3. Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines
EPISCOPAL COMMISSION ON SOCIAL ACTION, JUSTICE AND PEACE
(CBCP-ECSAJP)
YEAR OF THE POOR
December 2014 – November 2015

4. We Look at You
Lord Jesus, we are gathered in your love,
Responding to your call to be with our
brothers and sisters who are poor.
We cannot do it without you.
Look at each one of us,
and give us the courage
to also look at you.

5. As you look at us, we recognize our need
for your Love, Mercy and Compassion.
We are poor in many things
that the world expect us to have
But we are rich in everything that you provide,
You provide us with love and faith
that we need to live daily
You forgive us our sins no matter
how many of them
You welcome us in your banquet
With food and water that make us full in spirit.

6. We bring with us today our brothers and sisters
who have no opportunity to join us today
Those who toil endlessly to earn a living
for their families.
We pray for our Church, government
and civil society leaders
Who go against the tide of power to bring to us
the real meaning of public service
and servant leadership.

7. Together, “We look at you, our Lord Jesus”
Together, we allow ourselves to be loved
and forgiven by you
Lord Jesus, we are ready, we are open,
We are waiting in thanksgiving,
awe and wonder.
Journey with us in this formation program
And throughout our celebration
of the Year of the Poor.
We pray in your name, our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.

8. Bring all that You are
Response:
Bring all that you are, all that you have,
and all that you can be.
Come, have breakfast with God
“Bring some of the fish that you have just caught.” (John 21:10)
“Come and have breakfast.” (John 21:12)

9. All:
The day has just begun….
a new day, a new life ahead of us.
May the Spirit of God give us the strength
to walk an extra mile (Mt. 5:41)
And offer the best that we have to those in
need (Num. 8:12)

10. Reader 1:
If anyone forces you to go one mile, go also
the second mile (Mt. 5:41).
Reader 2:
All the best of the oil and all the best of the
wine and of the grain,
the choice produce that they give to the
LORD, I have given to you
(Num. 18:12).

11. Response:
Bring all that you are, all that you have, and
all that you can be.
Come, have breakfast with God
All:
My Life has just begun…
A new day, a new life ahead of me.
May I be able to see the beauty and the needs
around me (Isa. 58:10)
May I be able to give back to others what God
has given me (Mt. 25:29).

12. Reader 3:
If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy
the needs of the afflicted,
then your light shall rise in the darkness and your
gloom be like the noonday
(Isa. 58:10 )
Reader 4:
For all those who have, more will be given,
and they will have an abundance; but from those
who have nothing,
even what they have will be taken away. (Mt.
25:29)

13. Response:
Bring all that you are, all that you have, and all
that you can be.
Come, have breakfast with God
All:
Our deeper awakening has just begun…
for the needs of those who suffer in poverty,
oppressed and unjustly treated ,
May we be just ourselves and do what is right
(Ps. 1:6)
So that we can be worthy to care for others and
bring about peace and justice (Job 17:9)

14. Reader 5:
For the LORD watches over the way of the
righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish (Ps. 1:6).
Reader 6:
Yet the righteous hold to their way,
and they that have clean hands grow stronger
and stronger (Job 17:9).

15. Response:
Bring all that you are, all that you have, and
all that you can be.
Come, have breakfast with God
All:
Our greater call has been known…
You and I for those whom God has favored
(Lk. 6:20-22)
May we recognize the Lord in the poor and
hungry, And in everyone Jesus send to us. (Mt.
25:24-35)

16. Reader 7:
Blessed are you who are poor,
for yours is the kingdom of God.
“Blessed are you who are hungry now,
for you will be filled.
“Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.
“Blessed are you when people hate you, and
when they exclude you, revile you, and defame
you on account of the Son of Man (Lk. 6:20-22).

17. Reader 8:
‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world; for I was hungry and
you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave
me something to drink, I was a stranger and
you welcomed me (Mt. 25:34-35).
Response:
Bring all that you are, all that you have, and
all that you can be.
Come, have breakfast with God