For today’s full moon, we listen to:
The moon as a symbol corresponds to, and in the Word represents, mans faith or belief, as the sun does his charity or love. ~SwedenborgStudy.com https://www.swedenborgstudy.com/books/T.Plantz_Testimony-of-Genesis/sun.html
Although we have entered the winter season and darkness has increased due to the end of daylight savings time, there is still much to rejoice and experiences of joy to be had. How can we continue to remind ourselves of the blessed light that surrounds us even during a time when there is much darkness? We will reflect on the correspondences of darkness and light and see the emergence of joy in our lives.
Rev. Colin Amato
Join us Sunday for zoom fellowship at 10:30 am, and 11:00 am, for worship with Guest Minister Rev. Colin Amato. Link will be shared with church members and their guests.
Bio: Rev. Colin Amato was ordained in the Swedenborgian Church of North America during Convention 2022. He is the main pastor of the denomination’s first LGBTQ+ online ministry, The Rainbow Church of the New Jerusalem. Rev. Colin was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Rev. Colin also works as the Clinical Director and licensed mental health therapist at the Solano Pride Center, a nonprofit providing much needed services to the local LGBTQ+ community.
Please join us on Zoom this Sunday, August 1, 2021, at 10:30 am, for Fellowship and 11:00 am, for Worship Service with Guest Minister, Rev. Ron Brugler.
The sermon title is “Where Do You Store Your Wealth?”
We have a practice of collecting things— making ourselves comfortable, happy, trying to save something in case things go wrong. But, these things are not of any use once we have completed our short stay in this world, so what about the rest of our life? Hmmm?
Let’s explore this through as it relates to readings from Emanuel Swedenborg. We look forward to your input. Zoom link will be provided to church members and their contacts.
Psalm 133, New Living Translation
Psalm 133, Science of Correspondences
How wonderful and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony! Psalm 133 v 1
By brother is understood by the Lord the same as by neighbour, and by neighbour in the spiritual sense good in every complexity, which is the good of charity. E. 746- Emanuel Swedenborg
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Psalm 132, New Living Translation
Psalm 132, Science of Correspondences
The tent of my house stands for the holy of love. To go up upon the couch of the bed means upon the natural to the truth which is from the good of love. Coming into the tent of the house, and going up upon the couch of the bed is a prophetic saying, which cannot be understood without the internal sense. A. 6188.
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Psalm 131, New Living Translation
Psalm 131, Science of Correspondences
1, 2. He operated from His Human: He indeed operated through influx from the Divine, but not from the Divine alone. P. P.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Psalm 130, New Living Translation
Psalm 130, Science of Correspondences
O Israel, hope in the Lord;
Psalm 130, Verse 7
for with the Lord there is unfailing love.
His redemption overflows.
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Psalm 129, New Living Translation
Psalm 129, Science of Correspondences
Psalm 128, New Living Translation
Psalm 128, Science of Correspondences
1, 2. By eating the labour of his hands is signified the celestial good which man receives by a life according to Divine truths from the Lord and as it were acquires to himself by his own labour and study. E. 617
~Emanuel Swedenborg
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Psalm 127, New Living Translation
Psalm 127, Science of Correspondences
3, 4. By reward is signified the felicity of those who are in heaven. E. 695
~Emanuel Swedenborg
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