The Feast CDO

What is the Feast?
"One of the happiest places on earth." The Feast is a Catholic prayer meeting of the Light of Jesus Family founded by Bro. Bo Sanchez.
We dream of 100,000 Feasts all over the world.

The Feast CDO: "Where the river of blessings flows!
Established on April 8, 2010

LIVE FEAST SCHEDULES in CDO:
FREE Admission! Open to everyone, Come! Join us!

1) Feast CDO Saturdays
5:45-8PM, SM Downtown Cinema 2
Anticipated Holy Mass + Worship + Inspirational Talk

2) Feast CDO Sundays
3:00-4:30PM, Rosario Pavilion, Limketkai Center
*Our Lady of Manaoag Chapel Mass Schedule - 5:30PM

3) Feast CDO Wednesdays
6:30 to 8:00pm, SM Downtown Cinema 2
Praise Party + Inspirational Talk

FREE ADMISSION!!!
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Who we are:
The Light of Jesus Family is one big family. What makes us big is God’s big love for us, our big love for God and for one another. God’s love for us and our love for Him and for one another is actually the Light which we now share to as many persons as we can reach.

Our Founder:
Bo Sanchez

The ministry of Bo Sanchez started in 1980, when Bo, then 14 years old, led the Light of Jesus prayer meeting. The following year, 30 regular attendees of the prayer meetings formed the Core Family of what is now known as the Light of Jesus Community. Today, the Light of Jesus Family has thousands of members all over the world.

Now 46 years old, Bo Sanchez is the author of thirty-one bestselling books and publisher of eight magazines. Bo also has a weekly television show on IBC 13 (Sundays, 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.), and on cable channels ANC (Sundays, 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.; Mondays, 12:30 to 1:00 a.m). , TV Maria (Mondays, 5 a.m., 11 a.m., 7 p.m., 11:30 p.m., Sundays, 12 m.n.) and M&L (Sundays, 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.). He also has a daily Radio program on Radio Veritas from Monday to Saturday, 5 a.m. and Sunday, 8 a.m., as well as an online inspirational show (www.preacherinbluejeans.com) that he shares with other preachers from the Light of Jesus.

Bo is an international speaker, having travelled extensively around the world. So far, he has spoken in 14 countries, including 38 cities in North America.

He founded many organizations, such as Anawim, a home for the abandoned elderly and the poorest of the poor, Shepherd’s Voice Publication, a media group that publishes the widest read inspirational literature in the country, and Shepherd’s Voice Radio & Television Foundation, Inc., an all-media organization that produces world-class inspirational and spiritually-enriching programs. He also founded the Light of Jesus Pastoral Care Center.

Our History:
Spreading God’s Word to the Ends of the Earth

On March 26, 1978, Tito Gene (Eugenio Sanchez Sr.) and Tita Pilar attended their first prayer meeting held by the Upper Room Prayer Group in Project 7, Quezon City.

The Sanchez’s attended the prayer meetings regularly, bringing along their children. In one of those meetings, a leader of the Upper Room, looking at the Sanchez’s youngest son Bo, then only 12 years old, prophesied that the boy would be speaking to thousands about God.

After 18 months, the Sanchez’s decided to organize their own prayer group, named the Light of Jesus, and held their first prayer meeting at the garage of their home at 56 Chicago Street, Cubao, Quezon City, on September 9, 1980, with Bo leading the meeting.

The following year, 30 regular attendees of the prayer meetings formed the Core Family of what was then called Light of Jesus Community.

The LOJ Family Grows Bigger

In the ‘80s, as the Core Family went out to establish prayer meetings in various parts of Metro Manila and nearby provinces, members of the Light of Jesus or LOJ rapidly increased in number. The members, coming from various walks of life, were grouped into “families,” composed of 30 to 50 members, such as the Love Family, Strength Family, Joy Family, Peace Family, Faith Family, and the Glory Family.

The families built more prayer meetings and so LOJ organized branches such as the Discipleship Communities for Christ (DCC); Homes for Christ, for couples; Youth Mission for Parishes and Communities (YMPACT); Esther, for single women professionals; Joshua, for single men professionals; and Tabitha, for single mature women.

In the 1990s, as members went to the Visayas and Mindanao to establish prayer groups, more people joined the Light of Jesus. And so the community was organized into various regions, districts, and chapters. Each chapter was composed of caring groups, the nucleus of the entire organization, composed of five to 15 members.
Fulfilling the Vision of Spreading God’s Word All Over the World

By the early 2000s, Bro. Bo established the Feast, a Sunday prayer gathering with Holy Mass, lively worship, and series of talks on practical Christian Living – first held at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City. The members of the LOJ regions and chapters were reorganized to build more Feasts which showed videos of talks of Bro. Bo in the main Feast.

Come 2009, Bro. Bo, following leading from the Lord, assigned Feast Builders, well known preachers and authors of spiritual books, who established new Feasts. Today, there are now over 200 Feasts, led by these Feast Builders.

Light of Jesus has also gone international, establishing prayer groups in key areas in Asia, the Middle East, the United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada which are also holding Feasts.
Supporting Various Mercy Ministries

The Light of Jesus has also supported various ministries of Bro. Bo Sanchez such as the Shepherd’s Voice Publications Inc. which publishes the bestselling inspirational magazine, Kerygma – from the Greek word Kerygma which means proclamation of the gospel. SVP also publishes Fish, an inspirational magazine for teenagers, All Stars, for ‘tweens’ and Mustard, for children. SVP also publishes daily devotionals (such as Companion, Didache and Sabbath) and books by Bro. Bo Sanchez and other authors.

The LOJ also supports the Shepherd’s Voice Radio and Television Foundation which produces TV shows such as – Kerygma TV, Inside the Fish Bowl, and Mustard TV, and the online inspirational show, Preacher in Blue Jeans, featuring Bro. Bo Sanchez and other speakers from LOJ. SVRTV also manages Kerygma Family – a non-physical, borderless, world-wide community that receives spiritual nourishment daily virtually and provides a venue for donations to the mission of spreading God’s Word and making Disciples.

For its Mercy Ministry, the Light of Jesus has the Anawim Lay Missions Foundation, Inc., established by Bro. Bo Sanchez as a home for abandoned elderly and Grace To Be Born, a shelter for women in crisis with an advocacy against abortion. After many years, LOJ has partnered and supports He Cares Foundation, a home with livelihood program for street children; Tahanan ng Pagmamahal, an orphanage; and Pag-asa ng Pamilya, a scholarship for out-of-school youth.

LOJ members also serve in the Light of Jesus Pastoral Center, providing telephone counseling services to hundreds of people needing comfort in their darkest hours. Following Jesus’ mandate to visit those in prison, the Light of Jesus also has a Prison Ministry which holds regular prayer meetings at the Correctional Institution for Women.