DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Resurrection – Faith: In today’s Gospel, the Sadducees’ earthly thinking about marriage after death creates confusion. Ponder on Jesus’ response, “When we rise from the dead, (after we die) we do not marry; we are like angels in heaven. Ponder on and pray for the insights…
Daily Word Of GodMark 12:18-20,22-25 Some Sadducees - who deny that there is a resurrection - came to Jesus and they put this question to him, ‘Master, Moses prescribed for us that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no child, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his…
Daily Word Of GodMark 12:13-17 The chief priests and the scribes and the elders sent to Jesus some Pharisees and some Herodians to catch him out in what he said. These came and said to him, ‘Master, we know that you are an honest man, that you are not afraid of anyone, because human rank…
St Norbert, bishop, Pray for us9th Week in Ordinary Time : Tuesday 6th June 2023Tob. 2:9-14; Ps. 111:1-2,7-9; Mk. 12:13-17 (Ps. Wk. I) What sort of descendants would a man have if he reveres the Lord, takes delight in God’s commands, and is upright (vv 1-2)? The Psalmist says, “his sons will be powerful on…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Hypocrisy – Faith”: In today’s Gospel, the Pharisees want to trap Jesus with questions on paying taxes to Caesar. Their hypocrisy was to create animosity between Jesus and the Roman authorities. Ponder on, “As sinners we live our faith imperfectly. However, living our faith hypocritically is…
St Boniface, bishop and martyr, Pray for us9th Week in Ordinary Time : Monday 5th June 2023Tob. 1:3; 2:1-8; Ps. 111:1-6; Mk. 12:1-12 (Ps. Wk. I) Tobit was a generous and kind-hearted man. He wouldn’t think of enjoying his Pentecost feast without inviting a poor man to dine with him. When his son discovered one…
Daily Word Of GodMark 12:1-3,5b-9 Jesus began to speak to the chief priests, the scribes and the elders in parables, ‘A man planted a vineyard; he fenced it round, dug out a trough for the winepress and built a tower; then he leased it to tenants and went abroad. When the time came, he sent…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Presumptuous Faith: In today’s Gospel, the tenants became presumptuous; and this led them to cease the harvest unjustly from the landlord, and even murdered his son. Ponder on, “When we take God’s abundant blessings for granted, we may become unjust and destructive, like the ‘tenants’; and…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 3:16-18 Jesus said to Nicodemus: ‘God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. ‘For God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but so that through him the…
Ss Charles Lwanga & Comps. martyrs, Pray for usTHE MOST HOLY TRINITY (A) : Trinity Sunday 4th June 2023Ex. 34:4-6,8-9; (R. Ps.) Dan3:52-56; 2 Cor. 13:11-13; Jn. 3:16-18 (Ps. Wk. I) Making the sign of the cross is probably the first thing a child learns from the parent or caregiver at the start of a…