City of Light Spiritualist Church

   City of Light Spiritualist Church    Welcomes You!

Due to Covid19 Church Services will be online only and not in person. Prior to Covid19 Church services are May through October, the Last Sunday of May - October at 5:30 pm in the Lily Dale Fire Hall and November to April on line.

Our church service includes an inspirational speaker, prayer, meditation, music, singing,    Spirit Messages from Mediums and Spiritual Healing for People & Pets.

We are an Independent Spiritualist Church that practices the Sacred Principles of:    Mediumship, Healing and Loving Kindness for All Beings. We are an inclusive spiritual family, we embrace new members!

Pets are Always Welcomed at our Church Service.
Snacks and Beverages follow the church service , Love Donations are appreciated!

   God is our strength and supply.
Contributions are tax deductible and appreciated We are a 501C3 organization.
City of Light Spiritualist Church provides spiritual guidance and support for its members and the Lily Dale Community.
We continue to contribute a portion of our donations to local charities such as: The Lily Dale Assembly, Lakeshore Humane Society, Northern Chautauqua Canine Rescue, Hospice, Cassadaga Food Pantry, Meals on Wheels, the Lily Dale Volunteer Fire Company, Chautauqua Humane Society, The Tibetan Monks of Drepung Monastery, G. E. M. S. (Goats/Education/Medicine for Sudan), Greyhound Action League and other community charities and events.
City of Light Spiritualist Church sponsors the Pet Healing Area in Lily Dale next to the Healing Temple.

"Words have the potential to destroy or heal. When words are both true and kind they can change the world.
The more we fully give our energy the more it is returned to us." The Buddha

We have no politics, no money issues and no secrets. We welcome everyone to be a member of our church.
We do have a spiritual family for our members and an outreach mission to serve our community and the world with kindness.

The book "Proud Beginnings" states that a directive from the Lily Dale Assembly Board said “… it is intended that LIGHT shall be thrown on all subjects, it was decided to call it the City of Light Assembly”. Mrs. Pettengill, the new President of the Lily Dale Board stated, “I am striving to make a paradise of the City of Light, where the weary and sorrowing of earth may find comfort, health and happiness.”
We named our church with the same mission to honor Mrs. Pettengill's statement that light would be thrown on all subjects and that the weary and sorrowing would find comfort, health and happiness with us.

We are a spiritual family who is grateful for the abundance of Life and                                           we gather to celebrate with great joy.

Principles of City of Light Spiritualist Church

We are a Spiritualist church and we use these principles as guidelines:

1.   We all have a God of our own understanding.

2.   We believe that God is love.

3.   We believe that God is all there is.

4.   We affirm the Divine right of individuals to seek the truth within their own hearts.

5.    We declare ourselves to be free-thinkers acknowledging the unfolding nature of the truth for ourselves and those around us.

6.   We affirm that life is eternal.

7.   We believe that spiritual progression is eternal and infinite, therefore the gateway to reformation                                                         is never closed to any soul here or hereafter.

8. We believe in inter-dimensional communication with the Highest and the Best.

9.   We affirm that the innate gifts of healing and mediumship are expressions of God's love.

10. We affirm that the ultimate expression of spirituality is loving kindness toward all of creation.

11. We believe in personal responsibility and that individuals create their own reality of happiness or unhappiness according               to Natural Law.

   City of Light Spiritualist Church
Church Office: 15 Buffalo Street in Lily Dale, NY
                          Mailing address: PO Box 215, Lily Dale, NY 14752

Membership Mailing Address: PO Box 1056, Lily Dale, NY 14752
   716-595-3008
   colsc@stny.rr.com

   Officers of the Church

                                       Foundational Pastor, President & Secretary:
   Rev. Patricia L. Price
                      Assistant Pastor, Vice-President :
Rev. Joanne Copley-Nigro Treasurer: Michael Nigro

Church Board Members:
Rev. Maryanne Steiner, Rev. Ginny Vigrass, Rev. Tracy Moon, Tim Carlisle, Amanda Buck, Brenda Alongi

If you would like to join City of Light Spiritualist Church please complete the Philosophy Questions & Information sheet along with a $10 check made out to: City of Light Spiritualist Church and mail to: Rev. Joanne Copley-Nigro   P.O. Box 1056 Lily Dale NY 14752.

City of Light Spiritualist Church Philosophy & Information Class

1. When and where did Modern Spiritualism begin?
2. What is the difference between Modern and Ancient Spiritualism?
3. What two truths did the Fox sisters bring to Spiritualism as far a mediumship is concerned?
4. Do you understand all the principles of City of Light Spiritualist Church?
5. If you were to pick two favorite principles of City of Light Spiritualist Church, what ones would you choose?
6. Are the principles of City of Light Spiritualist Church unchangeable rules or guidelines for members?
7. Does City of Light Spiritualist Church dictate members’ spiritual path or do members consult their own Higher Guidance for information on their spiritual path?
8. Is City of Light Spiritualist Church registered by the State of NY in Chautauqua County as a legal church?
9. Is City of Light Spiritualist Church recognized by the Federal Government of the USA as a (501C 3) non-for-profit organization that can accept tax-deductible donations?
10. Does City of Light Spiritualist Church accept members who belong to other churches?
11. Is there a limit to how many churches a member of City of Light Spiritualist Church can belong?
12. Does City of Light Spiritualist Church belong to a nation wide organization of Spiritualist or is it an independent Spiritualist Church?
13. Does the Religious Corporation called the Lily Dale Assembly recognize City of Light Spiritualist Church?
14. Can City of Light Spiritualist Church membership be used to join the Religious Corporation called the Lily Dale Assembly?
15. Can City of Light Spiritualist Church membership be used to buy a house and lease land within the Religious Corporation called the Lily Dale Assembly?
16. Where does City of Light Spiritualist Church hold its church services?
17. When does City of Light Spiritualist Church have its regular church services?
18. Where does City of Light Spiritualist Church have its office?
19. Does City of Light Spiritualist Church offer workshops and classes?
20. Does City of Light Spiritualist Church have a Face Book page and a computer communication group?
21. Does City of Light Spiritualist Church have an outreach program for animals and pets, healing service for pets and donates to animal shelters/groups?
22. Does City of Light Spiritualist Church give a portion of each month’s collection to the local food kitchen?
23. What is the Spiritualist Children’s’ education program called and why did it take that name?
24. Who founded the Spiritualist Lyceum?
25. Was Andrew Jackson Davis a Spiritualist all his life?
26. Does City of Light Spiritualist Church encourage its members to study religious and philosophical from all faiths and backgrounds?
27. Does City of Light Spiritualist Church encourage its members to study holy books and philosophical writings from all traditions?
28. Does City of Light Spiritualist Church encourage its members to embrace the truth within their own hearts?
29. Is one of the goals of City of Light Spiritualist Church to have a membership that acts as a spiritual family?
30. Is City of Light Spiritualist Church inclusive in its membership?
31. Does City of Light Spiritualist Church have any secrets?
32. What do you see and feel as the future of City of Light Spiritualist Church in your life?
33. Where did the name "City of Light" come from?

Dear Prospective Church Member:
Please answer the Philosophy Questions & mail them with this form with annual dues of $10 for membership. Upon review of the philosophy questions & dues payment you will receive your membership card. Make the check or money order to:
City of Light Spiritualist Church and mail to:
Rev. Joanne Copley-Nigro
PO Box 1056 Lily Dale, NY 14752

Your gifts of money to the church are tax deductible and your gifts of service are always appreciated.   We are blessed to have you as part of our Spiritual Family. If you have any questions, please contact us at: colsc@stny.rr.com or visit us on Face Book or our Website.
In Spirit’s Light, Rev. Patricia Price, Foundational Pastor & Rev. Joanne Copley-Nigro, Assistant Pastor

Membership Form for City of Light Spiritualist Church
Name______________________________________________________

Address____________________________________________________

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Birth Month and Day__________________________________________

Occupation__________________________________________________

Phone Number (_______)_______________________________

E-Mail_____________________________________________________

City of Light Spiritualist Church is a spiritual family & we have many opportunities for you to share your blessings with us as a family member. Ask yourself what you choose to do for your growth along your spiritual path and what you choose to do for your church. Your donations are greatly appreciated in maintaining our church. A portion of all donations /church collections go to local charities and organizations to benefit people and animals in our surrounding community.
Joyfully you may want to serve in one of these areas:
Phone Calls: _______________________________________________                                                     Prayers: _______________________________________________
Help with Fund Raising Events: _____________________________________________
Workshop Presenter: ___________________________________________
Tithing and Donations: ______________________________________________________
Usher/Greeter: __________________________________________________
*Each Summer we have one Annual Fun Fair to raise funds for the church. We would appreciate your help in attending or contributing to this important event.

History and Information about the City of Light Spiritualist Church

    The City of Light Spiritualist Church was legally formed in September 2005. Patricia Price, Steven Bennett, Ginny Vigrass, Richard Shelley, Kurt Doerflinger and Kathy Doerflinger were the founding members that met in August of 2005 to set up the principles and philosophy of the church. Together they formed a Spiritualist Church that would honor the Free Thinkers of the 1800s that came to the Cassadaga area to establish a platform of liberty and freedom. City of Light Spiritualist Church is inclusive, has a free platform and membership is open to all. We turn no one away who wants to join us. We believe in the Law of Attraction and honor those attracted to our Church.
    The name of the church was an inspiration from the 1903 name of the Lily Dale Assembly. On May 9, 1903 with Mrs.Abby Pettengill as the new president of the board, the former Cassadaga Lakes Free Association was renamed “The City of Light”. The book Proud Beginnings states that a directive from the board said “… it is intended that LIGHT shall be thrown on all subjects, it was decided to call it the City of Light Assembly”, stating “I am striving to make a paradise of the City of Light, where the weary and sorrowing of earth may find comfort, health and happiness.”
    The Lily Dale Assembly, a religious corporation, recognizes The City of Light Spiritualist Church for Assembly membership requirements if members of our church wish to join the Lily Dale Assembly, however buying a house in Lily Dale and leasing property requires more than just church membership.
Check with the Lily Dale Assembly office for details on requirements, 716-595-8721. We honor Lily Dale and its long commitment to holding the light for spirit communication and spiritual healing.
    City of Light Spiritualist Church has its 501 (C ) 3 status from the Federal Government and is therefore tax exempt. Prior to Covid we met on East Street at the Fire Hall in Lily Dale, NY from May to October on the last Sunday of the month at 5:30pm. At the present time we are conducting our monthly church service via ZOOM on Facebook Live and then recording it to mour FB page. We continue to be a church without emphasis on politics, money or secrets and always keep our focus on being a spiritual community and spiritual family for each other. Visit us on Face Book or our Website City of Light Spiritualist Church.

History of Modern Spiritualism
   Modern Spiritualism gives special attention to children, since the movement was started by two perceptive children, Margaret Fox, (15yrs.old) and Catherine Fox, (12yrs. old.) at their home in Hydesville, Wayne County, New York State.      On March 31, 1848 the children contacted a deceased peddler though “knockings” or “rappings” from the deceased that signaled answers to questions the children asked. These knocks on the floor, table, chair or other furniture seemed to appear out of nowhere and the Fox sisters snapped their fingers and clapped their hands with the spirit matching the rhythm and number of times with his knocks. The spirit identified himself as a peddler that had died in the house in 1843. The parents and neighbors were called in to experience the phenomena. The peddlers box and bones were later found in the basement of the house and people who heard this story wanted to know more and to experience communication with the deceased themselves. Soon after the first knockings, the family moved to Rochester, NY and formed “home circles” to demonstrate spirit communication. By November of 1849, the circles had become so popular that the girls were invited to Corinthian Hall in Rochester to demonstrate spirit communication. The Fox Sisters proved that mediumship, communication with other dimensions, was not just available to the elite, but was available to all of us.
   Modern Spiritualism teaches Natural Law and that communication with the deceased is not extra-ordinary, but ordinary and natural to all who are willing to learn and recognize spirit communication. The movement soon spread across the continent and across the ocean where Spiritualist churches were formed. Spiritualism is a recognized religion and well established in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

    The Spiritualist school for children is called the Lyceum. It is named for the Greek word "lyceum" meaning “grove of trees”. In ancient Greece, students and teachers met out in nature, to learn from nature. Andrew Jackson Davis took this concept and the knowledge he learned through trance to develop a system of teaching children. He channeled information from children on the other side of life and how they were learning in the “Summerland” or heaven. Andrew Jackson Davis put his dream of a Lyceum within the Spiritualist movement to the Conference on the 25th of January 1863 at Dodsworth Hall in the United Kingdom.   To assist in the Lyceum sessions, he wrote a manual that would give guidelines to the Lyceum leaders enabling them to have a format on how to impart the knowledge. Andrew Jackson Davis had his own religion called Harmonialism and was closely associated with Spiritualist in the 1800s but was never a member of a Spiritualist church.

City of Light Spiritualist Church holds Workshops: Workshops may be given or sponsored by the church.
1. Workshop teacher pays for the classroom space that the workshop will be taught in.
2. Teacher is also responsible for the advertising of the workshop.
3.City of Light will post on church's Face Book page.
4. City of Light will receive 10% of the registration fees and has approval of a majority of the church board.
 
Ministerial Ordination for City of Light Spiritualist Church:
   Spiritual Organizations need leadership. Have you been called to serve in the light of Love?    The ordinations will be held in June of each year.
   The home-study course from the Trilogy Institute must be successfully completed, (Ministerial Enhancement Training). The City of Light Spiritualist Church ordination requires additional work of one paragraph is to be written on each chapter explaining how the chapter can be expanded upon to fit a Spiritualist Church. Also the ministerial student must have completed one or both of the following programs of study:
City of Light Spiritualist Church Certified Spiritual Healing Program and/or Trilogy Institute Certified Mediumship Program.
The Ministerial Student must also have been a member of the City of Light Spiritualist Church for at least one year.
A fee of $50 is given to the City of Light Spiritualist Church for the class work and a fee of $33 is required for the certificate paper work. Pay cash or check payable to the City of Light Spiritualist Church & present both fees on the day of ordination.

Mediumship Certification:
Twelve months of membership in good standing are required to apply for church Mediumship certification. Completion of Mediumship certification course from the Trilogy Institute is required to be a Certified Medium with the City of Light Spiritualist Church. Call or write the Trilogy Institute for a full description of the course – 716-595-3008. The Church mediumship certification is $40 for the certification paperwork.
To keep their certification status, certified mediums are required to be members in good standing, to give messages for least one church service and to serve at least one fund-raiser each year for the church .

Spiritualist Healing Certification: The coursework is home study through the Trilogy Institute and $40 for the certificate from the church. To keep certification status, certified healers are required to be members in good standing, to do healing for at least one service each year and at least one fund-raiser each year for the church . If interested in correspondence courses in Ministerial Training leading to Ordination, Certification in Mediumship or Certification in Spiritual Healing contact:    Rev Patricia Price through email: patricia@patriciaprice.com. or call by phone at (716) 595-3008.

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In the morning, be resolved to do nothing against, but everything for, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
At night, retire in peace with yourself – at peace with all the world.
Be content with the Past, and with all it has brought you.
Be thankful for the Present, and all that you have.
Be patient for the Future, and for all it promises to bring you.    Andrew Jackson Davis

Church Services on Line for 2020 to February 2021

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