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3/28/2020 0 Comments

March 28, 2020

Gospel: John 7:40-53

Some in the crowd who heard these words of Jesus said,
“This is truly the Prophet.”
Others said, “This is the Christ.”
But others said, “The Christ will not come from Galilee, will he?
Does not Scripture say that the Christ will be of David’s family
   and come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
So a division occurred in the crowd because of him.
Some of them even wanted to arrest him,
   but no one laid hands on him.

So the guards went to the chief priests and Pharisees,
   who asked them, “Why did you not bring him?”
The guards answered, “Never before has anyone spoken like this man.”
So the Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived?
Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?
But this crowd, which does not know the law, is accursed.”
Nicodemus, one of their members who had come to him earlier, said to them,
   “Does our law condemn a man before it first hears him
   and finds out what he is doing?”
They answered and said to him,
   “You are not from Galilee also, are you?
Look and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”

Then each went to his own house.

Preacher: Sandy Dunckel

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3/27/2020 0 Comments

March 27, 2020

Gospel: John 7: 1-2, 10, 25-30

Jesus moved about within Galilee;
   he did not wish to travel in Judea,
   because the Jews were trying to kill him.
But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast,
   he himself also went up, not openly but as it were in secret.

Some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said,
“Is he not the one they are trying to kill?
And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him.
Could the authorities have realized that he is the Christ?
But we know where he is from.
When the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from.”
So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said,
   “You know me and also know where I am from.
Yet I did not come on my own,
   but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true.
I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
So they tried to arrest him,
   but no one laid a hand upon him,
   because his hour had not yet come.

Preacher: Rey Bagares

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3/26/2020 0 Comments

March 26, 2020

Gospel: John 5:31-47

Jesus said to the Jews:
“If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not true.
But there is another who testifies on my behalf,
   and I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true.
You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth.
I do not accept human testimony,
   but I say this so that you may be saved.
He was a burning and shining lamp,
   and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light.
But I have testimony greater than John’s.
The works that the Father gave me to accomplish,
   these works that I perform testify on my behalf
   that the Father has sent me.
Moreover, the Father who sent me has testified on my behalf.
But you have never heard his voice nor seen his form,
   and you do not have his word remaining in you,
   because you do not believe in the one whom he has sent.
You search the Scriptures,
   because you think you have eternal life through them;
   even they testify on my behalf.
But you do not want to come to me to have life.

“I do not accept human praise;
   moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you.
I came in the name of my Father,
   but you do not accept me;
   yet if another comes in his own name,
   you will accept him.
How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another
   and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God?
Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father:
   the one who will accuse you is Moses,
   in whom you have placed your hope.
For if you had believed Moses,
   you would have believed me,
   because he wrote about me.
But if you do not believe his writings,
   how will you believe my words?”

Preacher: Choi Relampagos

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3/25/2020 0 Comments

March 25, 2020

Gospel: Luke 1:26-38
The Annunciation of the Lord

The angel Gabriel was sent from God
   to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,
   to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph,
   of the house of David,
   and the virgin’s name was Mary.
And coming to her, he said,
   “Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.”
But she was greatly troubled at what was said
   and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.
Then the angel said to her,
   “Do not be afraid, Mary,
   for you have found favor with God.
Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son,
   and you shall name him Jesus.
He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High,
   and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father,
   and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever,
   and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
But Mary said to the angel,
   “How can this be,
   since I have no relations with a man?”
And the angel said to her in reply,
   “The Holy Spirit will come upon you,
   and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.
Therefore the child to be born
   will be called holy, the Son of God.
And behold, Elizabeth, your relative,
   has also conceived a son in her old age,
   and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren;
   for nothing will be impossible for God.”
Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.
May it be done to me according to your word.”
Then the angel departed from her.

Preacher: Jov Gomez

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3/24/2020 0 Comments

March 24, 2020

Gospel: John 5:1-16

There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate
   a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes.
In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled.
One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
When Jesus saw him lying there
   and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him,
   “Do you want to be well?”
The sick man answered him,
   “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool
   when the water is stirred up;
   while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me.”
Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.”
Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked.

Now that day was a sabbath.
So the Jews said to the man who was cured,
   “It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”
He answered them, “The man who made me well told me,
   ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”
They asked him,
   “Who is the man who told you, ‘Take it up and walk’?”
The man who was healed did not know who it was,
   for Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd there.
After this Jesus found him in the temple area and said to him,
   “Look, you are well; do not sin any more,
   so that nothing worse may happen to you.”
The man went and told the Jews
   that Jesus was the one who had made him well.
Therefore, the Jews began to persecute Jesus
   because he did this on a sabbath.

Preacher: Patty Uy

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3/23/2020 0 Comments

March 23, 2020

Gospel: John 4:43-54
Optional Memorial of Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo, Bishop

At that time Jesus left [Samaria] for Galilee.
For Jesus himself testified
   that a prophet has no honor in his native place.
When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him,
   since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast;
   for they themselves had gone to the feast.

Then he returned to Cana in Galilee,
   where he had made the water wine.
Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum.
When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea,
   he went to him and asked him to come down
   and heal his son, who was near death.
Jesus said to him,
   “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”
The royal official said to him,
   “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
Jesus said to him, “You may go; your son will live.”
The man believed what Jesus said to him and left.
While the man was on his way back,
   his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live.
He asked them when he began to recover.
They told him,
   “The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon.”
The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him,
   “Your son will live,”
   and he and his whole household came to believe.
Now this was the second sign Jesus did
   when he came to Galilee from Judea.

Preacher: Jojo David

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3/21/2020 0 Comments

March 21, 2020

Gospel: Luke 18:9-14

Jesus addressed this parable
   to those who were convinced of their own righteousness
   and despised everyone else.
“Two people went up to the temple area to pray;
   one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector.
The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself,
   ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity--
   greedy, dishonest, adulterous—or even like this tax collector.
I fast twice a week,
   and I pay tithes on my whole income.’
But the tax collector stood off at a distance
   and would not even raise his eyes to heaven
   but beat his breast and prayed,
   ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’
I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former;
   for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,
   and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Preacher: Francis Santos

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3/20/2020 0 Comments

March 20, 2020

Gospel: Mark 12:28-34

One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him,
“Which is the first of all the commandments?”
Jesus replied, “The first is this:
   Hear, O Israel!
   The Lord our God is Lord alone!
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
   with all your soul,
   with all your mind,
   and with all your strength.
The second is this:
   You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
There is no other commandment greater than these.”
The scribe said to him, “Well said, teacher.
You are right in saying,
   He is One and there is no other than he.
And to love him with all your heart,
   with all your understanding,
   with all your strength,
   and to love your neighbor as yourself
   is worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
And when Jesus saw that he answered with understanding,
   he said to him,
“You are not far from the Kingdom of God.”
And no one dared to ask him any more questions.

Preacher: Joanne Mendoza

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3/19/2020 0 Comments

March 19, 2020

Gospel: Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24

Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary.
Of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ.

Now this is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about.
When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph,
   but before they lived together,
   she was found with child through the Holy Spirit.
Joseph her husband, since he was a righteous man,
   yet unwilling to expose her to shame,
   decided to divorce her quietly.
Such was his intention when, behold,
   the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said,
   “Joseph, son of David,
   do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home.
For it is through the Holy Spirit
   that this child has been conceived in her.
She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus,
   because he will save his people from their sins.”
When Joseph awoke,
   he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him
   and took his wife into his home.

Preacher: Ace Penano

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3/18/2020 0 Comments

March 18, 2020

Gospel: Matthew 5:17-19

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets.
I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.
Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,
   not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter
   will pass from the law,
   until all things have taken place.
Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments
   and teaches others to do so
   will be called least in the Kingdom of heaven.
But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments
   will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven.”