DAY 4: Talk 2 - We’re In This Together DAY 4 Talk 2 |We’re In This Together Let me begin with a story. The year was 2001. I was a young father. Bene, my eldest, was still a one-year-old baby. I arrived home one night, frustrated and exhausted. I just came from working on my little business. But it didn’t seem to be working. I was frustrated because after telling people what a great product I had, no one bought. Not a single one. I looked at my baby, wondering how I was going to feed him. Yes, [...]

DAY 4: Talk 1 - The Resurrection DAY 4 Talk 1 | The Resurrection Fr. Reginald Malicdem, Rector of the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception (Manila Metropolitan Cathedral): Easter greetings from the Manila Cathedral! This is the second Easter Sunday that we celebrate during the time of the COVID Pandemic. But we know in the midst of this Pandemic, even if the end of this crisis seems to be still far from sight, we still have to celebrate the Resurrection of the Lord… The story of Jesus did not end when He was buried in the tomb. [...]

Grand Easter Feast DAY 4 April 4, 2021 | Grand Easter Feast Holy Mass Manila Cathedral First Reading: Acts 10:34, 37-43 Second Reading: Colossians 3:1-4 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 Gospel: John 20:1-9 Fr. Kali Llamado: Jesus is alive! The Easter message is Jesus is real. Ipinahayag ni San Pedro ang kanyang karanasan kay Hesus.‘Yan ang pinakasentro, pinakamahalagang mensahe ng Easter. Si Hesus ay totoo, si Jesus ay buhay. Mapapahayag lang natin ito kung tayo mismo naranasan natin katulad nina Pedro, nila Maria Magdalena na naranasang buhay si Hesus. If we want to gain back that ability [...]

Not Defeated DAY 3 April 3, 2021 | Black Saturday Welcome and Prayer Bo Sanchez: This is your special gift to yourself. This is how you love yourself by growing your relationship with God. Anything that is still dead, anything that is still lifeless, come Jesus, let Your power flow to every room, dimension, and floor of my life. Bless me powerfully that anything that’s dead within me will rise. Talk 1 | Not Defeated Velden Lim: If you want your Easter Sunday to come, you have to endure your “I have to do it” Black Saturday. Black [...]

Not Alone DAY 2 April 2, 2021 | Good Friday Welcome and Prayer Bo Sanchez: Come upon the presence of the Lord and reflect upon His gift to us… His life and His death. I want you to imagine that you are in a place where God is there… It can be a chapel, a retreat house of one of our events. Forget that you are at home wearing your pajamas. I want you to transport yourself there, imagine that you are there in that place where God speaks. Talk 1 | Scourging at the Pillar Bishop Honesto [...]

Not Holding Back DAY 1 April 1, 2021 | Holy Thursday Welcome and Prayer Bo Sanchez: Welcome to our Not Afraid Holy Week Retreat! This is your appointment with God for the next four days. And I want you to believe that you’ll encounter Him. He will be speaking to you... He will minister to your heart... You are thirsty, you are hungry and God will be with you in the next four days. Father, I don’t want this to be just an online event. I want this to be a real face-to-face encounter with You. I believe [...]

Side A/ Side B Severed Head and Hungry Crowd WELCOME to The Feast! Before we move on, let’s check our map. Where are we in our amazing “Matthew Expedition” which we started last December 2019. One of Matthew’s messages is that Jesus is the New Moses. That has zero emotional impact on us, but this was a radical claim for the Jews. To press on this point, Matthew did something ingenious: He divided the teachings of Jesus into five chunks to parallel the five teachings of Moses: Today, we’ll start a brand-new series which we’ll playfully call Side [...]

You Are Good! WELCOME to The Feast! I am so happy that you are here! Welcome not only to The Feast. Welcome to The Feast Family! I’d like to say a big Thank You to all those who own our mission. You know, The Feast is on a crusade. We want to share God’s Love to the entire world. We want to build Feasts. There are hundreds of Feasts in 26 countries right now and you’re part of that. You really are. So, if you donate, contribute, give tithes to the particular Feast mission— you are not only [...]

Story of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast WELCOME back to our amazing series on the wonderful Parables= of Jesus. Today, we’ll spotlight two of them—about the Seed and the Yeast. Both of them have one message: God likes small. He likes big too. He’s a big God. And He built a big universe. But our problem is we tend to over- like big. And we downplay small. Which is a big mistake. This is God’s powerful word for you. Let me begin with a story. In Cubao, Quezon City, there are a few department stores scattered in [...]

The Story of the Treasure and the Pearl WELCOME to our great “mining expedition” into the Gospel of Matthew. Today, I want to preach the simple message, “I found something more valuable.” Declare this powerful line. Truth: Every decision boils down to value. Why do you spend on a family trip instead of a designer bag? Because you value your relationships. Why do you walk around the village instead of binge-watch Netflix? Because you value your health. Whenever you can’t make a decision, it simply means you don’t know what is important to you. You haven’t found what [...]