Saint Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr, pray for us15th Week in Ordinary Time : Thursday 20th July 2023Ex. 3:13-20; Ps. 104:1 and 5,8-9,24-25,26-27; Mt. 11:28-30 (Ps. Wk. III) When Moses came upon the burning bush, he removed his sandals and spoke with God. He asked God for His name, to which God responded, “I am who…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Jesus’ Consolations – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus assures His listeners that He will give them His Consolations, Compassion and Care when they are overburdened and helpless; if they believe and follow Him. Ponder on, “There is nothing and no persons who can give us what…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 11:28-30 Jesus exclaimed: ‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ‘Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.’…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 11:25-27 Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, God’s Revelation – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus exclaimed, “I bless You Father . . . for revealing them (the Truth) to mere children.” Ponder on, “Faith in Jesus as our Saviour is a divine gift; not an acquired knowledge of the learned. When we open…
Lord, help us to remember that we are beloved children of God Our Father15th Week in Ordinary Time : Wednesday 19th July 2023Ex. 3:1-6,9-12; Ps. 102:1-2,3-4,6-7; Mt. 11:25-27 (Ps. Wk. III) Biblical scholars agree that the Gospel passage reads more like John’s Gospel than from the Synoptics. In his Gospel, John speaks more deeply of…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Blindness and Obstinacy – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus reprimanded the towns of Chorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum for their blindness and obstinacy in their refusal to believe in the Good News of Salvation. Ponder on, “Do we have attitudes, addictions and attachments that are preventing us from…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 11:20-24 Jesus began to reproach the towns in which most of his miracles had been worked, because they refused to repent. ‘Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth…
Lord, help me respond to Your call15th Week in Ordinary Time : Tuesday 18th July 2023Ex. 2:1-15a; Ps. 68:3,14,30-31,33-34; Mt. 11:20-24 (Ps. Wk. III) The opening scene in the first reading describes the background. Moses is a Hebrew adopted by Pharoah’s daughter but had to flee to Midian, a land of non-Israelites, because he had…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 10:34-40 Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth: it is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword. For I have come to set son against father, daughter against mother, daughter in law against mother in law;…