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Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the PhilippinesEPISCOPAL COMMISSION ON SOCIAL ACTION, JUSTICE AND PEACE

(CBCP-ECSAJP)

YEAR OF THE POORDecember 2014 – November 2015

We Look at You

Lord Jesus, we are gathered in your love,Responding to your call to be with our brothers and sisters who are poor. We cannot do it without you.Look at each one of us,and give us the courage to also look at you.

As you look at us, we recognize our need for your Love, Mercy and Compassion. We are poor in many things that the world expect us to haveBut we are rich in everything that you provide,You provide us with love and faith that we need to live dailyYou forgive us our sins no matter how many of themYou welcome us in your banquetWith food and water that make us full in spirit.

We bring with us today our brothers and sisters who have no opportunity to join us todayThose who toil endlessly to earn a living for their families.We pray for our Church, government and civil society leaders Who go against the tide of power to bring to us the real meaning of public service and servant leadership.

Together, “We look at you, our Lord Jesus”Together, we allow ourselves to be loved and forgiven by you Lord Jesus, we are ready, we are open, We are waiting in thanksgiving, awe and wonder.Journey with us in this formation program And throughout our celebration of the Year of the Poor. We pray in your name, our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Bring all that You are

Response:Bring all that you are, all that you have, and all that you can be.Come, have breakfast with God

“Bring some of the fish that you have just caught.” (John 21:10)“Come and have breakfast.” (John 21:12)

All: The day has just begun….a new day, a new life ahead of us.May the Spirit of God give us the strength to walk an extra mile (Mt. 5:41)And offer the best that we have to those in need (Num. 8:12)

Reader 1:If anyone forces you to go one mile, go also the second mile (Mt. 5:41).

Reader 2:All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the choice produce that they give to the LORD, I have given to you (Num. 18:12).


All:My Life has just begun…A new day, a new life ahead of me.May I be able to see the beauty and the needs around me (Isa. 58:10)May I be able to give back to others what God has given me (Mt. 25:29).

Reader 3:If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday (Isa. 58:10 )

Reader 4:For all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away. (Mt. 25:29)


All:Our deeper awakening has just begun…for the needs of those who suffer in poverty, oppressed and unjustly treated ,May we be just ourselves and do what is right (Ps. 1:6)So that we can be worthy to care for others and bring about peace and justice (Job 17:9)

Reader 5: For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish (Ps. 1:6).

Reader 6:Yet the righteous hold to their way, and they that have clean hands grow stronger and stronger (Job 17:9).


All:Our greater call has been known…You and I for those whom God has favored (Lk. 6:20-22)May we recognize the Lord in the poor and hungry, And in everyone Jesus send to us. (Mt. 25:24-35)

Reader 7:Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.“Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.“Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man (Lk. 6:20-22).

Reader 8:‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me (Mt. 25:34-35).


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