DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“Eternal Happiness” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims to His disciples, “Anyone who loses his life for My sake, and for the sake of the Gospel, will save it.” Ponder on, “We all want to go to heaven after we die. However, we are also attached to this world. We fear death, and we want to live as long as we can on earth. But, if we live the Gospel of Christ fully, we will no longer have fear of death.”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Mark 8:34-38
Jesus called the people and his disciples to him and said, ‘If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.
‘What gain, then, is it for a man to win the whole world and ruin his life? And indeed what can man offer in exchange for his life? For if anyone in this adulterous and sinful generation is ashamed of me and of my words, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.’