CHURCH OF SPIRITUALITY

 Annette Dion - minister

“God made each one of US to be a radiating center, constantly shining outward toward others in a spirit of ministry and giving.”

- H. Emilie Cady

Prelude Music 

Please take this time. Practice getting centered. Silence your devices completely, and make sure your pets and any children who are around can be quiet and will not be disturbing you. Be alone or, if you like, with someone who is actively watching with you, and not distracting you. You deserve, actually, you need to have one hour a week, and preferably many more hours, devoted to self-reflection and peace in order to maintain a grounded, centered state of mind, especially during these challenging times in our country and in our world. 

Prayer For Healing in The United States

God is all in all, the Divine Presence that is everywhere. There is no spot where God is not. 

We declare that we, the people of the United States, are now one with this Divine Presence. Divine order is working through the situations of divisiveness and the appearances of hatred. We know and experience that everything is always happening for the ultimate outcome of healing and rebirth everywhere.

Darkness that has been manifest is now fully removed and dissolved. Those who have out-pictured hatred and vitriol are now stopped in their tracks. We see evidence now that the Light is presently in the process of eliminating evil, stopping all violence, healing and protecting this and all nations. 

Enemy countries that have received US secret information find that it has been rendered useless. Potential plans for any and all attacks are stopped. Harm to the people simply does not occur. All terrorist extremist groups and individuals drop their arms and weapons, deciding that the planning of attacks on our nation and all nations is useless and simply not worth it. 

Collectively we choose to have and to contribute to a country and a world of peace. Justice is now in full operation and TRUTH prevails, replacing all lies and negative, destructive rhetoric. We see the triumph of peace over conflict. Leaders who stand for love and unity prevail and win. 

Those who have stood for hatred and violence right now fall from positions of power, according to the Divine will. People everywhere demand and stand for the Infinite Power of love and interconnected harmony with one another. We eliminate from this prayer treatment any and all manifestations of fear, panic, doubt, worry, now and in the future. Negative emotions have lost all power. Negative outcomes simply do not happen. Positive occurrences and progress are the case, no matter the outward appearances. 

We work together as one country, one world, to make America a safe and protected nation that returns right now to being a beacon for a working Democracy for the good of this nation and for the good of the world. America heals now and becomes better than ever before. 

As we release this prayer treatment to the Divine Law of harmony and good, we give thanks that it is so. And so it is. 

Theme for February: The Healing Power Of Divine Love

Sermon: Miracle-Creating Power Of Love

Reading of our mission statement: 

We believe we are all connected to Divine Intelligence, continually moving through all of life and through all living things. We remember to always align with this Divine Presence to create healing miracles in our own lives, positively affecting the lives of all those we come into contact with, seen and unseen. We believe that the Kingdom Of Heaven resides within each and every one of us and that LOVE is all there is. We know and acknowledge that we are one. 

Opening chant: In the Present

Healing chants: 1) All is Well  2) I Forgive Everyone 3) I Move At God’s Pace 4) God Is Abundant

Guided Prayer and Meditation time

Share your prayer requests with the participants so that we may pray for them as we meditate together. Remember also to pray for yourself and your loved ones. 

 A prayer by St. Augustine: 

Tend your sick ones, Oh Lord 

Rest your weary ones, bless your dying ones

Soothe your suffering ones, pity your afflicted ones

Shield your joyous ones

And all for your love’s sake

Prelude chant: We are one in Spirit, We co-create with God, We lift our prayers up to the Light, expanding loving thoughts 

First reading: taken from the Gospel according to John

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.

God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us.

First musical selection: God Is Love - hymn

Second reading:  Emma Curtis Hopkins, Scientific Mental Practice

Jesus was so full to overflowing with love that the plagues and dangers of this world did not terrify him in the least. He was not hurt by a single one of the miseries He threw Himself into. Love is stronger than death. He that hath abundance of love, wherewith God fills the whole Universe, can save his friends from every ill. He is an atmosphere wherever he walks.

Love diffuses itself with all its powers. Having love we have life, so we radiate life. Having love, we have strength, so we radiate strength. Pure love for a child will save the life of a child; so the life of all is saved if a man loves God, for God is all.

Jesus loved God. Thus He had all of life, all of love, all of truth, all of substance, all of intelligence, al of beauty, all of health, all of inspiration. He, therefore, saved the whole world. Even to look at him would cure, when He was manifest in the flesh. He, never having gone away from our side, we can look upon Him now, and be cured of whatever ailment we cry about. Some people cry with lonesomeness. He will cure that entirely, if they look upon Him.

Looking at Him mentally is the way we look nowadays, though it is certain that some people even in this century have seen Jesus, the Healer, as present before them as He was before the two Marys at his tomb.

Second musical selection:   We Are Called - hymn

Sermon time: Miracle-Creating Power Of Love

Time of giving gifts and thanksgiving:

“Life’s persistent and most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?”. - Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr

This is your opportunity to express the abundance of God moving through you. Please give to the following worthy organizations:

The church is a labor of love, for which I do not receive a paycheck. However, in order to continue this work I need help paying the bills. Tithes and gifts are greatly appreciated. 

You make this time together possible. 

Thank you to those who regularly express their generosity. Thank you to all those who are choosing now to share their abundance in the spirit of reciprocity. 

What we give, we receive back, multiplied. 

Click on the link below to give, or send donation to: Annette Dion, P.O. Box 5295, Gloucester, MA 01930

churchofspirituality.online

1. Please give to the International Rescue Committee to help Ukrainian refugees.  rescue.org

2. To send aid to the victims of the war in the Middle East: americacares.org

3. We must contribute to Sadhguru’s worldwide “Save Soil” mission to save the world’s topsoils and avoid world hunger. consciousplanet.org

4. Please support organizations that are fighting the attempt at a fascist takeover of the United States currently in process. Continue to pray for God’s ending for the evil ones. 

Thank you for your caring and compassion for others and for our sacred planet that is in desperate need of healing. 

Prayer of thanksgiving:  Dear God, thank you for making us more aware of what we have that we can give to make a difference in this troubled world. Please help us to look deeply into our hearts to see that we can always give more. Help us to see that YOU make our supply infinite, granting us the courage and inspiration to be a more generous people. Thank you for the bounty which we receive. Amen.

Closing music:

Taken from The Science Of Mind, by Ernest Holmes

music by Annette Dion

Through the long night watches, God’s hand clasps ours

At the break of dawn, God’s hand clasps ours

In the daytime of work and endeavor, from eternity to eternity

God’s hand clasps ours

When time shall have passed, when eternity shall be strewn about like falling petals

And space and worlds shall be swallowed up in everlasting blessedness, God’s hand clasps ours, God’s hand shall clasp ours, Amen. And so it is. Amen. And so it is. Amen. And so it is. Amen.

Go in peace, BE peace and pray for peace.

Thank you for joining us in our service today. Please share. Next week, perhaps you can extend an invitation for a friend or family member to join you?