Thank You for sending Jesus into our imperfect world3rd Week of Advent : Tuesday 17th December 2019Gen. 49:1-2,8-10; Ps. 72(71):1-2,3-4,7-8,17; Mt. 1:1-17 (Ps Wk III) Do you ever feel as if life would be easier if you were just born into a different family? Our own family can seem odd at times. Today we hear…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 1:1-2a, 6b, 11b, 16-17 Roll of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham: Abraham fathered Isaac …. David fathered Solomon …. Then the deportation to Babylon took place. Jacob fathered Joseph the husband of Mary; of her was born Jesus who is called Christ. The sum of…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Truth – Living: In today’s Gospel, the chief priests and elders questioned Jesus’ authority to teach in the Temple. However, they were not able to refute the Truth that Jesus proclaimed. Likewise, if we try to justify our unbelief and disobedience of God’s Truth, Love and…
3rd Sunday in AdventIsaiah 35:1-6.10; Ps. 145:6-10; James 5:7-10; Gospel of Matthew 11:2-11 Preached by Msgr Philip Heng, SJ at Cathedral of Good Shepherd, Singapore on 15 December 2019 In today’s Gospel that we just heard proclaimed, John the Baptist who was in prison, sent his disciples to ask Jesus, “Are you the one who…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Truth – Living: In today’s Gospel, the chief priests and elders questioned Jesus’ authority to teach in the Temple. However, they were not able to refute the Truth that Jesus proclaimed. Likewise, if we try to justify our unbelief and disobedience of God’s Truth, Love and…
Lord, make me know Your ways3rd Week of Advent : Monday 16th December 2019Num. 24:2-7,15-17a; Ps. 25(24):4-5,6,7,8-9; Mt. 21:23-27 (Ps Wk III) LORD, make me know your ways! “We do not know!” The response given by Pharisees and Scribes to the question Jesus put to them was an ‘escape route’ which we often take to…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 21:23-27 Jesus had gone into the Temple and was teaching, when the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him and said, ‘What authority have you for acting like this? And who gave you this authority?’ In reply Jesus said to them, ‘And I will ask you a…
Servants of God - Horace Vecchi, Martin de Aranda, James de Montalban,SJDied: December 14, 1612 Today we honour three Jesuits, Frs Horace Vecchi and Martin de Aranda and Bro James de Montalban who were martyred by the Araucanian Indians in Elicura, Chile, in 1612. Fr Horace Vecchi was born in Siena, Italy and at the…
Venerable Francis de Paola Tarin, SJ Born : Oct 7, 1847 Died : Dec 12, 1910 Declared Venerable on Jan 3, 1987 Francis de Paola Tarin, the ninth of eleven children, was born in the village of Godelleta near Valencia, Spain. He first studied at his village school before he went to the Piarist Fathers…
Blessed Thomas Holland, SJBorn : 1600 Died : Dec 12, 1642 Beatified: Dec 15, 1929 Thomas Holland, an Englishman was born in Sutton, near Prescot, in Lancashire. In his youth, he spent six years at the English college at Saint-Omer in Flanders and later in 1621, at the English college in Valladolid, Spain. It was…