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Lunes ng Ika-22 Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon (II)

1 Corinto 2, 1-5
Salmo 118, 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102

Iniibig ko nang lubos
tanang utos mo, Poong D’yos

Lucas 4, 16-30

Monday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time (Green)

UNANG PAGBASA
1 Corinto 2, 1-5

Pagbasa mula sa unang sulat ni Apostol San Pablo sa mga taga-Corinto

Mga kapatid, nang ako’y pumariyan, ipinahayag ko sa inyo ang lihim na panukala ng Diyos, ngunit hindi sa pamamagitan ng malalalim na pananalita o matataas na karunungan. Ipinasiya kong wala akong ipangangaral sa inyo kundi si Hesukristo na ipinako sa krus. Kaya mahina, takot, at nanginginig akong humarap sa inyo. Sa pananalita at pangangaral ko’y hindi ko kayo inakit ng matatamis na pangungusap batay sa karunungan ng tao, kundi sa pamamagitan ng patotoo ng Espiritu at ng kapangyarihan ng Diyos. Kaya’t hindi na karunungan ng tao kundi sa kapangyarihan ng Diyos nababatay ang inyong pananalig kay Kristo.

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

SALMONG TUGUNAN
Salmo 118, 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102

Iniibig ko nang lubos
tanang utos mo, Poong D’yos.

Ang taglay kong karununga’y higit pa sa matatanda,
pagkat ang ‘yong mga utos ay hindi ko sinisira.

Iniibig ko nang lubos
tanang utos mo, Poong D’yos.

Di ko gustong matutuhan ang ugaling masasama,
ang hangad ko na masunod ay ang iyong sinalita.

Iniibig ko nang lubos
tanang utos mo, Poong D’yos.

Hindi ako nagpabaya sa utos mo at tuntunin,
pagkat ikaw ang guro ko na nagturo ng aralin.

Iniibig ko nang lubos
tanang utos mo, Poong D’yos.

ALELUYA
Lucas 4, 18

Aleluya! Aleluya!
Ikaw, Kristo ay sinugo
upang sa dukha’y magturo,
magpalaya sa bilanggo.
Aleluya! Aleluya!

MABUTING BALITA
Lucas 4, 16-30

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon ayon kay San Lucas

Noong panahong iyon, umuwi si Jesus sa Nazaret na kanyang nilakhan. Gaya ng kanyang kinagawian, pumasok siya sa sinagoga nang Araw ng Pamamahinga. Tumindig siya upang bumasa; at ibinigay sa kanya ang aklat ni Propeta Isaias. Binuksan niya ang aklat sa dakong kinasusulatan ng ganito:

“Sumasaakin ang Espiritu ng Panginoon,
Sapagkat hinirang niya ako upang ipangaral sa mga dukha ang Mabuting Balita.
Sinugo niya ako upang ipahayag sa mga bihag na sila’y lalaya,
At sa mga bulag na sila’y makakikita;
Upang bigyang-kaluwagan ang mga sinisiil,
At ipahayag ang pagliligtas na gagawin ng Panginoon.”

Binalumbon niya ang kasulatan, at matapos isauli sa tagapaglingkod, siya’y naupo. Nakatitig sa kanya ang lahat ng nasa sinagoga. At sinabi niya sa kanila: “Natupad ngayon ang bahaging ito ng Kasulatan samantalang nakikinig kayo.” Pinuri siya ng lahat, at namangha sa kanyang napakahusay na pananalita. “Hindi ba ito ang anak ni Jose?” tanong nila. Kaya’t sinabi ni Hesus, “Walang pagsalang babanggitin ninyo sa akin ang kawikaang ito: ‘Doktor, gamutin mo ang iyong sarili!’ Sasabihin din ninyo sa akin, ‘Gawin mo naman sa ‘yong sariling bayan ang mga nabalitaan naming ginawa mo sa Capernaum.’” At nagpatuloy ng pagsasalita si Hesus, “Tandaan ninyo: walang propetang kinikilala sa kanyang sariling bayan. Ngunit sinasabi ko sa inyo: maraming babaing balo sa Israel noong kapanahunan ni Elias nang hindi umulan sa loob ng tatlong tao’t kalahati at magkaroon ng matinding taggutom sa buong lupain. Subalit hindi sa kaninuman sa kanila pinapunta si Elias kundi sa isang babaing balo sa Sarepta, sa lupain ng Sidon. Sa dinami-dami ng mga ketongin sa Israel noong kapanahunan ni Eliseo, walang pinagaling isa man sa kanila; si Naaman pang taga-Siria ang pinagaling.” Galit na galit ang lahat ng nasa sinagoga nang marinig ito. Nagtindigan sila, at pinagtabuyan siyang palabas, sa taluktok ng burol na kinatatayuan ng bayan, upang ibulid sa bangin. Ngunit dumaan siya sa kalagitnaan nila at umalis.

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon.

PANALANGIN NG BAYAN
Ika-22 Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon
Lunes

Tinanggihan si Jesus ng sarili niyang mga kababayan. Tanggapin natin siya nang may pananampalataya at manalangin tayo sa kanyang pangalan.

Panginoon, dinggin mo ang aming panalangin.
o kaya
Panginoon, pumarito ka taglay ang aming kaligtasan.

Ang mga pinuno ng Simbahan nawa’y ipahayag nang may katapangan at isabuhay nang may paninindigan ang Salita ng Diyos, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Sa pamamagitan ni Kristo sa atin, nawa’y mapagtanto ng sandaigdigan ang bukal ng tunay na karunungan, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga Kristiyanong magulang nawa’y maging matatag sa pagsunod kay Kristo na siyang Daan, Katotohanan, at Buhay, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga maysakit na nabibigatan sa buhay nawa’y madama ang presensya ng Diyos sa pamamagitan ng pag-aaruga at malasakit ng kanilang mga pamilya, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga tapat na yumao nawa’y tumanggap ng kaligayahang walang hanggang buhay, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Makapangyarihang Ama, walang sinuman sa amin ang makalalapit kay Kristo kung hindi mo ito ipinagkaloob; gawin mo kaming iisa sa kanya upang makapiling ka namin sa magpasawalang hanggan. 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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