JANUARY 5, 2018

INTRODUCTION

Dear Brother and Sisters

Today, we hear Jesus call several of his apostles: "Come, follow me," he says, and
they follow him. They recognize him as their Savior, the Son of God. From now on they will
not only have to accept his word but also to live as he lived.
This is why the reading from John's letter fits in very well: the life of the Christian must be
marked by love, for Jesus gave his life for us. Love is not a theory or a mere sentiment but
an experience of commitment.

Today, Let us remember those people whom we promised to pray for, let us present to
God their intentions and petitions with our love and devotion. We pray for all the sick and
the suffering, may the Lord console and heal them in his mercy and love.

Brothers and Sisters let us ask the grace to allow God to be part of our journey so
that we may fully experience His goodness and mercy.

Let us all stand to welcome our Mass Presider Rev. Fr. Frederick Abuel Bailey
(Fr. Bibay) as we sing our entrance hymn.

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Entrance Hymn:
GREETINGS

Celebrant: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

All: Amen

Celebrant: The Lord be with you

All: And with your spirit

Celebrant: My brothers and sisters, to prepare ourselves to celebrate the

sacred mysteries, let us call to mind our sins.

All: I confess to almighty God

And to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my
thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do,
through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I
asked the Blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you my
brothers and sisters to pray for me to the Lord our God.

Celebrant: May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins and brings us to
everlasting life.

All: Amen

All: Lord have Mercy (Kyrie)

OPENING PRAYER:

Celebrant: Let us pray

Keep your family safe, O Lord, with unfailing care, that, relying solely on the
hope of heavenly grace, they may be defended always by your protection.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the
unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

All: Amen

Commentator: Please be seated and listen to the word of God.

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LITURGY OF THE WORD

First Reading:

From the First letter of John 3:11-21

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This is the message which you heard from the beginning, that
we must love one another,

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not to be like Cain, who was from the Evil One and murdered
his brother. And why did he murder his brother? Because his own
actions were evil and his brother's upright.

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Do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

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We are well aware that we have passed over from death
to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love,
remains in death.

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Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you are well
aware that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

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This is the proof of love, that he laid down his life for us, and we
too ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

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If anyone is well-off in worldly possessions and sees his brother
in need but closes his heart to him, how can the love of God be
remaining in him?

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Children, our love must be not just words or mere talk, but
something active and genuine.

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This will be the proof that we belong to the truth, and
it will convince us in his presence,

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even if our own feelings condemn us, that God is greater than
our feelings and knows all things.

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My dear friends, if our own feelings do not condemn us, we can
be fearless before God.

THE WORD OF THE LORD

ALL: Thank be to God

Responsorial Psalm: PS 100: 1B -2, 3, 4, 5

R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.

Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;

serve the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful song.

R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.

Know that the LORD is God;

he made us, his we are;
his people, the flock he tends.

R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving,

his courts with praise;
Give thanks to him; bless his name.

R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.

The LORD is good:

the LORD, whose kindness endures forever,
and his faithfulness, to all generations.

R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.

Commentator: Let us all stand to acclaim the Gospel.

Gospel Acclamation (to be sung)

Celebrant: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your spirit

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Celebrant: From the Holy Gospel according to John 1:43-51

All: Glory to you O Lord

Jesus decided to go to Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, "Follow
me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael
and told him, "We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law, and also the
prophets, Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth." But Nathanael said to him,
"Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." Jesus saw
Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, "Here is a true child of Israel. There is no
duplicity in him." Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered and said
to him, "Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree." Nathanael answered him,
"Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel." Jesus answered and said to
him, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see
greater things than this." And he said to him, "Amen, amen, I say to you, you will see the
sky opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

The Gospel of the Lord

Commentator: Praise to you O Lord Jesus Christ

Please be seated and listen to the Homily

HOMILY

PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL

Priest: We have heard the word of God proclaimed to us. He sees our sincere
efforts to lead good lives and once again we ask him for his help.

LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER

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L: For our Holy Father Pope Francis and all the leaders of God’s people, may their
leadership through the witness of their lives becomes facilitative of communal
journey towards the fulfilment of God’s reign. L et us pray to the Lord.

L: That the church of God may fearlessly call people to repentance and believe in the
Good News. Let us pray to the Lord.

L. That more people may profess their faith in God in all circumstances of life. Let us
pray to the Lord.
L: That families may strive to make their homes places where children can hear God
calling them by name. Let us pray to the Lord.

L: That the elderly, the lonely, the sick may realize that God’s work is being done in the
circumstances of their lives. Let us pray to the Lord.

L: That we may hold on the eternal truths of the Good News of Christ and the Church.
Let us pray to the Lord.

L: We pray for all who care for us; the staff of our school, our parents, grandparents
and our families. Let us pray to the Lord.

L: That the dead may find peace and happiness in the Kingdom of God. L et us pray
to the Lord.
P: Father, hear the prayers of your people. Do not look on our sinful ways, but
show us your gentle mercy. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Commentator: Amen

Please be seated for the offertory

(Offertory Song)

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

PREPARATION OF THE ALTAR AND THE GIFTS

Celebrant: 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

All: Blessed be God forever.

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Celebrant: By the mystery of this water and wine, may we come to share in the divinity of
Christ, who humbled Himself to share in our humanity. Blessed are you God
of all creation, through your goodness we have this wine to offer, fruit of the
vine and works of human hands, it will become for us our spiritual drink.

All: Blessed be God forever.

Celebrant: Lord God, we ask you to receive us and be pleased with the sacrifice we offer
you with humble and contrite hearts.

Celebrant: Lord, wash away my iniquities and cleanse me from my sin.

Commentator: Please all stand.

PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS

Celebrant: Pray, brethren, that our sacrifice may become acceptable to God, the
almighty Father.

All: 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.

Prayer over the Gifts:

Celebrant: Let us pray

O Lord our God, who once established these created things to sustain us in
our frailty, grant, we pray, that they may become for us now the Sacrament of
eternal life. Through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen.

Preface

Celebrant: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your spirit

Celebrant: Lift up your hearts.

All: We lift them up to the Lord.

Celebrant: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

All: It is right and just

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Celebrant: 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. For you laid the
foundations of the world and have arranged the changing of times and
seasons; you formed man in your image and set humanity over the whole
world in all its wonder, to rule in your name over all you have made and for
ever praise you in your mighty works, through Christ our Lord.

And so, with all the angels, we praise you, as in joyful celebration we acclaim:
Holy holy holy….

Commentator: Please kneel.

Eucharistic Prayer

CELEBRANT: You are indeed Holy, O Lord, the fount of all holiness.

Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray,

by sending down your Spirit upon them like the dewfall,

so that they may become for us

the Body and + Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his Passion,

He took bread, giving thanks, broke it,

and give 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.”

In 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.”

Memorial Acclamation

Celebrant: THE MYSTERY OF FAITH

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Commentator: Please rise

All: (to be sung)

Celebrant: 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, we may
gather into one by the Holy Spirit.

Remember Lord your Church, spread throughout the world, and bring her to
the fullness of charity, together with N our Pope and N our Bishop and all the
clergy.

Remember also our brothers and sisters, who have fallen asleep in the hope
of Resurrection, and all who have died in your mercy: 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 Joseph her most chaste spouse, with the Blessed
Apostles, and all the Saints who have pleased you throughout the ages, we
may merit to be co-heirs to eternal life, and may praise and glorify you
through your Son Jesus Christ.

Through him, and with him, and in him, O God, almighty Father, in the unity of
the Holy Spirit, all glory and honour is yours for ever and ever.

GREAT AMEN: (to be sung)

COMMUNION RITE

Celebrant: At the Saviour’s command and formed by divine teaching, we dare to

say:

All: Our Father ……….( to be sung )

Celebrant: Deliver us Lord; we pray, from every evil, graciously grant peace in our days,
that by the help of your mercy, we may be always free from sin and safe from all
distress, as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Doxology

All: For the Kingdom the power and the glory are yours now and forever Amen.

SIGN OF PEACE
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Celebrant: Lord Jesus Christ, you said to your Apostles: I leave you peace, my peace I
give you, look not on our sins, but on the faith of your Church, and grant her
peace and unity in accordance with your will. Who live and reign for ever and
ever.

All: Amen

Celebrant: The peace of the Lord be with you always.

All: And with your spirit

Celebrant: Let us offer each other the sign of peace.

Lamb of God (to be sung)

Commentator: Please kneel.

Breaking of the Bread

Private preparation of the Priest

Celebrant: May this mingling of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ bring eternal
life to us who receive it.

Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, by the will of the Father and the work
of the Holy Spirit your death brought life to the world. By your holy body and blood free me
from all my sins and from every evil, keep me faithful to your teaching, and never let me
be parted from you.

COMMUNION

Celebrant: Behold the Lamb of God; behold him who takes away the sins of the world.
Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb.

All: Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only
say the word and my soul shall be healed.

Celebrant says quietly:

May the Blood of Christ keep me safe for eternal life.

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COMMUNION SONGS:

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

Celebrant: Let us pray

O God, who have willed that we be partakers in the one Bread and the one Chalice,
grant us, we pray, so to live that, made one in Christ, we may joyfully bear fruit for
the salvation of the world. Through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen

CONCLUDING RITE

Celebrant: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your spirit

Celebrant: And may the blessing of almighty God, the Father, and the Son,

+and the Holy Spirit, come upon you and remain with you for ever.

All: Amen

Celebrant: Go in peace glorifying the Lord by your life.

All: Thanks be to God

Recessional Hymn

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