Huwebes, Enero 16, 2025

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Huwebes ng Unang Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon (I)

Hebreo 3, 7-14
Salmo 94, 6-7. 8-9. 10-11

Panginoo’y inyong dinggin,
huwag n’yo s’yang salungatin.

Marcos 1, 40-45

Thursday of the First Week of Ordinary Time (Green)

UNANG PAGBASA
Hebreo 3, 7-14

Pagbasa mula sa sulat sa mga Hebreo

Mga kapatid, gaya ng sabi ng Espiritu Santo,
“Kapag narinig ninyo ngayon ang tinig ng Diyos,
Huwag maging matigas ang inyong ulo, tulad noong maghimagsik kayo at subukin siya sa ilang.
‘Doo’y tinukso ako at sinubok ng inyong mga magulang,’ sabi ng Diyos,
‘Gayong nakita nila ang mga ginawa ko sa loob ng apatnapung taon.
Kaya’t kinapootan ko ang lahing iyon,
At sinabi ko, Lagi silang nagpapakaligaw,
Hindi na nila natutuhan ang aking mga daan.
Kaya’t sa galit ko’y aking isinumpang
Hinding-hindi sila makapapasok at makapamamahinga sa piling ko.’”

Mga kapatid, ingatan ninyong huwag sumama ang sinuman sa inyo at mawalan ng pananampalataya hanggang sa talikdan ang Diyos na buhay. Sa halip, magpaalalahanan kayo araw-araw, habang may panahon pa, upang ang sinuman sa inyo’y di madaya at maging alipin ng kasalanan. Sapagkat tayong lahat ay kasama ni Kristo, kung mananatili tayong matatag hanggang wakas sa ating pananalig sa kanya.

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

SALMONG TUGUNAN
Salmo 94, 6-7. 8-9. 10-11

Panginoo’y inyong dinggin,
huwag n’yo s’yang salungatin.

Tayo ay lumapit,
sa kanya’y sumamba at magbigay-galang,
lumuhod sa harap
nitong Panginoong sa ati’y lumalang.
Siya ang ating Diyos,
tayo ay kalinga niyang mga hirang,
mga tupa tayong inaalagaan.

Panginoo’y inyong dinggin,
huwag n’yo s’yang salungatin.

Ang kanyang salita ay ating pakinggan:
“Iyang inyong puso’y
huwag patigasin, tulad ng ginawa
ng inyong magulang
nang nasa Meriba, sa ilang ng Masa.
Ako ay tinukso’t
doon ay sinubok ng inyong magulang,
bagamat nakita
aking aking ginawang sila’ng nakinabang.”

Panginoo’y inyong dinggin,
huwag n’yo s’yang salungatin.

Apatnapung taon,
sa inyong ninuno ako ay nagdamdam,
ang aking sinabi,
“Sila ay suwail, walang pakundangan
at ang mga utos ko ay sinusuway!”
Dahil sa galit ko,
ako ay sumumpang di sila daratal,
sa lupang pangakong aking inilaan.

Panginoo’y inyong dinggin,
huwag n’yo s’yang salungatin.

ALELUYA
Mateo 4, 23

Aleluya! Aleluya!
Ipinangaral ni Hesus
ang paghahari ng Diyos.
Sakit ay kanyang ginamot.
Aleluya! Aleluya!

MABUTING BALITA
Marcos 1, 40-45

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon ayon kay San Marcos

Noong panahong iyon, may isang ketonging lumapit kay Hesus, nanikluhod at nagmakaawa: “Kung ibig po ninyo’y mapagagaling ninyo ako.” Nahabag si Hesus at hinipo siya, sabay ang wika, “Ibig ko. Gumaling ka!” Noon di’y nawala ang ketong at gumaling ang tao. Pinaalis siya agad ni Hesus matapos ang ganitong mahigpit na bilin: “Huwag mong sasabihin ito kaninuman. Sa halip ay pasuri ka sa saserdote. Pagkatapos, maghandog ka ayon sa iniutos ni Moises, upang patunayan sa mga tao na ikaw ay magaling na.” Ngunit umalis siya at bagkus ipinamalita ang nangyari, anupat hindi na hayagang makapasok ng bayan si Hesus. Naroon na lamang siya sa labas, sa mga ilang na pook, at doon pinagsasadya ng mga tao buhat sa iba’t ibang dako.

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon.

PANALANGIN NG BAYAN
Unang Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon
Huwebes

Naniniwala sa habag ng Panginoon, lumapit tayo nang may pananalig sa ating Amang nasa Langit na ang ating mga panalangin ay pakikinggan:

Panginoon, dinggin Mo ang aming panalangin.
o kaya
Amang mahabagin, pakinggan Mo kami.

Ang Simbahan nawa’y hindi magkulang sa kanyang tungkulin na tanggapin ang mga napapabayaan at mga itinuturing na yagit ng lipunan, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang ating gobyerno nawa’y makapagbigay ng mahusay na programang pangkalusugan at paigtingin pa ang kanilang pagsusulong ng malusog na kapaligiran, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Bilang isang komunidad tayo nawa’y tumulong nang may pag-ibig at malasakit sa mga binabalewala ng lipunan, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga mahihirap at mga maysakit nawa’y makatagpo ng atensyon at tulong-medikal mula sa mga may mabubuting kalooban, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga yumao kay Kristo nawa’y mabuhay sa tunay na kalayaan at kaligayahan ng Langit, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Maawaing Ama, palalimin mo ang aming diwa ng habag at pang-unawa sa mga nagdurusa. Itulad nawa namin ang aming buhay kay Jesus na humanap ng kalayaan, kagalingan, at kapayapaan para sa bawat tao. 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.”

————

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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