“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled by his own pride, but the man who humbles himself will be exalted by God.”3rd Week of Lent (C) : Saturday 29th March 2025Hos 5:15 – 6:6; Ps 50 (51):3-4, 18-21; Lk 18:9-14 (Ps Wk III) The story of the Pharisee and the tax collector praying in the…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Self-Righteous Faith”: In today’s Gospel, the Pharisee’s self-righteous faith, led him to judge the tax-collector harshly for his sins. However, the tax-collector; a public sinner, begged God’s Merciful forgiveness, with humility. Ponder on, “God would welcome the repentant sinner more joyously, than the self-righteous believer, who…
Lord, You have loved me, may my way of loving console those in crisis.3rd Week of Lent (C) : Friday 28th March 2025Hos 14:2-10; Ps 80 (81):6-11, 14, 17; Mk 12:28-34 (Ps Wk III) The religious authorities of Jesus’ time often debated the commandments and requirements of the Law that were passed down from Moses, constantly…
Daily Word Of GodMark 12:28b-34 One of the scribes put a question to Jesus, ‘Which is the first of all the commandments?’ Jesus replied, ‘This is the first: Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is the one, only Lord, and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul,…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Faith, Hope, Love in God”: In today’s Gospel, the scribe who asked Jesus, “Which is the first of all the Commandments,” himself knew the answer. And, Jesus praised him, “You are not far from the Kingdom of God.” Ponder on, “God too has given us the…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Unity in Faith”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus expelled the devil of dumbness in a man. However, some began to accuse Him falsely for using Beelzebul to drive out the devil. Ponder on, “Those who are against God; will always use lies, to try to cause division…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 11:14-20, 23 Jesus was driving out a devil and it was dumb; and it happened that when the devil had gone out the dumb man spoke, and the people were amazed. But some of them said, ‘It is through Beelzebul, the prince of devils, that he drives devils out.’ Others asked…
Lord, help me to always listen to the Your voice of God3rd Week of Lent (C) : Thursday 27th March 2025Jer 7:23-28; Ps 94 (95):1-2, 6-9; Lk 11:14-23 (Ps Wk III) It has been an incessant bombardment to hear people saying how rigid The Catholic Church is, that God is very authoritarian in a reading…
Lord, ground my heart in loving You, so that my obedience becomes a heart-rooted and holistic one. 3rd Week of Lent (C) : Wednesday 26th March 2025Deut 4:1, 5-9; Ps 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20; Mt 5:17-19 (Ps Wk III) “When they come to know of all these laws they will exclaim, ‘No other people is as wise…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 5:17-19 Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete them. In truth I tell you, till heaven and earth disappear, not one dot, not one little stroke, is to disappear from…