Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Monday in the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time, Year II, 15 June 2026
1 Kings 21:17-29 <*((((>< + ><))))*> Matthew 5:43-48
Forgive us,
God our loving Father,
in continuing the story of
Naboth's vineyard forcibly taken
by King Ahab through
his evil wife Queen Jezebel.
Most sad with this story
that continues to our days
is not only the greed and avarice
of people with wealth and power;
its tragedy that continues today is
how there are people below them
in stature, mostly the ones they abuse
with a lot of help from supposed to be
educated and middle class are so willing
to support the modern King Ahabs
and Queen Jezebels in their evil schemes
employing fake news,
willingly conniving,
taking part in their chain of evil.
His fellow citizens – the elders and nobles who dwelt in his city – did as Jezebel had ordered a fast and placed Naboth at the head of the people. Two scoundrels came in and confronted him with the accusation, “Naboth has cursed God and king.” And they led him out of the city and stoned him to death (1Kings 21:12-13).
How tragic that until now,
there are so many Naboths
among us who are victims
of a world governed by the rule
of "an eye for an eye"
where the powerful and corrupt take
on what they want as they shamelessly
crush the poor and the weakest;
help us, Lord Jesus,
to have the courage and humility
to trust in you,
to rely in you
to have the strength in fighting
the abuses of those in power;
enlightening us of ways
and approaches in opening the minds
of the poor and supposed to be educated
among us who blindly even rabidly
support corrupt and evil men and
women in the society, in politics.
Grant us patience
to bear with the fools in our Senate
holding on to power,
who do not know what they are doing;
enlighten the minds and hearts
of those belonging to the majority
to start following what is truly good
and not their whims dictated
by their bloated egos.
Let your truth and charity
prevail over us these days,
Lord Jesus,
so we can break the chain of evil
in our country
and society.
Amen.
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