DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Mystery of John the Baptist: In God’s Providence, the miraculous child of Elizabeth and Zechariah is to be named “John” even though it is against Jewish cultural practices. Ponder on, “God’s Mystery, Will and Ways, are beyond cultural practices. Let us obey God’s Truth, Love and…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Fruitful Living” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims to His disciples, “A sound tree produces good fruit, but a rotten tree, bad fruit. You will be able to tell them by their fruits.” Ponder on, “What ‘good fruits of the faith’ are you bearing in…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Pathways to Jesus”: In today’s Gospel Jesus proclaims to His disciples, “Enter the narrow gate; a hard road that leads to eternal life; not the wide road that leads to destruction.” Ponder on, are we willing to make the sacrifices, share our blessings, love and forgive…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Judgmentalism” – Faith: Jesus reminded His disciples not to be judgmental. We too are often ‘blind’ to our own faults and sins. Ponder on, “Do we at times, behave ‘hypocritically,’ especially when we have more serious faults and sins than others? Pray for the grace of…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Spiritual Nourishment: In today’s Gospel, Jesus miraculously fed five thousand hungry men with five loaves and two fish. Ponder on, “Jesus’ miracle proclaims more importantly of His Kingdom. He gives us the Divine Gift of His Body and Blood, in the Eucharist; the most precious Gift…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Earthly or Eternal Life?: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims to His disciples, “You cannot be the slave both of God and of money.” Ponder on, “Is our faith, love and hope in God deep and personal or are we over focused on accumulating material wealth, secular…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Divine Wisdom” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus reminds His disciples, “Do not store up treasures on earth, . . . but store up treasures for yourselves in heaven.” Ponder on, “These words of the Divine Wisdom of Jesus is so true. However, do we truly…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Our Father” Prayer: Jesus taught His disciples to pray the “Our Father” prayer. This prayer is “most beautiful and powerful”. This prayer is composed by Jesus; whose Divine Wisdom, Knowledge and Unity with His Father is “Perfect”. Ponder on, “Do we pray the Our Father prayer…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Attention Seeking – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus reminds His disciples to live our faith as in the Gospels, and not for the gain of attention, praise and self-glory. Instead, live, pray and serve God with sincerity and humility in following Jesus who is our “Perfect…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Christ-like Living: Jesus proclaims to His disciples, “love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” Ponder on, “When someone hurts us or harms us unjustly and seriously, how do we usually respond?” “Do we ‘counter attack,’ or seek ‘cold justice’ instead of reconciliation, peace…