DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Salvation – Gifts: In today’s Gospel, Jesus reminds His disciples that their greatest joy is that their “names are written in heaven.” Are we rejoicing for the gift of faith that offers us Eternal Salvation? If so, do we use all our God-given blessings to draw…
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.’ He 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;…
Great affliction are great opportunities and channel of God’s saving grace26th Week in Ordinary Time : Saturday 3rd October 2020Job 42:1-3,5-6,12-16; (Heb. 1-3,5-6,12-17); Ps. 118:66.71.75.91.125.130; Lk. 10:17-24 Lk 14:15-24 (Ps Wk II) “It is good for me that I have been afflicted”; not many of us will spontaneously agree with this sentiment of the Psalmist.…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Guardian Angels” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, in using a child as an example of the virtues that we need to cultivate, Jesus reminds us to entrust our decisions and life to His Father’s Will at all times. The Guardian angels that God sends us are…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 18:1-5, 10 The disciples came to Jesus and said, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven?’ So he called a little child to him whom he set among them. Then he said, ‘In truth I tell you, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter…
The Holy Guardian Angels26th Week in Ordinary Time : Friday 2nd October 2020Ex. 23:20-23; Ps. 90:1-2,3-4,5-6,10-11; Mt. 18:1-5,10 (Ps Wk II) The Catechism of the Catholic Church, in describing angels, states, “From the beginning until death, human life is surrounded by their watchful care and intercession”. (CCC, 336). This description of the angels in God’s…
St Therese of the Child Jesus26th Week in Ordinary Time : Thursday 1st October 2020Job 19:21-27; Ps. 26:7-9,13-14; Lk. 10:1-12 Many people are crushed by suffering, misfortune, and tribulation. Often, we cannot change what happens to us, but we can control how we respond to the situation. Job was such an individual — he did…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 18:1-5 The disciples came to Jesus and said, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven?’ So he called a little child to him whom he set among them. Then he said, ‘In truth I tell you, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Childlike Humility: In today’s Gospel, Jesus said to His disciples that to be the “greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven,” we need to have the virtue of childlike humility. This virtue is to be totally trusting in our love for God. Do we “trust God” and…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 9:57-62 As Jesus and his disciples travelled along they met a man on the road who said to him, ‘I will follow you wherever you go.’ Jesus answered, ‘Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.’ Another…