Wednesday, November 20, 2013

4th November Trinity 2010, The Day-Star

4th  or  5th November Trinity
The end of Revelation 22: 12-21

“Watch, I am coming soon, and I will have my rewards with me so as to give to each person what his deeds amount to. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the goal.”


Blessed are those who cleanse their garments so that they will have power in the realm of the Tree of Life, which overcomes death, and may go through the gates into the Holy City. Outside shall remain those who are bound to low senses, those who serve evil powers, who walk impure paths of soul, who spread death around them, who give themselves up to demonic forces, and who, through their ways and deeds, falsify their true being.

“I, Jesus, sent my angel to report these things to your assembled communities. I AM the root and stock of David, the star who unfolds his brightness in the morning”.

And the Spirit and the Bride, the Holy City, say, “Come!

And may he who hears also say, “Come!” And may the thirsty come, and may everyone who wants it get to drink the Water of Life freely, as grace.

Everyone who hears can find his inmost being strengthened in the prophetic words of this book. Whoever does not yet sense its greatness and truth, God will lead him to full knowledge through the trials of destiny which are written in this book.

And whoever diminishes the words of this prophecy, God will remove from him his share in the Tree of Life that overcomes death, and his share in the Holy City written about in this book.

He who lends these words their power says:
“Yes, I am coming quickly!”

Yea, so be it. Amen:
Come, Jesus our Lord

The grace of the Lord Jesus, be with you all!




4th November Trinity

November 21, 2010
The end of Revelation 22: 12-21


From the beginning, sailors have created their sea highways. They set their course according to the sun during the day, and by the stars at night. Amid the slow wheeling of the stars, and the wandering of the planets, there is one star that remains fixed—the north star, the pole star, around which every other revolves.

On the seas of life, we too have our guiding star. Each of us has a higher being that shines above our heads like a star. We meet with this higher being every night at the midnight hour of our sleep. This star being is our polestar, shining amid the firmament of our ideals, ideals such as sharing, equal rights, religious tolerance. It helps us chart our own course on earth, in reference to our ideals.

In today’s reading, Christ calls Himself  ‘the star who unfolds his brightness in the morning’. Revelations 22:16  He is a Day-Star. He rises and illuminates each new beginning, each new day. Our own star inspires us to ideals at night. Christ is our guide during the day, on earth, to our daytime activity. He walks before us, as a perceptible guide, on the earth, on the seas of life.

Christ is the Day-Star of sacrificial love, the love that underlies all our ideals. He shows us the way to bring our ideals to realization on earth, in a loving and human way. May we perceive His light, shining in our day waking consciousness; may we see His light of love in our daylight. 

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