Our Lady of Lourdes5th Week in Ordainary Time (C) : Friday 11th February 20221 Kgs. 11:29-32; 12:19; Ps. 80:10-11,12-13,14-15; Mk. 7:31-37 (Ps Wk I) Disunity is a terrible thing – it tears communities apart and sets one person against another. So often, disunity starts through backbiting, gossip, power struggles, selfishness, and misunderstandings. This is what…
Daily Word Of GodMark 7:31-37 Returning from the district of Tyre, Jesus went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, right through the Decapolis region. And they brought him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they asked him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside…
Daily Word Of GodMark 7:24-30 Jesus left Gennesaret and set out for the territory of Tyre. There he went into a house and did not want anyone to know he was there; but he could not pass unrecognised. A woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him straightaway and came and fell…
St Scholastica, Virgin5th Week in Ordainary Time (C) : Thursday 10th February 20221 Kgs. 11:4-13; Ps. 105:3-4,35-36,37,40; Mk. 7:24-30 (Ps Wk I) The readings of today’s Liturgy from 1 Kings and Mark’s Gospel show a contrast in attitudes. In 1 Kings, a leader of God’s chosen people, Solomon, should have been a model worshipper of…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Faith – Depth: In today’s Gospel, Jesus expelled the devil in the Syro-Phoenician’s daughter because she had begged Him with deep faith and humility. Ponder on, “Do we beg Jesus with deep faith and humility or is our faith superficial and more concerned with our own…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Loving God: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed to the crowds that all our virtues and vices come from our hearts. Ponder on, “When you reflect on the quality of your daily living, does Jesus’ Words of Wisdom warm your heart? If we love God wholeheartedly, then…
Daily Word Of GodMark 7:14-23 Jesus called the people to him again and said, ‘Listen to me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that goes into a man from outside can make him unclean; it is the things that come out of a mn that make him unclean. If anyone has ears to hear, let…
Lord, let Your Word always be in our hearts5th Week in Ordainary Time (C) : Wednesday 9th February 20221 Kgs. 10:1-10; Ps. 36:5-6,30-31,39-40; Mk. 7:14-23 (Ps Wk I) In the Gospel reading, Jesus tells the people to - “listen … understand … and … see …” (Vv 16, 18). So, what is it that Jesus…
Lord, open my heart to understand and follow Your way6th Week in Ordinary Time (C) : Tuesday 15th February 2022Jm. 1:12-18; Ps. 93:12-13,14-15,18-19; Mk. 8:14-21 (Ps Wk II) James contrasted the evil of giving in to temptation with the act of giving. He wrote that temptation came from one’s own desires, not from God, for…
Daily Word Of GodMark 7:1-2, 5-8 The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered round Jesus, and they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing them. For the Pharisees, and the Jews in general, follow the tradition of the elders and never…