Monthly Chapel of Ss. Serge & Bacchus, Perpetua and Felicity Eucharist

This Sunday is Sunday after the Ascension: we will be celebrating the Mass of the Ascension and Extinguishing the Paschal Candle. The intent of the day is the Return to the Light. As Christ ascends to the Father, he also calls us to retun to the light.

"Our Lord, the joy of thy sweet cry has made us forget the life of this world, the sweetness of thy voice has made us remember the heavenly city. We rejoice as we ascend unto thee, Father with whom we have conquered in the land of darkness. O our great King, transport us to the city of the Angel-Gods, take us into the homes of rejoicing, for we are thine.Amen."

The lesson is taken from the Chaldean Oracles:

Let the immortal depths of the soul be opened, and open all thy eyes at once to the Above, for if the mortal draw near to the fire he shall have light from God. Thou shouldst speed to the light and to the rays of the Father. And when thou beholdest the most holy fire, flashing formless with dancing radiance through the depths of all the worlds, then listen to the voice of fire. Believe thyself to be out of body and so thou art; for divine things are not accessible to mortals who fix their minds on body; it is for those who strip themselves naked, who speed aloft to the height.

We look froward to seeing you there!

Rev's John & Donna, and Rev. Deacon's Gerry and Amber

This Sunday, December 5th: The Chapel of Ss. Serge & Bacchus @ Ecclesia Gnostica Monthly Service

Second Sunday in Advent: Violet. Mass of same
Feast day of the H. Nicholas

THE LESSON

The lesson is taken from the writings of the Gnostic Fathers:

Cease to seek God in created things on the outside, but seek Him within thyself; and thus learn who it is that takes possession of thee and says: “My God, my consciousness, my understanding, my soul, my body.” Then learn whence is sorrow, and rejoicing, and love, and hate, and being awake, and being asleep, and getting angry against one’s will. Now if thou inquire into these things thou shalt find Him in thyself, one and many, like the atom, and thus thou shalt find the way out from thy lesser self.


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A NEW SPIRITUALITY FOR GAYS

article online at http://www.coolcatdaddy.com/cyrwyn/GaySpirituality.html

Here's a short excerpt from the article:

"With increasing documentation, gay historians and anthropologists are chronicling the lives of gay people within our culture and in other cultures of the past and present. There is a growing body of work demonstrating other cultural attitudes toward homosexuality and how gayness was integrated into those cultures. It appears that only late western culture since the eleventh century has been strongly homophobic. The ancient Greeks, founders of our way of thought, glorified homosexuality, although it had to fit a conventional, patriarchal social behavior. Neither did early Christianity condemn homosexual love, as is commonly but erroneously believed. Jesus spoke of the “Rache”, a derogatory Hebrew term for homosexuals, admonishing his followers not to condemn them. "