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Martes sa Ika-5 Linggo ng Apatnapung Araw na Paghahanda

Bilang 21, 4-9
Salmo 101, 2-3. 16-18. 19-21

Dinggin mo ang aking dasal,
pagsamo ko’y paunlakan.

Juan 8, 21-30

Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent (Violet)

UNANG PAGBASA
Bilang 21, 4-9

Pagbasa mula sa aklat ng mga Bilang

Noong mga araw na iyon, mula sa Bundok ng Hor, nagpatuloy ang mga Israelita patungong Dagat ng mga Tambo upang lihisan ang Edom. Dahil dito, nainip sila sa pasikut-sikot na paglalakbay na yaon. Nagreklamo sila kay Moises, “Inialis mo ba kami sa Egipto para patayin sa ilang na ito? Wala kaming makain ni mainom! Sawa na kami sa walang kuwentang pagkaing ito.” Dahil dito, sila’y pinadalhan ng Panginoon ng makamandag na ahas at sinumang matuka nito ay namamatay. Kaya, lumapit sila kay Moises. Sinabi nila “Nagkasala kami sa Panginoon at sa iyo. Idalangin mo sa kanyang paalisin ang mga ahas na ito.” Dumalangin nga si Moises at ganito ang sagot sa kanya ng Panginoon, “Gumawa ka ng isang ahas na tanso. Ilagay mo iyon sa dulo ng isang tikin at sinumang natuklaw ng ahas na tumingin doon ay hindi mamamatay.” Gayun nga ang ginawa ni Moises. Mula noon, lahat ng matuklaw ng ahas ngunit tumingin sa ahas na tanso ay hindi namamatay.

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

SALMONG TUGUNAN
Salmo 101, 2-3. 16-18. 19-21

Dinggin mo ang aking dasal,
pagsamo ko’y paunlakan.

Dinggin mo, O Poon, ang aking dalangin,
lingapin mo ako sa aking pagdaing;
O huwag ka sanang magkubli sa akin,
lalo sa panahong may dusa’t hilahil.
Pag ako’y tumawag, ako’y iyong dinggin
sa sandaling iyo’y agad mong sagutin.

Dinggin mo ang aking dasal,
pagsamo ko’y paunlakan.

Ang lahat ng bansa sa Poon ay takot,
maging mga hari sa buong sinukob.
Kung iyong itayong pamuli ang Sion,
Ikaw’y mahahayag doon, Panginoon.
Daing ng mahirap ay iyong diringgin,
di mo tatanggihan ang kanilang daing.

Dinggin mo ang aking dasal,
pagsamo ko’y paunlakan.

Ito’y matititik upang matunghayan,
ng sunod na lahing di pa dumaratal;
Ikaw nga, O Poon, ay papupurihan.
Mula sa itaas, luklukan mong banal,
ang lahat sa lupa’y iyong minamasdan.
Iyong dinirinig ang pagtataghuyan
ng mga bilanggong ang hatol ay bitay,
upang palayain sa hirap na taglay.

Dinggin mo ang aking dasal,
pagsamo ko’y paunlakan.

AWIT-PAMBUNGAD SA MABUTING BALITA

Ang butil na ipinunla
ay ang banal na Salita.
Paghahasik ay ginawa
ng Poong Gurong dakila
upang tana’y sumagana.

MABUTING BALITA
Juan 8, 21-30

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon ayon kay San Juan

Noong panahong iyon, sinabi ni Hesus sa mga Pariseo: “Ako’y yayaon; hahanapin ninyo ako, ngunit mamamatay kayo sa inyong mga kasalanan. Hindi kayo makapupunta sa paroroonan ko.” Sinabi ng mga Judio, “Magpapakamatay kaya siya kaya niya sinasabing, ‘Hindi kayo makapupunta sa paroroonan ko?’” Sumagot si Hesus, “Kayo’y taga-ibaba, ako’y taga-itaas. Kayo’y taga-sanlibutang ito, ako’y hindi. Kaya sinabi ko sa inyo na mamamatay kayo sa inyong mga kasalanan. Mamamatay nga kayo sa inyong mga kasalanan kung hindi kayo maniniwalang ‘Ako’y si Ako Nga’. “Sino ka ba?” tanong nila. Sumagot si Hesus, “Ako’y yaong sinabi ko na sa inyo mula pa noong una. Marami akong masasabi at maihahatol laban sa inyo. Ngunit totoo ang sinasabi ng nagsugo sa akin, at ang narinig ko sa kanya ang ipinapahayag ko sa sanlibutan.”

Hindi nila naunawaan na siya’y nagsasalita tungkol sa Ama. Kaya’t sinabi ni Hesus, “Kapag naitaas na ninyo ang Anak ng Tao, malalaman ninyong ‘Ako’y si Ako Nga.’ Wala akong ginagawa sa ganang sarili ko lamang; nagsasalita ako ayon sa itinuturo sa akin ng Ama. At kasama ko ang nagsugo sa akin; hindi niya ako iniiwan, sapagkat lagi kong ginagawa ang nakalulugod sa kanya.” Marami sa nakarinig nito ang naniwala sa kanya.

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon.

PANALANGIN NG BAYAN
Ikalimang Linggo ng Kuwaresma
Martes

Buong pananampalataya tayong manalangin sa Ama, dahil sa pamamagitan ng pagpapakasakit ng kanyang Anak ay naligtas tayo sa lahat ng kaparusahan.

Panginoon, dinggin Mo ang aming panalangin.
o kaya
Ama, basbasan Mo kami sa ngalan ni Jesus.

Ang Bayan ng Diyos nawa’y magtagumpay sa pagpapalaganap ng Mabuting Balita ng kaligtasan sa mundo, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga taong tumatanggap kay Jesus bilang Tagapagligtas nawa’y higit na madagdagan, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga taimtim na nagsisikap na hanapin ang katotohanan nawa’y matagpuan si Jesus na siyang liwanag na tumatanglaw sa kadiliman ng buhay, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga nagdurusa dahil sa nararamdamang sakit, pagkabalisa, takot, at pangungulila nawa’y makita ang liwanag ni Kristo na tumatanglaw sa kanila, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Sa mga namayapang tapat sa Panginoon nawa’y tumanglaw ang liwanag na walang hanggan, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ama naming nasa Langit na pinagmumulan ng lahat ng biyaya, loobin mo na ang dugong ibinuhos ng iyong Anak ay magdulot ng higit na paglago sa pananampalataya upang maging makabuluhan para sa sangkatauhan ang kanyang pagpapakasakit. Hinihiling namin ito sa pamamagitan ni Kristo na aming Panginoon. 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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