DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Crucifying Jesus”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus’ life was threatened by the Pharisees’ plot to kill Him. Ponder on, “In today’s secular society, there are many people who are anti-Christ; they plot to destroy Jesus’ Good News of Salvation. However, like Jesus, we need to be vigilant in…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 12:14-21 The Pharisees went out and began to plot against Jesus, discussing how to destroy him. Jesus knew this and withdrew from the district. Many followed him and he cured them all but warned them not to make him known. This was to fulfil the prophecy of Isaiah: Here is my…
St Bonaventure, bishop and doctor15th Week in Ordinary Time : Friday 15th July 2022Is. 38:1-6,21-22,7-8; Ps. 38:10,11,12abcd,16; Mt. 12:1-8 (Ps Wk III) None of us likes to endure pain, suffering or a threat to our life. But Hezekiah wept with a humble heart to the Lord and recounted the goodness of his life. He didn’t…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, God’s Truth and Presence: In today’s Gospel, Jesus challenged the Pharisees to practice the essence of the faith and not get caught up in external obedience of the Law of Moses. Ponder on, “Is our faith hope and love for God, in spite of the trials, shown…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 12:1-4, 6-8 Jesus took a walk through the cornfields one Sabbath day. His disciples were hungry and began to pick ears of corn and eat them. The Pharisees noticed it and said to him, ‘Look, your disciples are doing something that is forbidden on the sabbath.’ But he said to them,…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, God’s Comforting Love: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims a God who never fails to embrace us in His Comforting Love. Ponder on, “In the challenges, trials and tribulations in our lives, has there been any person, regardless of their closeness to us, who is able to give…
Jesus, gentle and humble of heart, make my heart like unto Thine15th Week in Ordinary Time : Thursday 14th July 2022Is. 26:7-9,12,16-19; Ps. 101:13-14ab and 15,16-18,19-21; Mt. 11:28-30 (Ps Wk III) In our journey of life, we primarily labour and are overburdened. We move along life with its many challenges and difficulties. According to Isaiah,…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 11:28-30 Jesus exclaimed: ‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.’…
St Henry15th Week in Ordinary Time : Wednesday 13th July 2022Is. 10:5-7,13-16; Ps. 93:5-6,7-8,9-10,14-15; Mt. 11:25-27 (Ps Wk III) Today’s two readings help us see things as they are, as God sees them. In each case, two ways of looking at reality are proposed: an ordinary everyday human way of assessing and analysing things and…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 11:25-27 Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no…