Linggo, Setyembre 1, 2024

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Ika-22 Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon (B)

Deuteronomio 4, 1-2. 6-8
Salmo 14, 2-3a. 3kd-4ab. 5

Sino kayang tatanggapin
sa templo ng Poon natin?

Santiago 1, 17-18. 21b-22. 27
Marcos 7, 1-8. 14-15. 21-23

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Green)
World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation

UNANG PAGBASA
Deuteronomio 4, 1-2. 6-8

Pagbasa mula sa aklat ng Deuteronomio

Sinabi ni Moises sa mga tao: “Ngayon, mga Israelita, upang mabuhay kayo nang matagal at makarating sa lupaing ibinigay sa inyo ng Panginoon, unawain ninyong mabuti at sundin ang tuntuning itinuturo ko sa inyo. Huwag ninyo itong daragdagan ni babawasan. Sundin ninyo ito nang walang labis at walang kulang. Unawain ninyo ito at sunding mabuti. Sa gayon, makikita ng ibang bansa ang inyong karunungan at lawak ng pang-unawa. Sa gayon, hindi nila mapipigilang sabihin ang ganito: ‘Ang bansang ito’y matalino at may malawak na pagkaunawa.’

“Sinong diyos ng ibang bansa ang handang tumulong anumang oras liban sa Panginoon? Aling bansa ang may tuntuning kasing inam ng mga tuntuning ibinigay ko sa inyo ngayon?”

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

SALMONG TUGUNAN
Salmo 14, 2-3a. 3kd-4ab. 5

Sino kayang tatanggapin
sa templo ng Poon natin?

Yaong mga masunurin na sa iyo’y nakikinig,
at ang laging ginagawa’y naaayon sa matuwid,
kung mangusap ay totoo, sa lahat at bawat saglit,
yaong gawang paninira’y hindi niya naiisip.

Sino kayang tatanggapin
sa templo ng Poon natin?

Kailanman, siya’y tapat makisama sa kapwa,
sa kanyang kaibiga’y wala siyang maling gawa;
hindi siya nagkakalat ng di tunay na balita.
At itinatampok niya ang matapat sa lumikha.

Sino kayang tatanggapin
sa templo ng Poon natin?

Hindi siya humihingi ng patubo sa pautang,
at kahit na anong gawi’y hindi siya masuhulan,
upang yaong walang sala’y patawan ng kasalanan.
Ang ganitong mga tao’y mag-aani ng tagumpay.

Sino kayang tatanggapin
sa templo ng Poon natin?

IKALAWANG PAGBASA
Santiago 1, 17-18. 21b-22. 27

Pagbasa mula sa sulat ni Apostol Santiago

Mga kapatid, bawat kaloob na mabuti at ganap ay buhat sa langit, mula sa Ama na lumikha ng mga tanglaw sa langit. Hindi siya nagbabago. Hindi niya tao iniiwan o binabayaan man sa dilim. Niloob niyang tayo’y maging anak niya sa pamamagitan ng salita ng katotohanan, upang matangi tayo at maging higit sa lahat ng kanyang mga nilalang.

Buong pagpapakumbabang tanggapin ang salita ng Diyos na natanim sa inyong puso. Ito ang makapagliligtas sa inyo.

Mamuhay kayo ayon sa salita ng Diyos. Kung ito’y pinakikinggan lamang ninyo ngunit hindi isinasagawa, dinadaya ninyo ang inyong sarili.

Ganito ang pagkarelihiyoso na minamarapat at kinalulugdan ng ating Diyos at Ama: tulungan ang mga ulila at mga babaing balo sa kanilang kahirapan, at ingatan ang sarili na huwag mahawa sa kasamaan ng sanlibutang ito.

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

ALELUYA
Santiago 1, 18

Aleluya! Aleluya!
Magulang nati’y D’yos Ama,
anak ng salita niya
tayong mga aning una.
Aleluya! Aleluya!

MABUTING BALITA
Marcos 7, 1-8. 14-15. 21-23

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon ayon kay San Marcos

Noong panahong iyon, may mga Pariseo at ilang eskribang galing sa Jerusalem, na lumapit kay Hesus. Nakita nila na ang ilan sa mga alagad ni Hesus ay kumain nang hindi muna naghugas ng kamay sa paraang naaayon sa turong minana nila.

Ang mga Judio, lalo na ang mga Pariseo, ay hindi kumakain hangga’t hindi nakapaghuhugas ng kamay ayon sa mga turong minana nila sa kanilang mga ninuno. Hindi rin sila kumakain ng anumang galing sa palengke nang hindi muna ito hinuhugasan. At marami pang ibang minanang turo ang kanilang sinusunod, tulad ng tanging paraan ng paghuhugas ng mga inuman, ng mga saro, ng mga sisidlang tanso, at mga higaan.

Kaya’t tinanong si Hesus ng mga Pariseo at mga eskriba, “Bakit hindi sumusunod ang mga alagad mo sa mga turo ng ating mga ninuno? Kumain sila nang hindi man lamang naghugas ng kamay ayon sa paraang iniutos!” Sinagot sila ni Hesus, “Tama ang hula ni Isaias tungkol sa inyo. Mapagpaimbabaw nga kayo, gaya ng kanyang isinulat:

‘Paggalang na handog sa ‘kin ng bayan ko’y paimbabaw lamang,
sapagkat sa bibig at hindi sa puso ito bumubukal.
Pagpuri’t pagsambang ginagawa nila’y walang kabuluhan,
ang utos ng tao ay itinuturong utos ng Maykapal.’

Niwawalang-kabuluhan nga ninyo ang utos ng Diyos, at ang sinusunod ninyo’y ang turo ng tao.”

Muling pinalapit ni Hesus ang mga tao at sinabi sa kanila, “Makinig kayong lahat, at unawain ang aking sasabihin! Hindi ang pumapasok sa bibig ng tao ang nakapagpaparumi sa kanya sa mata ng Diyos kundi ang mga nagmumula sa kanya.

“Sapagkat sa loob – sa puso ng tao – nagmumula ang masasamang isipang nag-uudyok sa kanya na makiapid, magnakaw, pumatay, mangalunya, mag-imbot, at gumawa ng lahat ng kabuktutan, tulad ng pagdaraya, kahalayan, pagkainggit, paninirang-puri, kapalaluan, at kahangalan. Ang lahat ng ito’y nanggagaling sa puso ng tao, at siyang nagpaparumi sa kanya.”

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon.

PANALANGIN NG BAYAN
Ika-22 Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon (B)

Ipinaaalaala sa atin ngayon ng Mabuting Balita ang dakilang kahalagahan ng paglinang ng tamang saloobing moral at ng pagsunod sa utos ng Diyos. Bunsod ng pananalig sa Kanyang pagmamahal sa atin, manalangin tayo:

Bukal ng kabanalan, dinggin Mo kami!

Para sa Simbahan at mga pinuno nito: Nawa’y isaayos nila ang kanilang mga pinahahalagahan nang hindi napadadala sa mga uso o sa hinihingi ng pagkakataon. Manalangin tayo!

Para sa lahat ng mga magulang: Nawa’y turuan nila ang kanilang mga anak sa pamamagitan ng salita at mabubuting halimbawa, at nawa’y ang kanilang asal ay tuwinang gabayan ng utos ng Diyos. Manalangin tayo!

Para sa lahat ng nagtuturo ng Relihiyon: Nawa’y akayin nila ang kanilang mga estudyante sa isang maayos na pagtanggap sa mga pagpapahalaga ng Ebanghelyo upang mamuhay alinsunod sa ganitong mga pagpapahalaga. Manalangin tayo!

Para sa kabataan sa buong mundo, lalo na sa ating bansa: Nawa’y tanggihan nila ang anumang panghamak at di-karapat-dapat sa tao, at tupdin ang sa kanila’y nagpapadakila. Manalangin tayo!

Para sa ating lahat: Nawa’y mapanatili natin na walang bahid ng maruruming isipan at hangarin ang ating mga puso. Manalangin tayo!

Para sa lahat ng kasapi sa “catechetical ministry”: Nawa sila’y suportahan ng kanilang komunidad sa kanilang mahalagang misyong pagtuturo ng pananampalataya. Manalangin tayo!

Panginoong Diyos, isinugo Mo ang Iyong Anak upang ipaalaala sa amin ang pangangailangan sa mga tamang pagpapahalaga sa buhay. Ipagkaloob Mo sa amin ang biyaya na malaman namin ang tama, gawin ang mabuti, at magpunyagi sa paglilingkod sa Iyo hanggang sa wakas ng aming buhay.

Amen!

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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