Huwebes, Abril 24, 2025

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Huwebes sa Walong Araw na Pagdiriwang
ng Pasko ng Muling Pagkabuhay

Mga Gawa 3, 11-26
Salmo 8, 2a at 5. 6-7. 8-9

Maningning ang iyong ngalan,
Poon, sa sangkalupaan.

Lucas 24, 35-48

Thursday within the Octave of Easter (White)

UNANG PAGBASA
Mga Gawa 3, 11-26

Pagbasa mula sa Mga Gawa ng Mga Apostol

Noong mga araw na iyon, samantalang nakahawak ang pinagaling nina Pedro at Juan sa kanila sa may Portiko ni Solomon, patakbong lumapit sa kanila ang mga taong takang-taka sa nangyari. Pagkakita ni Pedro sa mga tao, kanyang sinabi, “Mga Israelita, bakit kayo nanggigilalas sa nangyaring ito? Bakit ninyo kami tinitingnan nang ganyan? Akala ba ninyo’y napalakad namin siya sa pamamagitan ng sarili naming kapangyarihan o kaya’y dahil sa aming kabanalan? Ang Diyos nina Abraham, Isaac at Jacob, ang Diyos ng ating mga ninuno, ang nagbigay ng pinakamataas na karangalan sa kanyang Lingkod na si Hesus. Ngunit siya’y ibinigay ninyo sa maykapangyarihan at itinakwil sa harapan ni Pilato, gayong ipinasiya na nitong palayain siya. Itinakwil ninyo ang Banal at Matuwid, at isang mamamatay-tao ang hiniling ninyong palayain. Pinatay ninyo ang Pinagmumulan ng buhay, ngunit siya’y muling binuhay ng Diyos, at saksi kami sa bagay na ito. Ang kapangyarihan ng pangalan ni Hesus ang nagpagaling sa lalaking ito; nangyari ito dahil sa pananalig sa kanyang pangalan. Ang pananalig kay Hesus ang lubusang nagpagaling sa kanya, tulad ng inyong nakikita.

“At ngayon, mga kapatid, batid kong hindi ninyo nalalaman ang inyong ginawa, gayun din ang inyong mga pinuno. Ngunit sa ginawa ninyo’y natupad ang malaon nang ipinahayag ng Diyos sa pamamagitan ng mga propeta na ang Kristo’y kailangang magbata. Kaya’t magsisi kayo at magbalik-loob sa Diyos upang pawiin niya ang inyong mga kasalanan at bigyan kayo ng kaunting panahon ng pamamahinga. At susuguin niya si Hesus, ang Mesiyas na hinirang niya para sa inyo. Siya’y dapat munang manatili sa langit hanggang sa dumating ang panahon ng pagbabago ng lahat ng bagay, ayon sa ipinahayag ng Diyos sa pamamagitan ng kanyang mga banal na propeta mula pa noong una. Sinabi ni Moises, ‘Ang Panginoong inyong Diyos ay pipili ng isa ninyong kalahi at gagawing propetang tulad ko. Pakinggan ninyo ang lahat ng sasabihin niya sa inyo. At lahat ng hindi makikinig sa propetang yaon ay ihihiwalay sa bayan ng Diyos at lilipulin.’ Nagpahayag din tungkol sa mga araw na ito ang mga propeta, mula kay Samuel at lahat ng sumunod sa kanya. Ang mga pangako ng Diyos sa pamamagitan ng mga propeta ay para sa inyo, at kasali kayo sa tipang ginawa ng Diyos at ng inyong mga ninuno nang kanyang sabihin kay Abraham, ‘Pagpapalain ko ang lahat ng angkan sa daigdig sa pamamagitan ng iyong lipi.’ Kaya’t hinirang ng Diyos ang kanyang Lingkod. At siya’y unang sinugo sa inyo upang pagpalain kayo at tulungang tumalikod sa inyong masasamang pamumuhay.”

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

SALMONG TUGUNAN
Salmo 8, 2a at 5. 6-7. 8-9

Maningning ang iyong ngalan,
Poon, sa sangkalupaan.

o kaya: Aleluya.

Ikaw, O Poon, Panginoon namin,
laganap sa lupa ang iyong luningning.
Ano nga ang tao upang ‘yong alalahanin?
Ay ano nga siya na sukal mong kalingain?

Maningning ang iyong ngalan,
Poon, sa sangkalupaan.

Nilikha mo siya, na halos kapantay
ng iyong luningning at kadakilaan!
Pinamahala mo sa buong daigdig,
sa lahat ng bagay malaki’t maliit.

Maningning ang iyong ngalan,
Poon, sa sangkalupaan.

Mga baka’t tupa, hayop na mabangis
at lahat ng ibong nasa himpapawid,
at maging sa isda, sa ilalim ng tubig.

Maningning ang iyong ngalan,
Poon, sa sangkalupaan.

ALELUYA
Salmo 117, 24

Aleluya! Aleluya!
Araw ngayong gawa ng D’yos,
magdiwang tayo nang lubos.
Purihin ang Manunubos.
Aleluya! Aleluya!

MABUTING BALITA
Lucas 24, 35-48

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon ayon kay San Lucas

Noong panahong iyon, samantalang isinasalaysay ng mga alagad ni Hesus ang nangyari sa daan, at kung paano nila siyang nakilala nang paghati-hatiin niya ang tinapay, si Hesus ay tumayo sa gitna nila. “Sumainyo ang kapayapaan!” sabi niya sa kanila. Ngunit nagulat sila at natakot sapagkat akala nila’y multo ang nasa harapan nila. Kaya’t sinabi ni Hesus sa kanila, “Ano’t kayo’y nagugulumihanan? Bakit nag-aalinlangan pa kayo? Tingnan ninyo ang aking kamay at paa, ako nga ito. Hipuin ninyo ako at pagmasdan. Ang multo’y walang laman at buto, ngunit ako’y mayroon, tulad ng nakikita ninyo.” At pagkasabi nito, ipinakita niya sa kanila ang kanyang mga kamay at mga paa. Nang hindi pa rin sila makapaniwala dahil sa malaking galak at pagkamangha, tinanong sila ni Hesus “May makakain ba riyan?” Siya’y binigyan nila ng kaputol na isdang inihaw; kinuha niya ito at kinain sa harapan nila. Pagkatapos sinabi sa mga alagad, “Ito ang tinutukoy ko nang sabihin ko sa inyo noong kasama-sama pa ninyo ako: dapat matupad ang lahat ng nasusulat tungkol sa akin sa Kautusan ni Moises, sa mga aklat ng mga propeta at sa aklat ng mga Awit.” At binuksan niya ang kanilang pag-iisip upang maunawaan nila ang mga Kasulatan. Sinabi niya sa kanila, “Ganito ang nasusulat: kinakailangang magbata ng hirap at mamatay ang Mesiyas at muling mabuhay sa ikatlong araw. Sa kanyang pangalan, ang pagsisisi at kapatawaran ng mga kasalanan ay dapat ipangaral sa lahat ng bansa, magmula sa Jerusalem. Kayo ang mga saksi sa mga bagay na ito.”

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon.

PANALANGIN NG BAYAN
Unang Linggo ng Pasko ng Pagkabuhay
Huwebes

Inihahayag ng karunungan ng Banal na Kasulatan ang plano ng Diyos para sa atin. Sa ating paglalakbay kasama ni Kristo, idalangin natin na sa bawat araw, higit na maging maliwanag ang kanyang daan ng buhay.

Panginoon, dinggin Mo ang aming panalangin.
o kaya
Panginoon, manatili ka sa aming piling.

Bilang isang Simbahan, nawa’y maging tapat kami sa pagpapahayag sa ebanghelyo ng pagsisisi at pagpapatawad, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Sa pagkilala sa kabutihan ni Kristo, ang Panginoong Muling Nabuhay, maihatid nawa natin ang katarungang panlipunan para sa lahat, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang Banal na Kasulatan nawa’y makapagbigay ng kaliwanagan sa mga nasa kadiliman ng kasalanan at kawalan ng pag-asa, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Atin nawang makilala ang presensya ng Panginoong Muling Nabuhay sa paghahati-hati ng tinapay sa Eukaristiya, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga namayapa nawa’y muling mabuhay sa kaganapan ng kagalakan sa piling ng Diyos, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Diyos na aming Ama, nag-aalab ang aming mga puso habang nakikinig kami sa iyong bugtong na anak. Tanggapin mo ang mga panalangin ng mga naglalakbay sa kanyang daan ng buhay. Hinihiling namin ito sa pamamagitan ni Kristo na aming Panginoon. Amen.

WHEN WAR SPREADS, WHO IS SAFE?

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I am deeply concerned about the continuing escalation of the war in the Middle East. What began with American and Israeli attacks on Iran last February has developed into a wider regional conflict, with Iran retaliating against American military installations in several Gulf countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman. Iran maintains that it has nothing against its Gulf Arab neighbors and that its targets are mainly American military facilities located within their territories. But the consequences of these attacks are being felt far beyond the military bases. Civilian lives, airports, energy facilities and international shipping are being placed at risk.

Saudi Arabia has also been drawn into the conflict, with renewed missile and drone attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement. Just this weekend, attacks were reported near Riyadh’s international airport. The danger is that countries which have sought to avoid direct involvement in the war are nevertheless being drawn into its expanding circle of violence.

My apprehension is not only for the citizens of these Gulf countries, but also for the millions of Filipinos who live and work there. According to Philippine government estimates reported in March 2026, there are approximately 2.35 million Filipinos in the six Gulf states: 975,000 in the UAE, 813,000 in Saudi Arabia, 250,000 in Qatar, 211,000 in Kuwait, 56,000 in Bahrain and 49,000 in Oman. These are our fellow Filipinos who have left their families behind to earn a living abroad. Their safety and welfare must remain a priority for our government.

I am equally troubled by Israel’s continuing involvement in the war against Iran, even as its military operations in Gaza and Lebanon continue. In Gaza, Palestinians are still dying despite the ceasefire, while families displaced by the war are forced to live among the ruins of their destroyed homes. In Lebanon, renewed Israeli strikes and exchanges of fire with Hezbollah threaten to unravel the fragile ceasefire. How much more suffering must ordinary people endure before the parties involved seriously commit themselves to peace?

This situation has become a personal concern for me as well. I am scheduled to travel to Rome for meetings in early October, taking an Emirates flight that will transit through the UAE. During my previous trip to Rome, I deliberately avoided the Gulf region and took a China Airlines flight through Beijing instead. I now find myself wondering whether I should have made the same choice for this forthcoming journey.

There is another dimension to this war that troubles me deeply: the growing use of artificial intelligence in modern warfare. Reports indicate that AI-assisted systems have already been used in military targeting operations against Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon. These technologies can accelerate the identification and selection of targets, compressing decisions that once took hours into mere minutes or seconds.

At the same time, leading AI developers themselves have been warning about the growing difficulty of understanding and controlling the behavior of increasingly powerful AI systems. This raises a disturbing question: Could AI-assisted military decision-making have contributed to the speed and scale of this recent escalation? We do not yet have sufficient evidence to answer that question. But it is a question that urgently deserves investigation, especially as the race toward artificial superintelligence continues.

Are we allowing the development of technologies that can accelerate the machinery of war faster than human wisdom, moral discernment and diplomacy can restrain it?

I pray that the leaders of the nations involved will find the courage to step back from this dangerous escalation and return to the negotiating table. Peace cannot be achieved simply by developing more sophisticated weapons or by threatening one another with greater destruction.

The lives of millions of innocent people, including our own Filipino brothers and sisters working in the Middle East, are at stake. We cannot afford to leave their future to the logic of war, much less to machines that may one day operate beyond our capacity to understand and control them.

ALL THE TIME

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Gospel Reading for September 22, 2026 – Luke 8: 19-21

ALL THE TIME

The mother of Jesus and his brothers came to him but were unable to join him because of the crowd. He was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside and they wish to see you.” He said to them in reply, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it.”

————

There are those who interpret this Gospel to mean that, for Jesus, Mary and his relatives were not important to him. But why would someone who preached about love ALL THE TIME fail to give importance to the woman who bore him in her womb, nursed him, raised him according to Jewish tradition, and, most of all, whose “yes” was so important for the Father’s plan of salvation to come to fruition?

It was precisely for this reason that Jesus pointed out the quality that made Mary truly blessed: she heard the Word of God and acted on it. Even while dying on the Cross, Jesus entrusted Mary to John, symbolically giving her to all of us as our Mother.

Although it is not mentioned in the Bible, Jesus would naturally have gone outside to see Mary and his relatives. After he began his public ministry at the age of thirty, he no longer lived with Mary. Let us not forget that Jesus was born into a family, and being Jesus, his family surely mattered very much to him.

Lord Jesus, help us always to listen to your Word and to act upon it. Amen.

Everybody hurts

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Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Tuesday, Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time, Year II, 22 September 2026
Proverbs 21:1-6, 10-13     ><))))*> + ><))))*> + ><))))*>     Luke 8:19-21
I pray for all
those suffering today,
Lord Jesus;
for those hoping to see
you, to talk to you even for a while
like your mother and brothers
in the gospel;
why did you not go out to see
them right away?
I felt sad.
And disappointed.

The mother of Jesus and his brothers came to him but were unable to join him because of the crowd. He was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside annd they wish to see you.” He said to them in reply, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of G0d and act on it” (Luke 8:19-21).

Luke never bothered
to tell us what they wanted
from you, Lord;
but your reply got me praying
more deeply and these
I realized:
you love us so much
Jesus,
your words always in us,
in our hearts
but many times we do not listen;
Mary and your brothers know
that so well
and they never protested;
in fact,
they affirmed your words
by remaining silent,
trusting you as always;
most of all,
your reply teaches us
your disciples
to widen,
to enlarge
the bounds of our family:
if we choose to listen
and act on the Word of God,
we must at the same time
become a member of the
family of Jesus.
Teach us to be like
that king in the first reading
willing to bow
his will and desires to
God despite his power
and authority;
give me a listening heart,
a will so pliant to your ways
so that I may welcome those
trying to get close to you
Jesus because they hurt;
many times our pains
are so pronounced because
we have no room
for those seeking you,
Jesus.
Amen.
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