Lord, help us to remember that we are beloved children of God Our Father15th Week in Ordinary Time : Wednesday 19th July 2023Ex. 3:1-6,9-12; Ps. 102:1-2,3-4,6-7; Mt. 11:25-27 (Ps. Wk. III) Biblical scholars agree that the Gospel passage reads more like John’s Gospel than from the Synoptics. In his Gospel, John speaks more deeply of…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Blindness and Obstinacy – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus reprimanded the towns of Chorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum for their blindness and obstinacy in their refusal to believe in the Good News of Salvation. Ponder on, “Do we have attitudes, addictions and attachments that are preventing us from…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 11:20-24 Jesus began to reproach the towns in which most of his miracles had been worked, because they refused to repent. ‘Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth…
Lord, help me respond to Your call15th Week in Ordinary Time : Tuesday 18th July 2023Ex. 2:1-15a; Ps. 68:3,14,30-31,33-34; Mt. 11:20-24 (Ps. Wk. III) The opening scene in the first reading describes the background. Moses is a Hebrew adopted by Pharoah’s daughter but had to flee to Midian, a land of non-Israelites, because he had…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 10:34-40 Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth: it is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword. For I have come to set son against father, daughter against mother, daughter in law against mother in law;…
Lord, help me to be a faithful disciple no matter the cost15th Week in Ordinary Time : Monday 17th July 2023Ex. 1:8-14,22; Ps. 123:1-3,4-6,7-8; Mt. 10:34—11-1 (Ps. Wk. III) Joseph had brought his father and brothers and their families to Egypt during the famine. They had lived well as long as Joseph was alive; however,…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Loving God – Unconditional: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed to His Apostles that to follow Him as His disciples demands a total and selfless commitment to love God. Ponder on, “Our love for God must be deeper than the other ‘loves’ of our lives. When we…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 13:1-9 Jesus left the house and sat by the lakeside, but such large crowds gathered round him that he got into a boat and sat there. The people all stood on the shore, and he told them many things in parables. He said, ‘Listen, a sower went out to sow. As…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Response in Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed the “Parable of the Sower” to the great crowds who were longing to hear the Truth of the Good News. Ponder on, “Our responses to the Good News is constantly faced with challenges and temptations. Is my response…
Lord, grant me ears that “hear” and understand Your Word15th Week in Ordinary Time : Sunday 16th July 2023Is. 55:10-11; Ps. 64:10-11,12-13,14; Rom. 8:18-23; Mt. 13:1-23 (Ps. Wk. III) The Gospel reading presents us with the Parable of the Sower, who went out to sow. Where did the seeds land? At different places. Some were…