Linggo, Nobyembre 3, 2024

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Ika-31 Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon (B)

Deuteronomio 6, 2-6
Salmo 17, 2-3a. 3kb-4. 47 at 51ab

Poong aking kalakasan,
iniibig kitang tunay.

Hebreo 7, 23-28
Marcos 12, 28b-34

Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (Green)

UNANG PAGBASA
Deuteronomio 6, 2-6

Pagbasa mula sa aklat ng Deuteronomio

Sinabi ni Moises sa mga tao: “Matakot kayo sa Panginoon, ang inyong Diyos, at sundin ang lahat ng kanyang mga utos at mga tuntunin habang kayo’y nabubuhay. Kung ito’y susundin ninyo, hahaba ang inyong buhay. Kaya nga, dinggin ninyo ito at sunding mabuti. Kung magkagayo’y mapapanuto kayo, at lalaki ang inyong lahi pagdating ninyo sa lupaing ipinangako niya sa inyo, sa lupaing sagana sa lahat ng bagay.

“Dinggin mo, Israel: Ang Panginoong ating Diyos ay siya lamang Panginoon. Ibigin mo ang Panginoon mong Diyos nang buong puso, kaluluwa at lakas. Ang mga utos niya’y itanim mo sa iyong isip.”

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

SALMONG TUGUNAN
Salmo 17, 2-3a. 3kb-4. 47 at 51ab

Poong aking kalakasan,
iniibig kitang tunay.

Minamahal kita nang tunay na tunay.
Panginoo’y batong hindi matitibag
matibay kong muog at Tagapagligtas.

Poong aking kalakasan,
iniibig kitang tunay.

D’yos ko ang sa akin ay s’yang nag-iingat,
tagapagtanggol ko at aking kalasag.
Sa ‘yo, Panginoon, ako’y tumatawag
sa mga kaaway ako’y ‘yong iligtas.

Poong aking kalakasan,
iniibig kitang tunay.

Panginoo’y buhay, s’ya’y Tagapagligtas
matibay kong muog, purihin ng lahat.
Sa piniling hari, dakilang tagumpay,
ang kaloob ng D’yos sa kanyang hinirang.

Poong aking kalakasan,
iniibig kitang tunay.

IKALAWANG PAGBASA
Hebreo 7, 23-28

Pagbasa mula sa sulat sa Mga Hebreo

Mga kapatid, dati, sa Matandang Tipan, maraming saserdote ang naghahali-halili, sapagkat namamatay sila at hindi nakapagpapatuloy sa panunungkulan. Ngunit si Hesus ay buhay magpakailanman, at hindi siya mahahalinhan sa kanyang pagka-saserdote. Dahil nga riyan, lubusan niyang maililigtas ang lahat ng lumalapit sa Diyos sa pamamagitan niya, sapagkat siya’y nabubuhay magpakailanman upang mamagitan para sa kanila.

Si Hesus, kung gayon, ang Dakilang Saserdoteng makatutugon sa ating pangangailangan. Siya’y banal, walang kapintasan o kasalanan, nahihiwalay sa mga makasalanan at mataas pa kaysa sangkalangitan. Hindi siya katulad ng ibang mga dakilang saserdote na kailangang maghandog ng mga hain araw-araw, una’y para sa sarili nilang kasalanan, at pagkatapos, para sa kasalanan ng mga tao. Minsang naghandog si Hesus – at iyo’y pangmagpakailanman – nang ihandog niya ang kanyang sarili. May mga kahinaan ang mga dakilang saserdoteng hinirang ayon sa Kautusan; subalit ang saserdoteng hinirang na may panunumpa ay ang Anak, banal magpakailanman. At ang panunumpa ng Diyos ay huling dumating kaysa Kautusan.

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

ALELUYA
Juan 14, 23

Aleluya! Aleluya!
Ang sa aki’y nagmamahal
tutupad sa aking aral.
Ama’t ako’y mananahan.
Aleluya! Aleluya!

MABUTING BALITA
Marcos 12, 28b-34

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon ayon kay San Marcos

Noong panahong iyon, lumapit ang isa sa mga eskriba kay Hesus at tinanong siya, “Alin pong utos ang pinakamahalaga?” Sumagot si Hesus, “Ito ang pinakamahalagang utos, ‘Pakinggan mo, Israel! Ang Panginoon na ating Diyos – siya lamang ang Panginoon. Ibigin mo ang Panginoon mong Diyos nang buong puso, nang buong kaluluwa, nang buong pag-iisip, at nang buong lakas.’ Ito naman ang pangalawa, ‘Ibigin mo ang iyong kapwa gaya ng iyong sarili.’ Wala nang ibang utos na hihigit pa sa mga ito.” “Tama po, Guro!” wika ng eskriba. “Totoo ang sinabi ninyo. Iisa ang Diyos at wala nang iba liban sa kanya. At ang umibig sa kanya nang buong puso, buong pag-iisip, at buong lakas, at ang umibig sa kapwa gaya ng kanyang sarili ay higit na mahalaga kaysa magdala ng lahat ng handog na susunugin, at iba pang mga hain.” Nakita ni Hesus na matalino ang kanyang sagot, kaya’t sinabi niya, “Malapit ka nang mapabilang sa mga pinaghaharian ng Diyos.” At wala nang nangahas magtanong kay Hesus mula noon.

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon.

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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