PROCESSIONAL:

The first Communicants with the celebrant will go inside the church in solemn procession.

INTRODUCTION:

Kris Dhiren Tabernero: Dear Parents, Teachers and Friends let us all rejoice for
today we are ready to have our First Communion. During the Holy
mass we will be permitted to receive Jesus, the Living Bread in our hearts.
Thank you dear parents for allowing us to have new life through Baptism
and for accompanying us every Sunday Mass. Thank you for helping us
prepare for this special day in our lives.

Mrs. Paragas: Dear Children, when you were born, we were grateful to
God for the gift of life. But God in His life gave you more - a share in His
own life and love through baptism. Today, Jesus shows you even greater
grace. He comes to feed you with His own Body and Blood. Indeed, we are
happy to celebrate it with you beginning today, your First Communion.

Mr. Ceiloue Paglinawan: Dear Children, you are about to make an important
step in your life. As you step forward, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the
Mother of Jesus and also our Mother in grace, a natural way to Christ, is
with you especially that today we celebrate the Solemnity of the
Immaculate Conception. Like us, our Mother in heaven is most happy that
today you will receive Jesus in the Eucharist. Together with the whole
Christian assembly, you will join us in thanking God for His care and love
for all of us.

Chloe Allyssa Quijada: He gives us His Son, Jesus, who comes to us in Holy
Communion. He wants us to live as Jesus did loving God and loving our
neighbor.

Ms. Leorie Joy Denosta: Now dear children, let us celebrate the Mass together. It is
through the Mass that God shows us that He will care for us always,
because He sent Jesus to share His very own life with us.

Commentator: Let us all stand for the entrance hymn.

OPENING SONG:

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 Sing Tralalala

1. Be happy, O children and sing out your joy.

This moment is special let’s sing, sing with joy.

Refrain: Sing tra lalala, tra lalala oh!

Sing tra lalala to the Lord.
Let’s raise our hands, let’s clap our hands
Sing tra lalala to the Lord.
2. Be happy, O parents . . . . etc.
3. Be happy, O teachers . . . . etc.

Priest: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

All: AMEN

Priest: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

All: And with your spirit.

PENITENTIAL RITE

Priest: Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves
to celebrate the sacred mysteries.

All: I confess to Almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have
greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and
in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault, through
my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the
Angels & Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the
Lord our God.

Priest: May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to
everlasting life.

All: Amen.

Lord Have Mercy (to be sung)

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 //:Lord Have Mercy://
//:Christ Have Mercy://
//:Lord Have Mercy://

Priest: Glory to God in the Highest…

Gloria (to be sung)

All: //:Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God in the highest and on earth
peace on earth peace to people of goodwill.://

We praise You, we bless You, we adore You, we glorify You, we give You
thanks for Your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty
Father. (Ref.)

Lord Jesus Christ, only begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the
Father, You take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. You take
away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. You are seated at the right
hand of the Father, have mercy on us. (Ref.)

For You alone are the Holy one, You alone are the Lord. You alone are the
Most high Jesus Christ. With the Holy Spirit in the glory of God the Father.
(Ref.)

OPENING PRAYER

Priest: Let us pray:

O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin
prepared a worthy dwelling for Your Son, grant, we pray, that, as You
preserved her from every stain by virtue of the Death of Your Son, which
You foresaw, so, through her intercession, we, too, may be cleansed and
admitted to Your presence.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

All: Amen.

Commentor: Let us all be seated and listen to the Word of

God.

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LITURGY OF THE WORD

First Reading – Marianne Galceran

A reading from the Book of Genesis (Gen. 3:9 – 15, 20)

After the man, Adam, had eaten o the tree, the Lord God called to the man
and asked him, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the
garden; but I was afraid , because I was naked, so I hid myself.” Then he
asked, “Who told you that you were naked? You have eaten then , from
the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat!” The man replied, “The
woman whom You put here with me – she gave me fruit from the tree, and
so I ate it.” The Lord God then asked the woman, “Why did you do such a
thing?” The woman answered, “The serpent tricked me into it, so I ate it.”

Then the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you
shall be banned from all the animals and from all the wild creatures; on
your belly shall you crawl, and dirt shall you eat all the days of your life. I
will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring
and hers; he will strike at your head, while you strike at his heel.”

The man called his wife Eve, because she became the mother of all the
living.

The Word of the Lord.

All Thanks be to God.

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Responsorial Psalm: Marthe’ Klarisse Ventinilla
Angela Lorin Patricio

Ref: EVER ON MY LIPS THE PRAISES OF THE LORD

EVER IN MY MOUTH GOD’S MUSIC. THROUGH THE DARK OF
NIGHT IN MORNING’S GOLDEN LIGHT, GOD’S PRAISES I WILL
SING.

1. Taste and see heaven’s bounty, every step and breath we take is a gift
that God has made.
2. God alone is my glory, like the moon that lights my way Like a song that
fills my day.
3. Go to God in your loneliness and journey in the silence the Lord is near
to the thirsty heart and close to those who wait.

Second Reading – Brett Matteo Estrada

A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians (Eph. 1:3 – 6, 11-12)

Brothers and sisters: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, as
he close us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without
blemish before him. In love he destined us for adoption to himself through
Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of his will, for the praise of the glory of
his grace that he granted us in the beloved.

In him we were also chosen, destined I accord with the purpose of the One
who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will, so that we
might exist for the praise of his glory, we who first hoped in Christ.

The Word of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

Commentator: Let us all stand to honor the Gospel.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION:

Aleluya! Aleluya! Ikaw Panginoon ang siyang daan, ang buhay, at

ang katotohanan. Aleluya!

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Priest: The Lord be with you.

All And with your spirit.

Priest: A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke (Lk. 1: 26-38)

All Glory to you, O Lord.

Priest: The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called
Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of
David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. And coming to her, he said,
“Hail full of grace! The Lord is with you.” But she was greatly troubled at
what was said and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. Then
the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor
with God. Behold, you will conceive in you womb and bear a son, and
you shall name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the
Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his
Father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his
Kingdom there will be no end.”

But Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I have no relation
with a man?” And the angel said to her in reply, “The Holy Spirit will
come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.
Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And
behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age,
and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren; for nothing
will be impossible for God.” Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of
the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel
departed from her.

The Gospel of the Lord.

All Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ

Commentator: Please be seated.

HOMILY

RENEWAL OF BAPTISMAL VOWS

Commentator: First Communicants, please stand.

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 ( Lighting of children’s candles by the teachers )

Mrs.Cabahug : The lighted candle is like the one given to you on the day you
were baptized. Please always remember that when you were
baptized, you were taken from darkness into light. We, your parents love
you very much. As you grow up, we want you to follow Jesus’ message of
love and service.

Priest: My dear children, when you were baptized you were too young to promise
to love and serve God and your neighbor. But on this day, your First Holy
Communion, you yourselves will repeat the promises your parents and
your godparents made for you.

Do you promise to do your best to love God and your neighbor always as
Jesus wants us to do?

All: We promise to do our best.

Priest: Do you promise to listen to the voice of God who speaks to us in our
conscience through our parents and teachers?

All: We promise to listen.

Priest: Do you reject Satan?

All Yes, we reject Satan.

Priest: Do you reject all his works.

All: Yes, we do reject all his works.

Priest: Do you believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth?

All: Yes, we do believe.

Priest: Do you believe in Jesus Christ, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born
of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and
was buried, descended into hell and on the third day was rose again from
the dead, ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the
Father almighty?

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All: Yes, we do believe.

Priest: Do you believe that the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the
Communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body
and life everlasting?

All: Yes, we do believe.

Priest: Do you believe that during the Mass you receive the Body and Blood of
Christ?

All: Yes, we do believe.

Priest: Do you promise to love the Church all your life?

All: Yes, we do promise.

Priest: May the ever-loving God bless you and help you to keep these promises
faithfully throughout your lives.

All: May God help us.

SONG:
THE LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE

/: This little light of mine. I’m ‘gonna let it shine. :/

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

/: Don’t let Satan blow it out. I’m ‘gonna let it shine. :/

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

/: Hide it under a bushel: No! I’m ‘gonna let it shine. :/

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

Commentator: You may now blow your candles.

Priest: Dear parents, you cared for your children; you have desired the best, their
happiness. All of you wish, that they develop all their capabilities and grow
up into persons who find their way to salvation and become a blessing for
others.

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 ( Priest goes down to the children for the blessing )

Commentator: Parents, please extend your right hand.

Mr. Karl Jay D. Ramos : Father in heaven, bless now and forever our children.
Let your blessings rest in them. Guide our children in right ways. Make
our children bearers of your blessings. Let them recognize You and go
Your way. Give them light and strength in every situation. Lord Jesus
Christ may your death and resurrection be effective in our children. Give
them fruit of redemption, the Holy Spirit, as light and strength in all works
of their lives. Most Blessed Trinity, bless our children. And we bless them
now in your name.

Priest: The blessing of Almighty God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit
be in our children and remain with them forever and ever.

All: Amen.

Priest: In her Immaculate Conception, Mary is revealed as the second Eve. She is
God’s new beginning for our race. As we honor her today, let us join her in
prayer to our Father and Creator.

Father, let our lives magnify Your power.

Mr. Al Deanny Peñafiel: For the Holy Mother church, bishops, Priests, through
whom the Body and Blood of Jesus is daily made present that they may
grow in fervent love for Jesus, and celebrate the Eucharist with greater
faith and devotion. Let us pray to the Lord.

All: Father, let our lives magnify Your power.

Czian Alnathan Acana: For Pope Francis, Bishop Jose A. Cabantan, all the priests,
nuns, religious and all lay people who serve in the Diocese of Malaybalay,
especially those instrumental in our spiritual formation, that they may
always be courageous witnesses of Jesus Christ in word and in deed here
on earth. That they may not lose hope or weaken but ever be burning with
the desire to lead your people to know, love and serve you.
Let us pray to the Lord.

All: Father, let our lives magnify Your power.

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Ma. Louise Galamiton: For the leaders of the world and of nations, that they may
listen to the voice of the Spirit at work in the world and look with wisdom
and in dialogue for solutions to end wars, civil strife, and exploitation of
nations and one person by another, and continue to strive for the common
good. Let us pray to the Lord.

All: Father, let our lives magnify Your power.

Mrs. Airez Acana: For all parents and guardians that we, ourselves be
frequent recipients of the Eucharist and be inspiring examples in words
and in deed of the relevance of the Eucharist in the lives of our children.
Let us pray to the Lord.

All: Father, let our lives magnify Your power.

Mrs. Lerio Hudar: For us, parents, that we may never forget our solemn obligation
to educate our children and to create a family atmosphere where they
are loved. May the loving security we offer our children, lead them to love
God and neighbor more adequately. Let us pray to the Lord.

All: Father, let our lives magnify Your power.

Nicolo Miguel Sasing: For all of us children, that our reception of the Body and
Blood of Christ in the Eucharist makes us more loving, obedient
and respectful to all. Let us pray to the Lord.

All: Father, let our lives magnify Your power.

Ms. Christa Mae Ponce : For all catechists and teachers of the faith, that they may
never grow weary of religiously inculcating to children and to all the
depth of Jesus’ love in the Eucharist. Let us pray to the Lord.

All: Father, let our lives magnify Your power.

Priest: Father and Creator, hear us as we pray with the Immaculate ever-virgin
Mary, chosen before the world was made, to be the Mother of Jesus Your
Son, who lives and reigns forever and ever.

All: Amen.

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Commentator: Please be seated.

OFFERING OF THE BREAD AND WINE

Songs: WE OFFER NOW TO YOU

1. God, accept our offering: joy and pains of life we bring;

All that we are and all that we do, We offer now to You.
La la la la la la la la la, We offer now to You.

2. God accept our offering: faith and hope and love we bring;
all that we will be and all that we will do,
we offer now to You. La la la la la la la la la,
we offer now to You.

3. God accept our offering in the form of bread and wine.

All that we are and all that we have, we offer now with love.
La la la la la la la la la, We offer now with love.

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

Priest: Pray, brethren, that our sacrifice may be acceptable to God the Almighty
Father.

All: May the Lord / accept the sacrifice at your hands / for the praise and the
glory of His name / for our good / and the good of all His holy Church.

PRAYER OVER THE GIFTS

Priest: Graciously accept the saving sacrifice which we offer You, O Lord, on the
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and
grant that, as we profess her, on account of your prevenient grace, to be
untouched by any stain of sin, so, through her intercession, we may be
delivered from all our faults.
Through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen.

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EUCHARISTIC PRAYER

Priest: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your spirit.

Priest: Lift up your hearts.

All: We lift them up to the Lord.

Priest: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

All: It is right and just.

Priest: It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, always and
everywhere to give you thanks, Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal
God.

For you preserved the Most Blessed Virgin Mary from all stain of original
sin, so that in her, endowed with the rich fullness of your grace, you might
prepare a worthy Mother for you Son and signify the beginning of the
Church, his beautiful Bride without spot or wrinkle.

She, the most pure Virgin, was to bring forth a Son, the innocent Lamb
who would wipe away our offenses; you placed her above all others to be
for your people an advocate of grace and a model of holiness.

And so, in accompany with the choirs of Angels, we praise you, and with
joy we proclaim:

All: HOLY (to be sung)

Commentator: Please kneel.

Priest: You are indeed Holy, O Lord, the fount of all holiness. Make holy,
therefore, these gifts, we pray, by sending down your Spirit upon them life
the dewfall, so that they may become for us the Body and + Blood of our
Lord, Jesus Christ.

At that time he was betrayed and entered willingly in his Passion, he took
bread, and giving thanks, broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying:
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 “TAKE THIS ALL OF YOU AND EAT OF IT, FOR THIS IS MY BODY
WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP FOR YOU.”

In a similar way, when supper was ended, he took the chalice and, once
more giving thanks he gave it to his disciples, saying: “TAKE THIS, ALL
OF YOU, AND DRINK FROM IT. FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY
BLOOD, THE BLOOD OF THE NEW AND ETERNAL COVENANT,
WHICH WILL BE POURED OUT FOR YOU AND FOR MANY FOR
THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS. DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME.”

The mystery of faith.

MEMORIAL ACCLAMATION (to be sung)

When we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim your death, O
Lord, until He come again.

Priest: Therefore, as we celebrate the memorial of his Death and Resurrection, we

offer you, Lord, the Bread of life and the Chalice of salvation, giving
thanks that you have held us worthy to be in your presence and minister
to you.

Humbly we pray that, partaking of the Body and Blood of Christ, we may
be gathered into one by the Holy Spirit.

Remember, Lord, your Church, spread throughout the world, and bring
her to the fullness of charity, together with Francis, our Pope, Jose our
Bishop and all the clergy.

Remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope
of the resurrection, and all who have died in your mercy: welcome them
into the light of your face. Have mercy on us all, we pray, that with the
Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with the blessed Apostles, and all the
Saints who have pleased you throughout the ages, we may merit to be
coheirs to eternal life, and may praise and glorify you through your Son,
Jesus Christ.
THROUGH HIM, AND WITH HIM, AND IN HIM, O GOD, ALMIGHTY
FATHER, IN THE UNITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, ALL GLORY AND
HONOR IS YOURS, FOREVER AND EVER.

Amen: (to be sung)

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Priest: At the Savior’s command and formed by divine teaching, we dare to say:

OUR FATHER (to be sung)

Priest: Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil, graciously grant peace in our
days, that, by the help of your mercy, we may be always free from sin and
safe from all distress, as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our
Savior, Jesus Christ.

All: For the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory are Yours, now and forever.

Priest: Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your Apostles: Peace I leave you, my peace I
give You. Look not on our sins but on the faith of your Church and
graciously grant her peace and unity in accordance with your will who live
and reign forever and ever.

All: Amen

Priest: The peace of the Lord be always with you.

All: And with your spirit.

Priest: Let us offer each other the sign of peace.

(The first communicants will go to their parents and kiss them.)

All: LAMB OF GOD (SUNG)

Commentator: Please kneel.

Priest: Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the
world. Blessed are those called to the supper o the Lamb.

All: Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say
the word and my soul shall be healed.

Commentator: Please be seated.

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(During Communion, the parents are requested to kneel beside their children. The first
communicant kneels as he/she receives the Body and Blood of Christ.)

COMMUNION SONGS:

JESUS COMES TO ME
1. In the form of Bread and Wine
Changed into Your Body and Blood,
You’re the One, the Bread of Life,
Jesus, Son of God.

2. And You’re truly present

In the host the I’ll received
Come to me, O come to me,
Jesus, I believe.

3. When I answer “Amen”

I mean what I’m saying.
You’re the One, the living Bread,
Jesus I believe

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION:

Priest: Let us pray.

May the Sacrament we have received, O Lord our God, heal in us the
wounds of that fault from which in a singular way you preserved Blessed
Mary in her Immaculate Conception.
Through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen.

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Commentator: Please kneel.
Let us pray ; Jesus / You are our God / You are our Guest.

Children We adore you / and we welcome You.

Commentator: Jesus / You are our brother and friend.

Children We trust You / and we love You.

Commentator: Jesus / You are our Savior / and our Leader..

Children We thank you / and we promise / to follow you.

Commentator: Dear God, / We pray to You.

Children Bless my father / my mother / bless my brothers and sisters / and all
those I love.

Commentator: Heavenly Father, we also ask you:

Children Bless our Principal / our teachers / staff / maintenance / nuns and
priests.

Commentator: Please stand

LITURGY OF THE BLESSING

Priest: Lord, show us your mercy and love.

All: And grant us your salvation.

Priest: Dearly beloved brothers and sister, let us pray that the God, who has
deemed it worthy that the world be made joyful through the blessed Virgin
Mary, may now impart his blessing upon us and these rosaries, rosary
guides, certificates and Bible.

(All pray silently for a while)

In memory of the mysteries of the life, death and resurrection of our Lord,
and in honor of the Virgin Mary, Mother Christ and of the Church, may

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 these rosaries, rosary guide, certificates and Bible be blessed: In the name of
the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

ALL: Amen

FLORAL OFFERING TO MARY

Commentator: We will now offer our flowers to Mary.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Commentator: Please be seated for the acknowledgement.

SOLEMN BLESSING

Priest: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your spirit.

Priest: Bow your heads and pray for God’s blessings.

May the God who created you give you new life each day.

All: Amen.

Priest: May Jesus who loves us teach us all to love.

All: Amen.

Priest: Dear children, love one another as Jesus loves you. And may Almighty
God bless you and your parents and those who are here in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

All: Amen.

Priest: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord, by being kind and good to your
parents, brothers, sisters

All: Thanks be to God.

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FINAL SONG:
I WANNA THANK YOU

Thank You, O Lord Jesus

For all You’ve done for me
For the many blessings I received
And the love You poured on me.

I also want to thank You

For the Sun that’s shining bright
For the big tall trees and the flowers outside
And for the birds flying through the sky.

Chorus:
I wanna thank You
For loving me and putting a smile on my face
I wanna thank You
For showing me with blessing and Your grace
I wanna thank You
For filling me with overflowing joy
Jesus, I thank, thank You Lord.

You’ve given me Mom and Dad

Brother and Sister too
I thank You for the love they show
Because I know it comes from You.
CODA:
I just thank You
Thank You, Lord.

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 MASS ASSIGNMENTS

INTRODUCTION: Felicity Veine C. Patricio

Mrs. Jesiebel Amoncio
Mr. Denise Xyra E. Lumahang
Francis Enzo B. Fajardo
Ms. Mary Jade P. Dandoy
FIRST READING Alexandrei Mikaela P. Pasamonte

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Leila Cassandra B. Tugahan

Althea Antoniette N. Guibone

RENEWAL OF BAPTISM VOWS: Mrs. Ma. Vina Landingin

BLESSING: Mr. Florante L. Bergado

PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL: Mr. Karl Jay D. Ramos

Mischa Luz I. Ventenilla
Allen John C. Butaya
Mr. Jun Gallano
Mrs. Cheryl Ann G. Jumalon
Mariejo C. Cainglet
Ms. Sharey Tadlas

OFFERINGS
CANDLE: Wilky J. Echano
Cidrell Phillip B. Auxtero

FLOWERS: Demelza Danielle D. Belderol

Qijara Gabbyriel Sabana

Ciboria: Life Zachriel D. Sacayle

CRUETS: Mr. Christopher Padla

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