“Our aim should be to induce, in a wholesome way, that sense of the spiritual in daily experience which the old writers called the consciousness of God. The monastic training in spirituality, slowly evolved under pressure of experience, nearly always did this. It has bequeathed to us a funded wisdom of which we make little use; and this, reinterpreted in the light of psychological knowledge, might I believe cast a great deal of light on the fundamental problems of spiritual education. …
“Further, in all this teaching, those inward activities and responses to which we can give generally the name of prayer, and those outward activities and deeds of service to which we can give the name of work, ought to be trained together and never dissociated. They are the complimentary and balanced expressions of one spirit of life;…” ~Evelyn Underhill

“Spirituality should not be something we do only on Sunday morning (or Saturday or Friday, depending on your faith). It needs to be part of our life every day. And not only part of our lives in the sense of saying our prayers before bed, or when we first wake up. It needs to be part of what we do all day. That doesn’t mean that we need to stop our materialistic pursuits every hour or two and spend five minutes praying, although there is nothing wrong with doing that. It means that in all our activities, all our conversations, and even all our thoughts, we need to get our spiritual side involved.” 

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2012 Community Calendar photo for May PHOTOS: Gene Savoy Jr., Roger Weld

It is time to begin assembling the 2015 Community Calendar. And our publishing staff is looking for your best photos related to Community life. Submissions need to be at least 300dpi at 7.5″x10″ size.

Send in submissions before the end of December 2014 to: editor@communitycommunique.net.

< Watch the performance of the two arias on YouTube. (11 minutes) >

The Reno Pops Orchestra premiered two arias from Snow White: The Opera; For Young People of All Ages on November 8, 2014 at the University of Nevada-Reno’s Nightingale Concert Hall. The full-length three-act opera was composed by music students of the Jamilian Parochial School during the 1991–1992 school year under the direction of the Reverend Gary Buchanan. This performance was the first time any part of the opera was performed by full orchestra.

At this premiere, the two arias from Snow White: The Opera were sung by Steven Meyer (Baritone) and Jennifer Probst Hilderbrand (Soprano) with the Reno Pops Orchestra.

Steven Meyer sang the part of the Huntsman who in Act I is sent out by the evil Queen of Fall to take the Princess Snow White into the wood, kill her, and bring back the girl’s heart to the Queen as proof of the deed. In the wood the Huntsman finds that he cannot bring himself to kill Snow White and tells her to run away into the dark forest. Following her departure, the Huntsman is at a loss as to what to do because the Queen expects him to return with Snow White’s heart. Suddenly, a wild board runs out of the forest in the direction of Snow White’s departure. The Huntsman rushes to throw himself upon the boar, cuts out its heart with his dagger, and sings that he now has a substitute heart to present to the evil Queen of Fall.

Jennifer Probst Hilderbrand sang the part of the Queen of Fall at the moment near the end of Act II when the Queen discovers, in conversation with the mirror on her wall, that Snow White still lives and makes her plan to kill Snow White with a poison apple.

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 NOVEMBER

1
Rayford Blue
Rachel Beiley
James & Evelyn Kanzelmeyer
Jeanne Huston
Dorothy Kubiak

5
Oksanna Eranosyan
Veronica Saenz
Stan Waltemyer

8
Oksanna Eranosyan
Veronica Saenz
Stan Waltemyer

15
Zeke Oliver

26
Toni de Salvo

29
Bob Jermain

 † indicates Memorial Prayer

Saturday, December 27, 2014
7:11 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:30
Gate: 6:55
Sunrise: 7:26
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RR Sean Savoy
Assistants: RC Roger Weld
RC Ted Staver
RM Carol Ann Crabb
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Ted Staver
Cantor: Rev. Amanda Buchanan
Reader: Rev. Larry Coesens

Sunday, December 28, 2014
7:12 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:30
Gate: 6:55
Sunrise: 7:27
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 Races of Man       RC Roger Weld
Church of the Golden Age of Light       Rev. Vickie Hewlett
Church of the Universal Theocracy      Rev. Karen Elliott

Monday, December 29, 2014
7:13 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:30
Gate: 6:55
Sunrise: 7:28
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RR Sean Savoy
Assistants: RC Roger Weld
RC Ted Staver
RM Carol Ann Crabb
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

Tuesday, December 30, 2014
7:13 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:30
Gate: 6:55
Sunrise: 7:28
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RR Sean Savoy
Assistants: RC Roger Weld
RC Robert Petrovich
Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

Wednesday, December 31, 2014
7:12 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:30
Gate: 6:55
Sunrise: 7:27
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RR Sean Savoy
Assistants: RC Roger Weld
RC Ted Staver
RM Carol Ann Crabb
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

12:00 N COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.

Friday, January 2, 2015
7:10 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:30
Gate: 6:55
Sunrise: 7:25
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RR Sean Savoy
Assistants: RC Roger Weld
RC Robert Petrovich
Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
Rev. Amanda Buchanan

A very spiritual young man was taking a walk through the forest one day. The fresh air and the auras of the trees energized him and he walked boldly and with a smile on his face. Yet, after walking for several hours, he became tired and lay down in the grass beneath a great old tree. As he began to doze, he started to overhear a conversation. The words were difficult to understand at first and he soon realized that he was not hearing it through his ears, it was coming directly into his mind from some unknown source. He managed to stay calm and in his very relaxed state, both physically and mentally. The conversation began to make sense and he finally figured out that he was hearing the great old tree he was lying under conversing with another tree, a younger tree that spoke like a student or disciple of the old tree. The conversation went like this:

“You have been here centuries great one. Long before any humans lived in this forest. How was it different without them?”

“Not as different as you might expect because while the humans were not here in body, their thoughts, which control much in this world, travel great distances and so had a profound effect on the forest, even though they themselves did not know it.”

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Reno Buddhist Center members perform before a congregation of 300. PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Nearly 300 people of various faiths and backgrounds attended the 29th Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Eve Service held at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Reno on Wednesday, November 26, 2014.

The event, themed “Thanks in the Midst of Adversity,” is sponsored by the Nevada Clergy Association (NCA). This service, a much-revered tradition in the Reno-Sparks community and largely unique nationwide in its scope and diversity, includes prayers, readings, and music from a variety of faith traditions. Food and monetary donations were made to the Volunteers of America Shelter Programs.

In attendance from the International Community of Christ were Gene Savoy Jr. and Radheka Patel Savoy, Sean Savoy, Sylvia Ontenada-Bernales, Stephan Fuelling, Gary Buchanan, Robert Petrovich, Elizabeth Reece, and Barbara Whitney. Radheka presented a Hindu prayer with Rajan Zed. Sean, as head of the Governor’s Prayer Breakfast Committee, announced that the Nevada “Coming Together” quilt produced by the Committee under the auspices of the NCA was accepted as one of the Nevada 150 Commission Legacy Projects. Gene, NCA President, provided the closing Benediction Prayer, a reading form the Thanksgiving Hymn of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Previous hosts of the past five years were The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (2013), St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Cathedral (2012), St. John’s Presbyterian Church (2011), Trinity Episcopal Church (2010), and Sparks United Methodist Church (2009).

Radheka presented a Hindu prayer with Rajan Zed. PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Sean, as head of the Governor’s Prayer Breakfast Committee, announced that the Nevada “Coming Together” quilt produced by the Committee under the auspices of the NCA was accepted as one of the Nevada 150 Commission Legacy Projects. PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Gene, NCA President, provided the closing Benediction Prayer, a reading form the Thanksgiving Hymn of the Dead Sea Scrolls. PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

OCTOBER

1
Yukiko Fujii
Shima Hanaoka
Saori Nishimura
Toshimi Sakamoto
Kaku Ueno
Yoko Nishimura
Tsuyoshi Soejima
Reginald Morton
Linda Miyoshi
Jonna Gill
John Bowd
Mihaela Maftei
The People of The Sudan and South Sudan

4
Yukiko Fujii
Shima Hanaoka
Saori Nishimura
Toshimi Sakamoto
Kaku Ueno
Yoko Nishimura
Tsuyoshi Soejima
Reginald Morton
Linda Miyoshi
Jonna Gill
John Bowd
Mihaela Maftei
The People of The Sudan and South Sudan
Carmen Westbrook

11
Yukiko Fujii
Shima Hanaoka
Saori Nishimura
Toshimi Sakamoto
Kaku Ueno
Yoko Nishimura
Tsuyoshi Soejima
Reginald Morton
Linda Miyoshi
Jonna Gill
John Bowd
The People of The Sudan and South Sudan
Carmen Westbrook
Deborah Thebodeau †
Kim Kinsey
Joanna Thorne

15
Kim Kinsey
Rowena Kryder †
Reginald Morton
Jonna Gill
Linda Miyoshi

18
Kim Kinsey †
Rowena Kryder †
Reginald Morton †
Jonna Gill
Linda Miyoshi
Masauro Emoto †
Tomizou Sonoda

24
Kim Kinsey †Memorial Service

29
Rayford Blue
Rachel Beiley
James & Evelyn Kanzelmeyer
Jeanne Huston

 † indicates Memorial Prayer

Saturday, December 20, 2014 
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RM Carol Ann Crabb
Cantor: Rev. James Elliott
Reader: Rev. Harold Boulette

Sunday, December 21, 2014
7:10 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
Cathedral Church of the Americas
Leave: 6:30
Gate: 6:55
Sunrise: 7:25
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 New Philadelphia       Rev. Robert Anderson
Church of New Qumran       Dr. Tom Lee
Church of New Bethany      Dea. Stephan Fuelling

Wednesday, December 24, 2014 
12:00 N COMMUNION 
Chapel of the Holy Child
Rev. Harold Boulette

Thursday, December 25, 2014
CHRISTMAS DAY
7:10 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
Cathedral Church of the Americas
Leave: 6:30
Gate: 6:55
Sunrise: 7:25
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RR Sean Savoy
Assistants: RC Roger Weld
RC Ted Staver
RM CArol Ann Crabb
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

11:00 AM COMMUNION & CANDLELIGHTING 
Chapel of the Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Rebecca Willis
Cantor: Rev. Michael McIntyre
Reader: Rev. Larry Coesens
Scriptural Reader: RR Sean Savoy

Friday, December 26, 2014
7:11 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
Cathedral Church of the Americas
Leave: 6:30
Gate: 6:55
Sunrise: 7:26
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RR Sean Savoy
Assistants: RC Roger Weld
RC Robert Petrovich
Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RC 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 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 video 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.

SECOND ADVENT PROPHECY AND REVELATION

A Reading from First Prophecy to the Americas, chapter 7, “On the Judgement of Goodly Men” (pp. 89-94):

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ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM SAYINGS

A Reading from the Gospel According to Matthew:

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As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “. . . what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of the birth pains. . . .

“If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it.

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. . . .

“So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.”