4th Week of LentSaturday, 6th April 2019Jer. 11:18-20; Ps. 8(7):2-3,9-10,11-12; Jn. 7:40-52 (Ps Wk IV) The Prophet Jeremiah, who suffered much, is often taken as a pre-figure of Jesus. Jeremiah sees himself “like a trusting lamb led to slaughter”. This image was also used by Isaiah in describing God’s Suffering Servant and so came to…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, God’s Providence: In today’s Gospel, “the Jews wanted to arrest Jesus, but because His hour has not yet come, no one laid a hand on Him.” God has a time, the Kairos, for His Plan of Salvation to unveil itself; a divine mystery beyond our human comprehension. Pray for…
Fourth Sunday in LentJoshua 5:9-12; 2 Cor. 5:17-21; Gospel of Luke 15:1-3.11-32 Preached by Msgr Philip Heng, SJ at Cathedral of Good Shepherd, Singapore on 28 March 2019 The Gospel of Luke chapter 15: 1-32 contains three parables: the parable of the lost sheep, the parable of the lost coin and thirdly, as in today’s…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Rejecting Jesus: In today’s Gospel, Jesus reprimanded the Jews for their blindness and refusal to accept Him as their Saviour. Ponder on your life and ask, “Do I refuse to seek Jesus in my needs? Do I love Him in my daily living and serve Him in the…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 5:24-30 Jesus said to the Jews: ‘I have come in the name of my Father and you refuse to accept me; if someone else should come in his own name you would accept him. How can you believe, since you look to each other for glory and are not concerned with…
4th Week of LentFriday, 5th April 2019Wis. 2:1,12-22; Ps. 34(33):17-18,19-20,21,23; Jn. 7:1-2,10,25-30 (Ps Wk IV) A truly righteous and holy person is very threatening to some people. They see in this person everything that they are not. Rather than changing themselves, they want to destroy the one who makes them feel uncomfortable. They sometimes torment…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 5:24-30 Jesus said to the Jews: ‘In all truth I tell you, whoever listens to my words, and believes in the one who sent me, has eternal life; without being brought to judgement such a person has passed from death to life. In all truth I tell you, the hour is…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Eternal Life – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims, “Whoever listens to My Words, and believes in the One who sent Me, has eternal life.” To believe that Jesus is the Saviour, we must have the sincere desire to become more like Jesus in the way we live. Do…
4th Week of LentThursday, 4th April 2019Ex. 32:7-14; Ps. 106(105):19-20,21-22,23; Jn. 5:31-47 (Ps Wk IV) Unfortunately politicians have a rather bad name today. This is a pity because politics are an essential part of life. When, for example, Mum and Dad bargain with little son or daughter and get him or her to do another…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 5:1-3a, 5-9, 16 There was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem next to the Sheep Pool there is a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew, which has five porticos; and under these were crowds of sick people, blind, lame, paralysed One man there had an illness…