Sts. Laurent Imbert, Bishop, Jacques Chastan, Priest (Penang College General Fathers) Sts. Andrew Kim Tae-gon, Priest, Paul Chong Ha-sang & companions, Martyrs , pray for us24th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Friday 20th September 20241 Cor 15:12-20; Ps 16:1, 6-8, 15; Lk 8:1-3 (Ps Wk IV) Ponder awhile, regardless of your background, how many…
St. Januarius, Bishop & Martyr, pray for us24th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Thursday 19th September 20241 Cor 15:1-11; Ps 117:1-2, 16-17, 28; Lk 7:36-50 (Ps Wk IV) God has left us a clear set of teachings and an illuminated path to follow. But it is so easy to drift away and get off…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Repentance” – Sins and Faith: In today’s Gospel, a public woman sinner, showed deep repentance for her grievous sins: she wept with deep sorrow: wiped her tears on Jesus’ feet with her hair, kissed and anointed them with ointment. Ponder on, “Are our sorrows deep when…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 7:36b-43, 47a When Jesus arrived at the Pharisee's house and took his place at table, suddenly a woman came in, who had a bad name in the town. She had heard he was dining with the Pharisee and had brought with her an alabaster jar of ointment. She waited behind him…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Secularism” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed with great sadness that nothing and no one “of this generation” are open to receiving the divine Gift of Eternal Salvation. They are blind, obstinate and too proud to know that they need God and His Salvation. Ponder…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 7:31-35 Jesus said to the people: ‘What comparison, then, can I find for the people of this generation? What are they like? They are like children shouting to one another while they sit in the market place: We played the pipes for you, and you wouldn't dance; we sang dirges, and…
Lord, teach us to love untiringly; to love without obsessions to dominate! 24th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Wednesday 18th September 20241 Cor 12:31—13:13; Ps 32:2-5, 12, 22; Lk 7:31-35 (Ps Wk IV) Gullible Christians, like those in Corinth (modern day Greece), are very much taken up by the “display’’ of the spiritual gifts…
St. Robert Bellarmine, Bishop & Doctor and St. Hildegard of Bingen, Virgin & Doctor, pray for us24th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Tuesday 17th September 20241 Cor 12:12-14, 27-31; Ps 99:2-5 Lk 7:11-17 (Ps Wk IV) “God has visited His people!” (Lk 7:16) The people exclaimed when they witnessed Jesus raising the only son…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 7:11-17 Jesus went to a town called Nain, accompanied by his disciples and a great number of people. Now when he was near the gate of the town there was a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a considerable number…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Jesus’ Compassion” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus “felt sorry for the widow’s only son, who had died, and raised him to life. Ponder on, “The widow did not ask Jesus for the miracle, yet Jesus’ Compassion moved Him to raise her son. Are we aware…