DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Jesus in Personal Prayer” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, “Jesus spent the whole night in prayer to God; His Father. The next morning, He chose His apostles; proclaimed the Gospel, cured the sick, expelled demons. Ponder on, “Like Jesus, we too must develop an intimate union…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 6:12-13, 17-19 Jesus went onto the mountain to pray; and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. When day came he summoned his disciples and picked out twelve of them; he called them ‘apostles’. He then came down with them and stopped at a piece of level ground where…
SS SIMON AND JUDE, APOSTLES, pray for us30th Week in Ordinary Time : Tuesday 28th October 2025Eph 2:19-22; Ps 18 (19):2-5; Lk 6:12-19 (Ps Wk II) The two Apostles—Simon and Jude—are quiet figures in the Gospel, yet pillars in the foundation of the Church. Chosen by Christ after a night of prayer, they were sent…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Jesus’ Compassionate Love”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus cured a woman who was bound by Satan for eighteen years. Yet, the synagogue officials objected to the cure because it violated the Laws of the Sabbath. Ponder on, “Do we observe the Laws of our Faith rigidly? If…
For it is only when we empty our hearts can God fill us with His power and grace (2 Cor 12:9)30th Week in Ordinary Time : Monday 27th October 2025Rom 8:12-17; Ps 67 (68):2, 4, 6-7, 20-21; Lk 13:10-17 (Ps Wk II) Jesus confronts a mindset that values rules over healing. The idea that one…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 13:10-13, 14b-15a, 16, 17b One Sabbath day Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who for eighteen years had been possessed by a spirit that left her enfeebled; she was bent double and quite unable to stand upright. When Jesus saw her he called her…
For it is only when we empty our hearts can God fill us with His power and grace (2 Cor 12:9)30th Week in Ordinary Time : Sunday 26th October 2025Ecclus 35:15-17, 20-22; Ps 33 (34):2-3, 17-19, 23; 2 Tim 4:6-8, 16-18; Lk 18:9-14 (Ps Wk II) Virtue signalling is an attempt to show others that…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 18:9-14 Jesus spoke the following parable to some people who prided themselves on being upright and despised everyone else, ‘Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood there and said this prayer to himself, “I thank you, God, that…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Humility” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed the “Parable of the Pharisee and Tax collector” to emphasise the truth about “humility”. The Pharisee prided himself for keeping the Laws and living a life of justice and morality. However, the tax collector begged God, with sorrow,…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “God’s Justice” – Faith: Jesus proclaimed the “Parable of the Fig Tree” to remind the crowd; not to take God’s Blessings for granted. He said of the fig tree that had not borne any fruits for three years, “Cut it down; why should it be taking…