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Lunes ng Ika-17 Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon (II)

Jeremias 13, 1-11
Deuteronomio 32, 18-19. 20. 21.

Ang Diyos ay tinalikdan
ng kanyang mga nilalang.

Mateo 13, 31-35

Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time (II) (Green)

UNANG PAGBASA
Jeremias 13, 1-11

Pagbasa mula sa aklat ni propeta Jeremias

Ito ang sinabi sa akin ng Panginoon, “Bumili ka ng mga damit-panloob na lino at iyong isuot ngunit huwag mong babasain.” Kaya’t bumili nga ako ng damit-panloob, ayon sa sinabi ng Panginoon, at isinuot ko. Muling nangusap sa akin ng Panginoon, “Pumunta ka sa Ilog Eufrates; hubarin mo ang damit-panloob, at iyong itago sa isang guwang sa bato.” Ginawa ko ang iniutos sa akin ng Panginoon at pagkatapos, ako’y umuwi.

Pagkaraan ng ilang araw, pinabalik niya ako sa Eufrates upang kunin ang mga damit-panloob na kanyang ipinatago. Nagbalik naman ako sa Eufrates at kinuha ko ang damit sa aking pinagtaguan. Ngunit sira na ito at di na pakikinabangan.

Muling nagsalita ang Panginoon, “Ganyan ang gagawin ko sa palalong Juda at Jerusalem. Sila’y hindi sumunod sa mga utos ko; lalo silang nagmatigas. Sumasamba pa sila at naglilingkod sa mga diyos-diyosan. Matutulad sila sa sirang damit-panloob na wala nang kabuluhan. Kung paanong kumakapit sa katawan ng tao ang damit-panloob, gayun ang hangad ko sa mga taga-Israel at taga-Juda – na sila’y mahigpit na kumapit sa akin. Ginawa ko ito upang sila’y maging karapat-dapat na bansang hinirang, at sa gayo’y papurihan nila’t parangalan ang aking pangalan. Ngunit ayaw naman nilang tumalima sa akin.”

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

SALMONG TUGUNAN
Deuteronomio 32, 18-19. 20. 21

Ang Diyos ay tinalikdan
ng kanyang mga nilalang.

Tinalikdan nila ang Diyos na lumikha sa kanila,
ang Diyos na sa kanila’y nagbigay-buhay.
Nasaksihan niya ang pagsamba nila sa diyos-diyosan
kaya’t kanyang itinakwil,
sila na itinuring niyang mga anak.

Ang Diyos ay tinalikdan
ng kanyang mga nilalang.

Sinabi niya, “Tatalikdan ko sila,
tingnan ko lang kung ano ang kanilang sapitin,
pagkat sila’y isang lahing masama, mga anak na suwail.

Ang Diyos ay tinalikdan
ng kanyang mga nilalang.

“Pinapanibugho nila ako nang sambahin nila yaong hindi Diyos.
Ginalit nila ako dahil sa kanilang diyus-diyusan.
Kaya, paninibughuin ko rin sila at gagalitin,
sa pamamagitan ng bansang di kumikilala sa akin.”

Ang Diyos ay tinalikdan
ng kanyang mga nilalang.

ALELUYA
Santiago 1, 18

Aleluya! Aleluya!
Magulang nati’y D’yos Ama,
anak ng salita niya
tayong mga aning una.
Aleluya! Aleluya!

MABUTING BALITA
Mateo 13, 31-25

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon ayon kay San Mateo

Noong panahong iyon, isa na namang talinghaga ang inilahad ni Hesus sa mga tao, “Ang paghahari ng Diyos ay katulad nito: may isang taong nagtanim ng isang butil ng mustasa sa kanyang bukid. Pinakamaliit ito sa lahat ng binhi, ngunit kapag natanim na at lumago ay nagiging pinakamalaki sa lahat ng puno ng gulay. Ito’y nagiging punongkahoy, anupat napamumugaran ng mga ibon ang mga sanga nito.”

Nagsalaysay pa siya ng ibang talinghaga. “Ang paghahari ng Diyos ay katulad ng lebadura na inihalo ng isang babae sa tatlong takal na harina, at umalsa ang buong masa.”

Sinabi ni Hesus sa mga tao ang lahat ng ito sa pamamagitan ng mga talinghaga at wala siyang sinabi sa kanila nang hindi gumagamit ng talinghaga. Ginawa niya ito upang matupad ang sinabi ng propeta:

“Magsasalita ako sa kanila sa pamamagitan ng mga talinghaga,
ihahayag ko sa kanila ang mga bagay na nalihim mula nang likhain ang sanlibutan.”

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon.

PANALANGIN NG BAYAN
Ika-17 Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon
Lunes

Tayo ay mga anak ng Diyos, subalit sa mapagpakumbabang-loob na panalangin, lumalapit tayo sa kanya bilang mga lingkod ng Kaharian na naglalayon lamang na gawin ang ating tungkulin. Hilingin natin sa kanya na palalimin pa ang ating pananampalataya.

Panginoon, dinggin mo ang aming panalangin.
o kaya
Panginoong Diyos, umunlad nawa kami sa iyong biyaya.

Ang mga Kristiyano at lahat ng nagpapahayag ng pananalig kay Kristo nawa’y umunlad sa pananampalataya at pag-ibig sa isa’t isa bilang tanda ng paghahari ng Diyos, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang ating personal na pananampalataya nawa’y umunlad at lubos nating kilalanin ang ating pagsandig sa Diyos, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga nanlamig sa pananampalata at nawalan na ng pag-asa at puno ng pag-aagam nawa’y mabiyayaan ng bagong sigla upang panibaguhin ang kanilang pagtatalaga kay Kristo, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga nagdurusa nawa’y patuloy na manalig sa Diyos sa gitna ng hindi magandang kalusugan at karamdaman, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga yumao na naglingkod sa Panginoon sa kanyang Kaharian dito sa lupa nawa’y tanggapin sa buhay na walang hanggan, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ama naming Diyos, batid naming wala kaming magagawa kung aasa lamang kami sa aming sarili. Tulungan mo nawa kaming matibay na kumapit sa iyo sa pananampalataya. Hinihiling namin ito sa pamamagitan ni Kristong amingg 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.”

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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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