PRAYER OF COMMITMENT

PRAYER OF COMMITMENT

A MILLION ROSES FOR THE WORLD FILIPINOS AT PRAYER, PEACE FOR ALL NATIONS

ALMIGHTY GOD,

WE ADORE YOU AND WE PRAISE YOU

FOR BLESSING MARY AMONG ALL WOMEN

AND CREATING HER FULL OF GRACE.

THROUGH MARY,

WE RECEIVED JESUS YOUR SON

WHOSE BIRTH HAS MADE ALL THINGS NEW FOR US HERE ON EARTH.

WE SEEK YOUR BLESSING THROUGH HER PRAYING HANDS,

SO THAT PEACE MAY REIGN IN THE WORLD

AND HARMONY MAY BE ESTABLISHED AMONG ALL NATIONS.

I COMMIT TO PRAY THE ROSARY EVERYDAY,

AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE WITH MY FAMILY,

FOR EACH AND EVERY NATION ON EARTH

SO THAT WAR MAY END,

FAMINE MAY CEASE,

TERRORISM MAY STOP,

JUSTICE MAY REIGN

AND ONLY YOUR LOVE AND MERCY MAY PREVAIL.

I COMMIT TO LIVE IN THE STATE OF GRACE,

TO AVOID ALL OCCASIONS OF SIN

AND TO RECEIVE HOLY COMMUNION

AS FREQUENTLY AS MY SITUATION MAY ALLOW

SO THAT YOUR NAME MAY BE GLORIFIED

AND ALL PEOPLES MAY KNEEL DOWN BEFORE YOU GOD OF PEACE

IN WORSHIP, ADORATION AND THANKSGIVING

NOW AND FOREVER.

AMEN

  

IMPRIMATUR: THE MOST REV. SOCRATES B. VILLEGAS, D.D.

ARCHBISHOP OF LINGAYEN-DAGUPAN

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A MILLION ROSES FOR THE WORLD

A MILLION ROSES A DAY…FOR ALL PEOPLES…IN EVERY NATION…FILIPINOS AT PRAYER…REACHING OUT TO THE WORLD

In response to our theme for this year ―FRC Reaching Out to the World‖, the 60th National Assembly of the Family Rosary Crusade adopted by acclamation the Project that we are launching today:  A MILLION ROSES FOR THE WORLD.

We are enlisting One Million Filipinos to pray five decades of the Holy Rosary everyday from October 10, 2011 to May 30, 2012, each day from Monday to Saturday dedicated to one nation in the world while the Sunday Rosary if reserved for our own families and nation, the Philippines.

The goal is to bring all the people is all the nations of the world to Jesus and His Father and the Holy Spirit…through Mary Our Blessed Mother …to bring His Peace, Love, Joy and tranquility to every people and every nation, no matter how great or how small, as a gift of love, faith and goodwill from the people of the Philippines.

Pope Pius XI once said: ―Give me an army praying a million rosaries a day and we will conquer the world.‖  We are not out to conquer the world…but to save it for God to whom it rightly belongs.

In almost every nation in the world, the Catholic Church and its faithful is facing a confrontation against the evil forces of secularism.  The late Pope John Paul II, now Blessed, foretold this ―final confrontation with the Church and the anti-Church, the Gospel and the anti-Gospel" which he said would be ―"the greatest battle in the history of the Church."

Pope Benedict XVI has decried the spreading secularism in the Church.  He warns of threatening clouds in the horizon, and not for us to lose heart, but to keep the flame of hope alive amid the increasing apostasy.  The world needs our prayers.  And we need to pray also for our families and our own country.  

Let this be out contribution…Filipinos at Prayer…Reaching Out to the World…To All Peoples… In Every Nation…With Love and Brotherhood… in Faith, Joy and Goodwill…A World at Prayer is a World at Peace.

Ambassador Howard Dee

Co-Chairmam

A Million Roses for the World

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SAINT PETER CLAVER

ST. PETER CLAVER
Priest
Feast Day:  September 9

The son of a Catalonian farmer, was born at Verdu, in 1581; he died 8 September, 1654. He obtained his first degrees at the University of Barcelona. At the age of twenty he entered the Jesuit novitiateat Tarragona. While he was studying philosophy at Majorca in 1605, Alphonsus Rodriguez, the saintlydoor-keeper of the college, learned from God the future mission of his young associate, and thenceforth never ceased exhorting him to set out to evangelize the Spanish possessions in America.Peter obeyed, and in 1610 landed at Cartagena, where for forty-four years he was the Apostle of thenegro slaves. Early in the seventeenth century the masters of Central and South America afforded the spectacle of one of those social crimes which are entered upon so lightly. They needed labourers to cultivate the soil which they had conquered and to exploit the gold mines. The natives being physically incapable of enduring the labours of the mines, it was determined to replace them withnegroes brought from Africa. The coasts of Guinea, the Congo, and Angola became the market forslave dealers, to whom native petty kings sold their subjects and their prisoners. By its position in the Caribbean Sea, Cartagena became the chief slave-mart of the New World. A thousand slaves landed there each month. They were bought for two, and sold for 200 écus. Though half the cargo might die, the trade remained profitable. Neither the repeated censures of the pope, nor those of Catholicmoralists could prevail against this cupidity. The missionaries could not suppress slavery, but only alleviate it, and no one worked more heroically than Peter Claver.

Trained in the school of Père Alfonso de Sandoval, a wonderful missionary, Peter declared himself "theslave of the negroes forever", and thenceforth his life was one that confounds egotism by its superhuman charity. Although timid and lacking in self-confidence, he became a daring and ingenious organizer. Every month when the arrival of the negroes was signalled, Claver went out to meet them on the pilot's boat, carrying food and delicacies. The negroes, cooped up in the hold, arrived crazedand brutalized by suffering and fear. Claver went to each, cared for him, and showed him kindness, and made him understand that henceforth he was his defender and father. He thus won their goodwill. To instruct so many speaking different dialects, Claver assembled at Cartagena a group of interpreters of various nationalities, of whom he made catechists. While the slaves were penned up atCartagena waiting to be purchased and dispersed, Claver instructed and baptized them in the Faith. On Sundays during Lent he assembled them, inquired concerning their needs, and defended them against their oppressors. This work caused Claver severe trials, and the slave merchants were not his only enemies. The Apostle was accused of indiscreet zeal, and of having profaned the Sacraments by giving them to creatures who scarcely possessed a soul. Fashionable women of Cartagena refused to enter the churches where Father Claver assembled his negroes. The saint's superiors were often influenced by the many criticisms which reached them. Nevertheless, Claver continued his heroic career, accepting all humiliations and adding rigorous penances to his works of charity. Lacking the support of men, the strength of God was given him. He became the prophet and miracle worker of New Granada, the oracle of Cartagena, and all were convinced that often God would not have spared the city save for him. During his life he baptized and instructed in the Faith more than 300,000 negroes. He was beatified 16 July, 1850, Pius IX, and canonized 15 January, 1888, by Leo XIII. His feast is celebrated on the ninth of September. On 7 July, 1896, he was proclaimed the special patron of all theCatholic missions among the negroes. Alphonsus Rodriguez was canonized on the same day as PeterClaver.

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SEPT. 8: BIRTHDAY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

MATTHEW 1:1-16,18-23

The Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah

 ¹ This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham:

 ² Abraham was the father of Isaac, 
   Isaac the father of Jacob, 
   Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 
 ³ Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar, 
   Perez the father of Hezron, 
   Hezron the father of Ram, 
 ⁴ Ram the father of Amminadab, 
   Amminadab the father of Nahshon, 
   Nahshon the father of Salmon, 
 ⁵ Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, 
   Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, 
   Obed the father of Jesse, 
 ⁶ and Jesse the father of King David.

   David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife, 
 ⁷ Solomon the father of Rehoboam, 
   Rehoboam the father of Abijah, 
   Abijah the father of Asa, 
 ⁸ Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, 
   Jehoshaphat the father of Jehoram, 
   Jehoram the father of Uzziah, 
 ⁹ Uzziah the father of Jotham, 
   Jotham the father of Ahaz, 
   Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, 
 ¹⁰ Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, 
   Manasseh the father of Amon, 
   Amon the father of Josiah, 
 ¹¹ and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.

 ¹² After the exile to Babylon: 
   Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, 
   Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, 
 ¹³ Zerubbabel the father of Abihud, 
   Abihud the father of Eliakim, 
   Eliakim the father of Azor, 
 ¹⁴ Azor the father of Zadok, 
   Zadok the father of Akim, 
   Akim the father of Elihud, 
 ¹⁵ Elihud the father of Eleazar, 
   Eleazar the father of Matthan, 
   Matthan the father of Jacob, 
 ¹⁶ and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.

Joseph Accepts Jesus as His Son

 ¹⁸ This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. ¹⁹ Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.

 ²⁰ But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. ²¹ She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

 ²² All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: ²³ “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).

TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR A

MATTHEW 18:15-20 

Jesus said to his disciples:

"If your brother sins against you,

go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.

If he listens to you, you have won over your brother.

If he does not listen,

take one or two others along with you,

so that 'every fact may be established

on the testimony of two or three witnesses.'

If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church.

If he refuses to listen even to the church,

then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector.

Amen, I say to you,

whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven,

and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Again, amen, I say to you,

if two of you agree on earth

about anything for which they are to pray,

it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name,

there am I in the midst of them."

PSALM 95

Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9

R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD;
let us acclaim the rock of our salvation.
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;
let us joyfully sing psalms to him.

R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Come, let us bow down in worship;
let us kneel before the LORD who made us.
For he is our God,
and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.

R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
"Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,
as in the day of Massah in the desert,
Where your fathers tempted me;
they tested me though they had seen my works."

R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

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CFAM YOUTH DAY ANIMATION

CHICKEN DANCE

BE REAL

MERCY IS FALLING

KUMUSTA KA NA

MAGPASALAMAT

ITODO MO

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PRAYER INTRO

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CHANGE THE WORLD

Change the World from DanStevers.com on Vimeo.

Christ's death and resurrection means we get to be directly involved in God's plan to redeem this broken world. It's not just a wishful idea, it's a call to every follower of Jesus to change the world.

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SCARS

Scars from DanStevers.com on Vimeo.

All scars tell a story. 

The amazing story of the Gospel is that Jesus also has scars, but unlike our stories, His scars tell a beautiful story of love and forgiveness.

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GOD OF THE BROKEN

God of the Broken from DanStevers.com on Vimeo.

There is beauty in our brokenness.

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