DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Rejecting God’s Truth: In today’s Gospel, Jesus was deeply saddened by the Jews who continued to reject the Good News of Salvation that He is proclaiming. Ponder on, “Is our faith, hope and love for God superficial because our material needs and worldly temptations consume our attention,…
Learn to “read” God’s presence, His purpose and His directing in the events of our times4th Week of Lent : Thursday 31st March 2022Ex.32:7-14; Ps. 105:19-20,21-22,23; Jn. 5:31-47 (Ps Wk IV) It happened to the people of Israel in Moses’ time. It happened to the leaders of Israel in Jesus’ time: it keeps on happening…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 5:31-40 Jesus said to the Jews: ‘Were I to testify on my own behalf, my testimony would not be valid; but there is another witness who can speak on my behalf, and I know that his testimony is valid. You sent messengers to John, and he gave his testimony to the…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 5:17-21 Jesus said to the Jews, ‘My Father still goes on working, and so do I.’ But that only made the Jews even more intent on killing him, because not content with breaking the Sabbath, he spoke of God as his own Father and so made himself God's equal. To this…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 5:1-3a, 5-9, 16 There was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now at the Sheep Pool in Jerusalem there is a building called Bethzatha in Hebrew, consisting of five porticos; and under these were crowds of sick people, blind, lame, paralysed One man there had an illness which…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 4:45-53 On Jesus’ arrival, the Galileans received him well, having seen all that he had done at Jerusalem during the festival which they too had attended. He went again to Cana in Galilee, where he had changed the water into wine. Now there was a royal official there whose son was…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 15:11b-17a, 18-19, 20b, 23b-24a Jesus told the Pharisees and scribes this parable, ‘A man who had two sons. The younger said to his father, “Father, let me have the share of the estate that wuld come to me.” So the father divided the property between them. A few days later, the…
The test of genuine faith comes, not in good times, but bad ones4th Week of Lent : Wednesday 30th March 2022Is. 49:8-15; Ps. 144:8-9,13cd-14, 17-18; Jn. 5;17-30 (Ps Wk IV) Some people feel that God is very far from us and is utterly unconcerned about what is going on in our world. They seem to…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Mysteries of God: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed His inseparable Divine Union and Love with God His Father. Ponder on, “Like the Jews, the secular world also wants to distort and destroy our relationship with our God of Salvation. Pray for the gift of wisdom to…
Lord Jesus, heal us of our relationships with one another4th Week of Lent : Tuesday 29th March 2022Ez. 47:1-9,12; Ps. 45:2-3,5-6,8-9ab; Jn. 5:1-16 (Ps Wk IV) Water is an image running throughout today’s Scripture passages. Water is essential for life. Water is both mysterious and obvious. From monsoons, to floods, to drought, to gentle rains,…