DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Jesus’ Personal Love: In today’s Gospel, Jesus the Risen Lord calls out to Mary by her name, and she immediately recognizes Jesus’ voice. Jesus’ love for each of us is very personal and intimate. He is patiently forgiving, compassionately consoling, and lovingly endearing in all our needs. …
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Destroying Truth: In today’s Gospel, when the Jewish authorities discovered that Jesus has risen, they bribed the guards to lie that the apostles had stolen Jesus’ body in the night when they were asleep. Evil schemes will never triumph, they only perpetuate greater destruction; only the…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Easter Sunday: In today’s Gospel, Jesus is Risen! The great joy of discovering that Jesus has destroyed the darkness of sin and death. Ponder on the contrast of: a death that promises eternal happiness with God and one that plunges us into a bottomless abyss. Fr Philip…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Tomb’s Day: Let us spend today in solemn silence. Ponder on the Death of Jesus the Messiah. He had done immense Good, showed unconditional Love and served Selflessly to the point of laying down His Life; for our sake and Salvation. He now lies in a…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Good Friday: In today’s Gospel, Jesus embraces His most cruel torments that threatened to kill Him even before He is Crucified. The Romans have “perfected” their evil forms of torture that inflict the most painful and prolonged suffering before the criminal dies. Do we treat people…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Washing of the Feet: In today’s Gospel, during the Last Supper Jesus got up and washed the feet of His apostles. Being Master and Lord, he showed His disciple that a “True Master” is one that serves with great humility, and even be willing to die…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Betrayal of Jesus: In today’s Gospel, Jesus, with deep sadness, reveals that one of His Twelve apostles is going to betray Him. The eleven apostles were shocked to hear this. However, Judas has already made up his mind to betray Jesus. Let us pray for the…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Denial of Peter: In today’s Gospel, even as Peter had great desires to die for Jesus, he denied Him when his life was threatened. Let us pray for the graces we need to remain faithful to God when our vocation is being tested by the traumas…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Repentance: In today’s Gospel, Mary Magdalene expressed her deep contrition for her sins by washing Jesus’ feet with her tears of sorrow, dried them with her hair and anointed them with a very costly ointment. Ponder on, “Lord, my sins have added to Your Suffering; move my…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Palm Sunday: In today’s Gospel, the Passion of Jesus shows how His enemies’ cruelty knows no bounds. They condemned Jesus to the cruel death by crucifixion. In contrast, they clamoured for Barabbas, a murderer to be released. Do our hearts harbour hurts and hatred that destroy…