DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
God’s Blessings: In today’s Gospel, Jesus reminds His disciples that for many, “they look without seeing and listen without hearing and understanding.” Ponder on, “Jesus is inviting us to have the courage to ‘see, hear and do’ what God Wants of us, and not what we are willing to do for God. What is our response to Jesus?”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Matthew 13:10-14, 16-17
The disciples went up to Jesus and asked, ‘Why do you talk to the crowds in parables?’ ‘Because’ he replied. ‘the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven are revealed to you, but they are not revealed to them. For anyone who has will be given more and he will have more than enough; but from anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away. The reason I talk to them in parables is that they look without seeing and listen without hearing or understanding. So in their case this prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled:
You will listen and listen again, but not understand!
See and see again, but never perceive!
‘But happy are your eyes because they see, your ears because they hear! I tell you solemnly, many prophets and holy men longed to see what you see, and never saw it; to hear what you hear, and never heard it.’