Interfaith panel answering teacher and student questions at Rain Shadow Community Charter High School. L to R: Brian Melendez (Native American Tribalism), Fr. Bob Chorey (Roman Catholicism), Rev. Shelly Fisher (Buddhism), Ryan Earl (LDS-Mormonism), Dr. Sherif Elfass (Islam), Rt. Rev. Sean Savoy (Second Adventism-Cosolargy).

Rev. Sean Savoy was asked to speak before the student body at Rain Shadow Charter High School on the topic of diversity and multiculturalism. Specifically, he was asked to give his personal and professional experiences and views on ethnic and race issues (specifically Latino-Hispanic), LGBTQ issues, interfaith, and spiritual issues. He was interviewed and also entertained questions from the students.

During the panel, the religious representatives were asked prepared questions by teacher Emily Reese and then also answered questions from students about their particular faiths and belief systems.

Rt. Rev. Sean Savoy being interviewed on diversity issues by teacher Emily Reese for Multicultural Day at Rain Shadow Community Charter High School.

Saturday, January 23, 2016
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Gary Buchanan
Cantor: Rev. Larry Coesens
Reader: Rev. Vickie Hewlett
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

Sunday, January 24, 2016
7:07 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:15
Gate: 6:50
Sunrise: 7:22
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RR Sean Savoy
Assistants: RC Roger Weld
RC Robert Petrovich
Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Christian Churches       Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Church of the End Times     Rev. Larry Coesens

Wednesday, January 27, 2016
12:00 N COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
Rev. James Elliott

Friday, January 29, 2016
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RC Robert Petrovich

Rt. Rev. Sean Savoy

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.

Click here to watch this week’s readings on YouTube. (6:21 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. 947-950).

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. (6:21 minutes)

Gary Huss Jr.

Violin with wings

“I will rejoice and sing songs of praise with a full heart; I will shun the hypocrisy of moving lips. I will be joyful in the fullness of spirit at the beginning and at the end of the appointed seasons. The decrees of God are fulfilled at the appointed times, and the days of labor pass one into the other. … I will raise my voice, and my hands will move with the music, I will pluck strings and send sweet musical sound rising to my God, and my breath will fill pipes with tunes to His Glory. When the sky blushes in the dawning, I will lift up my voice in gladness, and when it reddens in this evening, I will not remain silent” ~The Kolbrin Bible SCL:18:9-11

This is a case where scripture is meaningful as allegory, but also when taken literally. We will look at both, starting with a literal interpretation.

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The Northern Nevada Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Committee and the Nevada Clergy Association present the 2016 Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. community memorial events:

Interfaith Memorial Service
Sunday, January 17, 2016 3:00 Pm
Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada
780 Del Monte Lane, Reno

Memorial Caravan
Monday, January 18, 2016 10:00 AM
Meet at Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship
780 Del Monte Lane, Reno

For more information call: 775-786-1800 or email Gsavoyjr@communityofchrist.org

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Saturday, January 16, 2016
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Elizabeth Reece
Cantor: Rev. James Elliott
Reader: Gary Huss, Jr.
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

Sunday, January 17, 2016
7:10 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:30
Gate: 7:00
Sunrise: 7:25
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RR Sean Savoy
Assistants: RC Roger Weld
RC Ted Staver
Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Races of Man       RR Sean Savoy
Church of the Golden Age of Light     RC Robert Petrovich
Church of the Universal Theocracy     Rev. Dea. Shane Grady

Wednesday, January 20, 2016
12:00 N COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
Rev. Dorothy Kubiak

Friday, January 22, 2016
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
Rev. Amanda Buchanan

November 2015

4
Henry Sutter  †

8
Henry Sutter  †

11
The Veterans who were wounded in service to our country.

14
Bill Tolmachoff
The Victims and Families of the Paris shooting, Friday, November 13
Carol Tuttle
Joseph Roy

18
Bill Tolmachoff

21
Bill Tolmachoff

28
Sergio
Joseph Roy

 † indicates Memorial Prayer

Rev. Canon 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 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.

Click here to watch this week’s readings on YouTube. (14:22 minutes)

SECOND ADVENT PROPHECY AND REVELATION

A Reading from Chapter 89 of Prophecy of the New Covenant, “God’s Appearance at Epiphany,” pp. 901-914.

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.

Click here to watch this week’s readings on YouTube. (14:22 minutes)

Rev. Deacon Shane Grady

“SOCRATES: Is there not another kind of word or speech far better than this, and having far greater power—a son of the same family, but lawfully begotten?

PHAEDRUS: Whom do you mean, and what is his origin?

SOCRATES: I mean an intelligent word graven in the soul of the learner, which can defend itself, and knows when to speak and when to be silent.

PHAEDRUS: You mean the living word of knowledge which has a soul, and of which the written word is properly no more than an image?

SOCRATES: Yes, of course that is what I mean.”

There is indeed a form or speech or thought that is greater than the traditional intellectuality that is so popular today. You can call together a dozen different experts and get a dozen different opinions on an important matter in their field of study. How can it be otherwise when they deal in opinion, not known truth?

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PHOTO: thunderbolts.info

The electric universe concept is not widely known but it has found its way into the Community Communique now and then as a result of Community members finding some of its principles of interest — whether electricity or plasma or mythology. (Not to mention that the producer of many of the films published by the Thunderbolts organization on facets of the electric universe concept is a longtime member of our Community: Gerald Simonson.)

The electric universe concept is still controversial as an alternative to the principles of conventional physics and astrophysics. And its own principles and perspective on the cosmos are generally not found all together in a single synopsis. The article linked to below, “The Electric Universe” by Wal Thornhill, provides this synopsis.

I suggest you read it — especially if you are scientifically trained yourself — and start a conversation in our comments to this posting.

Here is how it opens:

“The Electric Universe”
By Wal Thornhill

“We live in an electric world. Our cities are visible from space at night, blazing with electric lights. The electricity courses invisibly in the darkness over great distances along thin power lines. We find electricity indispensable. Nature does the same since all matter is electrical. Yet astronomy is stuck in the gas-light era, unable to see that stars are simply electric lights strung along invisible cosmic power lines that are detectable by their magnetic fields and radio noise.

“It is now a century since the Norwegian genius Kristian Birkeland proved that the phenomenal ‘northern lights’ or aurora borealis is an earthly connection with the electrical Sun. Later, Hannes Alfvén the Swedish Nobel Prize winning physicist, with a background in electrical engineering and experience of the northern lights, drew the solar circuit. It is no coincidence that Scandinavian scientists led the way in showing that we live in an Electric Universe.

“Why have they been ignored? The answer may be found in the inertia of prior beliefs and the failure of our educational institutions. We humans are better storytellers than scientists. We see the universe through the filter of tales we are told in childhood and our education systems reward those who can best repeat them. Dissent is discouraged so that many of the brightest intellects become bored and drop out. The history of science is sanitized to ignore the great controversies of the past, which were generally ‘won’ by a vote instead of reasoned debate. Today NASA does science by press release and investigative journalism is severely inhibited. And narrow experts who never left school do their glossy media ‘show and tell,’ keeping the public in the dark in this ‘dark age’ of science. It is often said, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.” History shows otherwise that entrenched paradigms resist extraordinary disproof.”

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This article first appeared in Wake Up World, January 28, 2015.

Link submitted by Robert Petrovich