Daily Word Of GodLuke 4:24-30 Jesus came to Nazara and spoke to the people in the synagogue: ‘I tell you solemnly, no prophet is ever accepted in his own country. ‘There were many widows in Israel, I can assure you, in Elijah's day, when heaven remained shut for three years and six months and a…
Pride obstructs the work of God in our lives. Lord, help me to be humble.3rd Week of Lent : Monday 8th March 20212 Kgs. 5:1-15; Ps. 41:2,3; Ps. 42:3,4; Lk. 4:24-30 (Ps Wk III) In the Gospel, the people in the synagogue are angry at Jesus. Jesus has just reminded them of God’s assistance to…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Good News - Rejection: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed that there will be no miraculous cures for those who obstinately reject the Good News. Hearing this truth, the crowd tried to kill Jesus. This episode is symbolic of today’s secular world of atheism and materialism that…
What pleases God is a loving heart totally surrendered in worship of Him3rd Sunday of Lent (B) : 7th March 2021Ex. 20:1-17; Ps. 18:8,9,10,11; 1 Cor. 1:22-25; Jn. 2:13-25 (Ps Wk III) “My house shall be called the house of prayer for all nations.” In the gospel reading, we see Jesus’ anger in the Temple.…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Sacred Temple”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus expelled the money changers in the Temple; as they were desecrating the sacred place of worship through cheating of the poor. The places of worship and our hearts, which are “Temples of the Holy Spirit”. They are both inseparably “sacred”. …
Daily Word Of GodJohn 2:13-16, 18-22 Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money changers sitting at their counters there. Making a whip out of some cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, cattle and…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Wisdom – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed the “Parable of the Prodigal Son” to remind us of God’s unconditional Love and Mercy for all sinners who are repentant. With God’s grace, “wisdom” is overcoming our pride with the humility of accepting our sinful tendencies and…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 15:1, 3, 11b-15, 20, 22-24a The tax collectors and sinners were all seeking the company of Jesus to hear what he had to say. So he spoke this parable to them: ‘A man had two sons. The younger said to his father, “Father, let me have the share of the estate…
Lord, thank you for your great compassionate and merciful love for us2nd Week of Lent (B) : Saturday 6th March 2021Mic. 7:14-15,18-20; Ps. 102:1-2,3-4,9-10, 11-12; Lk. 15:1-3,11-32 (Ps Wk II) Today’s Gospel should never have been called the parable of the Prodigal Son, for the son is not the hero. It should be called the…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 21:33-38, 42-43 Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people: ‘Listen to another parable. There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard; he fenced it round, dug a winepress in it and built a tower; then he leased it to tenants and went abroad. When vintage…