As far as supermassive black holes go, the one at the center of the Milky Way is relatively sedate.
But, even in its supposed quiescent state, Sagittarius A* is prone to the occasional belch or rupture – and now, using JWST, astronomers have recorded it doing something we’ve never seen before.
On 6 April 2024, the black hole let out a flare observed in mid-infrared wavelengths, followed by a radio flare counterpart.
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| Sabrina and Sophia Savoy light the candles of remembrance at the Remembrance of The Child Service. |
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| Youths and children of The Community sing “Say Unto Them” at the Remembrance of The Child Service. |
Remembrance of the Child Service
The annual Remembrance of The Child Service was held on Wednesday, January 29th at 6:00 PM in the Chapel of the Holy Child. The service commemorates the passing of The Holy Child, Jamil at midnight (January 29/30) in 1962. This service officially begins the Second Advent Sunrise Vigil which, this year, marks the 63rd year of the birth of the Sun of Righteousness and God’s Second Advent. Sunrise Divine Service is held each morning at the Church of New Epiphany at the Red Rock Consecrated Sanctuary each morning, weather permitting. On mornings when Sunrise Divine Service is not permitted due to inclement weather, Community Sunrise is held at the End Times parsonage.
During this year’s sunrise vigil, several spectacular rainbows were observed over the Sanctuary and the entire city of Reno which even caught the attention of local news stations.
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| Sunrise on February 3rd, 2025 |
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| Rainbow over Reno on February 4, 2025
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Saturday, February 8, 2025
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Lector: Rev. Noriko Roy
Cantor: Rev. Radheka Savoy
Reader: Rev. Harold Boulette
Sunday, February 9, 2025
SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of the New Epiphany
Leave: 5:45
Gate: 6:40
Service Starts: 6:52
Sunrise: 7:07
Concelebrants:
RF Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Barbara Whitney
OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Americas: Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Church of the Universal Theocracy: Rev. Larry Coesens
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, Noon
Chapel of the Holy Child
RC Peter Foust
Friday, February 14, 2025, 9:00 am
Chapel of the Roses, Steamboat Priory
RF Ted Staver
HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Second Advent Vigil
This past Saturday’s readings were again from the prophet Isaiah and the Prophecy of the New Covenant, Chapter 90: Prophecy on the Revelation and the Opening of the Seals (pp. 964 – 967). Click here to read the first scriptural reading, and click the audio button below to hear the reading from our Second Advent scripture.
Once again, please feel free to ask me any questions by calling 775-786-7432 or emailing me at messages@cosolargy.org. I am always at your service.
In Light+,
Gene
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JANUARY 2025
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of the Middle East
Prayer for Peace
Mario Rodriguez
Lacey Chavez
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of the Middle East
Prayer for Peace
Alphine Freeman
Steve Coyle †
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of the Middle East
Prayer for Peace
Alphine Freeman
Steve Coyle †
Walter Trimble
The People of Greater Los Angeles
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of the Middle East
Prayer for Peace
The People of Greater Los Angeles
Adrienne Parker
Anne Ferrentino
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of the Middle East
Prayer for Peace
The People of Greater Los Angeles
Adrienne Parker
Anne Ferrentino
Brynn Nicole Nielsen-Roberts †
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of the Middle East
Prayer for Peace
The People of Greater Los Angeles
Tomizou Sonoda
Michael Pohlabel
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of the Middle East
Prayer for Peace
The People of Greater Los Angeles
Tomizou Sonoda
Pamela Chestnut
Amy Buchanan Rodriguez
† indicates Memorial Prayer
HEAD OVERSEER’S MESSAGE
Thursday, January 30, 2025
A special Remembrance of The Child Service was held last evening in the Chapel of the Holy Child at 6:00 pm. The Remembrance of The Child Service begins the Second Advent Sunrise Vigil, which commences January 30th and continues through February 6th. Sunrise Divine Service is scheduled throughout the Vigil, weather permitting. Click the audio button below to hear my homily during that special service of remembrance.
Once again, please feel free to ask me any questions by calling 775-786-7432 or emailing me at messages@cosolargy.org. I am always at your service.
In Light+,
Gene
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“My son, my unseen little one now asleep in comfortable darkness, gathering your strength for the coming struggle, may the Great God of Life add His strength to your strength. You will be a great one among men, for you were conceived in love and not in lust.
“Within the guardian of my heart you remain as a wonderful mystery. I am overcome with awe, for within you there is something God inspired. It bestows strange powers upon you, so that at the appointed time you fight for air and light. You will be a man of courage, for such men are born to the fearless and good. Strength and beauty, courage and modesty have mated, that you might be the heir of their gifts. Your heritage was chosen by those who gave you life.
“It is your fate, my son, as a child born of woman, to fight and grasp, to grimly hold onto life as you reach across to this side of the earthly portal. There are dark powers that would drag you back, but you are not for them. O let the Great Light be ever with you, as a watchman’s fire on a lonely road, when the evil powers beset your way.”
-The Kolbrin Bible (Man:29:19-21)
This part of the Kolbrin Bible was written thousands of years ago, so the struggle it refers to maybe something already in the past, but the idea applies just as well to the struggle happening now between the forces of Light and Darkness. This is not a struggle, or war, in the conventional sense, with people killing each other. Those of Darkness may kill, but those of Light do not. Instead, we seek to convert those caught up in the lies of the dark one to the knowledge of truth and love.
There is only one true God and that is the Great God of Life. He is not the God of life and death. Death is not His creation and it is not something He desires. Death comes from the false god, the god of matter. It is only because we are in the world of matter that our physical bodies are subject to pain, disease, and death. It the Spiritual Realm of the Great God of Life, those things don’t exist.
God will give us the strength to stand up to the forces and being of darkness if we follow His will and help in the Great Plan to restore the physical realm back to it’s original state as spirit.
What the writer is saying here is that a person born into the realm of matter must fight and grasp to hold onto life. It is easier for some then for others, but we all struggle is some ways to survive in this realm where there are so many things that can take physical life from us. It isn’t so much that physical life is important, but it is important that we awaken and develop our spiritual faculties while we are in the physical realm. Since that takes time—typically twenty years, or more—we must try to stay alive in this realm as long as possible, but without surrendering to the forces of darkness.
I love this phrase! I can’t think of a better thing to say to a person than “Let the Great Light be ever with you.” Unfortunately, most people have strayed so far from God and Truth that they don’t know what the Great Light is or how to obtain it. We in Cosolargy know that the best source of that Light on Earth is the Spiritual Sun, so we practice a spiritual form of sun gazing to allow that Light into us.
If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot’s Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself with a star surrounded by a flat disc of planetary material orbiting in relatively neat, circular paths.
But our own Solar System’s disc is relatively warped, with the orbits of its planets slightly tilted and more oval than circular. What happened to it?
Our current cosmology says cold dark matter helped small galaxies form in the early universe. But recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope are challenging that idea. Astronomers, like Stacy McGaugh of Case Western Reserve University, think that since our theories don’t match the observations, it might be time to rethink our story of how the universe formed in its extreme youth. According to McGaugh and his team, new research supports the MOND theory. EarthSky’s Dave Adalian down with Stacy McGaugh to talk about his team’s discoveries, what they means for cosmology and where we go from here on Monday, November 18. A transcript of that interview is below. It’s fascinating stuff!
In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed something never seen before. It discovered an abundance of tiny red objects scattered across the sky. Scientists dubbed them ‘Little Red Dots.’ Since then, researchers have been perplexed by their nature, the reason for their color and what they convey about the early universe.
