DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“Responsible Faith”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus challenged the Pharisees’ sinful life of murder and persecution of the prophets sent by God. This was because they want to justify and crush all oppositions to their sinful living. Ponder on, “When we do not follow God’s ways with firm commitment; we will follow the sinful ways of others.”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Luke 11:47-51
Jesus said: ‘Alas for you who build the tombs of the prophets, the men your ancestors killed! In this way you both witness what your ancestors did and approve it; they did the killing, you do the building.
‘And that is why the Wisdom of God said, “I will send them prophets and apostles; some they will slaughter and persecute, so that this generation will have to answer for every prophet’s blood that has been shed since the foundation of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was murdered between the altar and the sanctuary.” Yes, I tell you, this generation will have to answer for it all.’