“If thou shalt intend that which is present, following the rule of right and reason carefully, solidly, meekly, and shalt not intermix any other businesses, but shalt study this only to preserve thy spirit unpolluted, and pure, and shall cleave unto him without either hope or fear of anything, in all things that thou shalt either do or speak countering thyself with heroical truth, thou shalt live happily; and from this, there is no man that can hinder thee.” ~Marcus Aurelius

Intend Unpolluted Truth

“Imagination is a wonderful thing. But it is also something that is often misused. We misuse it when we hide form reality by filling it with fantasies. Not just by reading books or watching movies, but by letting our view of the world around us be hid under a veil of imagination.

“Zen masters say we must empty our cup before it can be filled again. This means that we must remove those fantasies, false beliefs, and opinions about the world and the universe that allows our imagination to hide reality from us. We don’t need to empty out the truth, just the lies.”

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on JULY 30, 2018

PHOTO CAPTION: Jim Elliott

Pannuches Meal Rite

The 118th Pannuches Meal Rite was held Saturday, August 25, 2018 at 6:00 p.m.

The 119th Pannuches Meal Rite was held Saturday, October 13, 2018 at 6:00 p.m.

The 120th Pannuches Meal Rite was held Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 6:00 p.m.

Jubilee Sunrise Divine Services were held in Sanctuary on the Sunday mornings following the Pannuches Rite.

Christmas-Epiphany Vigil
The Twelve Days of Christmas are observed by tradition in the Second Advent Church. Beginning Wednesday, December 26, and continuing through the morning of Epiphany Eve, January 5, Sunrise Divine Services were scheduled to be held in Consecrated Sanctuary each morning at the Church of New Epiphany during these days of special blessing. On first day of the Vigil, December 25, and the thirteenth day, January 6, which is Epiphany Day, special morning services at sunrise were scheduled to be held at the Consecrated Sanctuary but were cancelled due to bad weather.

The traditional Christmas Day Service of Communion, Candle Lighting, and Remembrance was held on tuesday, December 25, at 11:00 a.m. in The Chapel of The Holy Child. Members of the congregation were asked to bring a bouquet of flowers to place beneath the communion table prior to the service and a loaf of bread to place on the communion table for special blessing.

Children’s Blessing
The annual Children’s Tea and Blessing was held at the Rectory-Abbey on Saturday, December 29, 2018, from 3:00-5:00 PM. While not a part of the Sacred Calendar of the Church, this Blessing is held each year during the Christmas-Epiphany Vigil. Children, parents, and other members of the Community gathered for the ceremonial blessing of the children of the Community, the breaking of the piñata, and other festivities.

Epiphany Eve Banquet
The annual Epiphany Eve Banquet and festivities took place at the Rectory-Abbey on Saturday, January 5, 2019, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Members of the Community, their families, and special guests of the Bishop were invited to attend this special seasonal banquet. The banquet was styled after the Mexican tradition. The meal was followed by a visit from Santa and his reindeer and gift-giving. (Click here to see related article.)

Epiphany Day
This thirty-eighth anniversary of Epiphany in the Second Advent Church was a day of special blessings and revelation in the Church and the day on which the Church commemorates the True Baptism of Jesus by God the Father. The Message given on January 6, 1981, is related in the Prophecy of the New Covenant:

“On this hallowed day of God’s Appearance, bountiful blessings manifest to the Holy Ones of Light of the Church of the Second Advent founded by His Word. To those unified in Community and holding to The Law, God sends forth the Comforting Spirit of His Image. As the Church has been restored, God will restore those blessings given to the First Church—now in apostasy—and make sacred those Holy Days that are kept in remembrance by the old Churches, but which are not alive with God’s blessings.

“In commemoration of this Day let The Community gather together once each year in remembrance and in fellowship. God will baptize all assembled in the Spirit of His Holiness. God gives an unmistakable Sign from Heaven in the New Sun as a mark of His Advent and Divine Presence. Let all behold the Signs of God manifest in the Heavens and know that their New Ministry is by God’s Authority, and that He has come to Judge the world. This Day is a day of confirmation of God’s Appearance, a day of blessing to strengthen the Good against the Powers of Darkness, and to empower them to teach.”
Prophecy of the New Covenant, pp. 913-914

Saturday, January 19, 2019 
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Robert Petrovich
Cantor: Rev. Dorothy Kubiak
Reader: Dea. Stephan Fuelling
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

6:00 PM 121ST PANNUCHES MEAL RITE
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant:
RM Elizabeth Reece

Sunday, January 20, 2019
7:09 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of  New Epiphany
Leave: 6:15
Gate: 6:45
Sunrise: 7:24
RR Gene Savoy Jr
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Golden Age       RC Robert Petrovich
Church of the Universal Theocracy      Rev. Francine Petrovich
Church of the Americas       Dea. Shane Grady

Wednesday, January 23, 2019
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
Rev. Harold Boulette

Friday, January 25, 2019
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RM Elizabeth Reece

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. (13:33 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. 952-959)

ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM SAYINGS

A Reading from the Gospel of the Egyptians:

O living water, O child of the child, O glorious name! O Living Aeon, Living One who sees the Aeons! Who is eternally eternal!

You are what you are, You are who you are!

You who lives in the heart, This great name of yours is upon me, O self-begotten Perfect one, who is not outside me. I see you, O you who are visible to everyone.

For who will be able to comprehend you in another language? Now that I have known you, I have mixed myself with the unchangeable. I have armed myself with an armor of light; I have become light!

For the Mother was at that place because of the splendid beauty of grace. Therefore, I have stretched out my hands while they were folded. I was shaped in the circle of the riches of the Light which is in my bosom, which gives shape to the many begotten ones in the Light into which no complaint reaches. I shall declare your glory truly, for I have comprehended you,

O God of Silence! I honor you completely. You are my place of rest, O formless one who exists in the formless ones, who IS, raising up the man in whom you will purify me into your life, according to your imperishable Name. Therefore, the incense of life is in me. I mixed it with water after the model of all archons, in order that I may live with you in the peace of the Holy Ones, you who ARE, really truly forever.

Dea. Radheka Patel Savoy

Click here to watch this week’s readings on YouTube. (13:33 minutes)

In this series, the Thunderbolts Project has reported on the increasing frequency with which astrophysical literature acknowledges a fact which was long verboten in the space-sciences: the existence of electric currents that flow through the so-called vacuum of space. At the vastest cosmic scales, many astrophysicists recognize the “fundamentally electromagnetic structure” of the stupendous jets, hundreds of thousands of lightyears long, emanating from active galactic nuclei. At a much smaller scale, in our solar system, electric current systems are known to link the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn with their respective moons. And on our own planet, in recent years with improved technology has come ever finer evidence of tremendous electric currents that are connected to previously unknown phenomena.

Nevertheless, notions of charge neutrality and disconnected bodies in empty space continue to dominate the space sciences. In this episode, guest speaker Richard Moore explores the role of electric currents, called Birkeland currents, throughout the electric solar system.

Watch the entire talk posted online April 30, 2018 at YouTube.com (9:42)

link submitted by Robert Petrovich

“Knowledge and understanding are life’s faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasure.

“He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred my neither understand you or know your true worth.

“God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.” ~Kahlil Gibran

Crown of Knowledge

“True knowledge is indeed the crown. The crown of achievement greater than any man-made trophy. A crown of light brighter than the brightest intellectual who still relies on theory and opinion, while the one with Divine Knowledge simply knows.”

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on JULY 9, 2018

Saturday, January 12, 2019 
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RM Elizabeth Reece
Cantor: Rev. Robert Roy
Reader: Dea. Radheka Savoy
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

Sunday, January 13, 2019
7:10 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of  New Epiphany
Leave: 6:15
Gate: 6:45
Sunrise: 7:25
RR Gene Savoy Jr
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Christian Churches       Rev. Greg Klinedinst
Church of the End Times      Dea. Radheka Savoy
Church of the Americas       Gary Huss Jr.

Wednesday, January 16, 2019
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
Rev. Karen Elliott

Friday, January 18, 2019
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
Rev. Barbara Whitney

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

As we conclude the Christmas-Epiphany Season in the Second Advent Community, we recognize that a new solar age has dawned and that its effects are now only beginning to be felt by all living things. As all living things are undergoing a change from the energies radiated thereof, this change is occurring too within the flesh of man and woman – within the framework of our form – for we all are miniature suns and star systems connected to the greater suns and stars of the Universe.

This new energy is filled with the Intelligence of God, and men and women are experiencing an alteration of being, either positive or negative. Just as we have used the energy locked up within the Earth, we have the ability to use the energy of the Sun directly, and so our Consciousness is also being altered in this new solar age come upon the world. .

The intelligence released by the use of solar energy presses upon us and molds us and speaks to us in a way our material ears cannot hear, as the other part of us, which is the greater part of us – our Light Body – is awakened and stirred and our minds shine forth as the Sun. And we indeed think new thoughts.

In due time, the mutation of the form and being of Man will cause a new species to walk the Earth. And time and space and dimension shall change. Men and women of Light shall multiply and explore new worlds that are presently beyond the range of our physical senses. Such people the world has never seen since the beginning of the creation. And science will know that Man is a glorified being who walks with God.

Great beauty, happiness and peace shall come to humankind through its new Form, Being and Consciousness. And God shall merge with men and women of Light. And those of Darkness shall be swallowed up. And those of Light shall see everlasting Light and shall never sleep or see darkness again.

The is the great epiphany of which Jesus spoke and exemplified. This is the promise of the Second Advent which we in this Community come to announce to the world. And I wish you bountiful blessings on the great day of Epiphany.

Gene

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On the evening of January 5th, Epiphany Eve in the Second Advent Calendar, resident members of the Community, their families, and guests, were invited to the Rectory-Abbey by Bishop Gene Savoy to celebrate the holiday with dinner and a visit from Santa Claus. Nearly seventy guests gathered in the great room at the Rectory for the event. Some of the action was captured in photos by attendees, and the Communique staff put together a gallery of these photos for your enjoyment.

Guests arriving at 2019 Epiphany Eve Celebration PHOTO CREDIT: Jim Eaglesmith

Guests gather at tables before dinner PHOTO CREDIT: Jim Eaglesmith

Gifts gathered at the Rectory fireplace PHOTO CAPTION: Jim Eaglesmith

Bishop Gene addresses the gathering on the significance of the day of Epiphany PHOTO CAPTION: Jim Eaglesmith

Candelabra holding candles of remembrance PHOTO CAPTION: Jim Eaglesmith

Date: January 30, 2018
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Summary: Space physicists have just released unprecedented detail on a bizarre phenomenon that powers the northern lights, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (the biggest explosions in our solar system).

Jan Egedal, professor of physics at UW-Madison who lead an exploration of magnetic reconnection, stands beside a chamber used for experiments in that exotic phenomenon. Magnetic reconnection seems to be involved in some of the most violent explosions in the universe; the recent study was the clearest view of the magnetic reconnection ever measured in space. The results “blew my mind,” he says. Credit: David Tenenbaum/UW-Madison

“The data on so-called ‘magnetic reconnection’ came from a quartet of new spacecraft that measure radiation and magnetic fields in high Earth orbit.

“‘We’re looking at the best picture yet of magnetic reconnection in space,’ says Jan Egedal, a professor of physics and senior author of a study in Physical Review Letters. Magnetic reconnection is difficult to describe, but it can be loosely defined as the merger of magnetic fields that releases an astonishing amount of energy.

“Magnetic reconnection remains mysterious, especially since it ‘breaks the standard law’ governing charged particles, or plasma, Egedal says.”

Read the entire article online at sciencedaily.com.

link submitted by Frieda Nelson