DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“Earthly and Heavenly Home” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed to His disciples that as a woman in childbirth suffers, her sufferings will turn into joy at the birth of her child. Ponder on, “Likewise, face the painful challenges of the commitment to follow Jesus with fidelity, sacrifice, service and forgiving love; we will then rejoice in our Eternal Heavenly Home.”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
John 16:20-23a
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I tell you most solemnly, you will be weeping and wailing while the world will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.
‘A woman in childbirth suffers, because her time has come; but when she has given birth to the child she forgets the suffering in her joy that a man has been born into the world. So it is with you: you are sad now, but I shall see you again, and your hearts will be full of joy, and that joy no one shall take from you. When that day comes, you will not ask me any questions.’