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 by the Officiant of the Communion Service (that is, Bishop Gene Savoy, or occasionally in his stead, Bishop Sean Savoy) 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 the Book of God’s Revelation, Book I, “The Opening of the Seven Seals” (pp.92-94).
ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM SAYINGS
A Reading from the Eleventh Ode of Solomon:
My heart was opened and its flower appeared; and grace sprang up in it; and it brought forth fruit to the Lord,
2 For the Most High opened my hear by His Holy Spirit and searched my affection toward Him: and filled me with His love.
3 And His opening of me became my salvation; and I ran in His way, in His peace, even in the way of truth:
4 From the beginning and even to the end I acquired His knowledge:
5 And I was established upon the rock of truth, where He had set me up:
6 And speaking waters touched my lips from the fountain of the Lord plenteously:
7 And I drank and was inebriated with the living water that does not die;
8 And my inebriation was not one of ignorance, but I forsook vanity and turned to the Most High my God,
9 And I was enriched by His bounty, and I let go the folly which is diffused over the earth; and I stripped it off and cast it from me:
10 And the Lord renewed me in His own garment, and possessed me by His light, and from above He gave me rest in incorruption;
11 And I became like the land which blossoms and rejoices in its fruit:
12 And the Lord was like the sun shining on the face of the land;
13 He lightened my eyes, and my face received the dew; and my nostrils enjoyed the pleasant odor of the Lord;
14 And he carried me to His Paradise; where is the abundance of the pleasure of the Lord;
15 And I worshiped the Lord on account of His glory; and I said, Blessed, O Lord, are they who are planted in thy land! And those who have a place in thy Paradise;
16 And they grow by the fruits of the trees. And they have changed from darkness to light.
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