Huwebes, Setyembre 5, 2024

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Huwebes ng Ika-22 Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon (II)

1 Corinto 3, 18-23
Salmo 23, 1-2. 3-4ab. 5-6

Ang daigdig lahat doon,
ang may-ari’y ating Poon.

Lucas 5, 1-11

Thursday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time (Green)

UNANG PAGBASA
1 Corinto 3, 18-23

Pagbasa mula sa unang sulat ni Apostol San Pablo sa mga taga-Corinto

Mga kapatid, huwag dayain ninuman ang kanyang sarili. Kung may nag-aakalang siya’y marunong ayon sa sanlibutang ito, ibilang niyang siya’y mangmang upang maging tunay na marunong. Sapagkat ang karunungan ng sanlibutang ito ay kamangmangan sa paningin ng Diyos. Ganito ang sinasabi sa Kasulatan, “Hinuhuli niya ang marurunong sa kanila na ring katusuhan.” Gayun din, “Alam ng Panginoon na ang iniisip ng marurunong ay walang kabuluhan.” Kaya’t huwag ipagmalaki ninuman ang nagagawa ng tao. Ang lahat ay inyo: si Pablo, si Apolos, at si Pedro; ang sanlibutang ito, ang buhay, ang kamatayan, ang kasalukuyan, at ang hinaharap – lahat ng ito’y sa inyo. At kayo’y kay Kristo, at si Kristo nama’y sa Diyos.

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

SALMONG TUGUNAN
Salmo 23, 1-2. 3-4ab. 5-6

Ang daigdig lahat doon,
ang may-ari’y ating Poon.

Ang buong daigdig, lahat ng naroon,
may-ari’y ang Diyos, ating Panginoon;
ang mundo’y natayo at yaong sandiga’y
ilalim ng lupa, tubig kalaliman.

Ang daigdig lahat doon,
ang may-ari’y ating Poon.

Sino ang marapat umahon sa burol,
sa burol ng Poon, sino ngang aahon?
Sino’ng papayagang pumasok sa templo,
Sino’ng tutulutang pumasok na tao?
Siya, na malinis ang isip at buhay,
na hindi sumamba sa diyus-diyusan;
tapat sa pangako na binibitiwan.

Ang daigdig lahat doon,
ang may-ari’y ating Poon.

Ang Panginoong Diyos, pagpapalain siya,
ililigtas siya’t pawawalang-sala.
Gayun ang sinumang lumalapit sa Diyos,
silang lumalapit sa Diyos ni Jacob.

Ang daigdig lahat doon,
ang may-ari’y ating Poon.

ALELUYA
Mateo 4, 19

Aleluya! Aleluya!
Sumunod kayo sa akin
at kayo’y aking gagawing
katambal ko sa tungkulin.
Aleluya! Aleluya!

MABUTING BALITA
Lucas 5, 1-11

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoong ayon kay San Lucas

Noong panahong iyon, nakatayo si Hesus sa baybayin ng Lawa ng Generaset. Pinagkalipumpunan siya ng napakaraming tao na ibig makarinig ng salita ng Diyos. May nakita siyang dalawang bangka sa baybayin; nakalunsad na ang mga mangingisda at naghuhugas ng kanilang mga lambat. Lumulan siya sa isa sa mga bangka at hiniling kay Simong may-ari nito, na ilayo nang kaunti sa tabi. Naupo siya sa bangka at nangaral sa mga tao.

Pagkatapos niyang magsalita ay sinabi niya kay Simon, “Pumalaot kayo at ihulog ang mga lambat upang manghuli.” Sumagot si Simon, “Guro, magdamag po kaming nagpagod at wala kaming nahuli! Ngunit dahil sa sinabi ninyo, ihuhulog ko ang mga lambat.” Gayun nga ang ginawa nila at sa dami ng kanilang huli ay halos magkansisira ang kanilang mga lambat. Kaya’t kinawayan nila ang kanilang mga kasamahang nasa ibang bangka upang patulong, at lumapit naman ang mga ito. Napuno ang dalawang bangka na halos lumubog. Nang makita iyon ni Simon Pedro, siya’y nagpatirapa sa paanan ni Hesus at nagsabi, “Lumayo po kayo sa akin, Panginoon, sapagkat ako’y makasalanan.” Nanggilalas siya at ang kanyang mga kasama dahil sa dami ng kanilang huli; gayun din sina Santiago at Juan, mga anak ni Zebedeo, na mga kasosyo ni Simon. At sinabi ni Hesus kay Simon, “Huwag kang matakot. Mula ngayo’y mamamalakaya ka ng mga tao.” Nang maitabi na nila ang kanilang mga bangka, iniwan nila ang lahat at sumunod kay Hesus.

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon.

PANALANGIN NG BAYAN
Ika-22 Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon
Huwebes

Noong sinabi ni Jesus sa kanyang mga alagad, “Halikayo, sumunod kayo sa akin,” tinatawag rin niya tayo sa kanyang halimbawa ng pananalangin upang ibahagi ang pananalangin sa iba. Maging mapagbigay tayo sa ganoong pananalangin.

Panginoon, dinggin Mo ang aming panalangin.
o kaya
Banal na guro, tulungan Mo kaming lumusong
sa kalaliman ng Iyong pag-ibig.

Ang Santo Papa, mga obispo, mga pari at lahat ng tinawag upang mamalakaya ng tao nawa’y magkaroon ng tapang at tiyaga na ihagis ang lambat ng paglilingkod sa malalim na karagatan ng buhay, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga mangingisda at lahat ng nagtatrabaho sa karagatan nawa’y tumanggap ng maraming ani ng nag-uumapaw na yaman ng Diyos, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Tayo nawa’y magkaroon ng katapangan na ipahayag sa mga hindi sumasampalataya ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga maysakit, mga nalulumbay, at mga nagdurusa sa karamdaman ng isip at katawan nawa’y hipuin ng Panginoon, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga yumao nawa’y makamit kay Kristo ang walang hanggang gantimpala, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Panginoon ng lahat ng tao, sa pamamagitan ng mga panalanging ito, tipunin mo ang mga nagsisikap na sumunod sa iyong Anak, siya na nabubuhay at naghahari magpasawalang hanggan. Amen.

STRONG WORDS FROM THE SC TO CONGRESS: “GRAVE ABUSE OF DISCRETION”

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Thirty-nine years. That is how long Congress has failed to enact the law required by the 1987 Constitution to prohibit political dynasties.

Today the Supreme Court finally said: enough.

In a unanimous decision, the Court declared that Congress has a mandatory constitutional duty to enact an anti-political dynasty law, and that its prolonged failure to do so constitutes “grave abuse of discretion” and a continuing violation of its constitutional duty. The Court directed Congress to act “with utmost urgency” and enact the law “at the earliest opportunity.”

Those are exceptionally strong words.
Article II, Section 26 of our Constitution declares: “The State shall guarantee equal access to opportunities for public service, and prohibit political dynasties as may be defined by law.”

For almost four decades, the constitutional command remained largely unrealized because Congress itself was entrusted with defining what constitutes a political dynasty. The Court noted that dynasties have meanwhile remained widespread, extending even into the party-list system.

Perhaps this ruling raises a question larger than political dynasties themselves: What happens when those entrusted with making the law have a personal interest in not making it?

This is precisely why constitutional institutions exist—to place limits on power, including the power of those who make our laws.

Thirty-nine years is long enough.
Congress, the Supreme Court has spoken. Now enact the law.

THE NEW ARMS RACE: AI RACE

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President Donald Trump has reportedly dismissed the growing warnings about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence as a “hoax.” His reason is revealing: America must stay ahead because, as he puts it, “whoever wins AI wins.”

Perhaps that statement itself should set alarm bells ringing.

We have heard this logic before. During the Cold War, one superpower could not stop developing more powerful weapons because the other might get ahead. Each side’s fear became the justification for the other’s escalation. And humanity found itself trapped in an arms race capable of destroying the very civilization it claimed to defend.

The Church did not remain silent.

In 1963, shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis brought humanity frighteningly close to nuclear catastrophe, Pope St. John XXIII issued Pacem in Terris. He called explicitly for “a cessation to the arms race,” for the reduction of armaments, the banning of nuclear weapons, and agreements accompanied by effective systems of mutual control.

Paul VI carried that appeal to the United Nations. John Paul II repeatedly called for an end to the nuclear arms race. Benedict XVI and Francis continued the Church’s advocacy for disarmament, with Francis eventually declaring even the possession of nuclear weapons morally unacceptable.

Today we may be facing a new arms race—the AI race.

It is already inseparable from modern warfare. Artificial intelligence is being integrated into surveillance, targeting, autonomous weapons, cyberwarfare and military decision-making. But an even more fundamental race is taking place among nations and corporations: the race toward increasingly powerful AI—and ultimately toward a possible superintelligence.

The logic sounds disturbingly familiar.

America cannot slow down because China might get ahead.

China cannot slow down because America might get ahead.

One AI company cannot slow down because its competitors might get ahead.

And so nobody can afford to be prudent.

This is why I find it significant that some of the very people building the world’s most powerful AI systems are themselves beginning to call for restraint, regulation, independent monitoring and international cooperation. They are warning us that capabilities are advancing faster than our capacity to understand and control them.

The issue is not whether AI is good or evil. AI has enormous potential for good. The deeper question is whether we are racing toward a point at which human intelligence may no longer be able to hold the reins.

Pope Leo XIV has already given the Church a powerful expression for this in Magnifica Humanitas: we must “disarm AI.”

Perhaps the time has come to translate that principle into a more urgent global appeal—calling together governments, AI developers, scientists, ethicists and religious leaders to consider internationally agreed red lines on the development of superintelligence: reciprocal commitments, independent monitoring, verification and effective safeguards before capabilities are developed that humanity may no longer be able to control.

The Church helped humanity find its moral voice during the nuclear arms race. Perhaps she is being called to exercise that prophetic role again.

Because the real question is not: Who will win the AI race? The question is: What if humanity loses it?

LOVE and COMPASSION

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Gospel Reading for September 17, 2026 – Luke 7: 36-50

LOVE and COMPASSION

A certain Pharisee invited Jesus to dine with him, and he entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at table. Now there was a sinful woman in the city who learned that he was at table in the house of the Pharisee. Bringing an alabaster flask of ointment, she stood behind him at his feet weeping and began to bathe his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the ointment. When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”

Jesus said to him in reply, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” “Tell me, teacher,” he said.

“Two people were in debt to a certain creditor; one owed five hundred days’ wages and the other owed fifty. Since they were unable to repay the debt, he forgave it for both. Which of them will love him more?” Simon said in reply, “The one, I suppose, whose larger debt was forgiven.” He said to him, “You have judged rightly.”

Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give me water for my feet, but she has bathed them with her tears
and wiped them with her hair. You did not give me a kiss, but she has not ceased kissing my feet since the time I entered. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet with ointment. So I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; hence, she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.” He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven. The others at table said to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?” But he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

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The Pharisees seemed to have a lot of time keeping track of what people were doing and putting labels on them. They were particularly fond of labeling people as “sinners.”

The word Pharisee comes from the Hebrew word prushim, which means “separated ones.” They thought of themselves as HOLY simply because they observed practices that kept them from ritual impurity. This explains why Jesus was often angry with them, especially because of their hypocrisy. Their judgmental attitude discouraged the so-called “sinners” from having a change of heart. More often than not, people do not change because of the labels placed on them. It is LOVE and COMPASSION that can change hearts. That is the way of Jesus.

The woman in the Gospel showed genuine repentance, and it touched Jesus’ heart and led Him to forgive her.

As for us, it is only when we recognize and admit that we too are sinners, and sincerely repent of our sins, that we receive God’s forgiveness.

Lord Jesus, may we always be humble enough to admit that we too sin against God and are also in need of Your forgiveness. Amen

Veritas Editorial

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