DGEMs – Daily Gospel E-Messages

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Men will seize you and persecute you; they will  hand you over to the synagogues and to imprisonment, and bring you before kings and governors because of my name - and that will be your opportunity to bear witness.  Keep this carefully in mind: you are not to prepare your

When some were talking about the Temple, remarking how it was adorned with fine stonework and votive offerings, Jesus said, ‘All these things you are staring at now - the time will come when not a single stone will be left on another; everything will be destroyed.’  And they put to him this question, ‘Master,’

Jesus was speaking to the crowds when his mother and his brothers appeared; they were standing outside and were anxious to have a word with him. But to the man who told him this Jesus replied, ‘Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?’ And stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, ‘Here

The people stayed there before the cross watching Jesus. As for the leaders, they jeered at him. ‘He saved others,’ thet said ‘let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.’  The soldiers mocked him too, and when they approached to offer him vinegar they said, ‘If you are the

Some Sadducees - those who argue that there is no resurrection - approached Jesus and they put this question to him, ‘Master, we have it from Moses in writing, that if a man's married brother dies childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his brother.’ Well then, there were seven

After sending the crowds away Jesus went up into the hills by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, while the boat, by now far out on the lake,  was battling with a heavy sea for there was a head-wind.  In the fourth watch of the night he went towards them, walking