​Gospel: Luke 1:39-56
 
Mary set out
   and traveled to the hill country in haste
   to a town of Judah,
   where she entered the house of Zechariah
   and greeted Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,
   the infant leaped in her womb,
   and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit,
   cried out in a loud voice and said,
   “Most blessed are you among women,
   and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
And how does this happen to me,
   that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears,
   the infant in my womb leaped for joy.
Blessed are you who believed
   that what was spoken to you by the Lord
   would be fulfilled.”
 
And Mary said:
“My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord;
   my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
   for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed:
   the Almighty has done great things for me,
   and holy is his Name.
 He has mercy on those who fear him
   in every generation.
He has shown the strength of his arm,
   he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,
   and has lifted up the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
   and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has come to the help of his servant Israel
   for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
   the promise he made to our fathers,
   to Abraham and his children for ever.”
 
Mary remained with her about three months
   and then returned to her home.

Preacher: Jou Marquez

​Gospel: John 16:16-20
 
Jesus said to his disciples:
“A little while and you will no longer see me,
   and again a little while later and you will see me.”
So some of his disciples said to one another,
   “What does this mean that he is saying to us,
   ‘A little while and you will not see me,
   and again a little while and you will see me,’
   and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”
So they said, “What is this ‘little while’ of which he speaks?
We do not know what he means.”
Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them,
   “Are you discussing with one another what I said,
   ‘A little while and you will not see me,
   and again a little while and you will see me’?
Amen, amen, I say to you,
   you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices;
   you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.”

Preacher: Ronan Capuras

​Gospel: John 16:12-15
 
Jesus said to his disciples:
“I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth,
   he will guide you to all truth.
He will not speak on his own,
   but he will speak what he hears,
   and will declare to you the things that are coming.
He will glorify me,
   because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
Everything that the Father has is mine;
   for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine
   and declare it to you.”

Preacher: Jay-anne Desabelle

​Gospel: John 16:5-11
 
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Now I am going to the one who sent me,
   and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts.
But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go.
For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you.
But if I go, I will send him to you.
And when he comes he will convict the world
   in regard to sin and righteousness and condemnation:
   sin, because they do not believe in me;
   righteousness, because I am going to the Father
   and you will no longer see me;
   condemnation, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.”

Preacher: Richard Cabarrubias

Gospel: John 15:26-16:4a
 
Jesus said to his disciples:
“When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father,
   the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father,
   he will testify to me.
And you also testify,
   because you have been with me from the beginning.
 
“I have told you this so that you may not fall away.
They will expel you from the synagogues;
   in fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you
   will think he is offering worship to God.
They will do this because they have not known either the Father or me.
I have told you this so that when their hour comes
   you may remember that I told you.”

Preacher: Stella Deriquito

​Gospel: John 15:18-21
 
Jesus said to his disciples:
“If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first.
If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own;
   but because you do not belong to the world,
   and I have chosen you out of the world,
   the world hates you.
Remember the word I spoke to you,
   ‘No slave is greater than his master.’
If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.
If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
And they will do all these things to you on account of my name,
   because they do not know the one who sent me”

Preacher: Sandy Dunckel

​Gospel: John 15:12-17
 
Jesus said to his disciples:
“This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.
No one has greater love than this,
   to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
I no longer call you slaves,
   because a slave does not know what his master is doing.
I have called you friends,
   because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you
   and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain,
   so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
This I command you: love one another.”

Preacher: Tony Mercado

​Gospel: John 15:9-11
 
Jesus said to his disciples:
“As the Father loves me, so I also love you.
Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love,
   just as I have kept my Father’s commandments
   and remain in his love.
 
“I have told you this so that
   my joy might be in you and
   your joy might be complete.”

Preacher: Patrick Tesorio

​Gospel: John 15:1-8
 
Jesus said to his disciples:
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.
He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit,
   and everyone that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.
You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you.
Remain in me, as I remain in you.
Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own
   unless it remains on the vine,
   so neither can you unless you remain in me.
I am the vine, you are the branches.
Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit,
   because without me you can do nothing.
Anyone who does not remain in me
   will be thrown out like a branch and wither;
   people will gather them and throw them into a fire
   and they will be burned.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
   ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.
By this is my Father glorified,
   that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.”

Preacher: Emy Abaya

​Gospel: John 14:27-31a
 
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you.
Not as the world gives do I give it to you.
Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.
You heard me tell you,
   ‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’
If you loved me,
   you would rejoice that I am going to the Father;
   for the Father is greater than I.
And now I have told you this before it happens,
   so that when it happens you may believe.
I will no longer speak much with you,
   for the ruler of the world is coming.
He has no power over me,
   but the world must know that I love the Father
   and that I do just as the Father has commanded me.”

Preacher: Grace Jungco Sabidolas