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HOW TO DEAL WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE AT WORK

IT’S NORMAL to meet difficult people anywhere you go.

When human beings work together, there are no angels. All are frail and faulty and fallen creatures with fangs, horns, and long red pointy tails.

In your office, I’m sure you have extremely difficult people that you pray for daily. (What you pray for that person? Let me guess: spiritual transformation OR a massive heart attack.)

But when it comes to the topic of the difficult creatures of the universe, I always invite people to look at the mirror. Because without knowing it, we may be the most difficult person in the room. The only reason the problem isn’t so obvious to you is because you’re not in the receiving end of your idiosyncrasies and weaknesses. Others are. And who knows, they’re also praying for you daily. (Yes, either for your spiritual transformation or your massive heart attack.)

Today, we’ll find out how to have happier relationships at work. Without which, you’ll NEVER be happy at work.

Have a fantastic Feast today!

May your dreams come true,

BO SANCHEZ

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Alvin Barcelona3:45 P.M.

Relationships @ Work

Bless the World with Your Talent!

FEAST DECLARATION OF ABUNDANCEToday, I receive all of God’s love for me. Today, I open myself to the unbounded,

limitless, overflowing abundance of God’s universe. Today, I open myself to God’s blessings, healing, and miracles.

Today, I open myself to God’s Word so I would become more like Jesus every day. Today, I proclaim that I am God’s beloved, I am God’s servant,

I am God’s powerful champion. And because I am blessed, I am blessing the world, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

George Gabriel1:00 P.M.

TODAY’S TALK

You’ve heard the line, “Walang personalan, trabaho lang.”

Although it’s true that professionalism should not be mixed with your personal life, we know that most of the time it does.

In fact, it should – if it will bring positive results.

I always share in my talks in the workplace that ultimately what holds you to your work is your love for your work. And most usually, your love for your work is tied up with your love for the people you work with, and work for.

I’ve seen companies, institutions, and professional organiza-tions, grow and stay strong mainly because of the relationships that have been established and deepened among co-workers. Yes, the salary is important. Yes, the benefits are important. But in the end I see that the relationships are of a prime factor for being truly happy with your work.

You wanna be happy with your work? Then you’ve gotta be happy with the people you work with, including those who are difficult to work with.

The Bible says, “Work at living in peace with everyone, and work at living a holy life, for those who are not holy will not see the Lord.” (Hebrews 12:14)

RELATIONSHIPS @ WORK

TALK 2: BELONGTo Be Happy at Work, You Need Happy Relationships at Work

Work at living in peace with everyone, and work at living a holy life, for those who are not holy will not see the Lord.

(Hebrews 12:14)

I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.

(Luke 16:9)

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

(Ephesians 4:2)

Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. (John 13:17)

Personal Reflection and Group Discussion:What can you do so can you have happier relationships at work?

Get ready for another life-changing Feast today!

“Mayroong Magandang Mangyayari Sa ‘Yo!”

Your Friend in Jesus,

Bro. Alvin Barcelona

P.S. Let’s continue to invite family and friends as we “Go for 3000” here at our FEAST PICC 4pm session. Our current practical and empowering talk series will surely be a good opening to them. They will be blessed! You will be doubly blessed! God loves you!

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About two decades ago I attended a music sympo-sium where some of the world’s greatest musicians shared both their talents and insights on stage. They just happened to be the band of then premier wor-ship leader and composer, Don Moen. He had man-aged to invite a team of renowned artists in the secu-lar world who had met Jesus and turned Christian.

My favorite of them all was Abraham Laboriel, bass guitar player for the likes of Kenny Loggins, Stevie Wonder and Lionel Ritchie. Any bass player will tell you that he is up there on the list of the best.

For his final act he played a very simple song entitled “I Surrender All” in various versions — ska, classi-cal, disco, reggae, hip-hop, funk, you name it! At one point, he was dancing around the stage and people were up on their feet cheering his amazing perfor-mance. The crowd went wild.

As soon as the applause settled, he closed with this line: “No matter how good you sound on stage, no matter how talented you are, no matter how many genres you can play, what matters most is that you have LOVE for the people you play with.”

Love is the key.

How are your relationships with the people you work and serve with?

May God help you improve them even more today.

Have a great time and God bless!

in Him,

George Gabriel

P.S. I’ve been missing you guys! I just came from Perth, Australia, where Bro Hermie Morelos and I conducted several workshops and seminars for our LOJ brothers and sisters. This week, I’ll be observing the preparations for the Hillsong Conference in Sydney. So excited to take back what I’ve learned so we can make our Feast even more excellent!

LOVE THE ONES YOU WORK WITH

RELATIONSHIPS @ WORK

TALK 2: BELONGTo Be Happy at Work, You Need Happy Relationships at Work

Work at living in peace with everyone, and work at living a holy life, for those who are not holy will not see the Lord.

(Hebrews 12:14)

I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.

(Luke 16:9)

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

(Ephesians 4:2)

Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. (John 13:17)

Personal Reflection and Group Discussion:What can you do so can you have happier relationships at work?

Get ready for another life-changing Feast today!

“Mayroong Magandang Mangyayari Sa ‘Yo!”

Your Friend in Jesus,

Bro. Alvin Barcelona

P.S. Let’s continue to invite family and friends as we “Go for 3000” here at our FEAST PICC 4pm session. Our current practical and empowering talk series will surely be a good opening to them. They will be blessed! You will be doubly blessed! God loves you!

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LKWOW!The Wonder of Working

by Bo Sanchez

How many people can say “Wow!” while working? Whenever they think of their workload, over-time, deadlines, bosses or salaries?

In this brand new series, God wants you to find Him wherever you are in your work and in your career. He doesn’t want you to keep Him in the church or just in the scriptures. He wants to invade and conquer your jobs, businesses and respective careers. Our God is a God who wants to be involved and to bless us in every area of our lives – even in our professions.

At the end of the series, as you choose to follow God, I pray that you will receive more promotions and more excellence in your areas of expertise. I pray that you experi-ence a profound change in the way you look at your work. There will be more excellence, more pro-ductivity, more anointing, more equipping, more results, more good grades, more promotions. There will be more recognition of your excellence. You will find your gift to the world.

Let me tell you a story.

There are two officemates named Suzy and Shirley.

Suzy came to work. She’s smiling as she puts on her make up. Last night, she went to a party with her boyfriend. It was wild. She was still singing songs in her head. And when she saw the stack of folders on her desk, she groaned, “Why is all the work on me? Am I the only one working here?”

She sat down and started to work. Then the boss walked towards her, with more work due before the day ends. She forced a smile to thank her boss. When her boss turned back, she whispered:

May your hemorrhoid enlarge…May your dandruff multiply…May your mistress be so evil…May you fall into a manhole…All sorts of curses played in her brain…

On the other hand, Shirley too came early to work. She’s smiling as she puts on her make up. Yesterday she attended the Feast with her boyfriend. It was wild. She was still singing the songs in her head. When she saw the stack of folders on her desk, she prayed to God to bless her work. Then the boss walked towards her, with more work due before the day ends. She remembered the message that she learned from the Feast the day before. She expressed gratitude to her boss. And when her boss turned around, she raised her hand to bless him:

Lord, make him less grouchy.Lord, heal him of hemorrhoids.Lord, heal his marriage.In Jesus name! Amen.

Then she happily goes back to work.

I pray that you will see God not only on a Sunday but every day. You will find God in the store, in the cubicle, in the lavatory, in the school — He is everywhere.

Working full-time for the Lord

You do not have to quit your job to please God. You do not have to become a lay missionary, a preacher, or an evangelist to be able to say, “I am working full-time for the Lord!”

We often think that lay missionaries, preachers, or evangelists are the favorites of God – that is a misconception. 1 Corinthi-ans 3:23 says, “Work willingly at whatever you do as though you are working for the Lord rather than for people”.

Whatever you’re doing, I pray that you can say with convic-tion that you are working full-time for the Lord through your profession — whether as scientists, stock brokers, engineers, seamstresses, fishermen, and so on. Every job is an opportu-nity to work for the Lord.

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WORK IS MY PURPOSE, PIETY AND PLEASUREby Jon Escoto

My work brings me to different places. I conduct seminars in hotels that serve good food. But sometimes I don’t get the chance to eat. So, I developed a habit. Take out. I’d pray that God will bring me to a person who will be blessed by the food.

In one of my usual trips, I was walking towards the airport park-ing lot when I saw an airport sweeper. I motioned him to come and handed the wrapped banana cake. As soon as the man re-ceived the food, he dumped it straight to the garbage bin. I was surprised and even a bit insulted. I blurted that if he didn’t like the merienda at least he could have returned it, so I that can give it to somebody else. When the man heard of this, his face lit and he hurriedly dug the wrapped cake from the garbage bun. He then said, all his life whenever somebody would call him, they would hand him garbage. He nearly missed the blessing while he was working because all he was expecting was trash.

God’s work did not end during the Creation. God continues to work even up to this moment. Re-member Romans 8:28, “In all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

When God works with us, we are co-creators of God. Whenever a person works at something worthwhile, God himself is working.

We are sometimes like the airport sweep-er. We miss God’s blessing, because each day of work was meant to bless.

Survey says that 4 out of 5 people work because they have to. This phenomenon is universal. These people work only for salary. Work then becomes a torture to endure. Joy becomes an elusive dream.

The tagalog for work is “hanapbuhay”. Have you ever wondered why it is not called “hanap pera”? Our ancestors want us to find life at work. We spend more than 60% of our waking hours working for the will of God; therefore it is imperative that we find happiness by doing it.

I encourage you to understand the mean-ing of work and find joy in it. Let me share three perspectives:

The holy people in the bible were working people. Jesus spent almost 80 percent of his life as a mason, stone cutter, contractor, house maker and yoke maker.

The common thread that weaves the fabric of holy men is their work. All work is holy. All work is full time Christian work. If you are a loving person at work, then indeed you are a loving person. If you are an excellent person at work, then you are an excellent person. If you are a holy person at work then you are a holy person. You cannot be a holy person only on Sundays but compromise your values on other days at work.

Margaret Young said it best, “Often people attempt to live their lives backwards. They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.”

- with reporting by Judee Quiazon, Ruby Albino, Lucy Aresco and Angelo Taton

Last Sunday, June 22, we celebrated the institution of the Holy Eucharist, otherwise known as the Solemnity of the Most Blessed Holy Body and Blood of the Lord or Corpus Christi.

In his homily, Fr. Eric Santos encouraged everyone to celebrate Mass and to receive the Holy Communion daily or as often as possible. He explained that every mass is in fact a healing mass since sacred bread and wine becomes the real body and blood of Christ (transubstantiation) and shared.

There is a hunger for life and a hunger for love that no money, fame or success can ever relieve. Christ alone is the true bread that nourishes, sustains, satisfies and gives life eternal.

Fr. Eric stressed that as we allow Jesus in our lives through the Holy Communion and His life-giving Word, we grow increasingly like Christ in thought, word and deed. The challenge is to go in peace and start sharing Christ to others, as each of us becomes more and more of what we also share.

- by Jill Loquellano & Ahjh Sabado

CORPUS CHRISTI

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Fr. Bob McConaghy challenged us to play an active role in the celebration of the Holy Mass. And for us to further realize how God is blessing us whenever we partake in the Eucharistic cel-ebration, Fr. Bob imparted some symbols during the mass, whose profound meaning we often fail to recognize:

1. The mass starts with a procession of the ministers and the priest. This signifies that our Lord is journeying with us to heaven – our final home.

2. The two candles in front are reminders that Jesus commis-sioned us to be the light of the

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PARTICIPATE IN THE HOLY MASS

Clad in a working man’s get-up, Bro. Alvin Barcelona began Talk 1: Believe of the new series titled The Wonder of Working (WOW!) by imparting a message: “If you bring God in your workplace, you are working for the Lord. Your work is therefore your worship.”

God wants us to find joy in all the areas of our lives -- including work. We often have this faulty perspective that in order to answer the Lord’s call to serve, to be holy, or to be pleasing in His eyes, we ought to sacrifice everything else. Bro. Alvin emphasized that in reality, we are already answering God’s call to serve through our different vocations. He exclaimed: “If God is in your work, then everything will hold tightly together. You must be conscious that you are serving the Lord. If your work is not your worship, then you might be worshipping your work. You are blessed by God through the work of your hands.”

Our work is a blessing from God. It is a venue to provide for our needs or of that of our loved ones. Failing to find joy at work might mean that we either change it; or we change our negative attitude towards working.

We were preconditioned that labor is a form of punishment – the consequence of being vanished from Eden, where we don’t have to toil the soil or work in order to live. Bro. Alvin revealed that this form of thinking is actually flawed because many blessings are hidden within our jobs. But we spend most of our waking hours at work, thus it affects many things.

LET YOUR WORK BE YOUR WORSHIPby Alvin Barcelona

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Bro. Alvin shared that when he began working full time for the ministry, he realized that he needed money to serve the Lord – to visit and care for prisoners. And to top that, Bro. Alvin added that as a father, he needed to pay for his son’s tuition fee. “Because I love them, I need to provide for them”, Bro Alvin said.

Work is a means of loving. It is therefore sacred. And as Bro. Alvin puts it through a quote of Radyo Veritas’ Fr. Ben Carreon, “Work is love manifested.”

world. That the noblest deed that we can do for our spiritual brothers and sisters is to lead them to Christ—and therefore to everlasting life, especially those who have not yet intimately known the Lord. Fr. Bob suggested that prior to the start of the mass; we can ask the guidance of the Holy Spirit to point us to someone whom we can lift up in prayer.

3. The priest kisses the altar stone as a sign of affection to the Lord. This stone contains the relic of a saint, as their body had once become the vessel of the Holy Spirit. During the mass these saints are also spiritually present, and we can ask their effective intercession for our petitions to the Lord.

4. We can ask the Lord for surprises during the Liturgy of the Word. Fr. Bob advised that we can ask the Lord to hark us a word or a simple phrase to catch our attention. And it is with these words that we should seek the Lord’s guidance as He will reveal the meaning of this message in the weeks ahead.

- With reporting by Andrew Tia and Rofy Lagundino

PISTARA, Year 2 Na!by Anne Sanchez

The Feast PICC servants gathered at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum last June 21, 2014 for PISTARA, Year 2 Na! with the theme: Pal-igsahan, Kasiglahan Tungo kay Kristo. The event was made pos-sible through the skillful administrative prowess of the Couple’s Ministry.

Registration for the set groupings commenced at 7 A.M after the opening of the gates. The whole coliseum was rocked by Bro. Bene Sanchez and the Misfits band. They led the worship with their rendition of Hillsong’s Oceans, Alive and Through Christ by Generation Unleashed. Masters of the Ceremony, Bros. Joey Binay, Efren Borja and Ritchie Davila graciously hosted the event with much wit and humor.

Bro. Rolly and Sis. Donna Espana formally opened Pistara with a passage from Mark 6:31: “Come with me by yourself to a quiet place and get some rest.” They pointed out how Jesus values the importance of rest among His followers. Pistara is a venue wherein servants are encouraged to have fun through friendly competition. It has since then became a hub for the launching of the core values of the Light of Jesus Family (LOJF). Each core value has a color assigned to it. The colors correspond to the groupings chosen by the attendees during the registration. The core values were the following: Faithful (blue), generous (yellow), humble (white), passionate (red) and obedi-ent (green).

To jumpstart the Parade of Colors, all the participants were called to proceed to the center of the Coliseum. Warm up exer-cises ensued headed by Sis. Poma and Sis. Joy.

After the teams have gone back to their respective areas, game Masters Kevin James and Rommel Bautista presented the point system; games and their brief description.

The first game was titled Acid Walk. It was a race between two teams with 10 members. The goal was to follow a path and cross it without falling from the boxes. Members cross from the vacant box unto the finish line. Blanket Volleyball had 20 participants per team. The two teams were given 5 blankets to catch the ball. Each team was given three seconds to toss the ball to the other side of the net. The first team to reach 10 points was declared winner of the game.

While Acid Walk and Blanket Ball were both based on a knock-out system, the last game – Obstacle Course was a time trial event. Each team had 10 participants and the objective was to complete four stages: Into the Tunnel, Memory Game, Nerf Shooting Range and Squeeze and Run. Thunderous cheers from competing groups echoed inside the Coliseum as participants rooted for their teammates. Every team carried out their game strategies and all were determined to claim victory.

While lunch was being served and while the scores were being processed, teams were called to reflect on two questions: “What were the things that you did which displayed the core value of your team? And how will you show these core values as you serve at The Feast? For the closing remarks, Bro. Bo Sanchez, the founder of The Feast, exclaimed: “Thank you for serving with me. The Feast will make many people closer to God. We have just begun. Many are spiritually thirsty. Together, we will bring them closer to the Lord. Thank you. I love you.” Afterwards, the final scores were announced and the Yellow team was proclaimed the overall champion. Sis. Lei Caraan led the closing prayer to conclude the success of yet another event offered to God’s glory. Who says service is all work and no play? Come join us and be blessed beyond your imagination!

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TODAY!

THE FEAST PICC Leaders

BuildersBo. Sanchez

PICC Feast Builder & LOJF FounderGeorge Gabriel

1 PM SessionAlvin Barcelona

4 PM Session

Feast CouncilRolly Espana, Council Head

Donna EspanaVita MonforteBeckie Sanchez

Ministry ClustersGeorge Gabriel

Events & Programs Cluster HeadEd & Olive Co

WARMTH Cluster HeadMarc Sto. Tomas

Liturgical Cluster HeadMhean Liwag

Prayer Cluster HeadTom Yokingco

Family/CG Cluster Head

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