Manila Cathedral LIVE TV MASS 8 AM Sunday Mass 23 AUGUST 2020

good morning brothers and sisters welcome to the manila cathedral let us now all together pray the oratio imperata god our father we come to you in our need to ask her protection against the kovid 19 that has disturbed and even claimed lives we pray that you guide the people task to find cures for this disease and to stem its transmission protect the medical experts that they may minister to the sick with competence and compassion we pray for those afflicted may they be restored to health soon protect those who care for them grant eternal rest to those who have died give us the grace in this trying time to work for the good of all and to help those in need we implore you to stop the spread of this virus and to save us from our fears grant all these through our lord jesus christ your son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit one god forever and ever amen we fly to your protection o holy mother of god do not despise our petition in our necessities but deliver us always from all dangers o glorious and blessed virgin amen our lady health of the sick pray for us saint raphael the archangel pray for us san roche pray for us san lorenzo rubies pray for us san pedro calum sod pray for us my dear brothers and sisters as we celebrate this holy eucharist let us once again unite ourselves to jesus who is the christ the messiah the son of the living god let us put our trust in him as he also puts his faith and trust in us he gives us the authority and the responsibility to serve one another in faith and wisdom to take care of each other and to work for the building up of his church let us now prepare ourselves to celebrate the mysteries of god's love let us be sorry for our many sins and let us beg the forgiveness by which we are renewed healed and saved i confess to almighty god and to you my brothers and sisters that i have had received in my thoughts and in my my words in what i have done and what i have failed to do through my fault through my fault through my most grievous fault therefore i ask blessed mary ever virgin all the angels of saints and you my brothers and sisters to pray for me to the may almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life amen lord have mercy lord have mercy christ have mercy christ have mercy lord have mercy lord have mercy glory to god in the highest and on earth peace to people of goodwill we will praise you we bless you we adore you we glorify you we give you thanks for your great glory lord our god heavenly king o god almighty father lord jesus christ holy begotten son lord god lamb of god son and of the father you take away the sins of the world have mercy on us you take away the sins of the world receive our prayer you are seated at the right hand of the father have mercy on us for you alone are the holy one alone are the lord you alone are the most high jesus christ with the holy spirit in the glory of god the father amen let us pray oh god who caused the minds of the faithful to unite in a single purpose grant your people to love what you command and to desire what you promise that amid the uncertainties of this world our hearts may be fixed on that place where true gladness is found through our lord jesus christ your son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit one god forever and ever amen a reading from the book of the prophet isaiah thus says the lord to shebna master of the palace i will thrust you from your office and pull you down from your station on that day i will summon my servant eliakim son of helkia i will cloth him with your robe and geared him with your sash and give over to him your authority he shall be a father to the inhabitants of jerusalem and to the house of judah i will place the key of the house of david on eliakim's shoulder when he opens no one shall shout when he shouts no one shall open i will fix him like a peg in a sure spot to be a place of honor for his family the word of the lord thanks be to god lord your love is eternal do not forsake the work of your hands lord your love is eternal do not forsake the work of your hands i will give thanks to you o lord with all my heart for you have heard the words of my mouth in the presence of the angels i will sing your praise i will worship at your holy temple lord your love is eternal do not forsake the work of your hands i will give thanks to your name because of your kindness and your truth when i called you answered me you built up strength within me lord your love is eternal do not forsake the work of your hands the lord is exalted yet the lowly he sees and the proud he knows from afar your kindness o lord endures forever forsake not the work of your hands lord your love is eternal do not forsake the work of your hands a reading from the letter of saint paul to the romans o the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of god how inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways for who has known the mind of the lord or who has been his counselor or who has given the lord anything that he may be repaid for from him and through him and for him are all things to him be glory forever amen the word of the lord thanks be to god who we are your words o lord our spirit and life you have the word of ever [Music] life [Music] the lord be with you and with your spirit a reading from the holy gospel according to matthew glory to you o lord jesus went into the region of caesarea philippi and he asked his disciples who do people say that the son of man is they replied some say john the baptist others elijah still others jeremiah or one of the prophets he said to them but who do you say that i am simon peter said in reply you are the christ the son of the living god jesus said to him in reply blessed are you son of simon son of jonah for flesh and blood does not reveal this to you but my heavenly father and so i say to you you are peter and upon this rock i will build my church and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it i will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatever you lose on earth shall be loosed in heaven then he strictly ordered his disciples to tell no one that he was the christ the gospel of the lord praise to you lord jesus christ my dear brothers and sisters i realized that as i grow older the more keys are entrusted for me to keep in my first year in the seminary we were living in dorms and so we have no keys but the following year we were already given our own rooms so we were given a key to our room i always carry that one key in my pocket and then later on i was also assigned as caretaker of the computers of our community in the seminary so i was given another key the key to the computer room so now i have two keys to keep and as more responsibilities are given to me more and more keys are entrusted and now that i am director of this cathedral i can no longer carry all the keys in my pocket in fact i have three key boxes to keep all the keys entrusted to me my dear brothers and sisters our first reading and our gospel this sunday both talk about keys in our first reading from the book of the prophet isaiah the lord gives a faithful man named eliakim the keys to the kingdom god said i will place the key of the house of david on eliakim's shoulder when he opens no one shall shout when he shouts no one shall open and in our gospel jesus himself entrusted the keys of the kingdom of heaven to peter after jesus called simon as peter which means rock and after jesus said upon this rock i will build my church upon you peter the rock i will build my church and jesus said i will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven [Music] whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven whatever you lose on earth shall be loosed in heaven to eliakim and to peter keys were entrusted my dear brothers and sisters keys are symbols of authority and responsibility when keys are entrusted to you you are given the authority you are made responsible over something or are not just physical keys the keys that are used to open doors gates and things there are also keys that are not seen these are the responsibilities to administer an office or to take care of other people parish priest the new parish priest is entrusted with the most important key in the whole parish and that is the key to the tabernacle is symbolic of the role of the parish priest to take care of jesus who is present in the most blessed sacrament but also to take care of jesus who is also very much present in the community that he is tasked to shepherd of authority keys of responsibility but my dear brothers and sisters it is worthy to note that before jesus entrusted the keys of the kingdom of heaven to peter jesus first asked peter who do you say that i am and it is only after peter said you are the christ you are the messiah you are the son of the living god it is only after peter's confession of faith did jesus entrust to him the keys to the kingdom [Music] jesus [Music] my dear brothers and sisters authority and responsibility must always be exercised in the light of faith hindi predict [Music] authority and responsibility must always be exercised in the light of faith because without faith authority might be abusive without faith responsibility might become manipulation um [Music] that is why today my dear brothers and sisters let us pray especially this mass for all people entrusted with keys to lead us and to shepherd us let us pray for our church leaders for our pope pope francis for all our bishops for all the priests for all deacons and for our lay leaders in the church in our parish communities let us pray also for our government leaders both in the national and local levels let us pray for leaders in society let us pray for leaders in our workplaces in our offices in wherever we find ourselves in let us pray for leaders in the family let us pray for all people who are entrusted of serving and caring for others [Music] let us pray for them especially in this mass let us pray that they may use the authority god has given to them not to rule over others not to dominate and manipulate others they may they use the authority entrusted to them by god by serving others and let us also pray that they may exercise their authority in the light of faith may they exercise their authority also with wisdom and saint paul in our second reading today talks about the wisdom of god the depths of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of god leaders must lead with the wisdom of god what does that mean leaders must lead with the mind of god for that is what faith is all about faith is our connectedness to god and when we are connected to god then we must act we must speak according to the wisdom [Music] and so we pray that our leaders may lead in faith but also with the wisdom of god you know my dear brothers and sisters this is one grace that i ask god every morning i ask god to give me the holy spirit the gift of wisdom from the holy spirit so that the words that will come out of my mouth so that the actions that i will do within the day so that every decision that i will make may always be in accordance with the plan and the dream of god [Music] and if we have the wisdom of god then we are sure that we are we are always doing the will of god but my dear brothers and sisters we do not only talk of people in authority people in positions of power because the truth is each one of us is entrusted with the key and that is to take care of each other you are responsible for your brother where is he and what was the question of cain he said am i my brother's keeper let us take care of each other because my dear brothers and sisters remember that anything we do always affects others that is why today let us ask who are the people entrusted to my care my family my spouse my siblings my relatives my friends my co-workers my neighbors my parishioners the members of our community who are the people entrusted to your care sin boy you might be the kathy and how do you exercise your authority and responsibility over them or do you abuse your power over others do you control and manipulate other people's lives or true to your faith and with the wisdom of god do you strive to serve and love others to take care of them and to be always concerned for their needs you know my dear brothers and sisters for the past three weeks now the priests of the archdiocese of manila together with our apostolic administrator bishop broderick pabilio have been meeting pervicari8 per groups every night video conference no online meetings we are talking about you there were only two questions every meeting the first question is how are the people entrusted to your care how are your parishioners [Music] [Music] [Music] so that was our first question that is what we tried to answer during our meetings how are the people entrusted by god to us and then the second question is what can we do to respond to their needs because we want to be responsible keepers of the keys entrusted to us by god hindi kasi nagpapabaya pastol [Music] authorities best exercise in caring for one another if we exercise authority in faith and with the wisdom of god we will use our authority our responsibilities our keys the keys entrusted to us by caring serving and loving one another my dear brothers and sisters god trusts us and god entrusts to us many keys especially the lives of other people let us use our authority in faith and with the wisdom of god let us be responsible for one another let us take care of one another and let us serve and love each other as jesus serves and loves us let us all together profess our faith i believe in god the father almighty creator of heaven and in jesus christ his only son our lord who was conceived by the holy spirit born of the virgin mary suffered under was and is seated at the right hand of god the father almighty from there he will come to judge the living and the dead i believe in the holy spirit the holy catholic church the communion of we praise god for his wisdom that is beyond our understanding but we can ask him for all our needs because he shares his wisdom with us and uses us for his purposes for every petition let us say lord hear our prayer lord hear our prayer for our pope francis the successor of saint peter that he may use the power of the keys wisely according to god's plan let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for those who accept the burden of public office that the power of evil may not prevail over them let us pray to the lord r lord hear our prayer for those living with disabilities that they may not be pushed aside overlooked or underestimated let us pray to the lord r lord hear our prayer for ourselves that we may reverence the power of the keys which god entrusts in his wisdom to the pastors of his church let us pray to the lord r lord hear our prayer for the souls of the faithful departed that the merciful love of the lord make lands and perfect them let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer let us pray in silence for our personal petitions let us also remember the people who need our prayers as well as the intentions offered in this mass father source of all wisdom your son entrusted his power to his church as we offer these prayers help us to fulfill your plan for us we ask this through christ our lord amen [Music] honda [Music] m [Music] pray brothers and sisters that my sacrifice and yours may become acceptable to god the almighty father 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 o lord who gained for yourself a people by adoption through the one sacrifice offered once for all bestow graciously on us we pray the gifts of unity and peace in your church through christ our lord amen the lord be with you and with your spirit lift up your hearts we lift them up to the lord let us give thanks to the lord our god it is right and just it is truly right and just our jute 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 own image and set humanity over the whole world in all its wonder to rule in your name over all you have made and forever 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 um you are indeed holy o lord the fount of all holiness make holy therefore this 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 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 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 the mystery of faith and profess your resurrection until you come again 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 be gathered into one by the holy spirit remember lord your church spread throughout the world and bring her to the fullness of charity together with francis our pope and broderick our administrator 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 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 with the saint rose of lima and all the saints who have pleased you throughout the ages we may merit to be coheirs to eternal life and may praise and glorify you through your son jesus christ through him and with him and in him oh god almighty father in the unity of the holy spirit all glory and honor is yours for ever and [Music] ever [Music] jesus taught us to call god our father and so we have the courage to pray our father who art in heaven thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven [Music] give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass again us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us deliver us 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 save from all distress as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our savior jesus the christ and the glory are yours now and forever lord jesus christ who said to your apostles peace i live 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 amen the peace of the lord be with you always and with your spirit let us offer each other the sign of peace behold jesus the lamb of god behold him who takes away the sins of the world blessed are those called to the supper of the lamb lord i am not worthy that you should enter under my roof but only say the word and my soul shall be healed act of spiritual communion my jesus i believe that you are present in the most holy sacrament i love you above all things and i desire to receive you into my soul since i cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally come at me spiritually into my heart i embrace you as if you were already there and unite myself holy to you never permit me to be separated from you amen [Music] let us pray complete within us o lord we pray the healing work of your mercy and graciously perfect and sustain us so that in all things we may please you through christ our lord amen [Music] [Music] pandemic there will there will be three bells of hope that will be blessed in the sanctuary of the divine mercy of poland as a sign of their solidarity and communion with us in this time of pandemic in this time of crisis facebook page cathedral six o'clock [Music] responsibility the lord be with you and with your spirit bow your heads and pray for god's blessing may the lord bless you and keep you now and forever amen may he let his face shine upon you and show you his mercy now and forever amen may he turn his countenance towards you and give you his peace now and forever amen and may the blessing of almighty god the father and the son and the holy spirit come down on you and remain with you forever amen go in peace glorifying the lord by your life thanks be to god you

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Published: Sat Aug 22 2020