HUWEBES, HUNYO 1, 2023

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Kapistahan ng Panginoong Hesukristo,
Walang Hanggang at Dakilang Pari (A)

Genesis 22, 9-18
o kaya Hebreo 10, 4-10
Salmo 39, 7-8a. 10-11ab. 17

Handa akong naririto
upang sundin ang loob mo.

Mateo 26, 36-42

Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, The Eternal High Priest (White)

UNANG PAGBASA
Genesis 22, 9-18

Pagbasa mula sa aklat ng Genesis

Noong mga araw na iyon: Pagsapit nila sa dakong itinuro ng Diyos, gumawa ng dambana si Abraham. Inayos niya sa ibabaw nito ang panggatong at inihiga si Isaac, matapos gapusin. Nang sasaksakin na niya ang bata, tinawag siya ng anghel ng Panginoon at mula sa langit ay sinabi: “Abraham! Abraham! Huwag mong patayin ang bata. Huwag mo siyang saktan! Naipakita mo nang handa kang sumunod sa Diyos, sapagkat hindi mo ipinagkait sa kanya ang kaisa-isa at pinakamamahal mong anak.”

Paglingon niya’y may nakita siyang isang lalaking tupa na ang mga sungay ay napasabit sa mga sanga ng kahoy. Ito ang kinuha ni Abraham at inihandog kapalit ng kanyang anak. Ang lugar na iyo’y tinawag ni Abraham na, “Ang Panginoon ang Nagkaloob.” At magpahanggang ngayon, sinasabi ng mga tao: “Sa bundok ng Panginoon ay may nakalaan.”

Mula sa langit, nagsalitang muli kay Abraham ang anghel ng Panginoon. Wika nito, “Akong Panginoon ang nangangako sa iyo: yamang hindi mo ipinagkait sa akin ang kaisa-isa mong anak, pagpapalain kita. Ang lahi mo’y magiging sindami ng bituin sa langit at ng buhangin sa dagat. Lulupigin nila ang mga lungsod ng kanilang mga kaaway. Sa pamamagitan ng iyong lahi, pagpapalain ang lahat ng bansa sa daigdig sapagkat ikaw ay tumalima sa akin.” Binalikan ni Abraham ang kanyang mga alipin, at sama-sama silang umuwi sa Beer-seba.

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

o kaya:
Hebreo 10, 4-10

Pagbasa mula sa sulat sa mga Hebreo

Mga kapatid, sapagkat ang dugo ng mga toro at ng mga kambing ay hindi makapapawi ng mga kasalanan.
Dahil diyan, nang si Kristo’y manaog sa sanlibutan, sinabi niya sa Diyos,
“Ang mga hain at handog na mga hayop ay hindi mo ibig, kaya’t inihanda mo ang aking katawan upang maging hain.

Hindi mo kinalugdan ang mga handog na susunugin at ang mga handog dahil sa kasalanan.
Kaya’t aking sinabi, ‘Narito ako, O Diyos, upang tupdin ang iyong kalooban’ —
Ayon sa nasusulat sa Kasulatan tungkol sa akin.”

Sinabi muna niya, “Hindi mo inibig o kinalugdan ang mga hain at handog na mga hayop, mga handog na susunugin at mga handog dahil sa kasalanan” – bagamat ito’y inihahandog ayon sa Kautusan. Saka niya sinabi, “Narito ako upang tupdin ang iyong kalooban.” Inalis ng Diyos ang unang handog na pinalitan ng handog ni Kristo. At dahil sa kanyang pagsunod sa kalooban ng Diyos, nilinis tayo ni Hesukristo sa ating mga kasalanan sa pamamagitan ng minsang paghahandog ng kanyang sarili at iyo’y sapat na.

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

SALMONG TUGUNAN
Salmo 39, 7-8a. 8b-9. 10-11ab. 17

Handa akong naririto
upang sundin ang loob mo.

Ang mga panghandog, pati mga hain,
hindi mo na ibig sa dambana dalhin,
upang yaong sala’y iyong patawarin;
sa halip, ang iyong kaloob sa akin
ay ang pandinig ko upang ika’y dinggin.

Handa akong naririto
upang sundin ang loob mo.

Kaya ang tugon ko, “Ako’y naririto;
nasa Kautusan ang mga turo mo.
Ang nais kong sundi’y iyong kalooban;
aking itatago sa puso ang aral.”

Handa akong naririto
upang sundin ang loob mo.

Ang pagliligtas mo’y ipinagsasabi,
di ko inilihim sa aking sarili;
pati pagtulong mo’t pag-ibig na tapat,
sa mga lingkod mo’y isinisiwalat.

Handa akong naririto
upang sundin ang loob mo.

Silang lumalapit sa iyo’y dulutan
ng ligaya’t galak na walang kapantay;
bayaang sabihing: “Ang Poon ay Dakila!”
ng nangaghahangad maligtas na kusa.

Handa akong naririto
upang sundin ang loob mo.

ALELUYA
Filipos 2, 8-9

Aleluya! Aleluya!
Masunuring Kristo Hesus
naghain ng buhay sa krus,
kaya’t dinakila ng D’yos
binigyan ng ngalang tampok
sa langit at sansinukob.
Aleluya! Aleluya!

MABUTING BALITA
Mateo 26, 36-42

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon ayon kay San Mateo

Noong panahong iyon, isinama sila ni Hesus sa isang lugar na tinatawag na Getsemani. Sinabi niya sa kanyang mga alagad, “Dito muna kayo; mananalangin ako sa dako roon.” Ngunit isinama niya si Pedro at ang dalawang anak ni Zebedeo. At nagsimulang mabagabag at maghirap ang kanyang kalooban. Sinabi niya sa kanila, “Ang puso ko’y tigib ng hapis na halos ikamatay ko! Maghintay kayo rito at makipagpuyat sa akin!” Pagkalayo nang kaunti, nagpatirapa siya at nanalangin: “Ama ko, kung maaari’y ilayo mo sa akin ang kalis ng paghihirap na ito. Gayunman, huwag ang kalooban ko kundi ang kalooban mo ang mangyari.”

Nagbalik siya at dinatnan niyang natutulog ang tatlong alagad. Sinabi niya kay Pedro, “Talaga bang hindi kayo makapagpuyat na kasama ko kahit isang oras man lamang? Magpuyat kayo at manalangin upang huwag kayong madaig ng tukso. Ang espiritu’y nakahanda ngunit mahina ang laman.”

Muli siyang lumayo at nanalangin: “Ama ko, kung hindi maiaalis ang kalis na ito nang hindi ko iinumin, mangyari ang iyong kalooban.”

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon.

STRONG WORDS FROM THE SC TO CONGRESS: “GRAVE ABUSE OF DISCRETION”

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Thirty-nine years. That is how long Congress has failed to enact the law required by the 1987 Constitution to prohibit political dynasties.

Today the Supreme Court finally said: enough.

In a unanimous decision, the Court declared that Congress has a mandatory constitutional duty to enact an anti-political dynasty law, and that its prolonged failure to do so constitutes “grave abuse of discretion” and a continuing violation of its constitutional duty. The Court directed Congress to act “with utmost urgency” and enact the law “at the earliest opportunity.”

Those are exceptionally strong words.
Article II, Section 26 of our Constitution declares: “The State shall guarantee equal access to opportunities for public service, and prohibit political dynasties as may be defined by law.”

For almost four decades, the constitutional command remained largely unrealized because Congress itself was entrusted with defining what constitutes a political dynasty. The Court noted that dynasties have meanwhile remained widespread, extending even into the party-list system.

Perhaps this ruling raises a question larger than political dynasties themselves: What happens when those entrusted with making the law have a personal interest in not making it?

This is precisely why constitutional institutions exist—to place limits on power, including the power of those who make our laws.

Thirty-nine years is long enough.
Congress, the Supreme Court has spoken. Now enact the law.

THE NEW ARMS RACE: AI RACE

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President Donald Trump has reportedly dismissed the growing warnings about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence as a “hoax.” His reason is revealing: America must stay ahead because, as he puts it, “whoever wins AI wins.”

Perhaps that statement itself should set alarm bells ringing.

We have heard this logic before. During the Cold War, one superpower could not stop developing more powerful weapons because the other might get ahead. Each side’s fear became the justification for the other’s escalation. And humanity found itself trapped in an arms race capable of destroying the very civilization it claimed to defend.

The Church did not remain silent.

In 1963, shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis brought humanity frighteningly close to nuclear catastrophe, Pope St. John XXIII issued Pacem in Terris. He called explicitly for “a cessation to the arms race,” for the reduction of armaments, the banning of nuclear weapons, and agreements accompanied by effective systems of mutual control.

Paul VI carried that appeal to the United Nations. John Paul II repeatedly called for an end to the nuclear arms race. Benedict XVI and Francis continued the Church’s advocacy for disarmament, with Francis eventually declaring even the possession of nuclear weapons morally unacceptable.

Today we may be facing a new arms race—the AI race.

It is already inseparable from modern warfare. Artificial intelligence is being integrated into surveillance, targeting, autonomous weapons, cyberwarfare and military decision-making. But an even more fundamental race is taking place among nations and corporations: the race toward increasingly powerful AI—and ultimately toward a possible superintelligence.

The logic sounds disturbingly familiar.

America cannot slow down because China might get ahead.

China cannot slow down because America might get ahead.

One AI company cannot slow down because its competitors might get ahead.

And so nobody can afford to be prudent.

This is why I find it significant that some of the very people building the world’s most powerful AI systems are themselves beginning to call for restraint, regulation, independent monitoring and international cooperation. They are warning us that capabilities are advancing faster than our capacity to understand and control them.

The issue is not whether AI is good or evil. AI has enormous potential for good. The deeper question is whether we are racing toward a point at which human intelligence may no longer be able to hold the reins.

Pope Leo XIV has already given the Church a powerful expression for this in Magnifica Humanitas: we must “disarm AI.”

Perhaps the time has come to translate that principle into a more urgent global appeal—calling together governments, AI developers, scientists, ethicists and religious leaders to consider internationally agreed red lines on the development of superintelligence: reciprocal commitments, independent monitoring, verification and effective safeguards before capabilities are developed that humanity may no longer be able to control.

The Church helped humanity find its moral voice during the nuclear arms race. Perhaps she is being called to exercise that prophetic role again.

Because the real question is not: Who will win the AI race? The question is: What if humanity loses it?

LOVE and COMPASSION

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Gospel Reading for September 17, 2026 – Luke 7: 36-50

LOVE and COMPASSION

A certain Pharisee invited Jesus to dine with him, and he entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at table. Now there was a sinful woman in the city who learned that he was at table in the house of the Pharisee. Bringing an alabaster flask of ointment, she stood behind him at his feet weeping and began to bathe his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the ointment. When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”

Jesus said to him in reply, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” “Tell me, teacher,” he said.

“Two people were in debt to a certain creditor; one owed five hundred days’ wages and the other owed fifty. Since they were unable to repay the debt, he forgave it for both. Which of them will love him more?” Simon said in reply, “The one, I suppose, whose larger debt was forgiven.” He said to him, “You have judged rightly.”

Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give me water for my feet, but she has bathed them with her tears
and wiped them with her hair. You did not give me a kiss, but she has not ceased kissing my feet since the time I entered. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet with ointment. So I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; hence, she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.” He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven. The others at table said to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?” But he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

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The Pharisees seemed to have a lot of time keeping track of what people were doing and putting labels on them. They were particularly fond of labeling people as “sinners.”

The word Pharisee comes from the Hebrew word prushim, which means “separated ones.” They thought of themselves as HOLY simply because they observed practices that kept them from ritual impurity. This explains why Jesus was often angry with them, especially because of their hypocrisy. Their judgmental attitude discouraged the so-called “sinners” from having a change of heart. More often than not, people do not change because of the labels placed on them. It is LOVE and COMPASSION that can change hearts. That is the way of Jesus.

The woman in the Gospel showed genuine repentance, and it touched Jesus’ heart and led Him to forgive her.

As for us, it is only when we recognize and admit that we too are sinners, and sincerely repent of our sins, that we receive God’s forgiveness.

Lord Jesus, may we always be humble enough to admit that we too sin against God and are also in need of Your forgiveness. Amen

Veritas Editorial

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