HUWEBES, DISYEMBRE 15, 2022

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Huwebes ng Ika-3 Linggo sa Panahon ng Pagdating ng Panginoon

Isaias 54, 1-10
Salmo 29, 2 at 4. 5-6. 11 at 12a at 13b

Poong sa aki’y nagligtas,
ang dangal mo’y aking galak.

Lucas 7, 24-30

Thursday of the Third Week in Advent (Violet)

UNANG PAGBASA
Isaias 54, 1-10

Pagbasa mula sa aklat ni propeta Isaias

“Ikaw ay umawit, O babaing baog, tinig mo’y Itaas,
O ikaw na hindi nakararanas ng hirap sa panganganak.
Ang magiging supling mo’y higit na marami kaysa may asawa.”
Gumawa ka ng mas malaking tolda,
habaan mo ang mga tali at dagdagan ang tulos.
Ikaw ay kakalat sa buong daigdig,
mababalik sa iyo, Israel, ang lupaing nasakop ng ibang bansa;
ang mga lungsod na ngayon ay wasak,
ay gagawing tirahan ng maraming tao.
“Huwag kang matakot
pagkat hindi ka na hahalayin uli
ni aaglahiin pa,
malilimot mo nang ika’y
naging taksil na asawa,
pati malungkot na alalahanin ng pagiging balo.
Sapagkat ang iyong naging kasintaha’y
ang may likha sa iyo,
Siya ang Makapangyarihang Panginoon;
ililigtas ka ng Diyos ng Israel,
Siya ang hari ng lahat ng bansa.
Israel, ang katulad mo ay babaing bagong kasal,
iniwan ng asawa, batbat ng kalungkutan.
Ngunit tinawag kang muli ng Panginoon
sa kanyang piling at sinabi:
“Sandaling panahong kita’y iniwanan
ngunit dahil sa tapat kong pag-ibig,
muli kitang kukupkupin.
Sa tindi ng galit nilisan kita sandali,
ngunit habang panahon kong ipadarama sa iyo ang tapat kong pagmamahal.”
Iyan ang sabi ng Panginoon na nagligtas sa iyo.
“Nang panahon ni Noe,
Ako ay sumumpang di na mauulit
na ang mundong ito’y gunawin sa tubig.
Gayun din sa ngayon,
iiwasan ko nang sa iyo’y magalit
at hindi na kita parurusahan uli.
Maguguho ang mga bundok at ang mga burol,
ngunit ang pag-ibig ko’y hindi maglalaho,
at mananatili ang kapayapaang aking pangako.”
Iyan ang sinabi ng Diyos na Panginoon,
na nagmamahal sa iyo.

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

SALMONG TUGUNAN
Salmo 29, 2 at 4. 5-6. 11 at 12a at 13b

Poong sa aki’y nagligtas,
ang dangal mo’y aking galak.

O Panginoon ko,
sa iyong ginawa, kita’y pinupuri’t ako’y iniligtas,
kaya kaaway ay di na nakuhang matuwa’t magalak.
Mula sa libingang
daigdig ng patay, hinango mo ako at muling binuhay;
ako, na kasama nilang napabaon sa kailaliman.

Poong sa aki’y nagligtas,
ang dangal mo’y aking galak.

Purihin ang Poon,
Siya ay awitan ng lahat ng tapat na mga hinirang.
Iyong gunitain ang mga ginawa ng Diyos na Banal,
ang kanyang ginawa ay alalahanin at pasalamatan!
Hindi nagtatagal
yaong kanyang galit, at ang kabutihan niya’y walang wakas.
Ang abang may hapis at tigmak sa luha sa buong magdamag,
sa bukang-liwayway ay wala nang lungkot, kapalit ay galak.

Poong sa aki’y nagligtas,
ang dangal mo’y aking galak.

Kaya’t ako’y dinggin,
Ikaw ay mahabag sa akin, O Poon, ako ay pakinggan,
mahabag ka, Poon! Ako ay dinggin mo at iyong tulungan.
Nadama ko’y galak nang iyong hubarin ang aking panluksa.
Sa pasasalamat sa iyo, O Poon, ay di magsasawa.

Poong sa aki’y nagligtas,
ang dangal mo’y aking galak.

ALELUYA
Lucas 3, 4. 6

Aleluya! Aleluya!
Daan ng Poong nar’yan na
t’wiri’t ihanda sa kanya.
Pagtubos n’ya’y makikita.
Aleluya! Aleluya!

MABUTING BALITA
Lucas 7, 24-30

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon ayon kay San Lucas

Pagkaalis ng mga sinugo ni Juan, si Hesus ay nagsalita sa mga tao tungkol kay Juan. “Bakit kayo lumabas sa ilang? Ano ang ibig ninyong makita? Isang tambong inuugoy ng hangin? Ano nga ang ibig ninyong makita? Isang taong may maringal na kasuutan? Ang mga nagsusuot ng maringal at namumuhay sa karangyaan ay nasa palasyo ng mga hari. Ano nga ba ang ibig ninyong makita? Isang propeta? Oo. At sinasabi ko sa inyo, higit pa sa isang propeta. Sapagkat si Juan ang tinutukoy ng Kasulatan:

‘Ipadadala ko ang aking sugo na mauuna sa iyo,
Ihahanda niya ang iyong daraanan.’
Sinasabi ko sa inyo: si Juan ang pinakadakila sa mga isinilang, ngunit dakila kaysa kanya ang pinakaaba sa mga taong pinaghaharian ng Diyos.”

Pinakinggan siya ng mga mamamayan, pati ng mga publikano. Ang mga ito’y sumunod sa kalooban ng Diyos nang pabinyag sila kay Juan. Subalit tinanggihan ng mga Pariseo at ng mga eskriba ang layunin ng Diyos sa kanila sapagkat hindi sila nagpabinyag kay Juan.

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon.

PANALANGIN NG BAYAN
Ikatlong Linggo ng Adbiyento
Huwebes

Ipinahayag ng mga propeta ang pagdating ng ating Manunubos. Sa pamamagitan ng pangangaral ng pagsisisi sa kasalanan, ibinalita ni Juan Bautista ang kanyang pagdating. Sa diwa ng pagsisisi, hilingin natin ang tulong ng Diyos sa pamamagitan ng ating mga panalangin.

Panginoon, dinggin mo ang aming panalangin.
o kaya
Panginoon, ituro mo sa amin ang iyong daan.

Ang Santa Iglesya nawa’y maihayag ang kaluwalhatian ng Panginoon at maipakita sa lahat ng tao, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga pinunong Kristiyano nawa’y maging kasangkapan ng katotohanan at katarungan para akayin ang kanilang bayan sa landas ng kapayapaan, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang ating mga puso nawa’y maging bukas sa pagtanggap sa mensahe ng mga propeta na nagsasalitang parang mga tinig sa ilang, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang pagtitiyaga ng Diyos nawa’y maranasan ng iba sa pamamagitan ng ating mabuting pakikitungo sa kanila, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga taong inaalala natin ang kamatayan nawa’y magtamo ng kapatawaran at kapayapaan, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Lubos na mapagmahal na Ama, tunghayan mo ang mga pangangailangan ng iyong bayan at ipagkaloob mo nawa ang aming mga kahilingan habang naghahanda kami para sa iyong Anak na nabubuhay at naghaharing kasama mo magpasawalang hanggan. 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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