DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Dying for Christ” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed to His disciples, “Anyone who loves his life loses it; any who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” Ponder on, “Are we willing to be detached from the secular temptations…
ST LAWRENCE, DEACON & MARTYR, pray for us18th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Saturday 10th August 20242 Cor 9:6-10; Ps 111:1-2, 5-9 Jn 12:24-26 (Psalter Proper) Today, on the Feast of St. Lawrence, a deacon who was martyred in Rome in 258AD, we hear “unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 16:24-28 Jesus said to his disciples, ‘If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. Anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it. What, then,…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Cross of Christ” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims to His disciples the radical faith, that they have to accept His Cross and be willing to die for Him, if they want to follow Him. Ponder on, “Only with the power of the Holy Spirit,…
St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Virgin & Martyr, pray for us18th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Friday 9th August 2024Nah 2:1, 3, 3:1-3, 6-7; Ps Deut 32:35-36, 39, 41 Mt 16:24-28 (Ps Wk II) “What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?” (Mt 6:25) Jesus’…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 16:13-19 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi he put this question to his disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of man is?’ And they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ ‘But you,’ he said, ‘who do you…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Who is Jesus?” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus is inviting us to know Him personally. Peter’s faith in Jesus was so deep and personal that God the Father, was able to reveal to him, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. …
St Dominic, Priest, pray for us18th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Thursday 8th August 2024Jer 31:31-34; Ps 50:12-15, 18-19 Mt 16:13-23 (Ps Wk II) The drama in Caesarea Philippi with Jesus’ reprimand of Peter cautions us - “You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do”. Imagine how shocked Peter was…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Faith with Humility”: In today’s Gospel, the Canaanite woman pleaded with humility for Jesus to expel the devil that was tormenting her daughter. Ponder on, “Do we live and practice our faith with humility? Or, do we make “demands on Jesus” with arrogance and pride, as…
St Sixtus II, Pope & Companions, Martyrs, pray for us18th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Wednesday 7th August 2024Jer 31:1-7; Ps Jer 31:10-13 Mt 15:21-28 (Ps Wk II) For the last two weeks, Prophet Jeremiah’s mission was twofold: ‘to uproot and demolish’ and ‘to build and plant’ (Jer. 31:28). In his first years, he…