DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Greatest Commandments: In today’s Gospel, the scribes agreed with Jesus that the first and the greatest Commandment is to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, and then inseparable from this is; to love our neighbour through our deeds. Ponder on, “Do we…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Resurrection – Faith: In today’s Gospel, the Sadducees’ earthly thinking about marriage after death creates confusion. Ponder on Jesus’ response, “When we rise from the dead, (after we die) we do not marry; we are like angels in heaven. Ponder on and pray for the insights…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Hypocrisy – Faith”: In today’s Gospel, the Pharisees want to trap Jesus with questions on paying taxes to Caesar. Their hypocrisy was to create animosity between Jesus and the Roman authorities. Ponder on, “As sinners we live our faith imperfectly. However, living our faith hypocritically is…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Presumptuous Faith: In today’s Gospel, the tenants became presumptuous; and this led them to cease the harvest unjustly from the landlord, and even murdered his son. Ponder on, “When we take God’s abundant blessings for granted, we may become unjust and destructive, like the ‘tenants’; and…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Faith in Jesus as Saviour: In today’s Gospel, Jesus assured Nicodemus, “No one who believes in Him will be condemned but, those who refuses to believe are condemned already.” Ponder on, “Do we have faith in Jesus as our Saviour and Lord? If so, are we…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Challenging Jesus: The chief priests, scribes and elders challenged Jesus’ authority for expelling money changers from the Temple. Ponder on, “When we try to ‘challenge’ the Truth and Authority of Jesus and the Church. . . we will surely not find the deep peace, fulfillment and Joy…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Faith in God: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed, “Have faith in God . . . with no hesitation in your heart . . . and everything you ask and pray for; believe that you have it already, and it will be yours.” Ponder on, “These words of…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Bartimeus - Faith”: In today’s Gospel, Bartimaeus, the blind man had great courage to defy the crowd who tried to stop him from shouting for Jesus. Jesus heard him, and healed him. Ponder on, “Is our faith deep enough to defy the negative challenges of the secular…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Fidelity to Jesus”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus assures Peter, “In Truth I tell you, there is no one who has left home and faced persecutions for the sake of the Gospel, who will not receive a hundred times as much; in this present time and eternal life.” …
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Fidelity to Jesus”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus assures Peter, “In Truth I tell you, there is no one who has left home and faced persecutions for the sake of the Gospel, who will not receive a hundred times as much; in this present time and eternal life.” …