Sunday, December 29, 2019

Bishop's Blessing December 29, 2019

Subject: Bishop's Blessing
 
May God Who made the temporal childhood of His Son  a wonder, be pleased to illuminate and teach your heart by a spirit of prudence. Amen. Moreover, may He Who desired His Son be submissive to temporal parents, Himself inform you wondrously with the gifts of humility and piety. Amen. And may He Who made Him to advance in wisdom of age and grace, bountifully pour upon you the increase of spiritual perfection. Amen. May He be pleased to sustain [you], Whose rule and kingdom endure without end, unto ages of ages. Amen. The Blessing of God the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and the Peace of the Lord  be ever with you. Amen.  +William 

Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Merry Christmas! Collect before the Epistle!

MERRY CHRISTMAS. Collect before the Epistle: The only hope restores our Life and Faith, O Eternal God the Father,  Who is pleased to save us through Your Only-Begotten Son, Who was united to this world by the assumption of the nature of the flesh, that He Who was God from God the Father, might also be man from the mother: from You without time; from her without seed: look upon us and answer our petitions and grant that we, who praise with joy  the humble advent of Your Son, may be worthy to joyfully behold His coming in glory. Through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, Who reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit, throughout all ages of ages. Amen.  +William 

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Christmas Eve Western Rite Preface/Introductory Collect

Christmas Eve, Preface or Introductory Collect Western Rite: Merciful and most sweet God, by Whose will and by Whose gift, our Lord Jesus Christ humiliated Himself: so that the whole species of humanity might be exalted; and therefore unto the lower-most parts He descended to raise up humility. To this end, for that purpose, God was born man through the Virgin, so that He might reform the ruined heavenly Image in man. Allow these people to adhere to You, so that they whom You have redeemed by Your gifts, may be pleased to remain ever in dedicated service to You. Amen.
+William

Sunday, December 22, 2019

Bishop's Blessing! 6th Pentecost-Celtic- December-22-2019

Subject: Bishop's blessing
 
Bishop's blessing: May God Who restored the gifts of your first parent at His first coming and will fulfill the promise of granting you the kingdom of the Saints and Angels, sanctify you with His illumination. Amen. May He shatter your chains before He comes so that you may be freed of the chains of your sins and fearlessly await His awesome advent. Amen. And may you who believe in Him Who came into the world for your salvation, and recognize as the Judge that is to come, be worthy to fearlessly gaze upon the Glory of His Advent. Amen. May He Whose Kingdom and Dominion remain without end, be pleased to sustain us unto ages of ages. Amen. May the blessing of God: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and the peace of the Lord be ever with you. Amen.  

+William

Sunday, December 15, 2019

Bishop's Blessing December 15, 2019 Celtic 5th Pentecost

Bishop's blessing: May Almighty God regard you with pleasure and pour forth the gift of His blessing upon you. Amen. And may He Who made the time of the Incarnation of his Only- Begotten Son a solemnity give you protection from the host of adversaries both in the present and future life. Amen. So that you may rejoice with devoted minds at the coming of our Redeemer in the flesh and be enriched with eternal gifts when he comes again in Majesty. Amen. May He Whose Kingdom and Dominion remain without end, be pleased to sustain us unto ages of Ages. Amen. May the blessing of God: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and the piece of the Lord be ever with you. Amen. 

Friday, November 29, 2019

Pagan Days in God’s Creation? Really?


Pagan Days in God’s Creation?
Really?

This is a response to the article; Mystery- Babylon-come- out- of- her- my- people.

So, Christians should not celebrate Christmas or Easter because the world does? The world also worships its own gods, so with this logic should Christians not worship their God? This is a very flawed thinking and is worldly logic. There is a prince of this world, he is called Satan by English speaking Christians, not that this is in fact his actual name because the word Satan actually means adversary. Some call him Lucifer while others are offended that Lucifer is called a prince of darkness when in fact Lucifer is the Latin name for the planet Venus, the bright and morning star, or light bearer.

How do we get things so screwed up? The devil is a master illusionist. So many people who call themselves Christian are held under his sway and do not even know it. They believe that their thoughts are their own when in fact the devil has entered their mind and caused confusion, Jesus gave this warning:

Luke 11:33-35  The Light of the Body

33 “No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a bushel, but on a stand, that those who enter may see the light. 34 Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is sound, your whole body is full of light; but when it is not sound, your body is full of darkness. 35 Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness.

I have quoted this to Christians who misuse scripture when speaking to me regarding something crazy, the usual response that I have received by all, aside from some attempt at mocking, is that “that makes no sense, where did you get that from, how can the light in you be dark?” Oh well, so much for the bible only scripture quoters, most know enough to disregard truth and love and fall prey to deception. I am not a bible scholar and the older I get the harder it is to recall quotes. How many have ever heard the Christian saying; “the mind is the soul of the soul?”
How easy it is for the modern Christian to forget the great deception, the great deceiver is also a master imitator. This article (Mystery- Babylon-come- out- of- her- my- people) claims that everyone will know when Jesus actually appears and so there is nothing to fear. This is true, everyone will know, the devil himself will know as well as all of his demons, they all will know but what happens in the meantime makes all of the difference regarding what happens on that day. This is also somewhat stated in the aforementioned article.

Christians forget the great imitator; it’s not convenient at times to remember that the devil is the great imitator because it interferes with the philosophy of pride and hate. They swear that there is no pride and are not speaking from hate but from love, and yet their philosophy comes directly from hate and prejudice against Rome and it is so ingrained in them that they cannot even see it themselves. I am not Roman, this is not a defense of Rome nor is it an attack on Rome, it is a defense of truth, God’s truth.

Again, pagans worship gods so based on the thought in this article, Christians should not worship their God because pagans worship. Christians like to call Sunday the Lord’s Day, they totally disregard the fact that Sunday is named after the god of the sun, a pagan day, this makes no difference to them, but to celebrate the light coming into the world and the resurrection of the Lord and Savior, of which both were necessary for the salvation of humanity according to God’s plan which is itself scriptural, is called pagan worship because according to the worldly Christians these are pagan celebrations. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t worship on a pagan day Sunday while refusing to worship on a day that doesn’t suit you by calling it a pagan day. Pagan is pagan; you can or cannot worship on a day that is called pagan. By the way, Sunday is called ‘the First Day and also the Eighth Day’. Sunday is a pagan name. So stay out of church.

I have pages of excuses and scripture quotes from people claiming that God forbids worshipping Him on a pagan holy day. Utter nonsense. There is no such scripture, there is only scripture that is misused and misunderstood based again on; pride, hate, and prejudice. It takes an imagination and lot of allegorical interpretation to think that the scripture says what the people say that it means regarding the worship of Almighty God. What is being taught in these scriptures is that worshipping pagan gods or worshiping Almighty God in a pagan manner is against God, which is what is being taught.  

So back to pagan days, of course the world celebrates Christmas and Easter, the devil is of course the great deceiver, the great imitator, the great liar, the great murderer. Of course the world follows him and celebrates these days in imitation of the true days. The devil, who is coming, is coming in imitation of the light, in imitation of the True Light that is coming back. Of course he wants the celebrations of the True Light to be considered pagan, of course he wants to sow hatred and confusion, this is his job and today’s Christian stands idly by and allows it to happen, they allow the devil to control their worship of the one that they call God, Lord, and Savior.

Every day in the world is a pagan day. The world celebrates itself in all of its glory, the glory of the false light, the false god, the liar and deceiver. Of course they have attempted to take over the celebrations of the Light entering the world, the Savior of humanity being born and defeating sin and death, rising from the dead and bringing with Him a new world with the True Light in it. I thank Almighty God that there are still Christians alive that understand this fact. In the world everyday is a pagan day, but Who created the world? Who gave you life? Who brought the True Light into the world? Who is to be celebrated and worshiped in this world and whose job is it to celebrate and be the light of the world to all others. It belonged to the Jews first and the Jews gave it up, just like the Jews after they left Egypt they returned to idol worship and false gods and false understanding in spite of the miracles that they personally had witnessed, and now many of those who call themselves Christian are choosing to return to the Jews who lost the light and are to be guided to the light by Christians, instead just like the Jews, Christians are leaving and returning to the Jews, to the world which is what the Jew who continues to deny the Christ Jesus represents . Now those Christians are denying the worship of the True Light that entered the world and gave them salvation.

What did Jesus say;? John 16:16 “I have said all this to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do this because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you of them.

The Work of the Spirit

“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent me; yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts. Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convince the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more; 11 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

12 “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15 All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
Sorrow Will Turn into Joy 16 “A little while, and you will see me no more; again a little while, and you will see me.” 17 Some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ‘because I go to the Father’?” 18 They said, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he means.” 19 Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him; so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’? 20 Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy. 

21 When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world. 22 So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you23 In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father, he will give it to you in my name. 24 Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
Peace for the Disciples

25 “I have said this to you in figures; the hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures but tell you plainly of the Father. 26 In that day you will ask in my name; and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you; 27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from the Father. 28 I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

29 His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly, not in any figure! 30 Now we know that you know all things, and need none to question you; by this we believe that you came from God.” 31 Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? 32 The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, every man to his home, and will leave me alone; yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. 33 I have said this to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

The prince of this world certainly runs the world. But to whom do you belong? This is God’s world, God created it, God gave us life, and every breath that we take is a gift from God. Did God come in the flesh or is this just a fairy tale? Is God in the flesh the True Light or is this just a fable? Is everyday God’s day? Does the world in fact not belong to Almighty God? Do we celebrate this everyday or do we hide because some days belong to the darkness, do we bring light into the darkness or do we run? Is any day actually a pagan day or is it an illusion of the devil to deceive? Is not everyday God’s day? Does not all belong to Him. The creator of time, does He not own time? There is not a moment of time that is not His.

Decide for yourself what is right or wrong. Just remember, every moment that we have been given by God that we concede to the devil, is a moment that Jesus has also washed His hands of us. Be the light or be the darkness. Be a Christian, or be a Jew or a pagan. Every day and every moment we are given the choice.

Choose wisely.

+William