The harvest is rich, but there is a shortage of workers14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (C) : Sunday 3rd July 2022Is. 66:10-14c; Ps. 65:1-3a,4-5,6-7a, 16 and 20; Gal. 6:14-18; Lk. 10:1-12, 17-20 (or 1-9) (Ps Wk II) Today’s Gospel speaks about the challenges, difficulties and rewards of discipleship. God is actively present in the here…
The Lord invites us to the peace He gives always... “Peace, I give to you"13th Week in Ordinary Time : Saturday 2nd July 2022Am. 9:11-15; Ps. 84:9,11-12,13-14; Mt. 9:14-17 (Ps Wk I) “The Lord speaks peace to His people,” exclaimed the psalmist. This is a very consoling and hopeful message. The Lord constantly reaches out…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Call of Matthew” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus “called Matthew” the tax collector whom the public hates and considers a “great sinner”. Ponder on, “Jesus is able to see the goodness in Matthew in spite of the public’s opinions of him being a great sinner. …
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 9:14-17 John's disciples came to Jesus and said, ‘Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not?’ Jesus replied, ‘Surely the bridegroom's attendants would never think of mourning as long as the bridegroom is still with them? But the time will come for the bridegroom to…
St Matthew, pray for us13th Week in Ordinary Time : Friday 1st July 2022Am. 8:4-6,9-12; Ps. 114:1-2,3-4,5-6,8-9; Mt. 9:9-13 (Ps Wk I) The measure of any nation’s religious health is not liturgical or theological correctness but how the poor, the weak and the vulnerable are treated. Here we have a situation where the religious establishment…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 9:9-13 As Jesus was walking he saw a man named Matthew sitting by the custom house, and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up and followed him. While he was at dinner in the house it happened that a number of tax collectors and sinners came to sit…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Call of Matthew” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus “called Matthew” the tax collector whom the public hates and considers a “great sinner”. Ponder on, “Jesus is able to see the goodness in Matthew in spite of the public’s opinions of him being a great sinner. …
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, God’s Power and Mercy: In today’s Gospel, Jesus cured the paralytic out of His Compassionate Love for his sufferings, and more importantly as a symbol of God’s Merciful and Forgiving Love. Ponder on, “Is our faith in Jesus, more focused on our health, wealth, family needs…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 9:1-8 Some people brought Jesus a paralytic stretched out on a bed. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, ‘Courage, my child, your sins are forgiven.’ And at this some scribes said to themselves, ‘This man is blaspheming.’ Knowing what was in their minds Jesus said, ‘Why do you have…
First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church13th Week in Ordinary Time : Thursday 30th June 2022Am. 7:10-17; Ps. 18:8,9,10,11; Mt. 9:1-8 (Ps Wk I) Amos was an unlikely prophet or missionary. He was not a member of the prophets’ union (there was one!) but a shepherd and dresser of trees. The professional prophets mocked him…