MIYERKULES, DISYEMBRE 14, 2022

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Paggunita kay San Juan de la Cruz, pari at pantas ng Simbahan

Isaias 45, 6b-8. 18. 21b-25
Salmo 84, 9ab-10. 11-12. 13-14

Lupang tiga’y ‘yong diligin,
Poon, sa ‘yong pagdating.

Lucas 7, 19-23

Memorial of St. John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church (White)

Mga Pagbasa mula sa
Miyerkules ng Ika-3 Linggo sa Panahon ng Pagdating ng Panginoon

UNANG PAGBASA
Isaias 45, 6b-8. 18. 21b-25

Pagbasa mula sa aklat ni propeta Isaias

“Ako ang Panginoon,
Ako lamang ang Diyos at wala nang iba.
Ako ang lumikha ng dilim at liwanag,
Ako ang nagpapadala
ng kaginhawahan at kapahamakan.
Akong Panginoon ang gumagawa ng lahat ng ito.
Padadalhan kita ng sunud-sunod na tagumpay
parang masinsing patak ng ulan;
dahil dito maghahari sa daigdig
ang kalayaan at katarungan.
Akong Panginoon
ang magsasagawa nito.”

Ang Panginoon, ang Diyos, ang lumikha ng kalangitan,
Siya rin ang lumikha ng daigdig,
Ginawa niya itong matatag at ito’y mananatili,
ginawa niya itong isang mainam na tirahan.

Siya ang may sabing, “Akong Panginoon lamang
ang Diyos at wala nang iba pa.
Magsanggunian kayo.
Sino ang makahuhula ng mga bagay na magaganap?
Hindi ba akong Panginoon
ang Diyos na nagliligtas sa kanyang bayan?
Walang ibang Diyos maliban sa akin.

Lumapit kayo sa akin
at kayo ay maliligtas,
Kayong mga tao sa buong daigdig.
Walang ibang Diyos maliban sa akin.
Ako ay tapat sa aking pangako at di magbabago,
at tutuparin ko ang aking mga pangako:

‘Lahat ng tao ay luluhod sa aking harapan,
at mangangakong sila’y magtatapat sa akin!’
“Sasabihin nila,
tanging nasa Panginoon
ang kapangyarihan at pagtatagumpay,
at mapapahiya sinumang sa kanya’y lalaban.
Ngunit ang lahi
ng bansang Israel ay magtatagumpay,
matatamo nila ang kadakilaan.”

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

SALMONG TUGUNAN
Salmo 84, 9ab-10. 11-12. 13-14

Lupang tiga’y ‘yong diligin,
Poon, sa ‘yong pagdating.

Aking naririnig magmula sa Poon ang sinasalita;
sinasabi niyang ang mga lingkod n’ya’y magiging payapa,
kung mangagsisisi at di na babalik sa gawang masama.
Ang nagpaparangal sa pangalan niya’y kanyang ililigtas,
sa ating lupain ay mananatili ang kanyang paglingap.

Lupang tiga’y ‘yong diligin,
Poon, sa ‘yong pagdating.

Ang pagtatapatan at pag-iibiga’y magdadaup-palad,
ang kapayapaan at ang katwira’y magsasamang ganap.
Sa balat ng lupa’y pawang maghahari yaong pagtatapat,
at ang katarungan nama’y maghahari mula sa itaas.

Lupang tiga’y ‘yong diligin,
Poon, sa ‘yong pagdating.

Gagawing maunlad ng Panginoong Diyos itong ating buhay,
ang mga halaman sa ating lupai’y bubungang mainam;
sa harapan niya yaong maghahari’y pawang katarungan,
magiging payapa’t susunod ang madla sa kanyang daan.

Lupang tiga’y ‘yong diligin,
Poon, sa ‘yong pagdating.

ALELUYA
Isaias 40, 9-10

Aleluya! Aleluya!
Ito’y balitang masaya,
ihayag mo sa balana:
“Panginoo’y narito na!”
Aleluya! Aleluya!

MABUTING BALITA
Lucas 7, 19-23

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon ayon kay San Lucas

Noong panahong iyon, tinawag ni Juan ang dalawa sa kanyang mga alagad at pinapunta sa Panginoon upang itanong, “Kayo po ba ang paririto, o maghihintay pa kami ng iba?” Pagdating nila kay Hesus ay kanilang sinabi, “Pinaparito po kami ni Juan Bautista at ipinatatanong kung kayo ang paririto o maghihintay pa kami ng iba.” Nang mga sandaling yaon ay maraming pinagaling si Hesus: mga pinahihirapan ng karamdaman, at mga inaalihan ng masasamang espiritu. Ipinagkaloob niyang makakita ang mga bulag. Sinabi niya sa kanila pagkatapos, “Bumalik kayo kay Juan at sabihin ang inyong nakita at narinig: nakakikita ang mga bulag, nakalalakad ang mga pilay, gumagaling ang mga ketongin, nakaririnig ang mga bingi, muling nabubuhay ang mga patay, at ipinangangaral sa mga dukha ang Mabuting Balita. Mapalad ang taong hindi nag-aalinlangan sa akin!”

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon.

PANALANGIN NG BAYAN
Ikatlong Linggo ng Adbiyento
Miyerkules

Ihandog natin nang may isang puso at diwa ang ating mga panalangin sa Ama na hindi lamang nagpapatawad ng ating mga kasalanan bagkus nagpapagaling ng mga sugat na sanhi ng kasalanan.

Panginoon, dinggin mo ang aming panalangin.
o kaya
Panginoon, basbasan mo kami.

Ang Simbahan nawa’y maging isang tanda ng awa at pagpapatawad ng Diyos sa buong mundo, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga lumayo sa Simbahan dahil sa kasalanan nawa’y matuklasan ang pagpapatawad ni Kristo, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga pamilyang watak-watak at nagkakalayo nawa’y muling pagsamahin ng nagpapagaling na pag-ibig ng Diyos, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga maysakit nawa’y makadama ng ginhawa at pag-asa sa pamamagitan ng ating mga panalangin at mabubuting gawa, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga namayapa nawa’y maranasan ang liwanag ng walang hanggan, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Diyos na aming Ama, tulungan mo kaming ihatid ang iyong pagpapatawad at kapayapaan sa mga taong aming nakakadaupang-palad. Hinihiling namin ito sa pamamagitan ni Kristong 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.”

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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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