HOLY COMMUNION FOR THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES SUNDAY CELEBRATION

HOLY COMMUNION FOR THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES SUNDAY CELEBRATION

CONFESSION AND PARDON

+ GLORIA

DIOS, TINUBDAN PAGDAYGON, CRISTO JESUS, SANTO ESPIRITU. GIKAN PA SA SINUGDANAN, KARON, SA KAHANGTURAN, BALAANG DIOS. AMEN, AMEN.

OFFERTORY INVITATION

Leader: In covenant with God and with each other, let us share our God-given gifts, experiences, and resources for the transformation of the world. As we offer these to the Lord, we commit ourselves to uphold equity and accountability in our relationships, structures, and responsibilities for our faith or particular community. (Adapted from the 2012 UMC Book of Discipline, par. 125)

+DOXOLOGY

+OFFERTORY PRAYER                    

Pastor: Let us pray. As we offer ourselves and our gifts, O God our Parent, remind us to give our best gifts for the transformation of the World and where everyone live a life to its fullness with dignity and worth.  Amen.

EUCHARISTIC HYMN          

“ISANG PAGKAIN, ISANG KATAWAN, ISANG BAYAN”

Words and Music by Lucio D. San Pedro

KATULAD NG MGA BUTIL NA TINITIPON
UPANG MAGING TINAPAY NA NAGBIBIGAY BUHAY
KAMI NAWA’Y MATIPON DIN
AT MAGING BAYAN MONG GILIW

KORO:
IISANG PANGINOON, IISANG KATAWAN
ISANG BAYAN, ISANG LAHI
SAYO’Y NAGPUPUGAY

KATULAD DIN NG MGA UBAS
NA PINIGA AT NAGING ALAK
SINO MANG UMINOM NITO
MAY BUHAY NA WALANG HANGGAN
KAMI NAWA’Y MAGING SANGKAP
SA PAGBUO NITONG BAYANG LIYAG
(Koro)

TAKING THE SWEET POTATO AND THE CUPS OF NATIVE COFFEE

THE GREAT THANKSGIVING

Pastor: The Lord be with you!
People:       And also with you!
Pastor: Lift up your hearts.
People: We lift them up to the Lord
Pastor:        Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People:       It is right to give our thanks and praise.

Pastor: It right, and good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you, O God our Parent, creator and heaven and earth with all its diversity, with different peoples, cultures and ideologies, and enabling us to live together in one community and humanity created in your own image. We are thankful to you, O God our Parent, because when we turned away and our love failed, you seek us through the prophetic voices calling us for change in our lives, enabling us to realize our true selves and together to form a new free community. We are thank to you, O God our Parent, that through the mission and message of Jesus Christ, you showed us the pattern for our living. Living a  life that Love one another (Romans 13: 8), Obeying the law (Romans 13:8) or the commandments of God, or the ethical instructions of the Lord (Romans 13: 9), being Vocal in loving our neighbour as we love ourselves (Romans 13: 10), and Enlightened, as we live in the Light (Romans 13:13). We are thankful to you, O God our Parent, for seeking us through you Spirit who gives life and a way of life connected in the land, our home blessed with biodiversity and having the gift of sustainability.

And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven, we praise you, O God our Parent and join together singing the unending hymn of glorification.

KABANALBANALANG DIOS NG LAKAS AT TATAG.

LANGIT LUPA’Y PINAGPAPALA, PAPURI AY SA LANGIT.

MAPALAD S’YANG PARATING SA NGALAN NG DIOS.

PAPURI AY SA LANGIT.

Holy are you O God our Parent, who was really present to the Indigenous People communities even before the missionaries came. They were never without the presence of God, as the lord and giver of life.

Your Son Jesus Christ, anointed by your spirit to preach good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, and to announce that the time had come when you would save your people. Jesus taught us to come together affirming with our indigenous sisters and brothers that land is precious and sacred, and that indigenous cultures and spirituality are of immeasurable value.

On the night in which Jesus Christ, gave himself up for us, he took break, gave thanks to you, broke the bread, and gave it to his disciples and said: “Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

When the supper was over, he took the cup, gave thanks to, gave it to his disciples, and said: “Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant, poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

And so, in remembrance of these your might acts Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving, as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ’s offering us, as we proclaim the mystery of faith.

(aawitin) NAMATAY, AT NABUHAY, BABALIK MULI.

THE LORD’S PRAYER

DIOS GINIKANAN, BALAANG NGALAN, GRASYA UG GUGMA PAGA-AMBITAN. KABUBUT-ON MO, PAGATUMANON, DINHI SA YUTA UG SA LANGIT.

IHATAG NAMO, O DIOS TINUBDAN, INADLAW-ADLAW’NG PANGINAHANGLAN.

SA KAHUYANGAN KAMI GIYAHAN, ANG MUPASAYLO MAKAT-UNAN.

UG SA PANULAY KAMI ILIKAY, KALUWASAN, DIOS, IPATAGAMTAM.

IMONG PRESENSYA, GAHUM UG GUGMA, HIMAYAON KA, DIOS SA TANAN. Amen.

THE BLESSING OF THE SWEET POTATO AND CUPS OF COFFEE

Pastor: As we gather at this table, we remember these words of our Lord Jesus Christ: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If you eat this bread, you will live forever.” (John 6:51).

Community: We come to this table hungry and thirsty. Satisfy us, O God.

Pastor:  We will enjoy the meal with you, O Lord, and with one another.

The pastor will continue to say:

The sweet potato and the cups of native coffee that we are about to partake will nourish our hearts to be in L.O.V.E. A life that Love one another (Romans 13: 8), Obeying the law (Romans 13:8) or the commandments of God, or the ethical instructions of the Lord (Romans 13: 9), being Vocal in loving our neighbor as we love ourselves (Romans 13: 10), and Enlightened, as we live in the Light (Romans 13:13).

Then the pastor may hold hands, palms down, over the sweet potato and cups of coffee:

Pour your Holy Spirit on us gathered here, and on these boiled sweet potato and cups of native coffee that through these you may give us new life, boost our energy and our hope to live a life that is CHRISTIC, a life to its fullness.

The pastor may raise hands.

By your Spirit make us one with the Christ of many colors, enjoying the gift of diversity with one another, and one in ministry to all the world, now and forever. Amen.

SHARING OF THE BOILED SWEET POTATOES AND CUPS OF NATIVE COFFEE

The pastor will lead the sharing of the sweet potato and cups of coffee.

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING