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Miyerkules sa Ika-5 Linggo ng Apatnapung Araw na Paghahanda

Daniel 3, 14-20. 91-92. 95
Daniel 3, 52. 53. 54. 55. 56

Purihin at ipagdangal
ang Diyos magpakailanman.

Juan 8, 31-42

Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent (Violet)

UNANG PAGBASA
Daniel 3, 14-20. 91-92. 95

Pagbasa mula sa aklat ni propeta Daniel

Noong mga araw na iyon, sinabi ni Haring Nabucodnosor: “Sadrac, Mesac, at Abednego, totoo bang hindi kayo sumasamba sa rebultong ipinagawa ko?” tanong ng hari. “Iniuutos ko sa inyong sumamba kayo sa ipinagawa kong rebulto sa sandaling marinig ninyo ang tunog ng mga instrumento. Kung hindi, ipahahagis ko kayo sa naglalagablab na pugon. Tingnan ko lang kung may diyos na makapagliligtas sa inyo.”

Sinabi nina Sadrac, Mesac at Abednego, “Mahal na hari, wala po kaming itututol sa inyo tungkol sa bagay na ito. Gawin ninyo kung iyan ang gusto ninyo. Ang Diyos na aming pinaglilingkuran ang magliligtas sa amin sa pugong iyon at sa inyong kapangyarihan. At kung hindi man niya gawin ito, hindi pa rin kami sasamba sa rebultong ipinagawa ninyo.”

Namula si Haring Nabucodnosor sa tindi ng galit kina Sadrac, Mesac at Abednego. Kaya, iniutos niyang painiting makapitong ibayo ang pugon. Iniutos din niya sa pinakamalalakas niyang tauhan na gapusin sina Sadrac, Mesac at Abednego at ihagis sa apoy.

Walang anu-ano’y napalundag si Haring Nabucodnosor. Pamanghang itinanong niya sa kanyang mga tagapayo, “Hindi ba’t tatlo lamang ang inihagis sa apoy?”

“Opo, kamahalan,” sagot nila.

“Bakit apat ang nakikita kong lalakad-lakad sa apoy at hindi nasusunog? At yaong isa, ang tingin ko’y diyos!”

Dahil dito, sinabi ng hari, “Purihin ang Diyos nina Sadrac, Mesac at Abednego! Nagsugo siya ng anghel upang iligtas ang mga lingkod niyang ito na ganap na nanalig sa kanya. Hindi sinunod ng mga ito ang aking utos; ginusto pa nilang sila’y ihagis sa apoy kaysa sumamba sa diyus-diyosan.”

Ang Salita ng Diyos.

SALMONG TUGUNAN
Daniel 3, 52. 53. 54. 55. 56

Purihin at ipagdangal
ang Diyos magpakailanman.

Pinupuri ka namin, Panginoon;
Diyos ng aming mga ninuno;
karapat-dapat kang ipagdangal at dakilain magpakailanman.
Purihin ang iyong banal at maluwalhating pangalan,
nararapat purihin at ipagdangal magpakailanman.

Purihin at ipagdangal
ang Diyos magpakailanman.

Purihin ka sa iyong banal at marangal na tahanan;
lubhang karapat-dapat kang awitan at dakilain magpakailanman.

Purihin at ipagdangal
ang Diyos magpakailanman.

Purihin ka, na nakaluklok sa maringal mong trono,
karapat-dapat kang awitan at dakilain magpakailanman.

Purihin at ipagdangal
ang Diyos magpakailanman.

Mula sa iyong luklukan sa ibabaw ng mga kerubin,
nakikita mo ang kalaliman, ang daigdig ng mga patay.
Karapat-dapat kang purihin at dakilain magpakailanman.

Purihin at ipagdangal
ang Diyos magpakailanman.

Purihin ka sa buong sangkalangitan;
karapat-dapat kang awitan at dakilain magpakailanman.

Purihin at ipagdangal
ang Diyos magpakailanman.

AWIT-PAMBUNGAD SA MABUTING BALITA
Lucas 8, 15

Mapalad ang nag-iingat
sa kanyang pusong matapat
ng Salitang nagbubuhat
sa Poong D’yos ng liwanag,
sa t’yaga’y aaning ganap.

MABUTING BALITA
Juan 8, 31-42

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon ayon kay San Juan

Noong panahong iyon, sinabi ni Hesus sa mga Judiong naniniwala sa kanya, “Kung patuloy kayong susunod sa aking aral, tunay ngang kayo’y mga alagad ko; makikilala ninyo ang katotohanan, at ang katotohanan ang magpapalaya sa inyo.” “Lahi kami ni Abraham,” tugon nila, “at kailanma’y di kami naalipin ninuman. Paano mo masasabing palalayain kami?” Sumagot si Hesus, “Tandaan ninyo: alipin ng kasalanan ang lahat ng nagkakasala. Ang alipin ay hindi kabilang sa sambahayan sa habang panahon, subalit ang anak ay kabilang magpakailanman. Kapag kayo’y pinalaya ng Anak, tunay nga kayong malaya. Nalalaman kong lahi kayo ni Abraham; gayunma’y pinagsisikapan ninyo akong patayin, sapagkat walang pitak sa inyong puso ang aral ko. Sinasabi ko ang aking nakita sa aking Ama; ginagawa naman ninyo ang inyong narinig sa inyong ama.”

Sumagot sila, “Si Abraham ang aming ama.” “Kung kayo’y mga anak ni Abraham, tutularan ninyo ang kanyang ginawa,” ani Hesus. “Ngunit pinagsisikapan ninyo akong patayin, gayong sinasabi ko lamang ang katotohanang narinig ko sa Diyos. Hindi ganyan ang ginawa ni Abraham. Ang ginagawa ninyo’y tulad ng ginawa ng inyong ama.” “Hindi kami mga anak sa labas,” tugon nila. “Ang Diyos ang aming Ama.” Sinabi ni Hesus, “Kung talagang ang Diyos ang inyong Ama, iibigin ninyo ako, sapagkat nagmula ako sa Diyos. Hindi ako naparito sa ganang sarili ko lamang, kundi sinugo niya ako.”

Ang Mabuting Balita ng Panginoon.

PANALANGIN NG BAYAN
Ikalimang Linggo ng Kuwaresma
Miyerkules

Ang Diyos ang walang hangganang pinagmumulan ng katotohanan, kalayaan, at lakas. May hangganan ang ating isip, espiritu, at katawan. Hilingin natin sa Diyos na loobin niyang matamo natin at ng lahat ng tao ang kaganapang ninanais niya para sa atin.

Panginoon, dinggin Mo ang aming panalangin.
o kaya
Ama, gawin Mo kaming ganap.

Ang lahat ng naghahanap sa katotohanan nawa’y maging bukas at malaya ang isip sa mensahe ni Jesus at ng kanyang Simbahan, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang ating mga taimtim na gawain ngayong Kuwaresma nawa’y makatulong upang palayain tayo sa pagkaalipin ng labis na pagpapahalaga sa sarili, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang ating pagkaabala sa materyalismo na umiiral sa ating panahaon nawa’y hindi makahadlang sa ating paghahanap sa buhay na walang hanggan, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga maysakit, mga dukha, mga bilanggo, mga walang kaalaman, at lahat ng nagdurusa nawa’y makatagpo ng paglaya mula sa mga pasanin nila sa buhay, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Ang mga namatay nang tapat sa kanya nawa’y kalagan ng Panginoon at bayaan silang maging malaya sa Kaharian ng kanyang kaluwalhatian, manalangin tayo sa Panginoon.

Butihing Ama, namatay ang iyong Anak upang makilala ng mga tao ang katotohanan at mamuhay nang naaayon dito. Palayain mo kami sa aming makikitid na pag-iisip at pagkamakasarili upang ang aming mga isip at puso ay lumagong patungo sa iyo. 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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