Lighting The Flames of Faith / A Call To Service

We perform this ceremony at the start of Sunday service to promote the universal consciousness of Life which acknowledges that all peoples and all faiths, all sentient beings, come from the One Great Universal Presence, which we call Spirit. Fundamental to this truth is the unifying nature of all Religious thought and experience, which we honor here today.

• We light the candle for the Tao,  honoring the universal path of harmony and equilibrium, The Natural Way.
• We light the candle for the Shamanic Traditions, honoring the beliefs and practices of all indigenous peoples, The way of Primal Spirituality.
• We light the candle for Hinduism, honoring the path of knowledge, action, and devotion.
• We light the candle for Judaism, honoring the ethical path of living by sacred law.
• We light the candle for all forms of Buddhism, honoring the Four Noble Truths and the path of compassion.
• We light the candle for all forms of Christianity, honoring the Christ Consciousness as the path of love. 
• We light the candle for all forms of Islam, honoring the path of compliance with the will of God as the highest calling.
• We light the candle for the universalistic religion of Baha'i, honoring the path of unity and peace.
• As we light the last candle, let it represent the path that brought you here today.

Dr. Kathy Hearn Guest Speaker

Dr. Kathy Hearn will be the guest speaker for both services (9 and 11 a.m.) at the Center for Spiritual Living Capistrano Valley on Sunday, May 13. Dr. Kathy served as the Community Spiritual Leader for United Centers for Spiritual Living for 10 years, traveling to Russia, Ukraine, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Switzerland to share Science of Mind. Dr. Kathy was a presenter at the 2004 Parliament of World Religions in Barcelona, Spain, and the 2009 Parliament in Melbourne, Australia.  She played an important role in the recent integration of the International and United Centers for Spiritual Living.

Dr. Kathy founded the Pacific Church of Religious Science in Dan Diego, serving as Senior Minister for 15 years. Through her work with Association for Global New Thought, she attended the Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1999 and presented at the 2004 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Barcelona, Spain and the 2009 Parliament in Melbourne, Australia. She traveled to the Middle East as the sole female religious leader for Harvard’s Abraham Path Initiative, November 2006, and led an Abraham Path trip to Turkey and Syria in October 2008. In October 2012, she will be attending and supporting AGNT’s Awakened World 2012 Conference in Rome and Florence.

Sample some of Dr. Kathy Hearn's short talks here.

The One That You Are

   

   If you would exchange joy for tears, forget the tears and turn to joy.  Change your mental pictures and thus create new experiences.  You must not only realize that God is right where you are, you must also know that the law of God responds to you.

Say:
     I sense my oneness with all life.
     I enter into the joy of conscious union with the Infinite.
     There is One Mind, this Mind is God, this Mind is my mind now.
     I am conscious of Infinite Peace, Divine Joy, and Complete Security.

"Troublemakers"

“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.”
― Pema Chödrön