Huwebes, Nobyembre 14, 2024

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Huwebes ng Ika-32 Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon (II)

Filemon 7-20
Salmo 145, 7. 8-9a. 9bk-10

Mapalad ang kinukupkop
ng Poong Diyos ni Jacob.

Lucas 17, 20-25

Thursday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time (Green)

UNANG PAGBASA
Filemon 7-20

Pagbasa mula sa sulat ni Apostol San Pablo kay Filemon

Pinakamamahal ko, ang iyong pag-ibig ay nagdulot sa akin ng malaking katuwaan at kaaliwan, sapagkat dahil sa iyo, sumigla ang kalooban ng mga banal.

Dahil kay Kristo, maaari kong sabihing dapat mong gawin ito; gayunman, pag-ibig ang nagbunsod sa akin upang makiusap sa iyo. Akong si Pablo, sugo ni Kristo Hesus at ngayo’y nakabilanggo dahil sa kanya, ang nakikiusap sa iyo tungkol kay Onesimo, na naakit ko sa pananampalataya samantalang ako’y naririto sa bilangguan. Dati, wala kang pakinabang sa kanya, ngunit ngayo’y malaking tulong siya sa ating dalawa.

Pinababalik ko siya sa iyo, at para ko nang ipinadala sa iyo ang aking puso. Ibig ko sanang panatilihin siya sa aking piling, upang, sa halip mo, siya ang maglingkod sa akin habang ako’y nabibilanggo dahil sa Mabuting Balita. Ngunit ayokong gawin iyon nang wala kang pahintulot upang hindi maging sapilitan kundi kusa ang pagtulong mo sa akin.

Marahil, nawalay sa iyo nang kaunting panahon si Onesimo upang sa pagbabalik niya’y makasama mo siya habang panahon – hindi na bilang alipin kundi isang minamahal na kapatid. Mahal siya sa akin, ngunit lalo na sa iyo – hindi lamang bilang isang alipin kundi isang kapatid pa sa Panginoon!

Kaya’t kung inaari mo akong tunay na kasama, tanggapin mo siya tulad ng pagtanggap mo sa akin. Kung siya ma’y nagkasala sa iyo o nagkautang kaya, sa akin mo singilin. Ako ang siyang sumusulat nito; Ako, si Pablo, ang magbabayad sa iyo. Hindi ko na ibig banggitin na utang mo sa akin ang iyong pagkakilala kay Kristo. Ipinakikiusap ko sa iyo, alang-alang sa Panginoon, pagbigyan mo ang aking kahilingan, dulutan mo ng kaligayahan ang puso ko bilang kapatid kay Kristo!

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

SALMONG TUGUNAN
Salmo 145, 7. 8-9a. 9bk-10

Mapalad ang kinukupkop
ng Poong Diyos ni Jacob.

o kaya: Aleluya.

Ang maaasahang lagi’y Panginoon,
panig sa naaapi, ang Diyos na hukom,
may pagkaing handa, sa nangagugutom.

Mapalad ang kinukupkop
ng Poong Diyos ni Jacob.

Pinalaya niya ang mga nabihag;
isinasauli, paningin ng bulag;
lahat ng inapo ay itinataas,
ang mga hinirang niya’y nililingap.

Mapalad ang kinukupkop
ng Poong Diyos ni Jacob.

Isinasanggalang ang mga dayuhang
sa lupain nila’y doon tumatahan;
tumutulong siya sa balo’t ulila,
masamang balangkas pinipigil niya.

Mapalad ang kinukupkop
ng Poong Diyos ni Jacob.

Walang hanggang Hari, ang Diyos na Panginoon!
Ang Diyos mo, Sion, ay mananatili sa lahat ng panahon!

Mapalad ang kinukupkop
ng Poong Diyos ni Jacob.

ALELUYA
Juan 15, 5

Aleluya! Aleluya!
Ako’y puno, kayo’y sanga;
kapag ako ay kaisa,
kayo’y t’yak na mamumunga.
Aleluya! Aleluya!

MABUTING BALITA
Lucas 17, 20-25

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon ayon kay San Lucas

Noong panahong iyon, si Hesus ay tinanong ng mga Pariseo kung kailan itatatag ang kaharian ng Diyos. Sumagot siya, “Ang pagsisimula ng paghahari ng Diyos ay walang makikitang palatandaan. At wala ring magsasabing nagsisimula na roon o rini. Sapagkat ang totoo’y nagsimula nang maghari ang Diyos sa puso ng mga nananalig sa kanya.”

At sinabi niya sa mga alagad, “Darating ang panahong hahangarin ninyong makita ang isa sa mga araw ang Anak ng Tao, ngunit hindi ninyo makikita iyon. At may magsasabi sa inyo, ‘Naroon siya!’ o, ‘Narini siya!’ Huwag kayong pumunta upang siya’y hanapin. Sapagkat pagsapit ng takdang araw, ang Anak ng Tao’y darating na parang kidlat. Ngunit kailangan munang magbata siya ng maraming hirap, at itakwil ng mga tao sa ngayon.”

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon.

PANALANGIN NG BAYAN
Ika-32 Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon
Huwebes

Manalangin tayo nang may ganap na pananalig sa Panginoon ng buhay na naghihintay sa atin sa dulong hangganan ng daan ng buhay.

Panginoon, dinggin mo ang aming panalangin.
o kaya
Sumaamin nawa ang iyong paghahari, Panginoon.

Ang Simbahan nawa’y palagiang ihanda ang mga tao sa pagtanggap kay Kristo sa kanyang pagbabalik, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Sa pagpapasyang kumilos para sa katarungan at kapayapaan, ang mga Kristiyano nawa’y pagbuklurin ang lahat ng tao nang sama-sama sa pananampalataya at pag-asa, at ihanda sila sa muling pagdating ni Kristo, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga trahedya, gawa man ng tao o ng kalikasan, nawa’y hindi magpaligalig o magpahina ng ating pananampalataya, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga maysakit nawa’y tanggapin si Jesus sa kanilang mga puso at makita siyang kasa-kasama nila sa kanilang dinaranas na mga pagsubok, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Yaong mga yumao nawa’y mapalaya mula sa mga suliranin ng mundong ito at lumigaya sa walang hanggang kapayapaan, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ama naming nasa Langit, laging kang malapit sa amin. Alam mo ang aming mga pangangailangan, higit pa sa aming pagkabatid. Tulungan mo kaming maging mulat sa iyong presensya ngayon at 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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