Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Thursday, Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, Year II, 08 October 2026
Galatians 3:1-5     ><))))*> + ><))))*> + ><))))*>     Luke 11:5-13

Your words today,
O Lord through St. Paul
speak directly to us in this
time too:

O stupid Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus was publicly portrayed as crucified? (Galatians 3:1)

O how we your people
hate to hear those words
these days because they are
hurtfully true -
it is plain stupidity
on our part to abandon all
your teachings to adopt 
all these strange ideas
about life that overstretch
our rights without any regard
to what is true and good;
to insist that only matter matters
without accepting the fact that
the most profound realities in life
are those felt than seen; and,
to believe more in ourselves
than in you, Lord Jesus Christ.

We have been so bewitched,
enthralled, and amazed by new 
ideas and beliefs that are clearly
self-serving and untrue,
"budol" or fake in every sense,
totally forgetting how you have never
left nor abandon us all these years
through thick and thin,
doing only what is best and good
for us only to follow the fascinating
special effects of those trash
peddled in social media, 
fabricated by AI.

Awaken us,
dear Jesus to the realities
of your loving presence
in us, in our lives,
to follow our hearts where
we find peace and joy
despite pains and sacrifices
than follow our flesh 
and whims
of pleasures and convenience
so temporary,
ephemeral,
most of all
superficial;
ignite our hearts
to seek and follow you
in a life of prayer
that changes primarily 
us, not the situations.
Amen.