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Passion for Truth and Compassion for Humanity

THE SACRAMENT OF
CONFIRMATION

10 March 2023
Friday, 8:00 A.M & 1:00 P.M
Siena Chapel

Most. Rev. Honesto F. Ongtioco

D.D
Main Celebrant

Rev. Fr. Raul Buen

Concelebrant
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E U C H A R I S T I C C E L E B R AT I O N
10 March 2023
Siena Chapel
INTRODUCTION

Commentator: Good morning and Mabuhay! Blessed be

God forever!

Today is Wednesday of the Second Week of

Easter.

Today’s Gospel tells us that we are only given

the opportunity to be saved if we truly desire
it. It urges us to be honest with ourselves, to
others, and to the Lord in order to accomplish
this. The Gospel today also necessitates
following the Lord's instructions and how
much it is important to grow your faith in
Jesus.

In this Eucharist Celebration, let us open our

hearts and minds to receive the gift of the
Holy Spirit and make it effective through
deeds and action.

Together, let us welcome our mass presider

Rev. Fr. Eymard Mark Ma. Gayotin from the
Marian Missionaries of the Holy Cross. Let us
all rise and join the choir in singing the
entrance hymn.

Entrance Hymn: Table of Plenty

I. INTRODUCTORY RITES

Celebrant: In the name of the Father, and of the

Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
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People: Amen.

Celebrant: Peace be with you.

People: And with your Spirit.

Celebrant: Brethren, let us acknowledge our sins, and so

prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred
mysteries.

I Confess…

People: to almighty God and to you, my brothers and

sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my
thoughts and in my words, in what I have
done and in what I have failed to do, through
my fault, through my fault, through my most
grievous fault; therefore, I ask blessed Mary
ever Virgin, all the angels and saints, and
you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me
to the Lord our God.

Celebrant: May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive

us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.

People: Amen .

Kyrie: Lord, Have Mercy (Dan Schutte)

Celebrant: Glory to God in the highest

Glory to God in the Highest (Dan

Schutte)

Celebrant: Let us pray.

Grant, we pray, almighty and merciful God,
that the Holy Spirit, coming near and dwelling
graciously within us, may make of us a
perfect temple of his glory. Through our Lord
Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns
with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one
God, for ever and ever.
People: Amen.

II. LITURGY OF THE WORD

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Commentator: Please be seated for the Liturgy of the Word.

FIRST READING: Isaiah 42: 1–3

Lector: A reading from the book of the Prophet

Isaiah

The Lord says this: ‘Here is my servant whom

I uphold, my chosen one in whom my soul
delights. I have endowed him with my spirit
that he may bring true justice to the nations.
He does not cry out or shout aloud, or make
his voice heard in the streets. He does not
break the crushed reed, nor quench the
wavering flame. Faithfully he brings true
justice.
The Word of the Lord.

People: Thanks be to God.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (sung)

Cantors: Lord, send out You Spirit

SECOND READING: ACTS 10: 1. 33–34. 37–44

One of the centurions of the Italica cohort

stationed in
Caesarea was called Cornelius. He said to
Peter. “I sent for you at once, and you have
been kind enough to come. Here we all are,
assembled in front of you to hear what
message God has given you for us.” Then
Peter addressed them: “You must have heard
about the recent happenings in Judaea; about
Jesus of Nazareth and how he began in
Galilee, after John had been preaching
baptism. God had anointed him with the Holy
Spirit and with power, and because God was
with him, Jesus went about doing good and
curing all who had fallen into the power of the
devil. Now I, and those with me, can witness
to everything he did throughout the
countryside of Judaea and in Jerusalem itself:
and also to the fact that they killed him by
hanging him on a tree, yet three days
afterwards God raised him to life and allowed
him to be seen, not by the whole people but
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only by certain witnesses God had chosen

beforehand. Now we are those witnesses –
we have eaten and drunk with him after his
resurrection from the dead – and he has
ordered us to proclaim this to his people and
to tell them that God has appointed him to
judge everyone, alive or dead. It is to him
that all the prophets bear this witness: that
all who believe in Jesus will have their sins
forgiven through his name.’
The Word of the Lord.

People: Thanks be to God.

Commentator: Please all rise to honor the holy Gospel.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Thy Word (sung)

Celebrant: The Lord be with you.

People: And with your Spirit.

Celebrant: A reading from the holy Gospel according St.

John.
John 14: 23–26
People: Glory to you, O Lord.

Celebrant:
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘If anyone
loves me he will keep my word, and my
Father will love him, and we shall come to
him and make our home with him. Those who
do not love me do not keep my words. And
my word is not my own; it is the word of the
one who sent me. I have said these things to
you while still with you; but the Advocate, the
Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my
name, will teach you everything and remind
you of all I have said to you.’
The Gospel of the Lord.

People: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Commentator: Please be seated.

III. RITE OF CONFIRMATION

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PRESENTATION OF THE CANDIDATES

Presenter: Most Rev. Honesto F. Ongtioco DD, the school of
Siena College Inc. Quezon City present to you
these young men and women who have prepared
for and are now ready to receive the Sacrament of
Confirmation.

(The people give applause)

Commentator: Please be seated

HOMILY
RENEWAL OF BAPTISMAL PROMISES

Commentator: May I request all the Candidates for

Confirmation to please stand for the renewal
of Baptismal promises.

Candidates: Your Excellency, Bishop Honesto F. Ongtioco,

we desire with all our hearts to receive this
beautiful Sacrament of Christian Maturity, the
Sacrament of Confirmation.

Commentator: The candles will now be lighted from the

Paschal candle which represents Christ, to
remind us that the life we receive in Baptism
will unfold into Christian Maturity.

(The assigned candidates per row may light their candle at the
paschal Candle)

Bishop: Before you receive the Holy Spirit, I ask you

to renew the profession of faith that you
made in baptism, or that your parents and
godparents made in union with the whole
Church.

Bishop: Do you reject Satan and all his works and all
his empty
promises?

Candidates: I do.
Bishop: Do you believe in God the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth?
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Candidates: I do.
Bishop: Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son,
our Lord, who was born of the Virgin Mary,
was crucified, died, and was buried, rose
from the dead, and is now seated at the right
hand of the Father?

Candidates: I do.
Bishop: Do you believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord,
the giver of life, who came upon the apostles
at Pentecost and today is given to you
sacramentally in confirmation?

Candidates: I do.
Bishop: Do you believe in the Holy Catholic Church,
the communion of saints, the forgiveness of
sins, the resurrection of the body, and life
everlasting?

Candidates: I do.
Bishop: This is our faith. This is the faith of the
Church. We are proud to profess it in Christ
Jesus our Lord.

People: Amen.

THE LAYING OF HANDS

Commentator: We will now have the laying of hands. The
laying hands is the biblical gesture by which
the gift of the Holy Spirit is invoked. May we
the request the confirmands and togethers
with their sponsors to please kneel.

Bishop: My dear friends, in baptism God our Father

gave the new birth of eternal life to his
chosen sons and daughters. Let us pray to
the Father that he will pour out the Holy Spirit
to strengthen his sons and daughters with his
gifts and anoint them to be more like Christ
the Son of God.

The bishop who will administer the sacrament with him lay hands
upon all confirmands. The Bishop alone sings
or says:
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Bishop: All-powerful God, Father of our Lord Jesus

Christ, by water and the Holy Spirit you freed
your sons and daughters from sin and gave
them new life. Send your Holy Spirit upon
them to be their Helper and Guide. Give them
the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the
spirit of right judgement and courage, the
spirit of knowledge and reverence. Fill them
with the spirit of wonder and awe in your
presence. Through Christ our Lord.

People: Amen.

Commentator: Please be seated.

THE ANOINTING WITH CHRISM

Commentator: We will now have the anointing of Chrism oil.
Signed with the perfume oil, the baptized
person receives the indelible character, the
seal of the Lord, together with the Holy Spirit.

The candidates for Confirmation will come

forward one by one. May we now ask the
godparents of our Confirmands to please
stand beside your godchild.

Bishop: (Name of the candidate) _________, be

sealed with the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Newly Confirmed: Amen

Bishop: Peace be with you.

Newly Confirmed: And with your spirit.

Commentator: Please all stand.

UNIVERSAL PRAYER

Celebrant: My dear friends: let us be one in prayer to

God our Father as we are one in the faith,
hope, and love his Spirit gives.
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For every petition we say: Lord, hear our

prayer.

Commentator: Lord, hear our prayer.

Lector: For these sons and daughters of God,

confirmed by the gift of the Spirit, that they
give witness to Christ by lives built on faith
and love.
Let us pray to the Lord.

People: Lord, hear our prayer.

Lector: For their parents and godparents who led

them in faith, that by word and example they
may always encourage them to follow the
way of Jesus Christ
Let us pray to the Lord.

People: Lord, hear our prayer.

Lector: For the holy Church of God, in union with

Francis our pope, Honesto our bishop, and all
the bishops, that God, who gathers us
together by the Holy Spirit, may help us grow
in unity of faith and love until his Son returns
in glory
Let us pray to the Lord.

People: Lord hear our prayer.

Lector: For all men and women, of every race and

nation, that they may acknowledge the one
God as Father, and in the bond of common
brotherhood seek his kingdom, which is
peace and joy in the Holy Spirit:
Let us pray to the Lord.

People: Lord hear our prayer.

Celebrant: God our Father, you sent your Holy Spirit

upon the apostles, and through them and
their successors you give the Spirit to your
people. May his work begun at Pentecost
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continue to grow in the hearts of all who

believe. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

People: Amen.

Commentator: Please be seated for the Liturgy of the

Eucharist.

IV. LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

PRESENTATION OF GIFTS

Offertory Song: Isang Alay

Commentator: Please all stand.

Celebrant: Pray, brethren, that my sacrifice and yours

may be acceptable to God, the almighty
Father.

People: May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your

hands for the praise and glory of His name,
for our good and the good of all His Holy
Church.

PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS

Celebrant: Accept graciously these your servants, O

Lord, together with your Only Begotten Son,
so that, signed with his Cross and with a
spiritual anointing, they may constantly offer
themselves to you in union with him and
merit each day a greater outpouring of your
Spirit. Through Christ our Lord.

People: Amen.

THE EUCHARISTIC PRAYER

Celebrant: The Lord be with you.

People: And with your Spirit.

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Celebrant: Lift up your hearts.

People: We lift them up to the Lord.

Celebrant: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

People: It is right and just.

PREFACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Celebrant: It is truly right and just, our duty and our

salvation, always and everywhere to give you
thanks, Lord, holy Father, almighty and
eternal God.

For you bestow gifts suited to every season

and guide the governing of your Church in
wonderful ways. By the power of the Holy
Spirit you come unfailingly to her aid, so that
with a heart always subject to you she may
never fail to seek your help in time of trouble
nor cease to give you thanks in time of joy,
through Christ our Lord.

And so, in company with the choirs of Angels,

we praise you, and with joy we proclaim:

SANCTUS: Holy (Dan Schutte)

Commentator: Please all kneel.

EUCHARISTIC PRAYER III

Celebrant: You are indeed Holy, O Lord,

and all you have created
rightly gives you praise,
for through your Son our Lord Jesus
Christ,
by the power and working of the Holy
Spirit,
you give life to all things and make
them holy, and you never cease to
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gather a people to yourself, so that from

the rising of the sun to its setting
a pure sacrifice may be offered to your
name.
(He joins his hands and, holding them
outstretched over the offering, says:)

Therefore, O Lord, we humbly implore

you:
by the same Spirit graciously make holy
these gifts we have brought to you for
consecration,
(He joins his hands and, making the Sign of
the Cross once over the bread and chalice,
says:)

that they may become the Body and

Blood of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
at whose command we celebrate this
Eucharist.
(He joins his hands)

For the night he was betrayed,

(He takes the bread and, holding it slightly

raise above the altar, continues:)

He himself took bread,

and giving you thanks he said the
blessing, broke the bread and gave it to
his disciples, saying:
(He bows slightly)

TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND EAT OF IT,

FOR THIS IS MY BODY, WHICH WILL BE
GIVEN UP FOR YOU.
(He shows the consecrated host to the
people, places it again on the paten, and
genuflects in adoration.)

(Then he continues:)

In a similar way, when supper was

ended,
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(He takes the chalice and, raising it a little

above the altar, continues:)

he took the chalice, and giving you

thanks he said the blessing, and gave
the chalice to his disciples, saying:
(He bows slightly)

TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND DRINK

FROM IT,
FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD,
THE BLOOD OF THE NEW AND ETERNAL
COVENANT,
WHICH WILL BE POURED OUT FOR YOU
AND FOR MANY FOR THE FORGIVENESS
OF SINS.
DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME.
(He shows the chalice to the people, places it
on the corporal, and genuflects in adoration.)

Celebrant: Let us proclaim the Mystery of Faith.

Commentator: Please all stand.

ACCLAMATION: When we eat this bread (Dan Schutte)

Celebrant: Therefore, O Lord, as we celebrate the

memorial of the saving Passion of your
Son, his wondrous Resurrection and
Ascension into heaven, and as we look
forward to his second coming, we offer
you in thanksgiving this holy and living
sacrifice.

Look, we pray, upon the oblation of your

Church and, recognizing the sacrificial
Victim by whose death you willed to
reconcile us to yourself, grant that we,
who are nourished by the Body and
Blood of your Son and filled with his
Holy Spirit, may become one body, one
spirit in Christ.
Concelebrant: May he make of us an eternal offering
to you,
so that we may obtain an inheritance
with your elect,
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especially with the most blessed Virgin

Mary, Mother of God, Saint Joseph, her
spouse with your blessed Apostles and
glorious Martyrs, and with all the Saints,
on whose constant intercession in your
presence we rely for unfailing help.

Remember also, Lord, your servants

reborn in Baptism whom you have been
pleased to confirm by bestowing the
Holy Spirit, and in your mercy, keep safe
in them your grace.

Listen graciously to the prayers of this

family, whom you have summoned
before you: in your compassion, O
merciful Father, gather to yourself all
your children scattered throughout the
world.

† To our departed brothers and sisters

and to all who were pleasing to you at
their passing from this life, give kind
admittance to your kingdom. There we
hope to enjoy for ever the fullness of
your glory
(He joins his hands)
through Christ our Lord, through whom
you bestow on the world all that is
good. †

Celebrant: Through him, and with him, and in him,

O God, almighty Father, in the unity of
the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is
yours, forever and ever.

People: Amen (Dan Schutte)

COMMUNION RITE

Celebrant: At the Savior’s command and formed by

divine teaching, we dare to say:

OUR FATHER: Our Father (Misa Delgado)

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Celebrant: Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil,

graciously grant peace in our days, that, by
the help of your mercy,
we may be always free from sin and safe
from all distress, as we await the blessed
hope and the coming of our Savior, Jesus
Christ.

People: For the Kingdom (sung)

Celebrant: Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your Apostles,

Peace I leave you, my peace I give you, look
not on our sins,
but on the faith of your Church, and
graciously grant her peace and unity in
accordance with your will. Who live and reign
for ever and ever.

People: Amen.

Celebrant: The peace of the Lord be with you always.

People: And with your spirit.

Celebrant: Let us offer each other the sign of peace.

(Then he takes the host, breaks it over the

paten, and places a small piece in the
chalice, saying quietly:)

May this mingling of the body and blood of

our Lord Jesus Christ bring eternal life to us
who receive it.

LAMB OF GOD: Lamb of God (Dan Schutte)

(The celebrant with hands, joined, says

quietly: )
May the receiving of your Body and Blood,
Lord Jesus Christ, not bring me to judgment
and condemnation, but through your loving
mercy be for me protection in mind and body,
and a healing remedy.
(He genuflects, takes the host and, holding it
slightly raised above the paten or above the
chalice, while facing the people, says aloud: )
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Commentator: Please all kneel.

Celebrant: Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him who

takes away the sins of the world. Blessed are
those called to the supper of the Lamb.

People: Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter

under my roof, but only say the word and my
soul shall be healed.

Commentator: Please be seated.

COMMUNION PROPER

Now is the time

Send us your spirit

Commentator: Please all rise.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

Celebrant: Let us pray.

Accompany with your blessing from this day

forward, O Lord, those who have been
anointed with the Holy Spirit and nourished
by the Sacrament of your Son, so that, with
all trials overcome, they may gladden your
Church by their holiness and, through their
works and their charity, foster her growth in
the world. Through Christ our Lord.

People: Amen.

CONCLUDING RITES

Celebrant: The Lord be with you.

People: And with your spirit.

Celebrant: Bow your head and pray for God’s blessings.

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May God the Father almighty bless you,

whom he has made his adopted sons and
daughters reborn from water and the Holy
Spirit, and may he keep you worthy of his
fatherly love.
People: Amen.

Celebrant: May his Only Begotten Son, who promised

that the Spirit of truth would abide in his
Church, bless you and confirm you by his
power in the confession of the true faith.

People: Amen.

Celebrant: May the Holy Spirit, who kindles the fire of

charity in the hearts of disciples, bless you
and lead you blameless and gathered as one
into the joy of the Kingdom of God.

People: Amen.

Celebrant: May almighty God bless all of you, who are

gathered here, the Father,  and the Son, 
and the Holy  Spirit.

People: Amen.

Celebrant: Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.

People: Thanks be to God.

Commentator: Please be seated for a moment.

On behalf of the Administration, faculty, staff,

parents and the candidates for graduation
(Elementary, Senior High School and College)
of Siena College Quezon City, I convey to you
our sincerest gratitude, Most. Rev. Honest
Ongtioco DD, for gracing our Eucharistic
Celebration with your presence and with your
inspiring homily. Thank you, Bishop, for being
part of this momentous event in our students
lives.
Friends, let us give Bishop Honesto a warm
round of applause.
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Likewise, we give our profound gratitude to

our priest concelebrant Rev. Fr. Raul Buen for
sparing their precious time just to be with us
today. May we also give him a big hand.

To the altar servers, lectors, cantors, choir

and offerers, thank you so much for the
excellent service. Let us give them a warm
applause.

Please all rise. We now sing our Recessional

Hymn.

RECESSIONAL: Come, O Holy Spirit.

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