Lord, Increase your gift of love in us3rd Week of Easter : Tuesday 28th April 2020Acts. 7:51--8:1; Ps. 31(30):3-4,6,7-8,17,21; Jn. 6:30-35 (Ps Wk III) It has been said that the Gospels are the story of our lives as well as the story of Jesus’ life: we can find ourselves among the crowds who heard Jesus…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage “Bread of Life” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed that He is the “Bread of Life” that will fulfill our deepest desires. Nothing and no person in this world can give us such divine fulfillment. Yet, many believers prefer to seek material, secular and sensual gratification instead of Jesus whose…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 6:30-35 The people said to Jesus, ‘What sign will you yourself do, the sight of which will make us believe in you? What work will you do? Our fathers ate manna in the desert; as scripture says: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ Jesus answered them: ‘In all truth…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Superficial Faith: In today’s Gospel, the crowd that was fed with the miracle of the multiplication of loaves, could not see that Jesus is the Saviour, who is offering them the gift of Eternal Life. Do we also get too caught up in materialism and secular values, at the expense of…
Lord, live in and through me! Nourish and sustain me!3rd Week of Easter : Monday 27th April 2020Acts. 6:8-15; Ps. 119(118):23-24,26-27,29-30; Jn. 6:22-29 (Ps Wk III) It must be a frightening thing to be persecuted for one’s faith or beliefs. Sometimes it seems more comfortable and less painful to remain silent and hidden. Stephen was…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 6:24-29 Jesus had fed the five thousand. When the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into those boats and crossed to Capernaum to look for Jesus. When they found him on the other side, they said to him, ‘Rabbi, when did you come here?’ Jesus…
Lord Jesus, give me a more profound faith so that I may spread the Good News to the world3rd Sunday of Easter (A) : 26th April 2020Acts 2:14,22-33; Ps. 16(15): 1-2,5,7-8,9-10, 11; 1 Pt. 1:17-21; Lk. 24:13-35 (Ps Wk III) We are accustomed to calling Cleophas and his companion the pilgrims of Emmaus. They had…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage “Emotional Blindness”: In today’s Gospel, the two disciples on the way to Emmaus, were deeply distressed and downcast because of Jesus’ Death through Crucifixion, and as such they could not believe in His Resurrection. When we are downcast, do our faith in Jesus gets weaker or stronger? Fr Philip Heng, S.J.…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 24:13b-17a, 19b-21a, 25, 27 Two of the disciples were on their way to a village called Emmaus, seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking together about all that had happened. And it happened that as they were talking together and discussing it, Jesus himself came up and walked by their…
Daily Word Of GodMark 16:15-20 Jesus said to the Eleven, ‘Go out to the whole world; proclaim the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptised will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. These are the signs that will be associated with believers: in my name they will cast out devils;…