Gospel: Mark 4:26-34
Memorial of Saint John Bosco, Priest
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Jesus said to the crowds:
“This is how it is with the Kingdom of God;
   it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land
   and would sleep and rise night and day
   and the seed would sprout and grow,
   he knows not how.
Of its own accord the land yields fruit,
   first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once,
   for the harvest has come.”
 
He said,
   “To what shall we compare the Kingdom of God,
   or what parable can we use for it?
It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground,
   is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth.
But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants
   and puts forth large branches,
   so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.”
With many such parables
   he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it.
Without parables he did not speak to them,
   but to his own disciples he explained everything in private.

Preacher: Rey Bagares

​Gospel: Mark 4:21-25
 
Jesus said to his disciples,
   “Is a lamp brought in to be placed under a bushel basket
   or under a bed,
   and not to be placed on a lampstand?
For there is nothing hidden except to be made visible;
   nothing is secret except to come to light.
Anyone who has ears to hear ought to hear.”
He also told them, “Take care what you hear.
The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you,
   and still more will be given to you.
To the one who has, more will be given;
   from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.”

Preacher: Choi Relampagos

​Gospel: Mark 4:1-20
 
On another occasion, Jesus began to teach by the sea.
A very large crowd gathered around him
   so that he got into a boat on the sea and sat down.
And the whole crowd was beside the sea on land.
And he taught them at length in parables,
   and in the course of his instruction he said to them,
   “Hear this! A sower went out to sow.
And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path,
   and the birds came and ate it up.
Other seed fell on rocky ground where it had little soil.
It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.
And when the sun rose, it was scorched and it withered for lack of roots.
Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it
   and it produced no grain.
And some seed fell on rich soil and produced fruit.
It came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”
He added, “Whoever has ears to hear ought to hear.”
 
And when he was alone,
   those present along with the Twelve
   questioned him about the parables.
He answered them,
   “The mystery of the Kingdom of God has been granted to you.
But to those outside everything comes in parables, so that
   they may look and see but not perceive,
      and hear and listen but not understand,
      in order that they may not be converted and be forgiven.”
Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable?
Then how will you understand any of the parables?
The sower sows the word.
These are the ones on the path where the word is sown.
As soon as they hear, Satan comes at once
   and takes away the word sown in them.
And these are the ones sown on rocky ground who,
   when they hear the word, receive it at once with joy.
But they have no roots; they last only for a time.
Then when tribulation or persecution comes because of the word,
   they quickly fall away.
Those sown among thorns are another sort.
They are the people who hear the word,
   but worldly anxiety, the lure of riches,
   and the craving for other things intrude and choke the word,
   and it bears no fruit.
But those sown on rich soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it
   and bear fruit thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.”

Preacher: Jov Gomez

​Gospel: Mark 3:31-35
Memorial of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church
 
The mother of Jesus and his brothers arrived at the house.
Standing outside, they sent word to Jesus and called him.
A crowd seated around him told him,
   “Your mother and your brothers and your sisters
   are outside asking for you.”
But he said to them in reply,
   “Who are my mother and my brothers?”
And looking around at those seated in the circle he said,
   “Here are my mother and my brothers.
For whoever does the will of God
   is my brother and sister and mother.”

Preacher: Patty Uy

​Gospel: Mark 3:22-30
Optional Memorial of Saint Angela Merici
Virgin
 
The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said of Jesus,
   “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and
    “By the prince of demons he drives out demons.”
 
Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables,
   “How can Satan drive out Satan?
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
And if a house is divided against itself,
   that house will not be able to stand.
And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided,
   he cannot stand;
   that is the end of him.
But no one can enter a strong man’s house to plunder his property
   unless he first ties up the strong man.
Then he can plunder his house.
Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies
   that people utter will be forgiven them.
But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit
   will never have forgiveness,
   but is guilty of an everlasting sin.”
For they had said, “He has an unclean spirit.”

Preacher: Jojo David

Gospel: Mark 16:15-18
Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, Apostle

Jesus appeared to the Eleven and said to them:
“Go into the whole world
   and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved;
   whoever does not believe will be condemned.
These signs will accompany those who believe:
   in my name they will drive out demons,
   they will speak new languages.
They will pick up serpents with their hands,
   and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them.
They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Preacher: Francis Santos

Gospel: Mark 3:13-19
Memorial of Saint Francis de sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
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Jesus went up the mountain and summoned those whom he wanted
   and they came to him.
He appointed Twelve, whom he also named Apostles,
   that they might be with him
   and he might send them forth to preach
   and to have authority to drive out demons:
He appointed the Twelve:
   Simon, whom he named Peter;
   James, son of Zebedee,
   and John the brother of James, whom he named Boanerges,
   that is, sons of thunder;
   Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew,
   Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus;
   Thaddeus, Simon the Cananean,
   and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.

Preacher: Joanne Mendoza

​Gospel: Mark 3:7-12
 
Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples.
A large number of people followed from Galilee and from Judea.
Hearing what he was doing,
   a large number of people came to him also from Jerusalem,
   from Idumea, from beyond the Jordan,
   and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon.
He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd,
   so that they would not crush him.
He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases
   were pressing upon him to touch him.
And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him
   and shout, “You are the Son of God.”
He warned them sternly not to make him known.

Preacher: Ace Penano

Gospel: Mark 3:1-6
Optional Memorial of Saint Vincent of Saragossa, Deacon and Martyr

Jesus entered the synagogue.
There was a man there who had a withered hand.
They watched Jesus closely
   to see if he would cure him on the sabbath
   so that they might accuse him.
He said to the man with the withered hand,
   “Come up here before us.”
Then he said to the Pharisees,
   “Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil,
   to save life rather than to destroy it?”
But they remained silent.
Looking around at them with anger
   and grieved at their hardness of heart,
   Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.”
He stretched it out and his hand was restored.
The Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel
   with the Herodians against him to put him to death.

Preacher: Jou Marquez

Gospel: Mark 2:23-28
 Saint Agnes, Virgin and Martyr
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As Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath,
   his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain.
At this the Pharisees said to him,
   “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?”
He said to them,
   “Have you never read what David did
   when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry?
How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest
   and ate the bread of offering that only the priests could lawfully eat,
   and shared it with his companions?”
Then he said to them,
   “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.
That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”

Preacher: Lucio Pulmones