Daily Word Of GodMark 10:2-12 Some Pharisees approached Jesus and asked, ‘Is it against the law for a man to divorce his wife?’ They were testing him test. He answered them, ‘What did Moses command you?’ ‘Moses allowed us’ they said ‘to draw up a writ of dismissal and so to divorce.’ Then Jesus said…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Commitment to God” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed very clearly that a “Sacramental Marriage” cannot be divorced. This is because, the married couple has made a free and total commitment to God, to remain faithful to one another for life. Ponder on, “Great trials…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 10:17-22 The seventy-two came back rejoicing. ‘Lord,’ they said, ‘even the devils submit to us when we use your name.’ Jesus said to them, ‘I watched Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Look, I have given you power to tread down serpents and scorpions and the whole strength of the enemy;…
St Mary Faustina Kowalska, Virgin, pray for us26th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Saturday 5th October 2024Job 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-16; Ps 118:66, 71, 75, 91, 125, 130; Lk 10:17-24 (Ps Wk II) The joy of the Gospel is a liberating force of mission. The joy that the seventy-two disciples felt when they returned from…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Names in Heaven” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus highlighted to the seventy-two disciples that they should greatly rejoice that “their names are written in heaven. Ponder on, “Like these disciples, to live in the certainty of faith and the great hope that we will live…
St Francis of Assisi, pray for us26th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Friday 4th October 2024Job 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5; Ps 138:1-3, 7-10, 13-14; Lk 10:13-16 (Ps Wk II) St. Francis of Assisi heard God’s call to repair a dilapidated church. He only realised later that God was asking for the Church to be healed…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 10:13-16 Jesus said to his disciples: ‘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, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. And still, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Obstinacy and Blindness to Faith”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed to His disciples that Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum are rejecting His Good News with great obstinacy and blindness.” Ponder on, “Deep in the hearts of every person is the desire to live our lives for God. …
Lord, make us instruments of your will, with patience in word and deed26th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Thursday 3rd October 2024Job 19:21-27; Ps 26:7-9, 13-14 Lk 10:1-12 (Ps Wk II) We have all heard the expression ‘the patience of Job.’ This virtue is profoundly uttered in, “I know that my redeemer lives, and…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 10:1-7 The Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him in pairs, to all the towns and places he himself would be visiting. And he said to them, ‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to…