Here we are one major leap toward the anxiously awaited National SUNDAY Law. This sermon was given on 1 Dec 2006. Take heed to this. I have been trying to find an SDA forum to shout this to, but what I am finding is very heartbreaking. ALL the topics in the forums, that are discussed most are about trivial matters compared to our duty to blow the trumpet in Zion. I love God’s church with King Jesus at it’s head, but where is it?
I looked up primordial nucleus seperately. . .check it out: Primordial 1. Being or happening first in sequence of time; original. 2. Primary or fundamental: play a primordial role.
Nucleus 1. A central or essential part around which other parts are gathered or grouped; a core: the nucleus of a city. 2. Something regarded as a basis for future development and growth; a kernel: a few paintings that formed the nucleus of a great art collection.
Friday, December 01, 2006 Sundays are the “primordial nucleus” of the liturgical year, Pope affirms
Pope Benedict XVI has sent a message to Cardinal Francis Arinze ahead of the Congregation for Divine Worship’s study day on the Sunday Mass. The Holy Father told those involved in the study group that Sundays remain the central focus of the Church’s liturgical year and that there is a need to, “reiterate the sacred nature of the Lord’s day and the need to participate in Sunday Mass.
Cardinal Arinze, who serves as Prefect for the congregation called the study day under the theme: “Sunday Mass for the sanctification of Christian people."
The Pope’s letter, which is dated November 27 but was made public today, recalls how the study day falls on the anniversary of the promulgation of the Constitution "Sacrosanctum Concilium," and is the third of its kind following one dedicated to the Roman Martyrology and another to sacred music.
"Sundays," writes the Pope, "remain the fundamental seedbed and the primordial nucleus of the liturgical year... a fragment of time pervaded by eternity, because its dawn saw the Risen Christ enter victoriously into eternal life."
"For the first Christians, participation in Sunday celebrations was the natural expression of their belonging to Christ, of their communion with His mystical Body, in joyous expectation of His glorious return."
“Today," the Holy Father continued, "it is more than ever necessary to reiterate the sacred nature of the Lord's day and the need to participate in Sunday Mass. The cultural context in which we live, often marked by religious indifference and secularism that obscure the horizon of transcendence, must not cause us to forget that the People of God who came into being with the events of Easter must return [to those events] as an inexhaustible spring, in order to better understand ... their own identity and the reasons for their existence."
"Sunday was not chosen by the Christian community," he wrote, "rather by the Apostles, indeed by Christ Himself Who on that day, "the first day of the week," arose and appeared before the disciples. ... Each Sunday celebration of the Eucharist enacts the sanctification of Christian people, until that Sunday without end, the day of the definitive encounter of God with His creatures."
Benedict XVI closed his message by expressing the hope that the study day "may help to recover the Christian meaning of Sunday in ... the life of all believers."
While driving home today I heard something that was alarming also. Some might say this has been going on for a long time, but not like this. . .I was listening to a nominal “christian” radio station when the speaker started talking about how the roman church is trying to personate Jesus through miracles. This might not seem like such a big deal. . .the roman church has been claiming to do this for years, BUT THIS IS OUR JOB!!! God took the gospel away from the jews and gave it to the gentiles. We, as Seventh Day Adventists have the most solemn commission. . .”go ye therefore” we are to preach the gospel, but now is the time to blow the trumpet. We are told at our churches not to rock the boat. . .”There might be catholics in the pews so we cannot offend. . .” What do we say about that? I find myself outwardly agreeing, well that time is over. We cannot agree, We must put our foot down IN OUR CHURCHES!!! Jesus went to the synagogue when His people knew Him not. Are we to start homechurches, or are we to meet the iceberg even if it means disfellowshipping?
You asked a pertinent question: "Are we to start homechurches, or are we to meet the iceberg even if it means disfellowshipping?"
Perhaps both. Many who are disfellowshipped for meeting the iceberg, worship in home churches. As did Christ's early followers and untold thousands of Protestants throughout the Dark Ages. The Church in the Wilderness.
Hello Gordon, I agree with you about starting homechurches. . . The reason I ask the question that way is because many leave the body to start homechurches before they are disfellowshipped. I'm not saying we should try to be disfellowshipped, but there is someone in every Seventh day Adventist church that needs to hear the three angels messages, you know as well as I do that they do not hear it from the pulpit, so staying in the church as long as possible, to reach out to those who are hungry for the truth, this has been my experience. We know that teaching and preaching the three angel's messages will get you disfellowshipped today.
Most homechurches that disconnect from the body end up going off. I have seen many, they eventually call the church babylon, and after that there are only a couple steps to completely giving up the faith.
Yes Jeff W! This is the kind of message that we need to hear - pertinent breaking stories that show us the end of all things is at hand.
Yet i see most SDA forums are not interested in the straight truth. How can we go about changing the state of things? We must stay in the church, as only those IN Jerusalem get the seal in their foreheads, (unless disfellowshipped of course), so must give the straight testimony as shown in chapter 32 of the 1858 Great Controversy. How many are giving it tho? What can we do to give the message with more power (the Holy Spirit is omnipotent)?
