May 27, 2012

Pentecost Sunday in Year B

Liturgical Color : Red

Pentecost (Ancient Greek: Pentēkostē [hēmera], "the Fiftieth [day]") is a prominent feast in the
calendar of Ancient Israel celebrating the giving of the Law on Sinai, and also later in
the Christian liturgical year commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the remaining
elevenApostles of Christ (Judas had hung himself), included in the 12 Disciples in the Upper
Room, after the Resurrection of Jesus. The feast is also called Whit Sunday, Whitsun, or Whit,
especially in the United Kingdom, where the following Monday was traditionally a holiday.
Pentecost is celebrated seven weeks (50 days) after Easter Sunday, hence its name. Pentecost
falls on the tenth day after Ascension Thursday.
Among Christians, Pentecost commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Twelve
apostles and other followers of Jesus as described in the Acts of the Apostles 2:1-31. For this
reason, Pentecost is sometimes described as the "Birthday of the Church."
The Pentecostal movement of Christianity derives its name from the New Testament event.
We would like to suggest, you can mix languages of your selections of songs for the mass. Like
for the Entrance you can sing it in Latin, English song for Offertory, Tagalog for Communion
and your own regional dialect for the Recessional to commemorate this celebration that the
apostles speaks of the different languages.
For comment and suggestions, you can comment it here (below) or send it to
[email protected] . Thank You!
If you serve in a 6 AM, 12 NN or 6 PM mass when there would be Angelus/Regina Coeli before
or after the Mass, try to work out an arrangement with the commentators and/or lectors and the
choirs: Will the Regina Coeli be said or sung? If it will be sung, then sing for

English: Hangad’s Queen of Heaven, Rejoice

Filipino: Reyna ng Langit: BP in Tinapay ng Buhay Album.

Entrance:
Himaya Kanimo (Koro Vianista)
Awit sa Himaya
Diha Halaran
Bayan Magsiawit Na (Aquino)
Bayan, Umawit (Borres, Baltazar and Francisco)
Pagbabasbas (Javellana, Arboleda and Francisco)
Send us Your Spirit (Haas)
Come Holy Spirit
Send Your Spirit (Hangad)
Veni Creator Spiritus
Kyrie:
Ginoo, Kaloy-I Kami (Fernandez)
Kyrie Mass IV (Villanueva)
Panginoon Maawa Ka (Cayabyab)
Lord Have Mercy (Acts and Potencies)

Gloria:
Himaya sa Dios (Gloria) C3
Gloria Mass VIII (Villanueva)
Papuri sa Dios (Hontiveros)
Luwalhati sa Dios (Sengson)
Give Glory to God
Glory to God (Francisco – Agatep)
First Reading                                                             Acts 2:1-11
When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled,
they were all in one place together.
And suddenly there came from the sky
a noise like a strong driving wind,
and it filled the entire house in which they were.
Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire,
which parted and came to rest on each one of them.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak in different tongues,
as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.

Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem.
At this sound, they gathered in a large crowd,
but they were confused
because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
They were astounded, and in amazement they asked,
"Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans?
Then how does each of us hear them in his native language?
We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites,
inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia,
Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia,
Egypt and the districts of Libya near Cyrene,
as well as travelers from Rome,
both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs,
yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues
of the mighty acts of God."
Responsorial Psalm Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34
R. (cf. 30) Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.

Bless the LORD, O my soul!

O LORD, my God, you are great indeed!
How manifold are your works, O LORD!
the earth is full of your creatures;
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.

May the glory of the LORD endure forever;

may the LORD be glad in his works!
Pleasing to him be my theme;
I will be glad in the LORD.

R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.

If you take away their breath, they perish

and return to their dust.
When you send forth your spirit, they are created,
and you renew the face of the earth.

R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.

Second Reading                                                         1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13

Brothers and sisters:
No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.

There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit;
there are different forms of service but the same Lord;
there are different workings but the same God
who produces all of them in everyone.
To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit
is given for some benefit.

As a body is one though it has many parts,

and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body,
so also Christ.
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body,
whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons,
and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.
Or Gal 5:16-25
Brothers and sisters, live by the Spirit
and you will certainly not gratify the desire of the flesh.
For the flesh has desires against the Spirit,
and the Spirit against the flesh;
these are opposed to each other,
so that you may not do what you want.
But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious:
immorality, impurity, lust, idolatry,
sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy,
outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness,
dissensions, factions, occasions of envy,
drinking bouts, orgies, and the like.
I warn you, as I warned you before,
that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, generosity,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
Against such there is no law.
Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their flesh
with its passions and desires.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit.

Gospel Acclamation:
Aleluya Pagdaygon ang Dios
Aleluya (Francisco)
Sing Alleluia (Marcelo)
Celtic Alleluia
Seek Ye First

Gospel                                                             Jn 20:19-23
On the evening of that first day of the week,
when the doors were locked, where the disciples were,
for fear of the Jews,
Jesus came and stood in their midst
and said to them, "Peace be with you."
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you.
As the Father has sent me, so I send you."
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,
"Receive the Holy Spirit.
Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them,
and whose sins you retain are retained."
Or                                                       Jn 15:26-27; 16:12-15
Jesus said to his disciples:
"When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father,
the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father,
he will testify to me.
And you also testify,
because you have been with me from the beginning.

"I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth,
he will guide you to all truth.
He will not speak on his own,
but he will speak what he hears,
and will declare to you the things that are coming.
He will glorify me,
because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
Everything that the Father has is mine;
for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine
and declare it to you."

Homily/Personal Reflection of the Readings:

Today, we are celebrating Pentecost Sunday. Some of you may ask yourselves, "What is the
origin of Pentecost in the Catholic Church?" According to the New Catholic Dictionary of 1929,
the word Pentecost is Greek for "pentecostes" which means "fiftieth." This feast "commemorates
the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, and takes its name from the fact that it comes
nearly fifty days after Easter. It was a Jewish festival, and has been observed in the Christian
Church since the days of the apostles. It is often called Whitsunday (White Sunday) from the
practice of giving solemn Baptism on that day in early centuries, the candidates being attired in
white baptismal robes."

Today's three readings made reference to the arrival of the Holy Spirit, being baptized in the
Spirit and being sent forth to proclaim the Word of God so others may convert to the living faith.

The arrival of the Holy Spirit was affirmed in the First Reading [Acts 2:1-11] when we heard,
"All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages. Being
baptized in the Spirit was affirmed in the Second Reading [1 Cor. 12:3b-7, 12- 13] when it was
said, "In the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body." And being sent to proclaim the
Word of God was affirmed in the Gospel Reading [Jn. 20:19-23] when we heard, "As the Father
has sent me, so I send you." These three passages are the gist of today's homily.

While preparing my homily, I was guided by the Spirit to review what the Catechism of the
Catholic Church teaches about Pentecost in relationship to the Church. Today, I would like to
share with you some of those teachings.

"The prophetic texts that directly concern the sending of the Holy Spirit are oracles by which
God speaks to the heart of his people in the language of the promise, with the accents of "love
and fidelity." [Ezek 11:19; 36:25-28; 37:1-14; Jer 31:31-34; and cf. Joel 3:1-5] St. Peter
proclaimed their fulfillment on the morning of Pentecost. [Acts 2:17-21] According to these
promises, at the 'end time' the Lord's Spirit will renew the hearts of men, engraving a new law in
them. He will gather and reconcile the scattered and divided peoples; he will transform the first
creation, and God will dwell there with men in peace." (C.C.C. # 715)

"On the day of Pentecost when the seven weeks of Easter had come to an end, Christ's Passover
was fulfilled in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, manifested, given, and communicated as a
divine person: of his fullness, Christ, the Lord, poured out the Spirit in abundance." [Acts 2:33-
36] (C.C.C. # 731)
"'When the work which the Father gave the Son to do on earth was accomplished, the Holy Spirit
was sent on the day of Pentecost in order that he might continually sanctify the Church.' [LG 4;
Cf. Jn 17:4] Then 'the Church was openly displayed to the crowds and the spread of the Gospel
among the nations, through preaching, was begun.' [AG 4] As the 'convocation' of all men for
salvation, the Church in her very nature is missionary, sent by Christ to all the nations to make
disciples of them." [Mt 28:19-20; AG 2; 5-6] (C.C.C. # 767)

"The Church was made manifest to the world on the day of Pentecost by the outpouring of the
Holy Spirit. [SC 6; LG 2] The gift of the Spirit ushers in a new era in the 'dispensation of the
mystery' the age of the Church, during which Christ manifests, makes present, and
communicates his work of salvation through the liturgy of his Church, 'until he comes.' [1 Cor
11:26] In this age of the Church Christ now lives and acts in and with his Church, in a new way
appropriate to this new age. He acts through the sacraments in what the common Tradition of the
East and the West calls 'the sacramental economy'; this is the communication (or 'dispensation')
of the fruits of Christ's Paschal mystery in the celebration of the Church's 'sacramental" liturgy.'"
(C.C.C. # 1076)

"Since Pentecost, it is through the sacramental signs of his Church that the Holy Spirit carries on
the work of sanctification. The sacraments of the Church do not abolish but purify and integrate
all the richness of the signs and symbols of the cosmos and of social life. Further, they fulfill the
types and figures of the Old Covenant, signify and make actively present the salvation wrought
by Christ, and prefigure and anticipate the glory of heaven." (C.C.C. # 1152)

"From the very day of Pentecost the Church has celebrated and administered holy Baptism.
Indeed St. Peter declares to the crowd astounded by his preaching: 'Repent, and be baptized
every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.' [Acts 2:38] The apostles and their collaborators offer Baptism
to anyone who believed in Jesus: Jews, the God-fearing, pagans. [Cf. Acts 2:41; 8:12-13; 10:48;
16:15] Always, Baptism is seen as connected with faith: 'Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will
be saved, you and your household,' St. Paul declared to his jailer in Philippi. And the narrative
continues, the jailer 'was baptized at once, with all his family.'" [Acts 16:31-33] (C.C.C. # 1226)

"According to the Apostle Paul, the believer enters through Baptism into communion with
Christ's death, is buried with him, and rises with him: Do you not know that all of us who have
been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him
by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we
too might walk in newness of life. [Rom 6:3-4; cf. Col 2:12] The baptized have 'put on Christ.'
[Gal 3:27] Through the Holy Spirit, Baptism is a bath that purifies, justifies, and sanctifies." [CE
1 Cor 6:11; 12:13] (C.C.C. # 1227)

"Hence Baptism is a bath of water in which the 'imperishable seed' of the Word of God produces
its life-giving effect. [1 Pet 1:23; cf. Eph 5:26] St. Augustine says of Baptism: 'The word is
brought to the material element, and it becomes a sacrament.'" [St. Augustine, In Jo. ev. 80, 3:
PL 35, 1840] (C.C.C. # 1228)

"This fullness of the Spirit was not to remain uniquely the Messiah's, but was to be
communicated to the whole messianic people. [Ezek 36:25-27; Joel 3:1-2] On several occasions
Christ promised this outpouring of the Spirit, [Lk 12:12; Jn 3:5-8; 7:37-39; 16:7-15; Acts 1:8] a
promise which he fulfilled first on Easter Sunday and then more strikingly at Pentecost. [Jn
20:22; Acts 2:1-14] Filled with the Holy Spirit the apostles began to proclaim "the mighty works
of God," and Peter declared this outpouring of the Spirit to be the sign of the messianic age.
[Acts 2:11; Cf. 2:17-18] Those who believed in the apostolic preaching and were baptized
received the gift of the Holy Spirit in their turn." [Acts 2:38] (C.C.C.# 1287)

"From that time on the apostles, in fulfillment of Christ's will, imparted to the newly baptized by
the laying on of hands the gift of the Spirit that completes the grace of Baptism. For this reason
in the Letter to the Hebrews the doctrine concerning Baptism and the laying on of hands is listed
among the first elements of Christian instruction. The imposition of hands is rightly recognized
by the Catholic tradition as the origin of the sacrament of Confirmation, which in a certain way
perpetuates the grace of Pentecost in the Church." [Paul VI, Divinae consortium naturae, 659;
Cf. Acts 8:15-17; 19:5-6; Heb 6:2] (C.C.C. # 1288)

"It is evident from its celebration that the effect of the sacrament of Confirmation is the full
outpouring of the Holy Spirit as once granted to the apostles on the day of Pentecost." (C.C.C. #
1302)

"From this fact, Confirmation brings an increase and deepening of baptismal grace:

- it roots us more deeply in the divine filiation which makes us cry, 'Abba! Father!'; [Rom 8:15]

- it unites us more firmly to Christ;

- it increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us;

- it renders our bond with the Church more perfect; [LG 11] 

- it gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith by word and
action as true witnesses of Christ, to confess the name of Christ boldly, and never to be ashamed
of the Cross: [Council Of Florence (1439) DS 1319; LG 11; 12]

Recall then that you have received the spiritual seal, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the
spirit of right judgment and courage, the spirit of knowledge and reverence, the spirit of holy fear
in God's presence. Guard what you have received. God the Father has marked you with his sign;
Christ the Lord has confirmed you and has placed his pledge, the Spirit, in your hearts." [SL
Ambrose, De myst. 7, 42 PL 16, 402-403] (C.C.C. # 1303)

"Like Baptism which it completes, Confirmation is given only once, for it too imprints on the
soul an indelible spiritual mark, the 'character,' which is the sign that Jesus Christ has marked a
Christian with the seal of his Spirit by clothing him with power from on high so that he may be
his witness." [Council Of Trent (1547) DS 1609; Lk 24:48-49] (C.C.C. # 1304)

"This 'character' perfects the common priesthood of the faithful, received in Baptism, and 'the
confirmed person receives the power to profess faith in Christ publicly and as it were officially
(quasi ex officio).'" [St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 72, 5, ad 2] (C.C.C. # 1305)

Finally, "In the Lord's Prayer, 'thy kingdom come' refers primarily to the final coming of the
reign of God through Christ's return. [Titus 2:13] But, far from distracting the Church from her
mission in this present world, this desire commits her to it all the more strongly. Since Pentecost,
the coming of that Reign is the work of the Spirit of the Lord who 'complete[s] his work on earth
and brings us the fullness of grace.'" [Roman Missal, Eucharistic Prayer IV, 118] (C.C.C. #
2818)

Offertory:
Gasa sa Gugma
O Dios Dawata
Pagdaygon ka Dios
Daygon Ikaw Ginoong Dios
Unsay Among Dalhon, Ginoo
Isang Pagkain, 1 Katawan, 1 Bayan (San Pedro)
Paghahandog ng Sarili (Arboleda, Francisco)
One Bread, One Body (Foley) “Many the gifts” is reminiscent of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Take our Bread (Wise) Stanza 2 ang priority.

Sanctus:
Santos (Mass 21 Villanueva)
Santos (Fernandez)
Santos (Hontiveros)
Sanctus (pwede yung latin chant or yung English translation)
Holy (Dufford-Schutte)

Acclamation:
Si Kristo atong Handumon
Sa Krus mo at Pagkabuhay
Dying
Christ Has Died, Alleluia (Wise)

Amen:
Amen (chord of A D)
Amen (Francisco, Arboleda, Reyes, Torres)
Doxology (Dufford)

Pater Noster:
At your choice… If the congregation can participate to sing this, that would be better.

Doxology:
Kay Imo Man (Chord of Am)
Sapagkat
For the Kingdom
Agnus Dei:
Kordero sa Dios IV (chord of Dm-B)
Kordero ng Dios (Que)
Lamb of God (Folk)

Communion:
Balaan nga Gugma
Ang Kalinaw Ibilin Ko Kaninyo
O Espiritu Santo
O Dios Ikaw Haduol
Kinabuhi Mo, Kinabuhi Ko
Liwanagan Mo, Hesus (Aquino)
Espiritung Banal
You Never Left Me (Hangad)
Let Your Fire Fall
Here I am Lord
Breath of God (Hatch & Francisco)
The Presence of Jesus (Haas): Stanza 5 ang priority

Recessional:
Ang Tawag
Ang Atong Tulubagon
Ang Tawag sa Panahon
Diocesan Shared Vision
Humayo’t Ihayag (Francisco, Catalan, and Go)
O Bayan ng Dios
Pilgrim’s Theme (Go & Francisco)
We are Yours
Live by the Spirit.
I Will Sing (Francisco) dapat may chant yung “mamaye”