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Liturgy ng Kasal ni Miss Mimi Moran (Mentor)

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Message for the Marriage of Mentor

This is the foreword of the liturgy I am preparing for Miss Moran who was my mentor for SY 2007-2008. This is where people with units and people without units differ. Mas malandi ang liturgy, may foreword pa. Hahahaha.

Marriage as a Living Witness to Christ

In his letter to the Ephesians, Saint Paul urges married couples to love their spouse as Christ loves his Church. The Church is the Bride of Christ and he showed his love on the cross, when he offered his very body and blood for the salvation of this Church. No other sacrament of the Church shows this most wonderful reality than Christian Marriage. In Christian Marriage, two baptized individuals commit to offer themselves to each other out of love for the rest of their life. They enter into a covenant with each other and become united in love.
The minister of Christian Marriage is not the priest but the couple. Not like other marriages which are simply contracts, two Christians stand before God and the People of God as baptized members of the Body of Christ and conformed by Confirmation in the image of Christ, to enter into a covenant to love one another as Christ did. The People of God, represented by the sponsors, accept the couple, pray for them and help them later on in their married life. The priest, as representative of God and the Church, will ratify and bless this union.
The Rite of Marriage is situated within the Eucharistic Celebration because it is the source and summit of Christian Life. In it, we remember and make present the loving act of God through Christ who offered himself on the cross, an example couples are to live out in married life. By our participation in the Eucharist, all Christians are called and obliged to offer themselves in service of others and by the Body and Blood we receive, we get the strength to do what is asked of us.
Finally, Christian Marriage is a sacrament, a transformative encounter with God and thus, married life should be seen as an encounter with God, a living out of our dignity as creatures in the image and likeness of the God who is love, and living the divine life which Christ gained and gave to us. In the love between husband and wife, the world sees the truth of Christ’s live. By their sacrifices and struggles in their life together, they witness to Christ who gave his life out of love for us. In the Sacrament of Christian Marriage within the Mass, the transformative power of the Lord is made present and effected. Just as ordinary bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ, the ordinary love between humans become divine. May the power of the same Christ who transformed water into wine be the source and strength of those married in him.
This Order of the Mass and Celebration of Christian Marriage has been prepared from the pertinent liturgical books that have been approved by the Church. Through the full, active and conscious participation of all in the celebration, this will be a fruitful one and a good start for a long and happy married life. With the Christian community, I pray that you will be blessed by God who is love

In Christ,

Jeffrey Velasco

Memo for Music Ministry

To: Coordinators and members of the Music Ministry

Re: Songs for the Easter Season

The Season of Easter is the highest, most festive and most solemn of all seasons, it is thus to be celebrated with utmost joy and festivity. It is our season to celebrate the victory of Christ over sin and death and our birth as a Church. The tendency of some choirs, as what I have seen last week, is to sing the usual Ordinary Time songs. As what has been discussed in several formation seminars conducted in our parish, we have such a thing as a liturgical year wherein there are liturgical seasons and differing themes for each. It was also discussed that singing the liturgy is different from singing IN the liturgy. Singing the liturgy means that our songs are thematically and intrinsically connected with what is being celebrated. Singing in the liturgy means there is singing in the liturgy that is not necessarily connected to what is celebrated. You are supposed to sing the liturgy not just sing in the liturgy.

Ergo, Music for the easter celebrations SHOULD NOT BE THE SAME AS YOUR ORDINARY TIME LINEUP. Sing songs with Alleluia and the theme of the resurrection. You have enough time after Easter to sing the songs for Ordinary Time. It is Easter until Pentecost Sunday; help the people feel that it is Easter with your music.

I understand the difficulty of learning songs that are unfamiliar with you and that it takes time. But the ministry in which you are involved requires this. It is not enough for any liturgical minister to be contented with what one already knows. We will not grow if that is the case. Music has a catechetical value in the celebration. What kind of faith are we passing on to the people who go to mass if we are singing the wrong songs?

I am asking the Music Ministry coordinator and the coordinators of each choir to meet and prepare a list of Easter songs. Share what you know and accept what others share. I need the list to be drafted, posted and implemented as soon as possible.

It’s Easter. Christ is risen! Alleluia! He is truly risen! Alleluia!

In Christ,

J. Velasco
Worship Coordinator

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Easter Message ng Lahat ng Gumagamit ng Church of the Holy Sepulchre sa Jerusalem

Nakakatuwa lang na isa lang ang message nilang lahat. Ut unum sint.

Heads of Churches in Jerusalem
Easter 2008 Message

"In the evening of the first day of the week, Jesus came and stood among them. He said to them, "Peace be with you" and showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy when they saw the Lord and again he said to them "Peace be with you."

St. John ch.20 vv 19-21

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

Christ is risen.

Many people limit their thoughts on Easter to the empty tomb. How important then, for us to concentrate on the first manifestation which our Lord made to his disciples. There is considerable encouragement to be gained from the fact that the living Christ is greeting his living Church. We do not under estimate the burden of so many of our faithful today from the continuing violence and acts of terrorism that surround them, and of which we all are victims, in the West Bank, in Gaza and in the Israeli society. Nevertheless, the Risen Lord reminds us and tells us that we have a role and we have to change the present situation, through the power and strength which He gives us.

On that first Easter evening it seems obvious that the disciples were full of fear mingled no doubt with doubt and perplexity So much had happened to make them uncertain of the future and consequently they were afraid. However, in their moment of greatest need Jesus came and stood amongst them. At least they believed that he suddenly appeared to them. Because, since they saw him die on the Cross, they believed that everything had ended and the Master has abandoned them. But, fear, weakness and locked doors could not keep Jesus from his disciples... then or now ! He appeared to them glorious and renewed their faith.

In giving the disciples the conventional greeting "Peace be with you" Jesus is seeking to quieten the hearts of his anxious and troubled disciples. He shows them his hands and his side to convince them of his identity as the one recently crucified. So their fear and doubt are replaced by joy. Today we too, we live in fear and perplexity. We too need to see the Risen Lord, in order to take away perplexity and fear because of all that is happening around us and in us, so to replace our fear and anxiety with peace and joy.

However the message of Easter does not end there. The new joy is a mission which the apostles have to bring to the world. Jesus sent them to the troubled world as a whole in order to bring to every one its joy and peace.

So Jesus says: "As my Father has sent me, even so send I you."

In this way Jesus reveals that his Church is to be the instrument through which his saving power is to be made known to the world as the lives of men and women are challenged to submit to the claims of his Kingdom.

More is revealed as Jesus tells the disciples of the spiritual power which will be given them to enable them to fulfill their task which he has given them.

"He breathed on them and said Receive the Holy Spirit."

In that instance he is preparing them for the forthcoming Pentecost. He also shows them the intimate relationship between himself and the Holy Spirit, sometimes described in the Early Church as "the Spirit of Christ".

Having told the disciples of the spiritual power He is giving them Jesus then makes it clear that the Church has a specific function in the world to explain and convince people that men and women have a respons¬ibility to confess their sins. If they truly repent and relieve then their sins are forgiven.

It is very normal that we bring the same message to our Land. Similarly we have to take away the many burdens on people's lives caused by Occupation, bloodshed, violence and killings and mutual hatred, as well as the wrong ways followed so far to reach security. In all these situations of death we demonstrate that we are the apostles of the resurrection, with its joy and hope. We have to tell the people that the present situation in which we are living is part of the world's sin, but it must also be part of the new power given to us by the Risen Lord. Hence we invite them to make penitence, to admit their involvement in the sin of the world, to be forgiven and to become able to see the right ways that lead to security and peace. We say this to our Leaders in Palestine and Israel. The ways used until today to reach security must be changed. If not, we will remain in the same positions in a permanent cycle of violence. For you, Leaders of this Land, we ask that God give you light and strength to take away from it death and fear so as to restore in it peace with security.

So, as we greet all of you this Eastertide we urge all concerned to demonstrate their faith in more positive terms not least showing their personal belief in a Risen and Glorified Jesus. Moreover, our Jesus is no figure of history but rather the One to teach us and guide us along the path of peace and new life.

To our friends across the world we wish the peace and joy of the Risen Lord. Thank you for your prayerful support but please we would ask that you recall that your faith in Christ has its origin in this Holy Land. You have to assume your responsibilities here. You too are responsible with us for restoring in it the joy of the Resurrection so as to lift the burdens of death, hatred, Occupation, Security Walls and the fear of taking the risk of peace. Do whatever you can and please involve your Governments too to assume their responsibilities for the peace of this Land.

Pray for us as well as for a just and comprehensive peace in this Land ; pray that fear, the main obstacle for peace, will disappear. Pray that people recognize and accept each other, so that the right ways be open before the glory of the Resurrection so that this Land of the resurrection may enjoy the new life to which God has called it.

Christ is risen.

Happy and Holy Easter.

Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem
Patriarch Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox
Patriarch Michel Sabbah, R.C. Latin

Patriarch Torkom I Manoogian, Armenian Orthodox
Fr Pierbattista Pizzaballa, ofm, Custos of the Holy Land
Archbishop Anba Abraham, Coptic Orthodox

Archbishop Swerios Malki Murad, Syrian-Orthodox
Archbishop Abouna Matthias, Ethiopian Orthodox
Archbishop Paul Sayyah, Maronite

Bishop Suhail Dawani, Anglican
Bishop Mounib Younan, Lutheran
Bishop Pierre Malki, Syrian- Catholic

Archimandrite Joseph Saghbini, Greek Catholic
Fr. Rafael Minassian, Armenian Catholic