PHOTO: Roger Weld

 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.

SECOND ADVENT PROPHECY AND REVELATION

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

< Click here to listen to this week’s reading. (11 minutes) >

ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM SAYINGS

A Reading from the First Prophecy to the Americas, Chapter 16: “On the New Authority,” (pp. 131-134):

CHAPTER 16: ON THE NEW AUTHORITY

“And men of Darkness shall behold the coming Light of God’s New Sun, and be maddened and blinded, running to and fro in confusion, driven by evil spirits released into the world.

“And men of Light shall speak comforting words to them, saying that God is manifesting to the world in the Light of the New Sun, and that they have nothing to fear.

 “But men of Darkness shall curse them, and would cause them a great hurt, being driven by the evil spirts.

 “And men of Light shall seek the safety and sanctuary of their abodes of Light, remaining silent in refuge.

 “And the world shall grovel under the anti-Christ and the Power of Darkness.

 “And men of the world shall call out to men of Light, asking for guidance.

 “And men of Light shall go out into the world speaking with new authority, saying that their authority comes from God, and from within the Light of their own beings.

 “And men of Light shall stave the manifesting darkness, and intercede for men of the world and the life thereof, else all would be swept away.

 “And the children of the earth shall know that men of Light do have new authority to rule and govern the world in harmony with God’s New Sun of great brilliance that shall burn up the world for the sake of goodness and order in the universe.

 “And the heavenly Christ shall send a balm of Light over the world.

 “And every living thing shall be transformed into glorious Light.

 “And suffering, and illness and death shall withdraw, and men shall cease to judge one another and desist from all harmful acts towards all living things.

 “And there shall be no more hate in the hearts of men, and envy shall fade away from their souls.

 “And men of wealth and power shall turn from the ways of the material world.

 “And all toil shall cease and the workers shall make merry.

 “And men shall live off the Light of God as their forefathers lived off the grains of the earth.

 “And men of arms shall lay down their weapons and cease from making war upon one another.

 “And all living things shall celebrate and live for the glory of God. And all the world shall be filled with the love of Christ.

 “And no living thing shall kill or eat another for the Lord’s sake.

 “And a Child shall lead them unto God, all of them, in that day that shall never end.”

Consociate Jaroslav Liška sends us all season’s greetings from Czech Republic:

 “There are Three Circles of Reality, three realms, three stages of existence. They are: Heaven, where perfection visualized on Earth may be realized … it is the place where all the properly developed spiritual potential latent in man reaches maturity and fulfillment. Earth, the place of training, development and preparation, … It is here that the proper road must be wisely chosen. Then there is the Realm of the Misty Horizon, the intermediate place, the place of spirits, where those above can commune with those below and where free spirits wander within their limitation.” ~The Kolbrin Bible (CRT:7:16) (emphasis, mine)

“We have a somewhat more complex description of the structure of existence with a total of nine dimensions. The lowest dimension is the Great Void, the place where nothing can exist, spiritual or material. The second dimension is the lowest dimension where beings actually exist and it is a place of total materialism. The third dimension is where we exist as intermediate beings, both physical and spiritual. The highest dimension is the Godhead, where only God exists as a complete whole.”

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contributed by Harold Boulette

Priene, an ancient Greek solar city built on the southern slope of Mount Mycale PHOTO: Mother Earth News

“In 1903, Charles Pope wrote Solar Heat. ‘The purpose of this book,’” the author stated, was that ‘some call to the people was needed…to arouse interest [in] ‘catching the sunbeams’ and extracting gold from them.’ To accomplish his goal, he tells his reader that he had endeavored ‘to trace the history of attempts and successes in the utilization of solar…discuss ways and means; and attempt to arouse his readers to give to the matter their energy and invention, their brain and capital; that we may very soon see solar enginery take its place by the side of steam enginery and electrical enginery and gas enginery in the public estimation.’

“Despite the vintage of Pope’s book, many still believe that solar energy is a late twentieth-century phenomenon. Hopefully, Let It Shine will change this misconception. Let It Shine shows, for example, that six thousand years ago the stone-age Chinese built their homes so every one of them made maximum use of the sun’s energy in winter. So begins the story of the genesis of solar energy told in Let it Shine, the world’s first and only comprehensive history of humanity’s use of the sun. Page after page the story brings to light information never before unearthed. 2,500 years ago, for example, the sun heated every house in most Greek cities. Years later ancient Roman architects published solar self-help books to show people how to save on fuel as firewood became scarce, and fleets scoured the known world for much needed supplies.”

< Read the full article “Let It Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy” posted online October 25, 2013 online at motherearthnews.com. >

< Read more about the book Let It Shine at the author’s web site. >

< Read chapter summaries of the book Let It Shine here. >

links submitted by Frieda Nelson

Saturday, January 4, 2014
7:08 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:15
Gate: 6:50
Sunrise: 7:23
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RR Sean Savoy
Assistants:
RC Roger Weld
RC Robert Petrovich
Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

11:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Ted Staver
Cantor: Rev. Robert Roy
Reader: Rev. Karen Elliott

Sunday, January 5, 2014
7:07 AM NEW 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 Ted Staver
RM Carol Ann Crabb
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Christian Churches                 Rev. Shinobu Uwataki
Church of the End Times                 Dea. Stephan Fuellilng

7:00 CANDLE LIGHTING AND BANQUET 
Rectory-Abbey on Carmel

 Monday, January 6, 2014
EPIPHANY DAY
7:07 AM NEW 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

Wednesday, January 8, 2014
 12:00 N COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
RC Roger Weld

 Friday, January 10, 2013
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RC Elizabeth Reece

PHOTO: Roger Weld

 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.

SECOND ADVENT PROPHECY AND REVELATION

A Reading from the First Prophecy to the Americas, Chapter 15: “On the New Sun,” (pp. 128-130):

< Click here to listen to this week’s reading. (3 minutes) >

ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM SAYINGS

A Reading from the Essene Gospel of Peace:

[And the Elder said to them:] After this manner, therefore, pray to your Heavenly Father, when the sun is high at midday: ‘Our Father who art in heaven, send to all the Sons of Men your angel of Peace; and send to our body the angel of Life to dwell therein for ever.’

“Then shall the Son of Man seek peace with his own thoughts; that the angel of Wisdom may guide him. For I tell you truly, there is no greater power in heaven and earth than the thoughts of the Son of Man. Though unseen by the eyes of the body, yet each thought has mighty strength, even such strength as can shake the heavens. “For to no other creature in the kingdom of the Earthly Mother is it given the power of thought, for all beasts that crawl and birds that fly, live not of their own thinking but of the one Law that governs all. Only to the Sons of Men is it given the power of thought, even that thought that can break the bonds of death. Do not think because it cannot be seen, that thought has no power. I tell you truly, the lightning that cleaves the mighty oak, or the quaking that opens up cracks in the earth, these are as the play of children compared with the power of thought. Truly each thought of darkness, whether it be of malice, or anger, or vengeance, these wreak destruction like that of fire sweeping through dry kindling under a windless sky. But man does not see the carnage, nor does he hear the piteous cries of his victims, for he is blind to the world of the spirit.

“But when this power is guided by holy Wisdom, then the thoughts of the Son of Man lead him to the heavenly kingdoms and thus is paradise built on earth; then it is that your thoughts uplift the souls of men, as the cold waters of a rushing stream revive your body in the summer heat.

Spiritual Initiation

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contributed by Harold Boulette

PHOTO: medium.com/Physics arXiv Blog

This interesting article opens with discussion about an experiment that confirms that time emerges out of quantum entanglement:

“Time is an emergent phenomenon that is a side effect of quantum entanglement, say physicists. And they have the first experimental results to prove it.

“When the new ideas of quantum mechanics spread through science like wildfire in the first half of the 20th century, one of the first things physicists did was to apply them to gravity and general relativity. The results were not pretty.

“It immediately became clear that these two foundations of modern physics were entirely incompatible. When physicists attempted to meld the approaches, the resulting equations were bedeviled with infinities making it impossible to make sense of the results.

“Then in the mid-1960s, there was a breakthrough. . . .”

< Read the entire article online at The Physics arXiv Blog. >

link submitted by Stephan Fuelling

A new soul was born on August 14, 1951 . . . a Child of Light born to the world from an infinite sea of Light, absolute reality . . . Being pure of heart, the newborn baby still resounds with the angelic music from heaven and the majesty of the divine homeland. At birth the eternal cycle of life is broken, creating a new style of living. The Child of Earth observes the unknown reality with radiance and luminosity in her eyes and she hears the silence from the ultimate harmony of the universe.

For many centuries everyone has been able to start the story of their personal journey by the inoffensive beginning “Once upon a time” . . . there was a little blond girl born in Québec, Canada, from a working-class family that used all its energy and effort to sustain a level of comfort and dignity for the needs of five children. At the age of three, she began to spend her summertime with her grandparents on farmland near the Saint Lawrence River. Being the first grandchild, she was adored by everyone and received much praise, as if she had a special gift that the family could not explain.

This part of Québec—flat, peaceful, and serene—awakened in her the troubled recognition that what she saw and felt could not be the answer to the mysterious energy moving within her . . . seeking secretly the spiritual meaning of life. The harmonious environment taught her how to appreciate the beauties of nature, to have a sense of union with the creative forces of the universe, and to regenerate herself with love and benevolence to reflect back to all the people surrounding her. At her young age, love expressed a feeling of unity and control, and it seemed to be the key to the Big Question . . . and the road to ecstasy . . . . Love without guidance toward an end is like a sailboat without rudder and compass.

In the land of Québec the Catholic religion had powerful authority, instructing through liturgy and reading texts illustrated with symbols, images, and myths. The heart and the mind of the naive girl interpreted these with her own ability and limitations to understand that God exists within every living creature and that she had to be clear of any sin and to reach perfection with her own will. How to connect the earthly heart and the heavenly heart? The true meaning of life became an ecclesiastical mystery.

Life brought to her every opportunity like a mirage, creating an illusion of happiness—”petit bonheur”—life shining like a fake gem, and brought her the urge to be part of everything that moves her. She sought recognition, which she hoped might lead her to the emergence of her Self. But deep inside there was always sadness, emptiness, meaninglessness that remained silent—suffocated in the heart of the little girl becoming now a young woman. Any major realization left her at the top of Mount Everest . . . Voil ! . . . That is it! . . . Always the same turmoil in the heart of the dormant soul. Why is the human soul never at peace? There has to be more than being born, living intensely, burning vital energy, and dying without understanding the secret laws of the universe and the potential power in all of us. Being educated under the influence of the European French, she was haunted by existential questions that had no answers in the material world, and they could have made her sink into the darkness of her own limited intellect.

Love, tenderness, tolerance, and compassion were her bouée de sauvetage (“life preserver”). Family and friends carved deep memories into her that will live forever. Learning to distinguish between the true expression of love and the guilt of not loving enough distressed the life of the young woman, who tried to calm herself with good intentions but false understanding of what life is all about, what power is behind existence, and what is true communion with God.

Suddenly the energy of life placed some signs in front of her. Her reasoning no longer operated normally. She made drastic changes in her life, and she lost the appearance of control and the comfortable environment toward which she had dedicated her energy. Surprisingly, her heart started singing and felt light, energetic, and creative with a drive she had never felt before. All of her past was reduced to a fraction of its importance, and she rushed to reach the unknown . . . eternity . . . the light at the end of the tunnel.

Being stamped since birth with a divine energy, the mature French woman learned that the possibility of being born again unveiled the path of Light and inspired her with a new way of living. The heart of the little girl could shine like a living Sun in the World of Light.

* * * *

The French woman from Québec experienced various major changes in her life, but each time she had no answer to the mysteries of life and the laws of the universe. Destiny led her to the desert lands of Nevada and a drastic culture shock (different language and religion, separation from family, etc.). Yet it was the most uplifting time of her life. It gave meaning to her life. The connection with the infinite creative forces of the universe brought nourishment to her soul, a magical language with Divine Energy. She felt surrounded with grace and a great fountain of joy provided her with strength and vitality to adjust herself to her new lifestyle. Being part of a Community of Light provided her with a loving, universal extended family. The love offered with sincerity from all the members of the Community of Light balanced and defined the notion of Love and developed in her a different perspective, a sense of unity, a new sense of reality. The transfer of love to a higher frame of mind vibrated in her an experience of liberation, a detachment, a pursuit of devotion and a connection with infinite wisdom.

The spiritual school of learning instructed her step-by-step in the dual glories of human life and demonstrated to her how to connect the earthy heart with the heavenly heart. This was the most precious hidden treasure that she could recognize: without awakening the supranatural power that was programmed into her from birth, that spiritual ecstasy might be dormant forever and never express the Supreme Self who is eternally at peace . . . the Hymn of Pure Love.

The ultimate art of self-development, to harmonize with the radiant energy of the Universal forces, implanted in her a seed, the new birth in the heart of creation that fused man between two worlds. The experience of that profound realization calmed the heart of the French woman like a Divine Presence and opened up the realm of eternity. The harmonious way of living guided her to live in a different reality. Silence, the act of listening, became her favorite companion and allowed her to penetrate to purity of the Self.

I write this to all the people that I love and will always love. How could I love you more, with an eternal love that never dies?

Francine Petrovich
November 13, 2013
(Community member since April 1989)

PHOTO: New York World-Telegraph and Sun

Bishop Gene Savoy Jr., Chairman, Northern Nevada Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Committee, called for the formation of the organizing committee to plan January’s Martin Luther King, Jr. events, which will include the annual Community Memorial Service and Caravan. The memorial service will be held on Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 3 p.m. at Second Baptist Church. The caravan will take place on the morning of Monday, January 20, 2014.

Pastor Michael Randle and Bishop Savoy have met and are requesting help in forming the organizing committee. This year they would like to see the annual Martin Luther King Jr. events to be expanded and to encompass more people in the greater Reno-Sparks community. They are asking for individuals who are interested in serving on the committee to let them know as soon as possible. The first organizing meeting will be held on Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 12:00 noon at the Second Baptist Church on Montello Street to discuss theme, program, recruiting a keynote speaker, media coverage, and other topics.

< Read the invitation flyer here. >