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Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Monday in the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time, Year II, 15 June 2026 1 Kings 21:17-29 <*((((>< + ><))))*> Matthew 5:43-48
Forgive us, God our loving Father, in continuing the story of Naboth's vineyard forcibly taken by King Ahab through his evil wife Queen Jezebel.
Most sad with this story that continues to our days is not only the greed and avarice of people with wealth and power; its tragedy that continues today is how there are people below them in stature, mostly the ones they abuse with a lot of help from supposed to be educated and middle class are so willing to support the modern King Ahabs and Queen Jezebels in their evil schemes employing fake news, willingly conniving, taking part in their chain of evil.
His fellow citizens – the elders and nobles who dwelt in his city – did as Jezebel had ordered a fast and placed Naboth at the head of the people. Two scoundrels came in and confronted him with the accusation, “Naboth has cursed God and king.” And they led him out of the city and stoned him to death (1Kings 21:12-13).
How tragic that until now, there are so many Naboths among us who are victims of a world governed by the rule of "an eye for an eye" where the powerful and corrupt take on what they want as they shamelessly crush the poor and the weakest; help us, Lord Jesus, to have the courage and humility to trust in you, to rely in you to have the strength in fighting the abuses of those in power; enlightening us of ways and approaches in opening the minds of the poor and supposed to be educated among us who blindly even rabidly support corrupt and evil men and women in the society, in politics. Grant us patience to bear with the fools in our Senate holding on to power, who do not know what they are doing; enlighten the minds and hearts of those belonging to the majority to start following what is truly good and not their whims dictated by their bloated egos. Let your truth and charity prevail over us these days, Lord Jesus, so we can break the chain of evil in our country and society. Amen.
