Lord, help me love You and all those around me as You love them30th Week in Ordinary Time : Sunday 29th October 2023Ex. 22:20-26; Ps. 17:2-3a,3bc-4,47 and 51ab; 1 Thess. 1:5c-10; Mt. 22:34-40 (Ps. Wk. II) Jesus had just silenced the Sadducees who had tried to catch Him out with a problem to which they…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Loving God” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus responded to the Pharisees’ question; that the “Greatest Commandment of the Law” is “To love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind. And, to love your neighbour as yourself.” Ponder on, “Do we justify…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Apostles of Jesus” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus calls the apostles to be His inner circle of friends to proclaim His Good News and perpetuate the Church through the power of the Holy Spirit. Ponder on, “The apostles were ordinary people and were sinners. However,…
Feast of SS Simon and Jude, Apostles, pray for us29th Week in Ordinary Time : Saturday 28th October 2023Eph. 2:19-22; Ps. 18:2-3,4-5; Lk. 6:12-19 (Psalter proper or feast) Our world is seriously divided, and even our Church has not been spared. Many identify themselves by what they are not rather than what they are, and…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 6:12-19 Jesus went onto the mountain to pray; and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. When day came he summoned his disciples and picked out twelve of them; he called them ‘apostles’: Simon whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Wisdom and Intelligence” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus is inviting us to live our faith with divine wisdom. And this is to know how to discern God’s Will and follow it with creative fidelity. Ponder on, “To have intelligence is to have knowledge; but this…
Speak, Lord, your servant is listening29th Week in Ordinary Time : Friday 27th October 2023Rom. 6:19-23; Ps. 1:1-2,3,4 and 6; Lk. 12:49-53 (Ps. Wk. I) The famous “Prayer of Serenity” asks God for the serenity to accept the things that one cannot change, the courage to change the things that one can and the wisdom…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 12:54-59 Jesus said to the crowds, ‘When you see a cloud looming up in the west you say at once that rain is coming, and so it does. And when the wind is from the south you say it's going to be hot, and it is. Hypocrites! You know how to…
Holy Spirit, lead us to the paths that follow Jesus’ way of life in Peace, Justice and Hope29th Week in Ordinary Time : Thursday 26th October 2023Rom. 6:19-23; Ps. 1:1-2,3,4 and 6; Lk. 12:49-53 (Ps. Wk. I) In today’s Gospel reading, we see Jesus giving us stern warnings, unlike His usual gentle and mild reminders.…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 12:49-53 Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already! There is a baptism I must still receive, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! ‘Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace…