Visita Iglesia: National Shrine of the Divine Mercy - Marilao, Bulacan

National Shrine of the Divine Mercy

(Pambansang Dambana ng Jesus Divino Misericordia)

Marilao, Bulacan

Location: Brgy. Sta. Rosa 1, Marilao, Bulacan, 3019, Philippines

'A church dedicated to the Divine Mercy'[1] 

The entrance to the main church.

Inside the main church

 Stations of the cross on the wall of the main church.

Candle & prayer offerings

Our Lady of Fatima Grotto

- before the entrance of Daan ng Kagalingan

Daan ng Kagalingan

 Daan ng Kagalingan

Covered Court where they celebrate their masses to accommodate all their parishioners.

 life sized stations of the cross surrounding the covered court

"The storms of life may shake our ground, a greater peace still dwells in our hearts. Feel no harm we are ruled by a far greater love, a far greater love."

23 March 2014, Sunday: Living Water - John 4:5-42 (Gospel & Homily)

Gospel, John 4:5-42

5 On the way he came to the Samaritan town called Sychar near the land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

6 Jacob's well was there and Jesus, tired by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, 'Give me something to drink.'

8 His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, 'You are a Jew. How is it that you ask me, a Samaritan, for something to drink?' -- Jews, of course, do not associate with Samaritans.

10 Jesus replied to her: If you only knew what God is offering and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me something to drink,' you would have been the one to ask, and he would have given you living water.

11 'You have no bucket, sir,' she answered, 'and the well is deep: how do you get this living water?

12 Are you a greater man than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself with his sons and his cattle?'

13 Jesus replied: Whoever drinks this water will be thirsty again;

14 but no one who drinks the water that I shall give will ever be thirsty again: the water that I shall give willbecome a spring of water within, welling up for eternal life.

15 'Sir,' said the woman, 'give me some of that water, so that I may never be thirsty or come here again to draw water.'

16 'Go and call your husband,' said Jesus to her, 'and come back here.'

17 The woman answered, 'I have no husband.' Jesus said to her, 'You are right to say, "I have no husband";

18 for although you have had five, the one you now have is not your husband. You spoke the truth there.'

19 'I see you are a prophet, sir,' said the woman.

20 'Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, though you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.'

21 Jesus said: Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know; for salvation comes from the Jews.

23 But the hour is coming -- indeed is already here -- when true worshippers will worship the Father in spiritand truth: that is the kind of worshipper the Father seeks.

24 God is spirit, and those who worship must worship in spirit and truth.

25 The woman said to him, 'I know that Messiah -- that is, Christ -- is coming; and when he comes he willexplain everything.'

26 Jesus said, 'That is who I am, I who speak to you.'

27 At this point his disciples returned and were surprised to find him speaking to a woman, though none of them asked, 'What do you want from her?' or, 'What are you talking to her about?'

28 The woman put down her water jar and hurried back to the town to tell the people,

29 'Come and see a man who has told me everything I have done; could this be the Christ?'

30 This brought people out of the town and they made their way towards him.

31 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, 'Rabbi, do have something to eat';

32 but he said, 'I have food to eat that you do not know about.'

33 So the disciples said to one another, 'Has someone brought him food?'

34 But Jesus said: My food is to do the will of the one who sent me, and to complete his work.

35 Do you not have a saying: Four months and then the harvest? Well, I tell you, look around you, look at the fields; already they are white, ready for harvest!

36 Already the reaper is being paid his wages, already he is bringing in the grain for eternal life, so that sower and reaper can rejoice together.

37 For here the proverb holds true: one sows, another reaps;

38 I sent you to reap a harvest you have not laboured for. Others have laboured for it; and you have come into the rewards of their labour.

39 Many Samaritans of that town believed in him on the strength of the woman's words of testimony, 'He told me everything I have done.'

40 So, when the Samaritans came up to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed for two days, and

41 many more came to believe on the strength of the words he spoke to them;

42 and they said to the woman, 'Now we believe no longer because of what you told us; we have heard him ourselves and we know that he is indeed the Saviour of the world.'

Homily

by Rev. Fr. Dexter Carr

Archdiocesan Shrine of St. Joseph - Project 3, Quezon City

23 March 2014, Sunday 9:00AM

16 March 2014, Sunday: Matthew 17:1-9 (Gospel & Homily)

Gospel, Matthew 17:1-9

Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, 
and led them up a high mountain by themselves.
And he was transfigured before them; 
his face shone like the sun 
and his clothes became white as light.
And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them,
conversing with him.
Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, 
“Lord, it is good that we are here.
If you wish, I will make three tents here, 
one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
While he was still speaking, behold,
a bright cloud cast a shadow over them, 
then from the cloud came a voice that said, 
“This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased;
listen to him.”
When the disciples heard this, they fell prostrate
and were very much afraid.
But Jesus came and touched them, saying,
“Rise, and do not be afraid.”
And when the disciples raised their eyes, 
they saw no one else but Jesus alone.

As they were coming down from the mountain,
Jesus charged them,
“Do not tell the vision to anyone 
until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”


Homily



by Rev. Fr. Ramon N. Eloriaga
Archdiocesan Shrine of St. Joseph - Project 3, Quezon City
16 March 2014, Sunday 9:00AM

05 March 2014, Wednesday: Ash Wednesday - Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 (Gospel and Homily)

Gospel, Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18

1 'Be careful not to parade your uprightness in public to attract attention; otherwise you will lose all reward from your Father in heaven.

2 So when you give alms, do not have it trumpeted before you; this is what the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win human admiration. In truth I tell you, they have had their reward.

3 But when you give alms, your left hand must not know what your right is doing;

4 your almsgiving must be secret, and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.

5 'And when you pray, do not imitate the hypocrites: they love to say their prayers standing up in the synagogues and at the street corners for people to see them. In truth I tell you, they have had their reward.

6 But when you pray, go to your private room, shut yourself in, and so pray to your Father who is in that secretplace, and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.

16 'When you are fasting, do not put on a gloomy look as the hypocrites do: they go about looking unsightly to let people know they are fasting. In truth I tell you, they have had their reward.

17 But when you fast, put scent on your head and wash your face,

18 so that no one will know you are fasting except your Father who sees all that is done in secret; and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.

Homily

• Lent 
• solemn, sad
• Latin word meaning to lengthen, i.e. mas humahaba ang liwanag sa dilim
• should be a joyful time of the year
• 'Kahit na ang tao ay naghihirap, hindi mananakaw ang kanyang kagalakan.'

• 3 Pillars of Lent

1. Alms Giving
• In the time of Jesus, it is an obligation.
• Corporal Works of Mercy
• Pagbisita sa may sakit
• Pagbibigay sa mga nagugutom at nauuhaw
• Pagbisita sa mga preso
• 'There are things we have to do in secret.'
• Pope Francis: Ang kawanggawa ay dapat may sigla. Do them with joy, hindi yung napipilitan.
2. Prayers
• 40 Days of Lent - more than 40, Sundays are not counted
• #4 in bible means a very long time
• Treat the season of lent as a retreat.
• Special moment of grace for all of us.
• Araw-araw dapat may iaalay tayo sa buhay panalangin at pananampalataya.
3. Fasting & Abstinence
• Ages 18 - 60: 1 Full Meal a day (Ash Wednesday)
• Ages 14 & Up: Abstinence (No meat)

• Delaying Gratification
• Why do weed it? Discipline.
• Ang mga ordinaryong pribilehiyo ay pinapagsantabi muna.
• Fasting & Abstinence not only in food.

• Sacrifice
• to offer something valuable
• 'Pag hindi ka marunong magsakripisyo, may magbigay pa kaya?'
• Love means absolute sacrifice. Wala kang pwedeng itira.

• Darkness, Silence, Stillness
• 'Minsan dapat tuntunin din natin ang madilim at tahimik para magkaroon tayo ng kapanatagan sa buhay at pananampalataya.'

by Rev. Fr. Ramon N. Eloriaga

Archdiocesan Shrine of St. Joseph - Project 3, Quezon City

05 March 2014, Wednesday, 5:00 PM

02 March 2014, Sunday - Matthew 6:24-34 (Gospel and Homily)

Gospel, Matthew 6:24-34

Jesus said to his disciples:
“No one can serve two masters.
He will either hate one and love the other,
or be devoted to one and despise the other.
You cannot serve God and mammon.

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,
what you will eat or drink,
or about your body, what you will wear.
Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Look at the birds in the sky;
they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns,
yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are not you more important than they?
Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span?
Why are you anxious about clothes?
Learn from the way the wild flowers grow.
They do not work or spin.
But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor
was clothed like one of them.
If God so clothes the grass of the field,
which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow,
will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith?
So do not worry and say, ‘What are we to eat?’
or ‘What are we to drink?’or ‘What are we to wear?’
All these things the pagans seek.
Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given you besides.
Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself.
Sufficient for a day is its own evil.”


Homily





by Rev. Fr. Orly Mendoza
Archdiocesan Shrine of St. Joseph - Project 3, Quezon City
02 March 2014, Sunday, 3:30 PM