Services for the Week of February 1, 2025

 

 

Saturday, February 1, 2025
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child

Lector: RC Rob Roy
Cantor: RM Barbara Whitney
Reader: Rev. Stephan Fuelling

6:00 PM PANNUCHES
Chapel of the Holy Child

RRF Gene Savoy, Jr.
RM Elizabeth Reece

Sunday, February 2, 2025
SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of the New Epiphany

Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:45
Service Starts: 6:59
Sunrise: 7:14
Concelebrants:
RF Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Barbara Whitney

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION

Church of the Races of Man: RC Robert Roy
Church of the Universal Theocracy: Rev. Noriko Roy

Wednesday, February 5, 2025, Noon
Chapel of the Holy Child
RC Peter Foust

Friday, February 7, 2025, 9:00 am
Chapel of the Roses, Steamboat Priory
RF Ted Staver



WEEKLY MESSAGE: January 29, 2025

 

 

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Midnight Passing of The Child, Jamil (1962)

This past Saturday’s readings were from the prophet Isaiah and a continuation from the Prophecy of the New Covenant, Chapter 90: Prophecy on the Revelation and the Opening of the Seals (pp. 960- 963). 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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Order Indicates Intelligence and DNA has Order

 

“The strand of DNA in a single cell is six feet, six inches long. That’s a lot of code when you consider that the size of the characters in the code is microscopic. Think of the enormous amount of information packed into it. Moreover, the type of order found in DNA, which is the basis of life, is not simple, symmetric order. It is a highly complex, specified order that might be compared to the notches on a key, which are highly irregular, but also highly specified. They must be so in order to open a particular lock—a kind of specificity does not happen by accident because it is a kind of language. Consider, for example, the arrangement of the letters in this sentence, or for that matter, in this entire book. They did not and could not have happened by accident. You may not agree with what I have written, but you have to admit that putting all these letters together to communicate what I want to tell you must have required at least a minimal degree of intelligence. This kind of premeditated organization is what is found in the DNA and the RNA. Indeed, three things found in the universe that have the property of specificity are 1) human language, 2) computer code, and 3) the information in DNA and RNA. It should go without saying that whenever we see information such as that, there is always an intelligent input that accounts for it, which indicates convincingly that intelligence is behind the origin of life. Nevertheless, after more than 60 years, science teachers in schools and colleges are still teaching their students that matter is all there is. However, not everyone remains in denial, and many today are coming to the realization that the basic premise of Scientific Materialism simply cannot be correct.

“This awakening, which is now gaining speed, began more than 40 years ago. After Click’s discovery, a few brave souls broke from tradition and accepted the fact that there must be some sort of guiding intelligence responsible for the origin of life. I know this from personal experience because I read a book more than forty years ago that put forth that argument. Published in 1975, it refuted the idea that intelligence, consciousness, and awareness came about because of evolution.”

-Stephen Hawley Martin in the book Christ Consciousness

Strand of DNA

As the first sentence of the quote indicates, a single strand of DNA found in one of our cells will stretch to 6.5 feet long when uncoiled, but because it is tightly coiled, it takes up a small fraction of an inch in our cells. What Mr. Martin is telling us is that there is an enormous amount of information stored in a strand of DNA, and that information implies order and intelligence in each cell of our body.

Highly Complex Order

Martin adds that not only is there an order to the information stored in each DNA strand, but it is a complex order. He compares it to the notches in a key. While a plain key may be simple, various combinations of notches can be added to the key so that thousands of different keys can be made, each one capable of opening a different lock. He is saying that DNA works in a similar way. In other words, the strand of DNA in a blood cell is specialized so that when the cell reproduces, it will produce another blood cell, not some other type of cell.

Guiding Intelligence

Martin eventually says that some experts are now saying that this complex arrangement of DNA implies that there is a guiding Intelligence that is responsible for life. This is a reasonable conclusion, but it must be noted that we are still dealing with only the life of the physical body.

Beyond Matter

The quote does not follow on with what I think is a logical conclusion: this Guiding Intelligence had to exist before the physical universe was created. If there was some Intelligence before matter existed, that intelligence had to be spiritual. So what these studied of DNA really prove is that there must be a realm of spirit that existed before the realm of matter and the guiding intelligence of that spiritual realm is what most of us call God.



“Astronomers Discover Slow-Spinning Radio Source That ‘Shouldn’t Exist'”

 

 

When some of the biggest stars reach the end of their lives, they explode in spectacular supernovas and leave behind incredibly dense cores called neutron stars. Some of these remnants emit powerful radio beams from their magnetic poles.

As the star spins, these beams sweep past Earth and produce periodic pulses of radio waves, much like a cosmic lighthouse. This behaviour has earned them the name ” pulsars”.

Click here to read the full article.



“Record-Breaking Trove of Stars Seen Billions of Light-Years Away in Cosmic Dragon”

 

 

There are limits to what we can see across the gulf of space and time separating us from the early Universe. Light that travels across billions of light-years emanates from sources so distant it can be challenging even to see something even as luminous as a galaxy glowing in the darkness.

Human endeavor has now smashed through those limits using JWST – resolving more than 40 individual stars on the outskirts of a galaxy whose light has spent almost 6.5 billion years traversing space-time to reach us.

Click here to read the full article.



“Our Sun may once have had a twin. What happened to this stellar sibling?”

 

 

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs, but our Sun is a notable exception. Now scientists are finding clues that it may once have had a companion of its own. The question is, where did it go?

Our Sun is a bit of an isolated nomad. Orbiting in one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms, it takes us on a journey around the galaxy roughly once every 230 million years on our lonesome. The nearest star to our Sun, Proxima Centauri, is 4.2 light-years away, so remote that it would take even the fastest spacecraft ever built more than 7,000 years to reach.

Click here to read the full article.

Link submitted by Gene Savoy, Jr.



Services for the Week of January 25, 2025

 

 

Saturday, January 25, 2025
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child

Lector: Rm Elizabeth Reece
Cantor: Rev. Stephan Fuelling
Reader: RC Rob Roy

Sunday, January 26, 2025
SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of the New Epiphany

Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:50
Service Starts: 7:03
Sunrise: 7:18
Concelebrants:
RF Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Barbara Whitney

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION

Church of the Americas: RF Ted Staver
Church of the New Covenant: Rev. Michael McIntyre

Wednesday, January 29, 2025, Noon
Chapel of the Holy Child
RM Barbara Whitney

Friday, January 31, 2025, 9:00 am
Chapel of the Roses, Steamboat Priory
RC Amanda Buchanan



WEEKLY MESSAGE: January 22, 2025

 

 

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

This past Saturday’s readings were from Psalm 1 and a continuation from the Prophecy of the New Covenant, Chapter 90: Prophecy on the Revelation and the Opening of the Seals (pp. 952 – 959). 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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Cosolargy Newsletter January 2025

 

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2024-2025 Christmas-Epiphany Vigil Held

 

                                                                     December 25, 2024. First day of Christmas Sunrise Service.

Christmas-Epiphany Vigil
The Twelve Days of Christmas are observed by tradition in the Second Advent Church beginning December 25 and continuing through the morning of Epiphany Eve, January 5. A special Sunrise Divine Service is held on Epiphany Day, January 6. Sunrise services are held in Consecrated Sanctuary each morning at the Church of New Epiphany during these days of special blessing as weather permits. Weather was better than average this year, so few services were canceled.

During the 2024-2025 Christmas Epiphany Vigil, sunrise services were held on Wednesday, 12/25, Sunday, 12/29, during which a beautiful rainbow appeared over the Church of New Epiphany, Tuesday, 12/31, Thursday, 1/2, Friday, 1/3, and Sunday, 1/5. On Monday, 1/6, due to inclement weather, the Congregation gathered at the End Times Parsonage and observed another spectacular rainbow — a sign of God’s bountiful blessings over the Sanctuary.

Services were held at the Chapel of the Holy Child on Saturday, December 28th, and Saturday, January 4th.

Double rainbow during Epiphany Eve Sunrise Service. Photo by Reverend Robert Roy.

 

Friday and Wednesday Chapel Services were suspended during the Vigil.

Children’s Blessing
The annual Children’s Blessing was held following Sunrise Divine Service at the End Times Parsonage on Sunday, December 25, 2022 at 7:45 a.m.  The Blessing was followed by a breakfast. While not a part of the Sacred Calendar of the Church, this Blessing is held each year during the Christmas-Epiphany Vigil. Children, parents, and other members of the Community gathered for the ceremonial blessing of the children of the Community.

Blessing of the Rectory East Wing
On Friday, January 3, 2025, a blessing of the Rectory East Wing took place at Noon. Bishop Gene presided and was assisted by various Ministers of the Church. Several members of the Congregation, including those who reside and work at the East Wing, were in attendance.

Epiphany Eve Banquet
The annual Epiphany Eve Banquet and festivities took place at the Rectory-Abbey on Sunday, January 5, 2025, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Members of the Community, their families, and special guests of the Head Bishop were invited to attend this special seasonal banquet. The meal was followed by a visit from Santa Claus and his reindeer and gift-giving.

Epiphany Day
This forty-third anniversary of Epiphany in the Second Advent Church was a day of special blessings and revelation in the Church and the day on which the Church commemorates the True Baptism of Jesus by God the Father. The Message given on January 6, 1981, is related in the Prophecy of the New Covenant:

“On this hallowed day of God’s Appearance, bountiful blessings manifest to the Holy Ones of Light of the Church of the Second Advent founded by His Word. To those unified in Community and holding to The Law, God sends forth the Comforting Spirit of His Image. As the Church has been restored, God will restore those blessings given to the First Church—now in apostasy—and make sacred those Holy Days that are kept in remembrance by the old Churches, but which are not alive with God’s blessings.

“In commemoration of this Day let The Community gather together once each year in remembrance and in fellowship. God will baptize all assembled in the Spirit of His Holiness. God gives an unmistakable Sign from Heaven in the New Sun as a mark of His Advent and Divine Presence. Let all behold the Signs of God manifest in the Heavens and know that their New Ministry is by God’s Authority, and that He has come to Judge the world. This Day is a day of confirmation of God’s Appearance, a day of blessing to strengthen the Good against the Powers of Darkness, and to empower them to teach.”
Prophecy of the New Covenant, pp. 913-914