. So, tonight, after my sunset reflections, I will light a candle and some incense which I place in the Chapel at the Rectory with some fresh flowers. For those of you who have a picture of Jamil, you may want to place these in front of his image. I then read the Jamil book. If you do not have time to read the whole text, please do read the last three chapters. Of course, I will observe sunrise tomorrow morning, keeping Jamil in mind. This is a small act that, as a Jamilian and a member of his Order, reminds me of his life on Earth and is a small gesture of honor and respect. I do this not as a matter of worship, but it may be something you may like doing, as well.

As did Christ Jesus, Jamil teaches us that universal love is the first requirement of the peacemaker. In order to love in this way, the peacemaker must follow the Way of Light. By so doing, he or she partakes of great spiritual blessings and benefits that are bestowed and extended by God through the Sun of Righteousness and its manifold aspects. If we reflect love and peace on the human level, then we can begin reflecting love and peace on the divine level. By so doing, we benefit by that loving and the reciprocation of that love, for indeed love is the food of the Soul that enables us to live the life of righteousness and goodness. The righteous and good are wise in the Way of God.

We here at the Community Center in Nevada will be observing the sunrise vigil from Saturday, February 2 through Wednesday, February 6. Next year, the sunrise vigil will be increased from five to eight days, beginning on the morning of the 30th of January and culminating on the 6th of February. In addition, a brand new Remembrance of The Child Service will be initiated on the evening of Wednesday, January 29, 2020 in the Chapel of the Holy Child.

I hope you will join me and others in the Sun at this, the most important time in the liturgical calendar of the Second Advent Church Community. I will be in touch again very soon.

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

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. (7:07 minutes)

SECOND ADVENT PROPHECY AND REVELATION

A Reading from the Prophecy of the New Covenant: Chapter 90, “Prophecy on the Revelation and the Opening of the Seals” (pp. 960-963)

ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM SAYINGS

A Reading from the Book of Psalms, Psalm 1:

Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked,
or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of the scoffers;
but their delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law they meditate day and night.
They are like trees planted by streams of water,
which yield their fruit in its season,
and their leaves do not wither.
In all that they do they prosper.

The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked perish.

Click here to watch this week’s readings on YouTube. (7:07 minutes)

Dr. Michael Clarage talks about his work with the SAFIRE project at the Electric Universe during the United Kingdom International Conference & Symposium 7th – 11th July 2018, Somerset, UK. Speaking from a more philosophical perspective – what an empiricist might ponder outside the lab – he offers some intriguing if not startling observations about the universe from the perspective of the conventional astronomy (the “dead” universe) and the biological perspective (the “living” universe).

Watch the talk by Dr. Michael Clarage on YouTube (22:11)

Dr. Michael Clarage received his PhD in physics from Brandeis University in 1992, studying the biological and statistical behavior of proteins. Prior to that, he spent several years studying binary pulsars at the Arecibo radio telescope. He has given traveling lectures in the areas of fractional calculus, fractals, and chaotic systems as well as presented public talks on such topics as relativity and dimensions, transformation in supernova and metamorphosis in biology. Dr. Clarage is currently a scientist with the SAFIRE Project.

link submitted by Robert Petrovich

“The substantial existence of the soul does not depend upon serving as Form to anything: it is an Essence which does not come into being by finding a seat in body; it exists before it becomes also the soul of some particular, for example, of a living being, whose body would be the author of its soul.

“What then is the soul’s Being? If it is neither body nor a state or experience of body, but is act and creation: if it holds much and gives much, and is an existence outside of body; of what order and character must it be? Clearly it is what we describe as Veritable Essence. The other order, the entire corporeal kind, is process: it appears and it parishes, in reality it never possesses Being, but is merely protected, in so far as it has the capacity, by participating in what authentically is.” ~Plotinus

Body and Soul

“It is clear that when Plotinus speaks of the body, he is talking only about the physical body. It is also clear that he is lumping spirit and soul together and simply calling the whole thing “soul”. This simplified approach may miss some details, but is essentially correct.

“In Cosolargy, we say that humans have three “bodies”. The physical body of matter is one. The psychic body of thought and energy is the second. The spirit and divine soul make up the third.

Chicken or Egg

“Plotinus argues (successfully, I think) that the body cannot be the author or creator of the soul. The soul cannot be an offshoot of the body since an offshoot of something cannot be greater than the initial thing. Spirit and soul, being greater than the physical body, cannot therefore be created by the body.”

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on OCTOBER 6, 2018

Saturday, January 26, 2019 
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Peter Foust
Cantor: Rev. Francine Petrovich
Reader: Rev. Shinobu Sonoda-Fuelling
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

Sunday, January 27, 2019
7:07 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of  New Epiphany
Leave: 6:15
Gate: 6:45
Sunrise: 7:22
RR Gene Savoy Jr
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Races of Man      RC Peter Foust
Church of the New Covenant      Rev. Mary Foust

Wednesday, January 30, 2019
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
Dea. Radheka Savoy

Friday, February 1, 2019
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RC 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.

Click here to watch this week’s readings on YouTube. (9:58 minutes)

SECOND ADVENT PROPHECY AND REVELATION

A Reading from the Prophecy of the New Covenant: Chapter 90, “Prophecy on the Revelation and the Opening of the Seals” (pp. 947-952)

ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM SAYINGS

A Reading from the Prophet Isaiah 61:

The nations shall see your righteousness,

And all rulers your glory.
You shall be called by a new name,

Which the mouth of the Lord will name.
You shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord

A royal diadem In the hand of your God.
You shall no longer be termed Forsaken,
Nor shall your land any more be termed Desolate;
For the Lord delights in you,

I will speak of the lovingkindness of the Lord
And the praises of the Lord,
According to all that the Lord has bestowed on us,
And the great goodness toward his people,
Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies,
According to His manifold lovingkindness.
For He said, “Surely they are My people,
Children who will not lie.”
So He became their Savior.
And the Angel of His Presence saved them;
In His love and in His pity He redeemed them;
And He bore them and carried them
All the days.

Deacon Stephan Fuelling

Click here to watch this week’s readings on YouTube. (9:58 minutes)

The new molecule.
PHOTO CREDIT: Illustration by Nils Rosemann

Date: November 30, 2018

Source: Lund University

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating an iron molecule that can function both as a photocatalyst to produce fuel and in solar cells to produce electricity. The results indicate that the iron molecule could replace the more expensive and rarer metals used today.

Read the entire article posted online November 30, 2018 at sciencedaily.com.

link submitted by Frieda nelson