DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
God’s Mercy: In today’s Gospel, a gentile woman pleaded that Jesus expel the devil from her daughter. Jesus praised her humility and granted her wish. Jesus answers all our prayers with much Compassion. We are called to deepen our love for Jesus and not take Him for granted.
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Mark 7:24-30
Jesus left Gennesaret and set out for the territory of Tyre. There he went into a house and did not want anyone to know he was there; but he could not pass unrecognised. At once a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him and came and fell at his feet.
Now this woman was a gentile, by birth a Syro-Phoenician, and she begged him to drive the devil out of her daughter. And he said to her, ‘The children should be fed first, because it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to little dogs.’ But she spoke up, ‘Ah yes, sir,’ she replied, ‘but little dogs under the table eat the scraps from the children.’
And he said to her, ‘For saying this you may go home happy; the devil has gone out of your daughter.’ So she went off home and found the child lying on the bed and the devil gone.