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Martes ng Ika-17 Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon (II)

Jeremias 14, 17-22
Salmo 78, 8. 9. 11 at 13

Dahil sa ngalan mo,
Poon, iligtas mo kami ngayon.

Mateo 13, 36-43

Tuesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time (Green)

UNANG PAGBASA
Jeremias 14, 17-22

Pagbasa mula sa aklat ni propeta Jeremias

“Jeremias, ipaalam mo sa bayan ang inyong kalungkutan;
sabihin mo, ‘Araw-gabi’y hindi na ako titigil ng pag-iyak;
sapagkat malalim ang sugat ng aking bayan, sila’y malubhang nasaktan.
Pag lumabas ako ng parang, nakikita ko ang mga nasawi sa digmaan;
pag ako’y pumunta sa mga bayan,
naroon naman ang mga taong namamatay ng gutom.
Patuloy sa paggala ang mga propeta at mga saserdote,
subalit hindi nila alam kung ano ang kanilang ginagawa.’”

Panginoon, lubusan mo na bang itinakwil ang Juda?
Napoot ka ba sa mga taga-Sion?
Bakit ganito kalubha ang parusa sa amin
anupat wala na kaming pag-asang gumaling?
Ang hanap nami’y kapayapaan ngunit nabigo kami;
inasam naming gumaling ngunit katatakutan ang dumating.
Panginoon, kinikilala namin ang aming kasamaan,
at ang pagtataksil ng aming mga magulang;
kaming lahat ay nagkasala sa iyo.
Huwag mo kaming itakwil, alang-alang sa iyong pangalan;
huwag mong itulot na mapahiya ang Jerusalem,
ang kinalalagyan ng marangal mong luklukan.
Alalahanin mo ang iyong tipan; huwag mo sana itong sirain.
Hindi makagagawa ng ulan ang diyus-diyusan ng alinmang bansa;
hindi makapagpapaambon man lamang ang sinuman sa kanila.

Panginoon, nasa iyo ang aming pag-asa sapagkat ikaw lamang ang makagagawa ng mga bagay na ito.

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

SALMONG TUGUNAN
Salmo 78, 8. 9. 11 at 13

Dahil sa ngalan mo, Poon,
iligtas mo kami ngayon.

Huwag mong parusahan
kaming mga anak, sa pagkakasala ng aming magulang,
ikaw ay mahabag sa mga lingkod mong pag-asa’y pumanaw.

Dahil sa ngalan mo, Poon,
iligtas mo kami ngayon.

Mahabag ka sana,
kami ay tulungan, Panginoong Diyos na Tagapagligtas,
dahil sa ngalan mo, kaming nagkasala’y patawaring ganap
at ang pagpupuri sa iyo ng madla’y hindi maglilikat.

Dahil sa ngalan mo, Poon,
iligtas mo kami ngayon.

Iyong kahabagan
ang mga bilanggong kanilang hinuli, dinggin mo ang daing,
sa taglay mong lakas, iligtas mo silang takdang papatayin.
Kaming iyong lingkod,
lingkod mo kaming parang mga tupa sa iyong pastulan,
magpupuring lagi’t magpapasalamat sa iyong pangalan!

Dahil sa ngalan mo, Poon,
iligtas mo kami ngayon.

ALELUYA

Aleluya! Aleluya!
Salita ng D’yos ang buto
na tanim ni Hesukristo
upang tumubo sa tao.
Aleluya! Aleluya!

MABUTING BALITA
Mateo 13, 36-43

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon ayon kay San Mateo

Noong panahong iyon, iniwan ni Hesus ang mga tao at pumasok sa bahay. Lumapit ang kanyang mga alagad at sinabi sa kanya, “Ipaliwanag po ninyo sa amin ang talinghaga tungkol sa masasamang damo sa bukid.” Ito ang tugon ni Hesus, “Ang Anak ng Tao ang naghahasik ng mabuting binhi. Ang bukid ay ang sanlibutan. Ang mga taong pinaghaharian ng Diyos ang mabuting binhi at ang mga taong pinaghaharian ng diyablo ang masasamang damo. Ang kaaway na naghasik ng mga iyon ay walang iba kundi ang diyablo. Ang pag-aani ay ang katapusan ng daigdig, at ang mga anghel ang mga tagapag-ani. Kung paanong iniipon ang mga damo at sinusunog, gayun din ang mangyayari sa katapusan ng daigdig. Susuguin ng Anak ng Tao ang kanyang mga anghel, at iipunin nila mula sa kanyang pinaghaharian ang lahat ng nagiging sanhi ng pagkakasala at ang lahat ng gumagawa ng masama, at ihahagis sa maningas na pugon. Doo’y mananangis sila at magngangalit ang kanilang ngipin. At magliliwanag na parang araw ng mga matuwid sa kaharian ng kanilang Ama. Ang may pandinig ay makinig!”

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon.

PANALANGIN NG BAYAN
Hulyo 26
San Joaquin at Santa Ana

Kasama nina San Joaquin at Santa Ana, magtiwala tayo sa Panginoon na nakaaalam ng mga pangangailangan ng ating mga pamilya at ng pamayanan ng Simbahan.

Panginoon, dinggin Mo ang aming panalangin.
o kaya
Ama ng mga salinlahi, maging mapagpala ka sa amin.

Ang Simbahan nawa’y patuloy na magtanggol sa kabanalan ng kasal at ang kahalagahan ng buhay pamilya, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga magulang nawa’y maitanim sa isip at puso ng kanilang mga anak ang mga aral sa pagmamahalan at kabanalan, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga anak nawa’y laging magmahal at gumalang sa kanilang mga magulang at mga ninuno, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga mag-asawang nagkakalayo nawa’y muling matuklasan at pahalagahan ang isa’t isa sa diwa ng kapayapaan, pagpapatawad, at pagkakasundo, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Sa mga yumaong miyembro ng ating pamilya, nawa’y ipagkaloob ng Diyos ang kapayapaan, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Panginoong Diyos, basbasan mo ang aming mga tahanan. Pagbuklurin mo ang aming mga anak na lalaki at babae sa nag-iisang pamilya ng iyong Simbahan. Hinihiling namin ito sa pamamagitan ni Kristo na aming Panginoon. 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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