April 19, 2019 Maundy Thursday – Washing of the Feet
Theme: “Buhayin Muli Ang Kanyang Halimbawa Bilang Isang Lingkod”
Homily by Abp. Ricardo Alcaraz
Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
Psalm 116:12-19
John 13:1-15
March 11, 2018, 4th Sunday in Lent (Year B)
Theme: “Purifying Ourselves Through God’s Grace”
Homily by Abp. Ricardo Alcaraz
“Let us receive the life His love gave us and keep that life.”
“Our God is a God who has chosen to love us.”
Numbers 21:4-9
Ephesians 2:1-9
Psalm 107:1-2; 17-22
John 3:14-21
1.(v.14-16) Because He loves us, His grace provided the way to salvation.
2.(v.17-21) We need to respond to the grace of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21 – For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
“Jesus became sin for us.”
John 17:3 – And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
“To know Him is to have a relationship with Him.”
The Islands of Ophir – Philippines
March 7, 2018 | Wednesday Fellowship Service (Abp. Ricardo Alcaraz)
Topic: Allowing The Power Of God To Flow Through Us
“Jesus said, rivers of flowing water will flow through us.”
“We should cleanse the hindrances, so that the power of God will flow through us.”
Mark 6:1-6 –
Then He went out from there and came to His own country, and His disciples followed Him. And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing Him were astonished, saying, “Where did this Man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are performed by His hands! Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us?” So they were offended at Him.
But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.” Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. And He marveled because of their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching.
“As we make ourselves available to God, He will use us in the outpouring of His Holy Spirit.”
March 4, 2018, 3rd Sunday in Lent (Year B)
Theme: “Purifying Ourselves Through Proper Priorities”
Homily by Abp. Ricardo Alcaraz
“Choose Christ’s purposes and ways over ours.”
Exodus 20:1-17
1 Corinthians 1:18-25
Psalm 19:7-14
John 2:13-22
“God raised us as a temple of the Holy Spirit. Let us also purify ourselves that we may raise His Kingdom into the world.”
February 28 2018 | Wednesday Fellowship Service (Abp. Ricardo Alcaraz)
Topic: Finishing Well
2 Timothy 4:6-8 – For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.
“The Lord wants us to live our lives with an eternal perspective.”
“I have fought the good fight”
“I have finished the race.”
“I have kept the faith.”
1 Timothy 6:12 – Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
“It is a good fight because we are always guaranteed to win.(If we are always with the Lord)”
John 4:34 – Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.
Acts 20:24 – But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself,[a] so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 – Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
Luke 11:28 – But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
“I am Home – Billy Graham”
February 25, 2018, 2nd Sunday in Lent (Year B)
Theme: “Purifying Ourselves Through Self-Denial”
Homily by Abp. Ricardo Alcaraz
“Choose Christ’s purposes and ways over ours.”
Genesis 17: 1-7; 15-16
Romans 4:13-18
Psalm 22:22-31
Mark 8:31-38
1.(v.31-33) We must be mindful of the things of God, not the ways of men.
2.(v.34-38) We must choose Jesus Christ over anything else.
February 21, 2018 | Wednesday Fellowship Service (+Fr. Erel Villanueva)
Topic: Going to Jesus, The Healer of our Soul
Mark 1:40-45 –
Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”
Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” As soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed. And He strictly warned him and sent him away at once, and said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing those things which Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”
However, he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the matter, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter the city, but was outside in deserted places; and they came to Him from every direction.
“Just as Jesus willingly cleansed us, He is willing to clean us especially our souls.”
2 Corinthians 9:6 – But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Isaiah 1:5-6 – Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints. From the sole of the foot even to the head, There is no soundness in it, But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; They have not been closed or bound up, Or soothed with ointment.
Leviticus 13:3-46
“The first step to healing of our soul, is to acknowledge God that we need healing.”
February 18, 2018, 1st Sunday in Lent (Year B)
Theme: “Purifying Ourselves Through Confrontation”
Homily by Abp. Ricardo Alcaraz
“Our covenant with God assures us of the victory over our enemies.”
Genesis 9: 8-17
1 Peter 3: 18-22
Psalm 25: 1-11
Mark 1: 9-15
1.(v.9-11) In Baptism, we enter into a covenant relationship with God.
2.(v.12-15) To stand in covenant with God is to stand against His enemies.
“There is a spirit of deception that will always try to entice us. There is spiritual warfare even if satan is a defeated foe. But we have the authority through our covenant with God.”
“Fight the good fight of Faith!”
“To repent is also to take the Gospel and live it out in your life.”
“We have a permanent, strong solid covenant.”
February 14, 2018, Ash Wednesday (Year B)
Theme: “Purifying Ourselves Through Discipline”
Homily by Abp. Ricardo Alcaraz
“Are you ready to reinstate Me, as the Lord of your life?”
Joel 2:1-2, 12-17
2 Corinthians 5:20 – 6:2
Psalm 51
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18
February 11, 2018, 6th & Last Sunday of Epiphany (Year B)
Theme: “Purified in Theosis”
Homily by Abp. Ricardo Alcaraz
“Let us ascend with God that we may enter into the purposes of God.”
2 Kings 2:1-11
2 Corinthians 4:3-6
Psalm 50:1-6
Mark 9:2-9
Theosis – the process of being conformed in the image of God.
1.(v.2-4) Got to the mountaintop with God.
2.(v.5-7) Heed the Word of God.
3.(v.8-9) Bring His presence, purposes, principles and power to the world.
“The nearer we are with God, the more we become like Him.”
February 7, 2018 | Wednesday Fellowship Service (+Fr. Fernando Ilustre)
Topic: The Fruits Of What We Do
Galatians 6:7 – Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
“Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.”
2 Corinthians 9:6 – But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Esther 5:9-14; 6; 7:1-5, 9-10
Job 4:8 – Even as I have seen, Those who plow iniquity And sow trouble reap the same.
Hosea 10:12 – Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the Lord, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.
February 4, 2018, 5th Sunday of Epiphany (Year B)
Theme: “Purified in Purpose”
Homily by Fr. Erel Villanueva
“We should know our purpose just as Jesus knew His purpose.”
“As we know God, we will also know our purpose in life. We are all created with a purpose.”
Isaiah 40:21-31
1 Corinthians 9:16-23
Psalm 147:1-4; 15-18
Mark 1:32-39
1.(v.32-34) – is the fulfillment of Jesus’ purpose – to bring the Kingdom to the people.
2.(v.35-39) – to know our purpose and how to fulfill it; our attitudes matter.
“We will know our purpose through praying and seeking God.”
John 6:26-27 – Jesus answered them and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”
Ephesians 1:11 – In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will
