Humberto Garcia receives Second-Degree ordination at the hand of Bishop gene Savoy Jr. PHOTO CREDIT: Robert Roy

During the 2018 Convocation in Reno, Nevada five Consociates received ordination at the hand of Bishop Gene Savoy Jr.

Community members congratulating new ordinands Michele Grief and Crystal White. PHOTO CREDIT: Robert Roy

Receiving First-Degree Ordination on September 5, 2018 in the Bishop’s Chambers at the Apostolic Chancellery were Crystal White and Marilyn Taylor. Crystal enrolled in the Academy in July 2014 and entered the Sacred College in September 2017. Marilyn enrolled in the Academy in December 2017 and entered the Sacred College in February 2018.

Marilyn Taylor and Crystal White with Bishop Gene Savoy Jr PHOTO CREDIT: Stephan Fuelling

Receiving Second-Degree Ordination on September 9, 2018 at the open-air Cathedral Church of the Americas were Humberto Garcia, Radheka Patel Savoy, and Michele Grief.

(from left to right) Newly ordained Deacons Humberto Garcia, Noriko Roy, Radheka Patel Savoy, and Michele Grief. PHOTO CREDIT: Robert Roy

Humberto received First-Degree Ordination in September 2012 and entered the Sacred College in March 2014. Noriko received First-Degree Ordination in May 2016 and entered the Sacred College in December 2017. Radheka received First-Degree Ordination in September 2017 and entered the Sacred College in March 2018. Michele received First-Degree Ordination in September 2016 and entered the Sacred College in December 2016.

Newly ordained deacons pose with Bishop gene Savoy Jr PHOTO CREDIT: Robert Roy

Saturday, November 10, 2018 
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RC Robert Petrovich
Lector: RC Gary Buchanan
Cantor: Rev. Harold Boulette
Reader: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RM Elizabeth Reece

Sunday, November 11, 2018
6:33 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of  New Epiphany
Leave: 5:45
Gate: 6:15
Sunrise: 6:48
RC Ted Staver
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of  the Golden Age of Light       Rev. James Elliott
Church of the Universal Theocracy       Rev. Harold Boulette
Church of  the Americas       Rev. Karen Elliott

Wednesday, November 14, 2018
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
RM Rebecca Willis

Friday, November 16, 2018
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RM Elizabeth Reece

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

November 8, 2018

We know that the Hebrew prophets, among others of other religions, were inspired for a time. A large portion of their prophecies have come to pass. Many of them were inflamed with visions and symbols of the destruction of the Temple and the city of Jerusalem and the dispersal of the Jewish people shortly after the crucifixion of Jesus. But, there is much more to understand than just the Hebrew people for God is concerned with the redemption of the whole world.

God as Messiah wills the fulfillment of that brought by Jesus and the illumination of men and women of Light who do God’s Will in the last age of the Earth. We know that the modern church labors under apostasy having fallen away from the true doctrines and teachings of Jesus, the enlightened of God come as the person of Christ. Therefore, the Christian Church must be fulfilled.

Jesus and his disciples, resurrected in God’s Light, would speak out to modern Christians. Because no one returns to the world in flesh, God sent a little child to teach for a time come in the person of Christ. We teach that all Christ beings are of one body, mind and Spirit. All those of Christ are of one body, mind and Spirit. Therefore, this religion of Light –our religion of Light — has come to fulfill Christianity (among other things). The Child Jamil is one of the messengers of God. The true Christ is the Light of God’s Sun. The Holy Child is the patron of the New Community establishing itself on Earth.

The races of Man must break away from outworn traditions letting go of old ways in order to make way for the new. In this way, this new religion will be truly universal — it shall be the fulfilled church promised by the ancient prophets. The Child inspires us to build a new Community in order that we may know and commune with God through the Light.

In this the Second Advent, God is Messiah. He Himself has assumed the Office of Christ in order to manifest to all men and women the world over through the Light of His New Sun. Within this Light, all people may partake of their divine nature and immortality. In this way, God’s Teaching is no longer restricted to any one people, nation or tradition.

God has and will continue to gather from every nation and every race a holy body of men and women dedicated to Christ and the Light so that the old churches and religions may be fulfilled. And this body of holy men and women shall be of God — their hearts shall be filled with love and their Spirits with knowledge of heavenly things. And each shall understand that they are a child of God made in His Image which is Light.

And by these means, they will return to the Godhead generation after generation until all flesh is put away and they are clothed with a pure garment of Light which shall be an eternal body of Light.

As Bishop of the International Community of Christ, our thoughts and prayers go out to our Jewish brothers and sisters who senselessly perished, were injured and who are affected by the terrible act of Darkness at Tree of Life Synogogue yesterday in Pittsburgh. We will lift up our prayers for the next seven days.

The Right Reverend Gene Savoy Jr.

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

October 31, 2018

To conclude our theme of the past two weeks, let me reiterate that the holy ones of times past were knowledgeable in the divine arts and sciences of which we are speaking. More importantly, they were knowledgeable in the divine arts and sciences which we are employing in Cosolargy. But, as we know, their knowledge was lost to Man. The Teaching has been given again under the grace of God through the Messianic Sun of Righteousness and by the establishment of the Community of Light which guards over the religious arts and sciences of the great and sacred Teachings of Light. Man and woman can regenerate themselves and the world by means of the Light found within the New Sun which illuminates mind and Soul. This regeneration is one of universal law and order.

Man and woman must learn of this new law and order for proper development of person within The Community. This is so because it is necessary for men and women to work harmoniously with the Universe of Light. And in order for this to be accomplished, it takes one’s total dedication over a whole lifetime.

Therefore, we should understand that the power given to Jesus and the Prophets and the Holy Teachers of times past was made possible by the knowledge of God’s Word manifest in the natural order of all living things. We, too, must gain a knowledge of God’s Word if we are to gain immortality of Spirit. To this end, each of us must labor within God’s Plan, which is one of unity and oneness. To labor outside of God’s Plan is to lose God’s favor and grace.

We must evolve to Light. We know that the secret is within the eyes which, being like miniature suns, feed on energy and knowledge, together composing light. The Light of the symbolic Tree of Life is the manna of God for the chosen to eat. No one may eat of the manna of the Tree of Life if they not be knowledgeable in God’s Way and Plan for the regeneration of mankind and this world.

Those who eat unworthily of the Light are of Darkness. We must understand that within the light is a darker nature which harms the Soul. However, with illumination of the Soul, the individual born of Light understands, with a comprehension beyond that of the rational senses or logical mental processes, that God is a mystery that only the illuminated can grasp, for God is beyond being, space time, energy, matter, mind, knowledge, even Spirit – yet His Essence is within all of these, just as is man and woman, made in the Image of God which is likened to the Image and the Word in Light. Mysteries indeed.

Now, let me turn your attention to something else. This week, for seven days – from Sunday, October 28 through Saturday, November 3 – we at the Community Center have offered our prayers and lit memorial candles in the Chapel of the Holy Child in downtown Reno and the Chapel of the Roses at Steamboat Hot Springs in remembrance and honor of those who perished, were injured and who suffer due to the awful massacre last Saturday at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We know these kinds of actions to be those of Darkness. Please join with us in thought and prayer this coming Saturday when we conclude our week-long commemoration of this tragic event in American history. I would appreciate it if you, too, would light a candle in your home in support of our Jewish brothers and sisters all around the world.

Saturday, November 3, 2018 
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RC Robert Petrovich
Lector: RM Elizabeth Reece
Cantor: Rev. Robert Roy
Reader: Dea. Stephan Fuelling
Organist: RM Elizabeth Reece

Sunday, November 4, 2018
6:21 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of  New Epiphany
Leave: 5:30
Gate: 6:00
Sunrise: 6:36
RC Ted Staver
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of  New Philadelphia       Rev. Robert Roy
Church of New Qumran       Dea. Noriko Roy

Wednesday, November 7, 2018
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
RC Gary Buchanan

Friday, November 9, 2018
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RC Peter Foust

Gary Buchanan presents at Globe Sound Healing Conference in 2018

Follow this link to pages on the intention, presenters, exhibits, and workshops held at the 7th International Globe Sound Healing Conference: https://soundhealingcenter.com/conference/

Reverend Canon Gary Buchanan presented on Sunday, October 7th at the 7th International Globe Sound Healing Conference held October 6 – 8, 2018 at Temple Congregation Sherith in San Francisco. Reverend Buchanan presented primarily on Sonatherapy, but spoke a bit on Cosolargy and the Steamboat Healing Center and Spa as well.

Gary demonstrates the applicators with various sound frequencies on a member of the audience. About 50 people were in attendance.

There are two primary intentions of the sound healing conferences sponsored by the Globe Sound and Consciousness Institute:
(1) to raise consciousness and bring people into higher states of awareness more consistently by disseminating techniques and information and with experiential exercises to actually go into these states.
(2) to bring sound healing into mainstream homes and hospitals and gain more acceptance by helping the public to understand the science and effectiveness behind sound healing and by providing a venue for sound practitioners, the public and the medical community to meet and form connections and alliances.

The 7th International Globe Sound Healing Conference was held October 6 – 8, 2018 at Temple Congregation Sherith in San Francisco, one of the oldest Jewish synagogues in California. The Jewish congregation that built the synagogue was formed in 1850. The building was erected in 1904/05 and survived the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.

This year’s conference was held in Spectacular Temple Congregation Sherith – 2266 California Street, San Francisco

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

October 26, 2018

1. Man must accept the Presence of God’s Spirit in the Light of the Sun which revives the Spirit and gives life to the Soul;

2. Man must accept that God’s Word in the Light of the Sun gives to Man a divine Knowledge of heavenly things;

3. Man must accept that God’s Messianic Sun is the redeemer and savior of Man;

4. Man must accept that The Community is under a special grace that, like the Sun, is of a Light nature filled with the Word of God that illuminates the Spirit;

5. Man must accept that the Messianic Sun can only be perpetuated by the Word of Man reflected to the Word of God in fellowship;

6. Man must accept that this new religion of Light can bring about a new race of Man for a new creation on Earth.

So, here it is. Acceptance of these Mysteries is a consent of mind and Spirit which opens the Soul so that God’s Word can penetrate and illuminate one’s being. We do not gain our immortality and Christhood by the power of our mind or will or, for that matter, by any power on Earth. We attain it by our own free consent in alignment with the Power of God.

Everyone shines like a star for a time and then dims and crumbles into dust. While the light of our star is bright, we are proud, arrogant and stubborn, fixed in our ways. But, when death comes upon us, it is too late for any measures to be taken. Therefore, it is good that we learn from holy script and from holy men and women the proper path to God. But, as it has been written, everything has a time and season. It is the same for each us of, for nations, for races, for scripture and for religion.

It is for us to educate those on Earth that superstition, faith and belief in a god or a savior or a prophet or in scripture is not sufficient to save them from death. Participation in the divine Nature is a precise method known to the great and holy teachers of times past. The method is the proper use of God’s Light for the illumination of the Soul. By these means, we are born again into a new and higher personage of Light.

The goal of each should be immortality of mind and Soul. Immortality is a gift of God. But, it is not given to everyone. It must be gained in the prescribed manner, which is a divine Science and a divine Art of the highest order. It is the Art and Science of Illumination.

More, again, on this next week.

Saturday, October 27, 2018 
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Gary Buchanan
Cantor: Dea. Noriko Roy
Reader: Rev. James Elliott
Organist: RM Elizabeth Reece

Sunday, October 28, 2018
7:14 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of  New Epiphany
Leave: 6:30
Gate: 7:00
Sunrise: 7:29
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of  New Philadelphia       RC Robert Petrovich
Church of New Qumran       Rev. Francine Petrovich

Wednesday, October 31, 2018
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
RC Robert Petrovich

Friday, November 2, 2018
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
Rev. Barbara Whitney