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Jul 2017
Bishop Felicisimo Cordero 2nd Day of Convocation Mass July 26, 2017 The disciples were chosen by Christ to spread the Gospel. The Lord had to prepare them, because they were to lay the foundation. He taught them parables, He demonstrated His power to them in the storm, He explained about the Kingdom in parables. When the seeds were planted, the birds were the “enemies” since they tried eating all the planted seeds. But from the smallest seed, a huge tree comes out where even the birds placed their nests. The people at that time......
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Jul 2017
Archbishop Loren Thomas Hines 1st Day of Convocation, Afternoon Session July 25, 2017 God is a God of order and perfection. He has set everything in order. Genesis 1 shows the order of God. From the very beginning, He set the exact timing of all that He would create and provided a system whereby the first to be created would support the next. He created space, matter and spirituality or divinity. God didn’t create man without first putting in place a support system to take care of man’s needs so that he will......
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Jul 2017
Archbishop Loren Thomas Hines 1st Day of Convocation, Morning Session July 25, 2017 One of the weaknesses of the church today is that we don’t really take the time to understand God. Sometimes we think that things “just happen,” not realizing that God has a plan. Prior to creation, even before the foundation of the world, everything was planned by God. It is unfortunate that we do not care about the past. In many schools today, history books have been changed. If we do not know the past, we will not know the future,......
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Jun 2017
“Receiving The Fullness of The Holy Spirit” Archbishop Loren Thomas Hines The Holy Spirit Seminar, Part 2 June 11, 2017 God is creating a new people of God. The first man created by God was given the responsibility to control the earth, to cultivate it, to subdue and reign over all creation. Adam failed so Christ came to restore the place of man in the kingdom of God. I believe that God sent the Holy Spirit because He doesn’t want a repeat of what happened with the fall of Adam. He doesn’t......
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Jun 2017
“Empowered By The Holy Spirit” Archbishop Loren Thomas Hines Holy Spirit Seminar, Part 1 June 4, 2017 I came from a family of religious people. My grandfather was a circuit riding minister and he and my grandmother lived in a wagon, traveling from place to place in crusades. I probably didn’t have a choice of what I’d become because my grandfather and uncle were involved in ministry. My uncle was the last surviving signatory of the by-laws of the Assemblies of God. The basis of our lives was Pentecostal. I was raised......
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May 2017
The FUSION Youth of Redeemer Church of St. Peter (RCSP) hosted the 1st Diocesan Youth Camp of Catholic Congregation of St. John Preparer of the Way at Tanay Adventure Camp on May 22-24, 2017. The theme this year was “Going Against the Tide of Contemporary Culture” attended by young people from Tanay, Sampaloc, Morong, Greenhills, Baguio, Montalban and Caloocan. Youth participants garbed in their youth camp shirts, were grouped into five houses: House of David (Courage), House of Joseph (Integrity), House of Solomon (Wisdom), House of Barnabas (Peace), and House of Abraham......
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Mar 2017
“As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” (John 20:21) Last January, the Catholic Congregation of St. John Preparer of the Way (CCSJ) went to Tamil Nadu in India to consecrate eight bishops and ordain thirty priests. The consecration was officiated by Archbishop Loren Thomas Hines, with the assistance of Bishop Felicisimo Cordero of The Cathedral Church of St. James the Lesser, Barcelona, Spain and Bishop Rolando Geronimo of the Pro Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Brussels, Belgium. Also assisting in the consecration was Deacon Ver Bacungan, also of the......
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Nov 2016
In my young age of 22, I have already experienced growing up on countless occasions, perhaps on too many occasions. Growing up in most cases was associated with earning the ire of my Dad. Our numerous “disciplinary sessions” would always follow a certain pattern. He would ask me what I did wrong, then when I am able to recite my offense correctly, penance in the form of leather connecting to my behind would inevitably follow. This was always followed by an explanation of why he did it; why I had to be......
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Sep 2016
Has anyone ever told you that you can be anything you want to be? I myself have been told this as a young boy. I remember getting a book from my aunt with a dedication that read, “To Justin, You can be whatever you dream to be. Do you dare to dream?” This motivational phrase is perhaps one of the most, if not the most, clichéd of phrases. But how true is this phrase? Can you really be anything that you want to be? I would say in this time and age,......
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