Daily Word Of GodMatthew 19:13-15 People brought little children to Jesus, for him to lay his hands on them and say a prayer. The disciples turned them away, but Jesus said, ‘Let the little children alone, and do not stop them coming to me; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of…
SS. Pontian, pope, and Hippolytus, priest, martyrs19th Week in Ordinary Time : Saturday 13th August 2022Ez. 18:1-10,13b,30-32; Ps. 50:12-13,14-15,18-19; Mt. 19:13-15 (Ps Wk III) It was a Jewish custom to present the children to the rabbis so that they would bless them. But in today’s Gospel, the Apostles thought that the children were abusing the…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 19:3-6 Some Pharisees approached Jesus, and to test him they said, ‘Is it against the Law for a man to divorce his wife on any pretext whatever?’ He answered, ‘Have you not read that the Creator from the beginning made them male and female and that he said: This is why…
St Jane Frances de Chantal, religious19th Week in Ordinary Time : Friday 12th August 2022Ez. 16:1-15,60,63 (or Ez. 16:59-63); (R. Ps.) Is. 12:2-3,4bcd,5-6; Mt. 19:3-12 (Ps Wk III) “It was not like this from the beginning”. This statement on divorce reappears again and again in history in varying forms. Moses instructs his people on how…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Sanctity of Marriage” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims that the marriage bond a married couple makes with God and each other cannot be dissolved, when validly made in the Church. Ponder on, “God will give the married couple and family the graces to grow…
St Clare, virgin19th Week in Ordinary Time : Thursday 11th August 2022Ez. 12:1-12; Ps. 77:56-57,58-59,61-62; Mt. 18:21—19:1 (Ps Wk III) “The Word of the Lord came to me.” The Prophet Ezra speaks these words. He understands how God’s Word empowers; it enables him to follow God’s commands and be a sign to Israel. To prophesy…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 18:23-25a, 27-29a, 30b, 32-35 Jesus said to his disciples: ‘And so the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who decided to settle his accounts with his servants. When the reckoning began, they brought him a man who owed ten thousand talents; but he had no means of paying. …
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Ingratitude – God’s Mercy”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed the “Parable of the Debtor” to remind us of the infinite Mercy that God never fails to show us. Ponder on, “Are we also ‘merciful’ to those who have hurt and treated us unjustly? God wills that…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Childlike Faith”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims that to have a “child-like faith” is to be “the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.” Ponder on, “Jesus knows that we are all sinners, and that we all need His Merciful and Forgiving Love. To have a ‘child-like’…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 12:24-26 Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I tell you, most solemnly, unless a wheat grain falls on the ground and dies, it remains only a single grain; but if it dies, it yields a rich harvest. Anyone who loves his life loses it; anyone who hates his life in this world…