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Saturday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
8 AM | Febuary 4, 2023
Most Rev. Socrates B. Villegas, D.D.
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Hello Bishop at sa lahat po
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Always say there is power in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ it is your own tongue it will enters into your heart you will be blessed your own life. Thanks God for the gifts of wisdom I'm sharing with you all
Lord Jesus Christ, you guide us by the light of your saving truth. Fill our hearts and mind with your light and truth and free us from the blindness of sin and deception that we may see your ways clearly and understand your will for our lives. May we radiate your light and truth to others in word and deed. Amen.
Good evening Father and Son and Come Holy Spirit
Im humbly ask You heal me
Lean Your miracle handa to give me a spiritual gift of discernment and healing that i truly needs po ha together with my
Family
Work
To randy
And to all Your spiritual frontliners and Your people
Rebuke demons
I offer and surrender my life to You
Jesus i trust in You
Mama Mary i love You
Our St Joseph pray for us 💛
Very true. I embrace being sick and resting to recover fully. God has been good.♥️🙏🏼
Thank you Lord God for all the blessing and Guidance AMEN 🙏
Salamat po fr.soc sa napakagandang minsahi sa aming mga mahihina pa sa pananampalataya
Thank you socmah father soc god bless you all🙏🙏💕💕💕
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Thank be to God.
Amen in Amen😇😇🙏🙏
Thank you socmah Bishop 😇😇😇😇👏👏💕🙏🏾
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Thank you Lord Jesus 👨👨👧👦 GOD BLESS You Father 🙏
December 04, 2022, @ 5:44 p.m.
GOD's ECHO IS LOVE
READ: John 3:16
ECHO: “For this is how God so loved the world: He gave his one and only Son so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.” - NLT
I
Am
Sad.
I feel.
Hard to bear.
The struggle is real.
Why am I fighting alone?
Emptiness engulfed my spirit; I concede.
But hey! Do not be discouraged! Resonates.
Trust Me! I understand and acknowledge your feelings.
Child, look around. You will be amazed.
Loving hands genuinely care for you.
Just give them a chance.
Turn anxiety into joy.
Be brave, child!
Have faith.
God
EL
I.
Yes, I have depression. And yes, it has been years of sleepless nights, confusion, and indecisiveness. It is like I am a snail not wanting to get out of its shell every time someone pokes me. I have found comfort and refuge inside a dark space away from the truth and reality of life because I am scared of the unknown. My mind tells me to quit and give up. Suicide brings me salvation from the tired body and mind. But No! My heart is dictating me otherwise. I do not have the strength and courage to do so. After all, I know it is a mortal sin because I am a child of God.
I used to work in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Regional Office 3, City of San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines. I never imagined myself working in the government like my parents because when I was a child, I heard a relative say that people in the government are corrupt. I deny such a statement because my mom and dad worked in the Bureau of Lands, a line agency in DENR, and they are not crooked!
Our life is simple, and no material riches. We live a humble and modest life. In 1996, I entered public service after passing the Career Service Professional Examination. The eligibility became my license to work at the Community Environment and Natural Resources (CENRO), Tabang, Guiguinto, Bulacan, Philippines. I started as a secretary of the Chief of the Land Management Section (LMS). After several months, I transferred to the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources (PENRO) in Malolos, Bulacan. I started clerical tasks before I got a permanent item as Clerk II with a Salary of Grade 4. The PENR Officer designated me as Provincial Information Officer (PIO). I admit I do not have the technical knowledge of a media practitioner. I only learned from the supervision of the former Information Officer, who became a good friend of mine, Ms. Era B. Castro.
God gave me the talent for singing and having a modulated voice. Thanks to my teachers at the Centro Escolar University at Malolos - Mrs. Estrellita Jimenez and Esterlita Lapuz. They inspired me to speak English very well. However, my biggest inspiration came from my best friend; she is Joyce Marison Marasigan Camacho, a simple girl with a beautiful heart and soul.
The voice God gave me is my gateway to opportunities I thought would give me a career. True enough, because after a couple of years, I found myself in the post of Human Resource Management Officer I/Training Officer SG-12 in the Regional Office of DENR in Pampanga, Philippines.
I learned to love my job. I loved talking with people, facilitating training programs, and sometimes being a speaker about the role of the DENR in managing, conserving, and preserving God's natural resources. I take pride in my job because I remember the anecdote of the former Civil Service Commissioner, Atty. Anicia M. De Lima. She was the guest speaker in a seminar I attended at Celebrations in Pampanga. Her message was an inspiration for me as a public servant. The story goes like this.
In the middle ages, one of the great Gothic Cathedrals in France was being built. One morning, the work was starting. There were many laborers at work - all of them were cutting stones.
A priest wishing to discover the attitude of each worker decided to approach one and asked: "Well, my good man, what are you doing?" The man looked at the priest, shrugging his shoulders, and said, "Can't you see, I am cutting stones."
Not satisfied with the answer, the priest went and approached the second man and asked, "My good man, what are you doing?" The man replied, "I have a wife and children. I have to earn a living. So I am cutting stones."
The priest was unsatisfied again with the answer, approached the third man, and asked the same question. The man looked at the priest and with pride in his eyes he answered, "Father, I am building a Cathedral!"
These are the three men doing the same job, and their perspective in life is a million miles apart.
However, what resonated with me was the lesson Atty. De Lima imparted to us as attendees. She said these exact words, "Yes, I am earning a living, but at the same time, I am building an agency. I AM BUILDING A BETTER NATION."
These words of wisdom from a civil servant became my guiding principle in life. I know not all people in the government are corrupt. Yes, some are rotten, but I still believe, even at present, not all government workers and leaders are evil. No, because my parents are not crooked. They are merely victims of injustice and unfairness in the government system!
My mother faced an administrative case because of an honest mistake she committed. Because of this, I felt I was the reason and responsible because everything happened so fast. I was confused then. I was betrayed and humiliated. I thought I was the one who brought my mother to this painful chapter of our lives. I admit I made mistakes too. I am not perfect and righteous. But I felt it was too harsh for us to undergo such a trial. I was afraid. I felt God abandoned me at that time. I even thought I was insane. I cannot trust anymore the friends and colleagues I have. Because of this, I resigned instead of facing the problem. I resigned because I can no longer work in an environment that betrayed me after 13 years of honest public service. I took the responsibility because of my desire to eradicate corruption, particularly in the Land Management Service to avoid further issuance of fraudulent and fake titles. Because of this selfish desire I have, it was late for me to realize that I was the One who dishonored my family. I was the One who brought my mother to such shameful stature because we could not afford a good lawyer to defend my mother. It was I who answered the case based on the facts that were relayed to me by my mother. Hence, there was no one to blame but me. I was solely responsible for what happened to my mother. But the most painful part for us was when NO ONE from our family attended her retirement day. I was ashamed of myself, and I had no courage to face my former colleagues and friends.
I never thought this would happen in my life. I was only 35 years old then. I just came from Japan to attend a monthlong training on Community-Based Forest Management, and then, all these things happened in a blink of an eye. I lost myself, my confidence, my dreams, and my future. Worst, I found myself in a mental facility. Everything was still fresh in my memory. As in EVERYTHING! How I wish I could forget the past, but No! God made me realize that everything happens for a reason. God made me realize that the ordeal I went through was a lesson for me to understand better what life is all about. God made me go through this process because he used me as a catalyst for change. If I want to effect change and make a difference, I must change myself first.
For 12 long years, I romanticized my depression. For 12 years, I lived a life far away from God. I seldom go to church. I no longer attend El Shaddai prayer meetings. I no longer serve as a member of the El Shaddai choir and band. I confined myself to the four corners of our home. I seldom go out to see the beauty of the world. I avoid our parish church in Alido because I hate gossipers. I attend mass either at Barasoain Church or Malolos Cathedral.
Then the pandemic came, and I was reconnected to God when my Aunt Sally, who lives in Glendale, California encouraged me to join the Monday rosary of the Servants of the Lord via online Zoom. She is an active parishioner of the Incarnation Church in Glendale. Aunt Sally has become my fisherman who sheltered me from the storm. She helped to reconnect with God and attend Gospel Hangouts. Because of this, I rediscovered myself, and as a therapy for depression, I started writing articles about my spiritual journey. My Aunt Sally saw the potential in me when it was not evident to everyone else. She told me that writing for God is another form of evangelization. That is what I am doing now. I write for God. My articles are my love letters to Him. When I write, I tell my story and confess my divine love for Jesus because he is my good friend. God open my heart and mind to reconcile with my former friends in the DENR through Facebook and God instantly took all the hurts of the past but living scars to serve as my great lessons about the harsh realities of life. Now, I have learned that NOBODY IS PERFECT BECAUSE GOD ALONE IS PERFECT. However, I AM GOD'S PERFECT IMPERFECTION. Forgiving a person is not a sign of weakness. It shows how strong I am because it takes a lot of guts and boldness to forgive someone who offended me even though that person is not asking for my forgiveness. Because the hardest three words to say are, I AM SORRY.
Before, I was a selfish, self-centered person. Now, I advocate self-love. I learned to forgive myself first so I can give love to other people. Also, in reality, men have good and evil sides. We commit mistakes not because we are corrupt but because we see others as living witnesses of God's love to man as repeatedly declared in the gospel of St. John. God created man in his likeness. God is perfect. Therefore, Man is God's perfect creation with so much love to offer for his family, friends, acquaintances, neighbors, and everyone in this world because GOD's ECHO IS LOVE.
LOVE, SERVICE, AND SACRIFICE
READ: John 3:14-21
ECHO:
For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world but to save the world through him. (NLT)
The phrase For God sent his Son signifies the profound humility of God that He let Jesus go down to the world and save us all from sins. It would be easy for God to obliterate the world instantly and spare Jesus from suffering and death. But He refuses to do it because of His overpowering love for us. Jesus died on the cross in exchange for our salvation.
Sometimes, I could not help but ask myself, what could I sacrifice to show the breadth of my love for my family? If I could provide for them, would it be enough? Is money would be a sufficient measure of love? But then, again, Jesus was a simple carpenter with no regular work. However, his love for his mother and disciple-friends was immeasurable and incomparable. He went out of his way to validate that love.
Remember when Jesus performed a very untimely miracle at the wedding in Cana? Mama Mary requested Jesus to do something about the scarcity of wine, and he did her mother a service when he turned the water into wine. Remember also in the last supper, when Jesus washed the feet of the disciples? Jesus became a servant. And he had served his disciples so well before he left them to accomplish his purpose on earth.
Today, Jesus is still our servant who washes away our sins if we confess them to him. And during Eucharist, he is the body and blood we receive in our communion. And all these things he has done were because of John 3:16. Jesus professed the divinity of his great love for us when he sacrificed his own life.
My family is a constant reminder of loving God. My genuine love for my family is beyond measure. I am more than willing to offer myself to them - my services, my time, my effort, my knowledge, my skills, my abilities, and even my life if I have to that no amount of money can ever equate my love for them.
I have learned from my mother that living for God is selfless. She taught us to value service to others because serving people is a demonstration of love for God. When I act my little sacrifices for other people, whether a member of my family, a friend, a neighbor, or even a stranger, regardless of how little or big the considerable effort I put into it, I do it for the Lord. I do it for His greater glory, not because of self-adulation or people's praise and recognition.
Lord, help me to give more service to my family, friends, relatives, and strangers. Remind me that when I offer myself and do something for them, I do it because of love and not for self-interest or personal gain. Amen.