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.” …
Dear Friend in the Lord, Mary our Mother: In today’s Gospel, Jesus entrusted His Mother Mary to John, His beloved disciple, before He died on the Cross. Ponder on, “Jesus’ last wish was to entrust the whole Church (as represented by John) to His Mother. Do we seek Mary’s loving care and protection? She will surely…
Dear Friend in the Lord, “Holy Spirit” – Fearless Faith: In today’s Gospel, the Risen Lord appeared to His disciples who were hiding in fear says, “As the Father sent Me, so am I sending you. Receive the Holy Spirit.” Ponder on, “In the Sacrament of Confirmation, we were sent by Christ to witness fearlessly…