Sanctuary of the Holy Light

07/21/2023

05/22/2021

Convocation of the Community of Saint George Young at the Falls Retreat Center of Saint Miriam https://thefallsofsaintmiriam.com/

03/21/2021

The Fifth Sunday in Lent
Passion Sunday

Intent: Humility

The Collect

O LORD, who didst lay aside thy glory and take upon thee the earthly robe of mortal flesh, we pray for wisdom to avoid the specious snare of pride and ever to walk humbly and heedfully in thy sight; who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost throughout all ages of ages. R. Amen,

The Epistle

The epistle is taken from the twelfth chapter of the Epistle of St Paul the Apostle to the Romans, beginning at the second verse.

BE not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. For I say to every man that is among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. For as we have many members in one body and all members have not the same office, so we, being many, are one body in Christ and every one members one of another.

Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering; or he that teacheth, on teaching; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation. He that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, for it is written: Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; in so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

Here endeth the epistle

The Gospel

The holy gospel is taken from the eighteenth chapter of the Gospel according to St Luke, beginning at the ninth verse.

HE spake this parable unto certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying: God be merciful to me, a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. And they brought unto him also infants, that he should touch them; but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them unto him and said: Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God. Amen, I say unto you: Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

02/20/2021

Featured Churches of Wilkes-Barre and Kingston, Pennsylvania

Spires, Towers, and Domes

http://sanctuaryoftheholylight.org/Featured%20Churches%20of%20Wilkes-Barre.html

These are churches we encountered in our travels of which we had time to take photos, certainly there many wonderful churches we have unfortunately missed. Each photo captures unique qualities of architecture and design details. Also, each church has a unique history and attributes which we have tried to discover with a little research on the internet.

02/03/2021

El Santo Bautismo de Adrian Leonmar Jerez, February 2, 2020. Un Nuevo membro de la santa Iglesia de Cristo.

01/04/2021

The Renewal of Life

We who were ritually cleansed in living water, that is baptized, are part of Christ’s mission and ultimate sacrifice.

More than this, through baptism, we were ritually united with the Sovereignty of Heaven. John the Baptist was one who exhorted the people to prepare a way for the Lord. Jesus, our Anointed Liberator is the Way. Jesus, on his early journey, taught us by example the path of true harmony with God’s commandments, those spiritual and natural laws (which should not to be confused with the Laws of Moses). He showed us how a properly prepared individual can restore sight, heal the lame, cure lepers, and raise the dead and so very much more.

It follows that as we were destined by our immersion to follow the Anointed One’s path into the grave. Just as Christ was raised up by the Power of the Source of All Being from the grave condition of being cast into the prison of inert matter, we also should walk the path with Him into death, sown as a seed, but also into renewed life.

Let me now explain this grand proposition in terms that modern humans living in a culture that values object reality may understand using a more precise metaphor. We, who have been joined with him in the higher level processor have been placed in the batch of data to be processed together in the reboot. Only Christ’s batch are set to be processed forward, all other functions and subprograms are potentially to be deleted or overwritten, but mostly, because their existence is limited to input/output of external sensors and actuators, they are simply allowed to dysfunction until the central processor in turn determines their present or future value.

Eventually all physical objects outside of the direct control of the instructions within Christ’s batch, are not reprogrammed, re- purposed and returned to functional service.

Psychologically we are rebooted in the Living Christ, the active program. Knowing about our old false constructs of self, that corpus of ignorance, may be deleted, going forward we choose not to continue in false programming, so instead we request quickening into the trueness of life, we are re-initiated into the active program.

Physically also we are recreated, the false programming that controls the body is deleted, The true programming of health is established. In our renewal, we now have the choice to remain under the true law of life, the genuine original programming or to return to false programming.

A particular hazard is to fall under unbalanced control in which one part dominates over the others. For example when the stomach rules the body the rest of the organs become slaves to the demands of the stomach to assuage hunger. Such unbalance causes foolish actions such as hoarding of food or physical weakness such as obesity. The recompense for allowing false programming to rule the body is sickness and death. The gift of God, the Sovereignty of Heaven, which comes to us through our Anointed Liberator, our true Master Programmer, is the restoration to the factory settings.

Religion is the programming language of the soul. Christ brings to us the original program from the manufacturer.

12/31/2020

Universalism

We discuss all traditional Christian teachings from an universalist and mystical perspective. By universalist we mean that we believe in a loving God who always watches over us guiding His creation and the creatures that are part of it. Those who falsely believe that He is an angry God who demands individual perfection are gravely incorrect. If a sinner can make God angry then the sinner must then logically control God. We loudly reject this proposition not only through theological reasoning but also on personal experience. We do not deny that many have wandered far from the path that leads to harmony with heaven but in the end all travelers are lovingly guided by our Lord, who governs all, unto universal reconciliation with the Will of our Creator.

CONFITEOR
All kneel and say:

O Lord, thou hast created man to be immortal and made him to be an image of thine own eternity; yet often we forget the glory of our heritage and wander from the path which leads to righteousness. But thou, O Lord, hast made us for thyself and our hearts are ever restless till they find their rest in thee. Look with the eyes of thy love upon our manifold imperfections and pardon all our shortcomings, that we may be filled with the brightness of the everlasting light and become the unspotted mirror of thy power and the image of thy goodness; through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

06/09/2020

Since our Father already knows the murmurings of our hearts before we pray we can assume that the real value of prayer is in the commitments we make during our conversation with our Lord. Our participation in this conversation elevates us through His Grace, as we trust in His Power and demonstrate our trustworthiness through our devotion. When we ask for favor, we also commit ourselves to strive to be found worthy for such favor. Then too, the light we receive through meditation comes with an obligation. An obligation to commit ourselves to put that light to good use; to improve our lives; to help those in need; to light the path for others.