Our Lady of Mount Carmel15th Week in Ordinary Time : Friday 16th July 2021Ex. 11:10-12,14; Ps. 115:12-13,15,16,17-18; Mt. 12:1-8 (Ps Wk III) The value system of the Pharisees is strongly contrasted against the spirit of the Law as taught by Jesus. Jesus firmly reiterates that there is no law (Sabbath law, temple law, sacrificial law)…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Jesus – Saviour: In today’s Gospel, the Pharisees were condemning Jesus’ disciples for picking corn and eating them, on the Sabbath. Jesus, proclaimed that He, the Saviour, is “greater than the Sabbath Laws.” Ponder on, “Are we blind to the Presence of Jesus in our lives? …
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 12:1-4, 6-8 Jesus took a walk one sabbath day through the cornfields. 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,…
St Bonaventure, bishop and doctor15th Week in Ordinary Time : Thursday 15th July 2021Ex. 3:13-20; Ps. 104:1,5,8-9,24-25,26-27; Mt. 11:28-30 (Ps Wk III) When Moses asked the name of God, the response was very vague and inexact: I am who I am. God refused a name, unlike all the pagan deities in their surrounding culture. When…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Consolation in Jesus: In today’s Gospel, Jesus exclaimed, “Come to me, all you who are overburdened; . . . I will give you rest for your souls.” Ponder on, “Are there pain and trials that are threatening to envelop you without hope? If so, turn to Jesus;…
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.’…
To enter the Kingdom of Heaven, we must become like little children15th Week in Ordinary Time : Wednesday 14th July 2021Ex. 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. It is John who speaks more deeply of the intimate…
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…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, God’s Revelation: In today’s Gospel, Jesus thanked His Father in prayer, for revealing the Divine Truth to “mere children”; i.e. believers with the humility and sincerity to know, love and serve Him. This is in contrast to the “learned and clever”; i.e. the scribes and Pharisees,…
Lord, help me to listen to your voice to change my ways to grow closer to you15th Week in Ordinary Time : Tuesday 13th July 2021Ex. 2:1-15; Ps. 68:3,14,30-31,33-34 Mt. 11:20-24 (Ps Wk III) In Exodus, we read Moses’ birth and upbringing as a Hebrew boy by his mother in his own birth family. Even…