SADDENED HEART Scripture: Matthew 9:35-37 Jesus made a tour through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the kingdom and curing all kinds of diseases and sickness. And when He saw the crowds, He felt sorry for them because they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a…
ATTENTIVE HEART Scripture: Luke 1:59-63 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…
TRANSFORMED HEART Scripture: Ezekiel 36:26-27 "I shall give you a new heart, and put a new spirit in you; I shall remove the heart of stone from your bodies and give you a heart of flesh instead. I shall put My Spirit in you". Meditation: The hardness of the heart is a real danger for…
OPEN HEART Scripture: Matthew 1:19-24 Her husband Joseph, being a man of honour and wanting to spare her publicity, decided to divorce her informally. He had made up his mind to do this when the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, 'Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid…
UNITED HEART Scripture: Luke 24:31-32 And their eyes were opened, and they recognised Him, but He had vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, 'Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?' Meditation: We recognise these lines from that…
Lord, make me walk in Your truth, and teach me, for You are God, my Saviour9th Week in Ordinary Time : Wednesday 7th June 2023Tob. 3:1-11,16-17; Ps. 24:2-9; Mk. 12:18-27 (Ps. Wk. I) “He is God, not of the dead, but of the living.” God restores life in abundance. Death seems to be liberation for…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Resurrection – Faith: In today’s Gospel, the Sadducees’ earthly thinking about marriage after death creates confusion. Ponder on Jesus’ response, “When we rise from the dead, (after we die) we do not marry; we are like angels in heaven. Ponder on and pray for the insights…
Daily Word Of GodMark 12:18-20,22-25 Some Sadducees - who deny that there is a resurrection - came to Jesus and they put this question to him, ‘Master, Moses prescribed for us that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no child, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his…
Daily Word Of GodMark 12:13-17 The chief priests and the scribes and the elders sent to Jesus some Pharisees and some Herodians to catch him out in what he said. These came and said to him, ‘Master, we know that you are an honest man, that you are not afraid of anyone, because human rank…
St Norbert, bishop, Pray for us9th Week in Ordinary Time : Tuesday 6th June 2023Tob. 2:9-14; Ps. 111:1-2,7-9; Mk. 12:13-17 (Ps. Wk. I) What sort of descendants would a man have if he reveres the Lord, takes delight in God’s commands, and is upright (vv 1-2)? The Psalmist says, “his sons will be powerful on…