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Weekly Message for March 7, 2021

 

             This is my tribute to my long-time good friend, Rev. Irene Danon who transitioned from this life experience on February 12, 2021. Irene was a highly successful Real Estate Broker, Author, Artist, Mother and friend to all, and a Holocaust Survivor. She was also an Ordained Minister, having been ordained at the City of Angels Church in Los Angeles in 2002. She was 72 at the time of her ordination. Her website address is www.irenedanon.com if you would like to know more about her.

                     Rev. Irene Danon's ... PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY

So you don't believe in God?  I don't blame you.  I don't either.
No I don't believe in a conventional way of God.  I do not believe that there is an old man sitting in heaven, with a long white gown and a long white beard, deciding who is to live and who is to die.  I do not believe that there is a God who punishes you when you've been bad and who decides if  you are going to go heaven or hell.  In fact, I don't even believe there is a heaven or hell, out there somewhere.  I don't believe that it is God, who decides who gets sick and who is to heal.  But most of all, I do not believe that God sits there up on his high throne, and watches as man does evil to one another.

So how can I be a minister and not believe in God, you ask?

I believe that there is an energy all around us.  I believe that this Energy makes the sun set and the moon to  rise.  I believe that this energy controls our ozone, makes the flowers bloom,  makes the hens lay their eggs and makes the caterpillar turn into a magnificent butterfly.

I believe that man is inherently conceived good, pure and with his own free will, and does what and how he pleases, and it has nothing to do with God or the energy which envelops us. And through the action of free will,  man creates his own heaven or hell within himself and in that moment of awareness.

Just like when you turn on the switch and get light, or throw a rock up in the air and know it will come down and hit you in the face, I believe and  know that there is an order, or a law within this energy.  This law, this order, these events that follow the action are CAUSE AND EFFECT.

I believe that this cause and effect has nothing to do with God, or you and me.  It is a self motivating cause which reacts upon itself.

We are one with this energy. We are this energy. Our bodies are made up of vibrating particles as is everything in this universe. The only difference between us and other things, is the speed of vibration.

We as individuals, can through a process called treatment (scientific prayer) and meditation, penetrate this energy and make it work for us. With a strong belief (or you can call it faith) we can influence and move this energy.  So get out your pad and pencil and write down all the (demonstrations)  good things that happen to you, and be aware.  Don't go through life in a comatose state.  Be aware of your every thought and your every ward.  This is your power.  This is your energy.  For the more you are aware of these demonstrations the more powerful your belief and the more demonstrations you will experience.

AND THIS POSITIVE ENERGY, THIS LOVE WE SHARE  IS WHAT I CALL GOD!

            Rev. Irene Danon, not only studied metaphysics, she demonstrated spiritual principles in her life's work and experiences. I first met Rev. Irene at the Hollywood Church of Religious Science, the one on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. She and I studied together to receive our practitioner certification and then ministerial studies. Our studies were interrupted at Hollywood by the unforeseen illness of Dr. Domenic A. Polifrone. After I was admitted to the ministerial program at City of Angels (MECCA), Rev. Irene followed me there and we both studied under Dr. O. C. Smith and Rev. Juanita Bryant-Dunn. We both received Ordination as Religious Science Ministers. Our only disappointment on the day of our Ordination was the passing of  Dr. O. C. Smith in 2001; our great teacher was not there to present us with our Ministerial Certifications.

            The first time I met Rev. Irene, she was just Irene at the time, and I was just Hank, she had planned a garage type sale at the Hollywood Church on Sunset Boulevard, and had received Board approval for the event. It would be the first time the Church had ever had such an event, and there was opposition to it within the church. It was very important to Irene and the Board that the event be successful. A few days before the event, Irene came to me and told me she had to have surgery (and please don't tell anyone), and asked that I take control of the event. I had never facilitated a garage sale or yard sale event before so I was a little nervous about doing it, especially since it had become more important than I had imagined it would be to the Church. As it turned out, the sale was a big success and raised a nice sum of money for the Church. And Irene's "surgery" operation? An "eyelift" with a noted Beverly Hills plastic surgeon ... turned out fabulous as well!


Keep the Faith!
Rev-Bates
(Reverend Dr. Henry Lee Bates)


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