FRED VERGARA BOOKS

  MESSAGE TO ALL FILIPINO AMERICANS ON THE 123 RD PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE DAY The Rev. Canon Dr. Winfred B. Vergara, Missioner for Asiamerica Ministries in the Episcopal Church, Delivered at the Filipino American celebration in Queens, New York. To all my fellow Kababayans here in the United States, in the Philippines and all around the world. Happy 123 rd Philippine Independence Day. Here in Queens, New York we are celebrating this event with an Open Air Mass and  Group Picnic here at Flushing Meadows Park. Thank you, Rev. Henry "Bong" Janiola and Gary Labao for organizing this event. Maybe this is a foretaste of more celebratory events, the grandest one being a celebration of the end of COVID pandemic.  I think it is significant that this celebration is jointly sponsored by the Iglesia Filipina Independiente and the Federation of Filipino Concerns (NAFCON) and Migrante. It is significant because in history, the struggle for Philippine Independence was founded on

  THE HOLY SPIRIT: WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT? WHAT ARE THE SYMBOLS OF THE HOLY S PIRIT? HOW TO BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT? Sermon by The Rev. Canon Dr. Fred Vergara on Pentecost Sunday, May 23, 2021. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 130 Jerusalem Avenue, Hicksville, New York, USA. “Come Holy Spirit, I need you; Come Holy Spirit, I pray. Come in thy strength and thy power. Come in thine own special way.” My friends, if there is any one or anything, we need so much today, it is the Holy Spirit. Our world is collapsing, our nations are collapsing, our churches are collapsing, many of our lives and the things we hold so dear, are collapsing. We need the Holy Spirit to sustain us, to inspire us, to empower us and to make life worth living. Today, I will share about the Holy Spirit: (1)   Who is the Holy Spirit? (2) What are the Symbols of the Holy Spirit and what do they mean? (3) How to be filled with the Holy Spirit? I.WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT It is wrong to ask what is the Holy Spirit