CATHOLIC MASS TODAY at OUR LADY OF MANAOAG CHURCH LIVE MASS 5:40 A.M. Mar 6, 2025 Holy Rosary
Our Lady of Manaoag Church Live Mass Today 6 March 2025 Mass Begins Catholic Church Live Mass Today | THURSDAY after ASH Wednesday March 6, 2025 | Thursday When we love God, we have to keep God's commandments, and in doing so, we are heading in the right direction pleasing to God. In today's first reading, Moses presents a profound choice before the Israelites: life and prosperity or death and destruction. He urges them to love the Lord, walk in His ways, and obey His commandments so that they may live and be blessed in the land God has given them. This passage is a call to decision—a reminder that every choice we make has spiritual consequences. God, in His love and justice, does not force us to follow Him. Instead, He gives us the freedom to choose. However, He makes it clear that choosing Him—loving Him, obeying Him, and holding fast to Him—leads to life. Turning away, on the other hand, leads to ruin. This truth is timeless: our daily choices either draw us closer to God or pull us away from Him. Lent is a season that echoes this call to decision. Like the Israelites, we are invited to examine our hearts and choose life—the life that comes from repentance, faith, and obedience to God’s will. In a world filled with distractions and temptations, it is easy to drift away. But God continually calls us back, reminding us that true life is found only in Him. 1st Reading: Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Moses said to the people: "Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom. If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, walking in his ways, and keeping His commandments, statutes, and decrees, you will live and grow numerous, and the LORD, your God, will bless you in the land you are entering to occupy. If, however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen, but are led astray and adore and serve other gods, I tell you now that you will certainly perish; you will not have a long life on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy. I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, by loving the LORD, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him. For that will mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land that the LORD swore he would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." The Word of the Lord. Responsorial Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6 R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord. Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked Nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, But delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on his law day and night. R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord. He is like a tree planted near running water, That yields its fruit in due season, and whose leaves never fade. Whatever he does, prospers. R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord. Not so the wicked, not so; they are like chaff which the wind drives away. For the LORD watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked vanishes. R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord. "Take up your cross daily and deny yourself." I used to believe that my cross was, at times, myself—my illnesses, my pride, my insensitivity, ungratefulness, and unforgiveness. For the many sins, I may have committed against God, instead of confronting my hypocrisy and going beyond my ego trips, may this season of Lent lead me to search for the true meaning of the cross—to know the One who died there, who took our place to give us a place in heaven. Verse Before the Gospel: Matthew 4:17 Repent, says the Lord; the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. Gospel Reading: Luke 9:22-25 Jesus said to his disciples: "The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised." Then he said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?" The Gospel of the Lord. #HolyMass #catholicmass #manaoaglivemasstoday #manaoagmasstoday Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag - RCALD Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lingayen - Dagupan
