DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “The Living Bread” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed to the crowd, “I am the Living Bread . . . for My Flesh is real food and My Blood is real drink. Anyone who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood has Eternal Life. Ponder…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 6:51-57 Jesus said to the crowd: ‘I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.’ Then the Jews started arguing among themselves, ‘How can…
Lord, help us to be truly grateful for all that youhave done for us20th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Sunday 18th August 2024Prov 9:1-6; Ps 33:2-3, 10-15; Eph 5:15-20; Mt 6:51-58 (Ps Wk IV) From the psalmist who encourages us to “bless the Lord at all times’’, that “His praise’’ be “always on my…
Lord, grant us a pure heart that seeks only You and all things that lead to You19th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Saturday 17th August 2024Ez 18:1-10, 13, 30-32; Ps 50:12-15, 18-19; Mt 19:13-15 (Ps Wk III) The scene in the Gospel speaks of the disciples turning away people who were bringing children to…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “A Child – Symbol of Humility” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed, that a child is the symbol of the virtue of humility that is needed to enter “The Kingdom of Heaven.” Ponder on, “This virtue of humility in its fullest sense, is to be…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 19:13-15 The people brought little children to Jesus, for him to lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples scolded them, but Jesus said, ‘Let the little children alone, and do not stop them from coming to me; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of Heaven…
Daily Word Of GodMatthew 19:3-6 Some Pharisees approached Jesus, and to put him to the test they said, ‘Is it against the Law for a man to divorce his wife on any pretext whatever?’ He answered, ‘Have you not read that the Creator from the beginning made them male and female and that he said:…
St Stephen of Hungary, pray for us19th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Friday 16th August 2024Ez 16:1-15, 60, 63 (or 59-63); Ps Is 12:2-6; Mt 19:3-12 (Ps Wk III) The convenient excuse for break-ups in a covenantal relationship treats everyone as a utility. It fails to tie responsibility and relationship as a call. Every…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Divorce in Marriage” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed, “A man and his wife are no longer two; but one flesh. So then, what God has united, human beings must not divide.” Ponder on, “The Sacrament of Marriage, is a sacred bond between the married…
Mother Mary, pray for usASSUMPTION OF THE B.V. MARY : Thursday 15th August 2024Rev 11:19, 12:1-6, 10; Ps 44:10-12, 16; 1 Cor 15:20-26; Lk 1:39-56 (Psalter Proper) The Assumption reveals Mary’s devout life. Luke’s gospel depicts Mary’s experience of a human encounter with the divine - troubled when she hears the voice of the angel…