My Ordination (part 2 of 7): Ordinations (Vicente Nobre, Charles Blair, Scott Frazier, Glenn Frazier)
This is part two of seven of the podcast series "My Ordination", introduced in an earlier post. This is the mp3 that contains the actual ordination ceremonies. I was the last of the four. For those who care, here is the complete text of my Confession of Faith and Declaration of Purpose:
I BELIEVE there is a God, and that He is one person: the Lord Jesus Christ, who is Jehovah, in whom is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who is Love Itself and Wisdom Itself, and whose Humanity is Divine.I BELIEVE that the Lord is present with us in His Holy Word, that He reveals Himself to us by means of the Hebrew Law, Prophets and Psalms, by means of the Greek Gospels and Apocalypse, and by means of the Latin Doctrines of the New Church, which together contain a complete revelation of Divine Truth in its own light.
I BELIEVE that the Lord’s purpose in Creation is a heaven from the human race, that He may love us, and lead us into eternal happiness, and that to accomplish this purpose He calls every person to read His Word, to pray to Him, to worship Him, to repent of sins, to lead new lives, to serve the neighbor, and to love the Lord and His children.
FINALLY, I BELIEVE that love and wisdom, good and truth, and charity and faith are all dead unless married, the one to the other, that this marriage is represented by the marriage of one woman with one man, and that when so married they produce lives of service, full of good works which ease the suffering and increase the joy of those who receive them, and of those who do them.
MY PURPOSE in entering the priesthood is to answer the Lord’s call to me to teach His truths and to use those truths to lead to the good of life. Furthermore, I do this so I may cooperate with the Lord in His work of preaching the gospel to the poor, of healing the broken-hearted, of proclaiming liberty to the captives and sight to the blind, of setting free the oppressed, and of proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor. The leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations, and my purpose is to show people the way into the New Jerusalem, where the tree of life stands.
The order of the ordinations was as follows: Vicente Nobre, Chuck Blair, Scott Frazier (my brother), then Glenn Frazier (me, a.k.a. "Mac").
But enough text. Listen to the ordination.