4th Week of Advent4th Week of Advent : Tuesday 24th December 20192 Sam. 7:1-5,8-12,14,16; Ps. 89(88):2-3,4-5,27,29; Lk. 1: 67-79 (Ps Wk IV) What does God need? Nothing – except our love and our fidelity. David was carried away by feelings of gratitude for all that God had done for him. He wanted to build God…
Servant of God William Eberschweiler, SJBorn: December 5, 1837 Died: December 23, 1921 William Eberschweiler, the eldest of five boys of a family of seven children, was born in Puttlingen, Germany. As a child, his family moved to Bitburg where he attended the parish school and later in 1851 went to Trier for his secondary…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Shepherds – The Poor: When the Child Jesus, the Messiah was born, the angels first announced the Good News first to the shepherds. They are the poorest of the poor, yet treated with greatest respect and preferential love. Let us see God in the poor and…
Daily Word Of GodLuke2:6-14 Now it happened that, while Joseph and Mary were in Bethlehem, the time came for Mary to have her child, and she gave birth to a son, her first-born. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the living-space.…
4th Week of Advent4th Week of Advent : Monday 23rd December 2019Mal. 3:1-4,23-24; Ps. 25(24):4-5,8-9,10,14; Lk. 1:57-66 (Ps Wk IV) Malachi prophesied that God would send a special messenger, a messenger of the covenant. This messenger would purify or cleanse the priests, the sons of Levi. They needed to be reminded of the covenant and…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Shame” – Faith: In Jewish culture, to be barren without child is a social “shame”. Through God’s Plan of Salvation, Elizabeth was doubly blessed: she conceived in spite of her old age, and she also bore a son. When we experience “failure, shame, rejection,” trust that…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 1:57-65 The time came for Elizabeth to have her child, and she gave birth to a son; and when her neighbours and relations heard that the Lord had lavished on her his faithful love, they shared her joy. Now it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the…
Joseph’s YES allowed God’s plan to be fulfilled4th Week of Advent : Sunday 22nd December 2019Is. 7:10-14; Ps. 24(23):1-2,3-4,5-6; Rom. 1:1-7; Mt. 1:18-24 (Ps Wk IV) The Gospel account invites us to reflect on the Spirituality of Joseph which is the total submission to God's will as seen at different stages of his life. His…
VENERABLE THOMAS BEDINGFELD Born: 1617 Died: Dec 21, 1678 Declared Venerable in 1886 Thomas Bedingfeld, whose family name was Downes, was born in Norfolk, England at a time when Titus Oates and Israel Tonge were plotting to destroy the Jesuits out of hatred for the Society. He went to study at the English College in…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Crises – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Joseph was in a crisis when he found out that Mary was pregnant with child. But God revealed that Mary’s child was conceived by the Holy Spirit. In our trials and crises, God never abandons us. He Loves us Mercifully.…