4th Trinity IV 2020, Root and Star

November Trinity

The end of Revelation 22:12-21

Apocalypsis in dietsche Gallica

“Watch, I am coming soon, and I will have my rewards with me to give to each person according to what they
have done. 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 whoever 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 their inmost being strengthened in the prophetic words of this book. Whoever does not yet sense its greatness and truth, God will lead them to full knowledge through the trials of destiny that are written in this book. And whoever diminishes the words of this prophecy, God will remove from them their share in the Tree of Life that overcomes death, and their share in the Holy City written about in this book.
 
He who lends these words their power says:
“Yes, I am coming quickly!”
 
Ye, so be it. Amen:
Come, Jesus our Lord
 
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you all!
 
4th November Trinity
November 22, 2020
Revelation 22:12-21
 
If we go through an airport, there are certain items that are not allowed. If we have thoughtlessly brought them, we have to leave them behind before we can proceed on our journey.
 
The gospel reading speaks of certain human qualities of soul, soul baggage that we have to leave behind at the gates of the Holy City. These soul qualities are not allowed to enter, for they serve

Apocalypsis in dietsche Gallica

the forces of mortality and death. They cannot enter, because the Holy City, the city of mankind’s future existence, is a realm of life. It is a realm where the Tree of Life grows and blossoms and bears fruit; a realm where the Water of Life flows freely and endlessly; where the Star of the Morning shows us the way forward.
 
This is the last week of the church year. We have come to a kind of portal. We are about to enter a new beginning. What baggage shall we leave behind?
 
At this threshold, we meet the One who calls Himself the Door. We enter through Him. He calls himself both the beginning and the goal. He is the place where endings and beginnings come full circle and meet. He encourages us to wash our garments, to continue to purify our souls through prayer and sacraments and meditation, to purify our life’s bodies through our striving to overcome the death forces in ourselves and to create habits of virtue.
 
He is the root and the star. He is the source out of which we all grow and blossom and become fruitful; He is the morning star which announces the beginning of a new day. ‘Come’ He calls. ‘Let go of the old; enter into My realm of the ever-flowing, ever-creating newness. For I wish to give you My power to create.’

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