DGEMs – Daily Gospel E-Messages

Jesus spoke to the crowd, ‘Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. And indeed, which of you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if he had enough to complete it? Otherwise, if he laid the

When the sixth hour came there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ‘Eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani?’ whic means,  ‘My God, my God, why have you deserted me?’ When some of those who stood by heard this, they said, ‘Listen,

This is what Jesus taught his disciples: ‘How blessed are the poor in spirit: theirs is the kingdom of heaven.  Happy the gentle: they shall have the earth for their inheritance. Happy those who mourn: they shall be comforted. Happy those who hunger and thirst for for what is right: they shall be satisfied. Happy

One of the scribes came up to Jesus and put a further question to him, ‘Which is the first of all the commandments?’           Jesus replied, ‘This is the first: Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is the one Lord,  and you must love the Lord your God with all your

Now on a sabbath day Jesus had gone for a meal to the house of one of the leading Pharisees; and they watched him closely. He then told the guests a parable, because he had noticed how they picked the places of honour. He said this, ‘When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do

Now on a sabbath day Jesus had gone for a meal to the house of one of the leading Pharisees; and they watched him closely. There in front of him was a man with dropsy, and Jesus addressed the lawyers and Pharisees. ‘Is it against the law’ he asked ‘to cure a man on the