DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“John the Baptist – Mystery Child”: In today’s Gospel episode, the Birth of John the Baptist not only brought Zechariah and Elizabeth, abundant blessings. It was also a Divine Mystery that revealed God’s Plan of Salvation. Ponder on, “Reflect on how you are specially blessed by God and how God wants you to draw others closer to Him?”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Luke 1:57-64, 80
The time came for Elizabeth to have her child, and she gave birth to a son; and when her neighbours and relations heard that the Lord had lavished on her his faithful love, they shared her joy.
Now it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; they were going to call him Zechariah after his father, but his mother spoke up. ‘No,’ she said, ‘he is to be called John.’ They said to her, ‘But no one in your family has that name,’ and made signs to his father to find out what he wanted him called. The father asked for a writing-tablet and wrote, ‘His name is John.’ And they were all astonished. At that instant his power of speech returned and he spoke and praised God.
Meanwhile the child grew up and his spirit grew strong. And he lived in the desert until the day he appeared openly to Israel.