KEEP THE FAITH: Daily Mass with the Jesuits | 20 Jun 26

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[00:07:22]Good morning. Our mass intentions for today are for those celebrating their birthdays, Mila Quindan, Cesar Val Buena, Charice Marquez, for the healing of Eric Flores, Attorney Rose Alberto, for the repose of the souls of Vilio, Jesus and Heronimo Javier, Noel Resurrection, Leto Sulit, Oscar Zulibar, Sister Josephina Nebres on her 40th Today for the special intentions of Adele Olivess, JC Rodriguez and family, Pruny Esgera, Guy Lapid, Peping and Becky Lontoken family and Alberto family and for all the intentions sent to our Facebook pages at Chescom and Radio Katibunan.

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[00:11:28]Keep the word of God strong in our lives. Keep the spirit of hope and the grace of healing alive every day.

[00:11:38]This is keep the faith a daily celebration of the holy eucharist on raja katipuna.

[00:11:46]Remain still as we welcome the light of the word in our hearts.

[00:11:53]Good morning brothers and sisters.

[00:11:54]Welcome to keep the faith the daily celebration of the holy eukarist with the Jesuits here on radio katipunan.

[00:12:02]Today is Saturday. Today we give homage to the most holy virgin Mary. Our presider for this morning's celebration is Reverend Father Benito Nebris of the Society of Jesus. Let us all rise and join in the singing of our entrance hymn.

[00:12:32]We might be a living.

[00:12:58]The In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

[00:13:19]>> And with your spirit.

[00:13:20]>> Dear friends, we come together in this our ladies Saturday on the 11th week of the year. We give thanks to the Lord for all the graces that's given us. And we enter into this mass beginning by calling to mind our need for forgiveness and asking the Lord for his pardon and his healing.

[00:13:40]>> We pray together. I confess to Almighty God and to you my brothers and sisters that I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words, what I have done and what I have failed to do.

[00:13:53]through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.

[00:13:57]Therefore, I ask blessed Mary, ever virgin, all the angels and saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God. And may almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life.

[00:14:13]>> Amen.

[00:14:13]>> Lord have mercy.

[00:14:15]>> Lord have mercy.

[00:14:16]>> Christ have mercy.

[00:14:17]>> Christ have mercy.

[00:14:18]>> Lord have mercy.

[00:14:19]>> Lord have mercy.

[00:14:21]>> Let us pray. Grant, O Lord God, that we, your servants, may rejoice in unfailing health of mind and body, and through the glorious intercession of blessed Mary, ever virgin, may we be set free from presence sorrow, and come to enjoy eternal happiness through our Lord Jesus Christ, your son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever.

[00:14:44]>> Amen.

[00:14:50]A reading from the second book of Chronicles.

[00:14:54]After the death of Jayada, the princes of Judah came and paid homage to King Joash. And the king then listened to them.

[00:15:06]They forsook the temple of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and began to serve the sacred poles and the idols.

[00:15:16]And because of this crime of theirs, wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem.

[00:15:23]Although prophets were sent to them to convert them to the Lord, the people would not listen to their warnings.

[00:15:32]Then the spirit of God possessed Zechariah, son of Jeha, the priest.

[00:15:39]He took his stand above the people and said to them, "God says, why are you transgressing the Lord's commands so that you cannot prosper?

[00:15:52]Because you have abandon abandoned the Lord, he has abandoned you."

[00:15:58]But they conspired against him.

[00:16:02]And at the king's order, they stoned him to death in the court of the Lord's temple.

[00:16:11]Thus, King Joash was unmindful of the devotion shown him by Johayada, Zechariah's father, and slew his son.

[00:16:22]And as Zechariah was dying, he said, "May the Lord see and avenge."

[00:16:30]At the turn of the year, a force of Arameans came up against Joash. They invaded Judah and Jerusalem, did away with all the princes of the people, and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.

[00:16:48]Though the Aramaan force came with few men, the Lord surrendered a very large force into their power. because Judah had abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers.

[00:17:03]So punishment was meed out to Joash.

[00:17:07]After the Aramans had departed from him, leaving him in grievous suffering, his servants conspired against him. because of the murder of the son of Jehadada the priest. He was buried in the city of David but not in the tombs of the kings.

[00:17:28]The word of the Lord.

[00:17:30]>> Thanks be to God.

[00:17:33]>> Forever I will maintain my love for my servant.

[00:17:37]>> Forever I will maintain my love for my servant.

[00:17:42]>> I have made a covenant with my chosen one. I have sworn to David, my servant.

[00:17:49]Forever will I confirm your posterity and establish your throne for all generations.

[00:17:56]>> Forever I will maintain my love for my servant.

[00:18:00]>> Forever I will maintain my kindness toward him and my covenant with him stands firm. I will make his posterity endure forever and his throne as the days of heaven >> forever. I will maintain my love for my servants.

[00:18:19]>> If his sons forsake my law and walk not according to my ordinances, if they violate my statutes and keep not my commandments, >> forever I will maintain my love for my servants. I will punish their crime with a rod and their guilt with stripes. Yet my mercy I will not take from him. Nor will I bely my faithfulness.

[00:18:45]>> Forever I will maintain my love for my servants.

[00:18:50]>> Allelujah. Allelujah.

[00:18:52]Jesus Christ became poor although he was rich so that by his poverty you might become rich.

[00:19:00]>> Allelujah. Allelujah.

[00:19:10]The Lord be with you.

[00:19:11]>> And with your spirit.

[00:19:12]>> A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.

[00:19:15]>> Glory to you, O Lord.

[00:19:18]>> Jesus said to his disciples, "No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammal.

[00:19:33]Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you are, you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing.

[00:19:47]Look at the birds of the air, of the sky. They do not sow or reap. They gather nothing into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they?

[00:20:02]Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your lifespan?

[00:20:06]Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his plunder was clothed like one of these.

[00:20:22]If God so clothe the grass of the field which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, oh you of little faith?

[00:20:33]So do not worry and say, "What are we to eat? Or what are we to drink? Or what are we to wear? All these things the pagans seek." Your heavenly Father knows what you that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you besides.

[00:20:55]Do not worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil. The Gospel of the Lord.

[00:21:05]>> Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.

[00:21:15]My dear friends, in our gospel, Jesus tells us that we cannot serve two masters. We cannot serve God and riches.

[00:21:24]He then continues to tell us that serving God means putting our trust in him for our day-to-day needs. He says, "Do not worry and say, what are we to eat or what are we to drink or what are we to wear? Your heavenly father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and all these things will be given to you besides.

[00:21:48]Jesus is asking us to place our security in God's providence for us. We all trust in God's providence especially in times of challenge of serious illness of frightening situations.

[00:22:02]Then we turn to the Lord in trust and prayer.

[00:22:06]But if we reflect on ourselves perhaps for our day-to-day needs, what are we to eat, to drink, to wear, we probably feel secure about them, uh we don't worry dayto-day about that. Most of us don't anyway. But many of our people are insecure about their day-to-day needs. I know many people I work with who wake up in the morning unsure if they will be able to find something to eat for themselves and their children.

[00:22:35]So when I tried to think of how I might pray over this gospel in a serious way, I thought about the communities that I know and work with that really live this insecurity about their day-to-day needs and keep and yet keep trust and faith in God's providence.

[00:22:55]One is a community I've shared with you about Nana Jen and her children in Sichu Onan in Shargo. I think of her because I was just there last week. Uh I was there for what they call a a gawayani challenge which brings workers together to do projects for the people there.

[00:23:16]Um and I asked Nigen to meet me with the children that we have been working with.

[00:23:22]When I first worked with them, she was trying her best to help them, but they had very little. And I'm sure there are many times that they missed meals. But now they're okay. So I when I arrived there last Wednesday, they actually met me at the airport with 20 of the children. We made sure they could come to see us. Uh as I've told you before, she's an amazing woman who has five children her own, but became very concerned about this the studies the learning of the children in her CTO, 40 of them. And despite the fact that they're quite poor, her her only means is really the what her husband earns as a fisherman. You don't earn much as a fisherman. Uh despite that, she really took it on herself uh to find ways one to tutor these 40 children, the 40 other children to find some way to provide food for them at least as far as she could.

[00:24:20]Um when I look when I think about her now in in terms of our gospel, it certainly took great love to do that. Uh but it also took great trust to for her to figure to to think of that and to to begin to think of how do I feed these children? How do I find ways to care for them? Because aside from tutoring them uh and finding some food for them, the great the elementary school is in another situ and they have to go by boat by banka to that place. And I have seen pictures of her uh kind of leading this banka to bring the children there. So I think of her because whether she explicitly asked for God's providence, she certainly did by the way she lived.

[00:25:10]And we can see one in her that it is because of great love great love for the children that she she she found the courage to trust God uh that God will find a way for them. And then I would like to hope that the chain of events that made things better for them is also God's providence. Through our chain of events uh um a video a YouTube video was made about her. Uh you can look it up.

[00:25:40]It's called vote to school. And because of that I and others have begun to help her. I connected to her and brought in friends. One donated an amount to subsidize the daily feeding. another donated for the children's school's needs love gave veta vitamins and and an NGO co uh co called cause overas takes care of their boat to school. So looking at thinking of our gospel I think of this chain of events as god using us to answer their prayers and needs. I think a chain of events brought by God's providence to answer their great love and faith. And I think for on my part it's also God's providence to make this gospel real for me. Otherwise the gospel can be very abstract.

[00:26:30]It's not. We ourselves may be very secure in our daily food and needs. But we learn what trust in God's self-sacrifice and love is from Nana Jen and her little community of 40 children.

[00:26:44]Sometimes when there's too much food in the Jesuit residence, I I think of her and I think of other communities and I I and I admire their trust. I admire their trust and and admire also God's providence for them.

[00:26:59]And then uh that was Wednesday last week. On Friday I went to first time to a remote island uh 30 30 minutes by fast boat from Shargo mainland uh Anahawan.

[00:27:15]I've actually been working with that people in that island for quite a while but my first time to visit.

[00:27:22]Um I connected with them because of an amazing teacher there. They call her teacher Ban who really together with the Baranga captain takes care of the people. The island is very poor. Um their main need was clean water. They had to walk several hours to fetch water to bring it in and they had been praying for years to be able to have water. So we are finally able to raise the funds for them for that. So they I think in terms of our gospel they really had for them this prayer was serious. What are we to drink? What are we to drink? It was a daily thing for them and the children had to go to another island quite far called Suyangan in order to go to high school.

[00:28:09]But that was a very moving day for me because what I saw there was a community that was poor but really very caring of one another. You could feel that. We could feel that with them if we feel it in their leaders and others. They really cared for one another.

[00:28:28]And so I felt that we could be part of them of God's providence. Fortunately, we inaugurated a water system for them. And the Barangai captain was so effusive. He spent over and over again giving thanks that they finally have clean water. We don't worry too much about it normally, but for them it was day-to-day life to have have something to drink and not us anymore, but with the grace of God, the school's division superintendent was there and he promised them that they would now have a high school there. So, it it was a wonderful day. Wonderful to see their love and care for one another, but wonderful to see that yes, God means what he says in this in in in this gospel that if you have love for one another and care for one another, God's providence will reply.

[00:29:23]So to end I I was speaking yesterday in the bakloud harmony about Pope Leo the 14th and cyclical magn magnifica humanitas magnificent humanity and there he tells us that the world divides into a group of people that are simply aiming at a culture of power. We see that in the United States their leaders there simply are there for power and those who seek like Pope Leo to build a civilization of love. And so he invites us to join this move to a civilization of love. But it tells us the civilization of love is built community by community. And so I think of these communities of Nana Jan in Sichu Onan and in Anahawan as part of this building up of communities of caring. And so I invite each one of us to join this building of communities of caring for one another in our own communities reaching out to others who are in need.

[00:30:31]Maybe to end, we had a wonderful time treating Nana's children to a good supper and they asked us for ice cream at the end. So, we made sure they could all get ice cream. So it was a very good day and I'm it was a wonderful day of remembering the truth of our gospel but a wonderful day also of being part of a community that really cares for the most vulnerable for the children who trust in God's providence and whom God in his providence also cares for them. In the name of the father, the son of the holy spirit. Amen. Amen.

[00:31:15]The gospel calls us to be single-minded in our service of God. May our prayers to the father express that quality of trust and devotion and we answer.

[00:31:25]Father, we trust our cares to you.

[00:31:27]>> Father, we trust our cares to you. The church leaders may devote themselves tirelessly to the furthering of God's kingdom. Let us pray to the Lord.

[00:31:38]Father, we trust our cares to you >> that we may realize the need to show care and concern for the poor and the needy. Let us pray to the Lord.

[00:31:48]>> Father, we trust our prayers to you >> that we may live in complete submission to the will of God and never become anxious concerning matters that are not worth worrying about. Let us pray to the Lord. Father, we thrust our prayers to you.

[00:32:05]>> That the sick may experience the love of God through the compassion of those who care for life. Let us pray to the Lord.

[00:32:13]>> Father, we thrust our cares to you.

[00:32:16]>> That the faithful departed may share in Christ's victory over death. Let us pray to the Lord.

[00:32:22]>> Father, we thrust our cares to you.

[00:32:27]>> Father, we trust you. May we never set our hearts on material things but on your loving providence. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

[00:32:36]>> Amen.

[00:32:47]>> Blessed are you Lord God of all creation. Through your goodness we have this bread to offer which earth has given and human hands have made. It will become for us the bread of life.

[00:32:56]>> Blessed be God forever.

[00:33:07]Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation. Through your goodness, we have this wine to offer. Fruit of the vine and work of human hands. It will become for us our spiritual drink.

[00:33:16]>> Blessed be God forever.

[00:33:33]My brothers and sisters, pray that our sacrifice may be acceptable to God the almighty father.

[00:33:38]>> May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of his name for our good and the good of all his holy church. Receive, O Lord, we ask, the prayers of your people with the sacrificial offerings, that with the intercession of blessed Mary, the mother of your son, no petition may go unanswered, no request made in vain, through Christ our Lord.

[00:34:00]>> Amen.

[00:34:00]>> Amen.

[00:34:02]>> The Lord be with you.

[00:34:03]>> And with your spirit.

[00:34:05]>> Lift up your hearts.

[00:34:06]>> We lift them up to the Lord.

[00:34:07]>> Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

[00:34:09]>> It is right and just. It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation always and everywhere to give you thanks, Lord, holy father, almighty and eternal God and to praise, bless and glorify your name and and in veneration of the blessed ever virgin Mary. For by the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit, she conceived your only begotten son and not not losing the glory of virginity brought forth into the world the eternal light Jesus Christ our Lord. Through him the angels praise your majesty.

[00:34:41]Dominions adore and powers tremble before you. Heaven and virtues of heaven and the blessed saraphim worship together with exaltation. May our voices we pray join with theirs in humble praise as we acclaim.

[00:34:54]>> Holy, holy, holy Lord God of hosts.

[00:34:57]Heaven and earth are full of your glory.

[00:35:00]Hosana in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lordana in the highest.

[00:35:07]You're indeed holy, O Lord, the f of all holiness. Make holy, therefore, these gifts we pray by sending down your spirit upon them like the dwfall so that they may become for us the body and blood of your son, our lord Jesus Christ. At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his passion. He took bread and giving thanks, broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take this all of you and eat of it, for this is my body which will be given up for you.

[00:35:48]In a similar way, when supper was ended, he took the chalice and once more giving thanks, he gave it to his disciples saying, "Take this all of you and drink from it. For this is the chalice of my blood, the blood of the new and eternal covenant, which will be poured out for you and for many, for the forgiveness of sins. Do this in memory of me.

[00:36:21]The mystery of faith.

[00:36:22]>> When we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim your death, O Lord, until you come again.

[00:36:30]>> Therefore, as we celebrate the memorial of his death and resurrection, we offer you, Lord, the bread of life and the chalice of salvation. Giving thanks that you have held us worthy to be in your presence and minister to you. Humbly we pray that partaking of the body and blood of Christ may be gathered into one by the Holy Spirit. Remember Lord your church spread throughout the world and bring her to the fullness of charity.

[00:36:53]Together with Lee our pope, Elias our bishop and all the clergy. Remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection and all who have died in your mercy.

[00:37:05]Welcome them into the light of your face. Have mercy on us all. We pray that with the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God, with blessed Joseph, her spouse, with the blessed apostles and all the saints who have pleased you throughout the ages, we may merit to be coairs to eternal life and may praise and glorify you through your son Jesus Christ.

[00:37:27]For through him and with him and in him, O God, almighty father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours forever and ever.

[00:37:36]>> Amen. Let's turn now to our father and pray to him with confidence in the words our savior taught us.

[00:37:45]>> Our father who art in heaven, be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

[00:38:09]Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil.

[00:38:13]Graciously grant peace in our days, that by the help of your mercy may be always free from sin and safe from all distress, as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our savior Jesus Christ.

[00:38:25]>> For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever.

[00:38:29]>> Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your apostles, "Peace I leave you. My peace I give you. Look not on our sins, but on the faith of your church and graciously grant her peace and unity in accordance with your will. Who live and reign forever and ever.

[00:38:43]>> Amen.

[00:38:44]>> The peace of the Lord be with you always.

[00:38:46]>> And with your spirit.

[00:38:47]>> Offer each other a sign of peace.

[00:38:55]>> Lamb of God, >> you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, grant us peace.

[00:39:22]This is the Lamb of God. This is he who takes away the sins of the world.

[00:39:26]Blessed are those who are called to the supper of the Lamb. Lord, I'm not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.

[00:40:14]Take blessed and drink.

[00:40:22]Here is my body.

[00:40:26]Here is my blood.

[00:40:30]Take and drink all gi for you.

[00:40:50]I am the bread of life.

[00:40:58]Who comes to me shall not hunger.

[00:41:06]Who believes in me shall not thirst.

[00:41:14]This is my promise to you.

[00:41:22]Take blessings and drink.

[00:41:30]Here is my body.

[00:41:34]Here is my blood.

[00:41:40]Blessed and drink all gi up for you.

[00:41:58]See Let us pray.

[00:42:24]As we receive this heavenly sacrament, we beseech, O Lord, your mercy, that we who rejoice in commemorating the blessed Virgin Mary, may by imitating her serve worthily the mystery of our redemption through Christ our Lord.

[00:42:40]>> Amen.

[00:42:41]>> The Lord be with you.

[00:42:42]>> And with your spirit.

[00:42:43]>> And almighty God bless you, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

[00:42:47]>> Amen.

[00:42:48]>> Our Eucharist has been offered. Let's go forth in the love of the Lord.

[00:42:51]>> Thanks be to God.

[00:42:52]>> Good morning to all.

[00:43:14]He Maria.

[00:43:52]Oh s in Oh, coming of my coming.