DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Blind man of Deep Faith”: In today’s Gospel, the blind man pleaded for Jesus to cure him, in spite of the crowd’s scolding. Jesus granted his pleas because of his deep faith. Ponder on, “Are our pleas for Jesus to respond to our needs, our faith’s…
Daily Word Of GodMark 13:28-32 Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Take the fig tree as a parable: as soon as its twigs grow supple and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. So with you when you see these things happening: know that he is near, at the very gates. I tell…
Lord, help me to stay focus on You, instead of being obsessed with the “when” and the “how”33rd Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Sunday, 17th November 2024 Dan 12:1-3; Ps 15:5, 8-11; Hebr 10:11-14, 18; Mk 13:24-32 (Ps Wk I) As we approach the end of the liturgical year, our scriptural readings point towards…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Wisdom – Faith”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed the “Parable of the Fig tree”, to remind His disciples that while they are able to predict the seasons, through the signs of the growth of the fig tree, they would not be able to predict the Second…
St Margaret of Scotland; St Gertrude, Virgin pray for us32nd Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Saturiday, 16th November 2024 3 Jn 1:5-8; Ps 111:1-6; Lk 18:1-8 (Ps Wk IV) Jesus teaches us to pray always without cease. This invites us to reflect our attitudes towards prayer and God. Do we allocate certain moments of…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Praying Continually with Hope”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus advised His disciples to pray continually with hope. Ponder on, “All of us pray daily, but are our prayers as ‘persistent and fervent’ as with the widow in today’s Gospel? For such prayers, our faith and love for…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 18:1-8 Jesus told his disciples a parable about the need to pray continually and never lose heart. ‘There was a judge in a certain town,’ he said, ‘who had neither fear of God nor respect for men. In the same town there was also a widow who kept on coming to…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 17:31b-35, 37 Jesus said to his disciples: ‘When that day comes, anyone on the housetop, with his possessions in the house, must not come down to collect them, nor must anyone in the fields turn back either. Remember Lot's wife. Anyone who tries to preserve his life will lose it; and…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Vigilance in Faith”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed that, at the “Second Coming of the Messiah”, no person can ‘escape’ from having to face God’s Judgement. We are to give an account of how we have used God’s abundant Blessings. Ponder on, “Will we be ‘happy’…
St Albert the Great, Bishop & Doctor, pray for us32nd Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Friday, 15th November 20242 Jn 1:4-9; Ps 118:1-2, 10-11, 17-18; Lk 17:26-37 (Ps Wk IV) Jesus compares the days of Noah and Lot to the slumbering days of people engrossed in the pleasures of daily life—unaware of the impending…