DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Good Friday: In today’s Gospel, Jesus embraces His most cruel torments that threatened to kill Him even before He is Crucified. The Romans have “perfected” their evil forms of torture that inflict the most painful and prolonged suffering before the criminal dies. Do we treat people…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Washing of the Feet: In today’s Gospel, during the Last Supper Jesus got up and washed the feet of His apostles. Being Master and Lord, he showed His disciple that a “True Master” is one that serves with great humility, and even be willing to die…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Betrayal of Jesus: In today’s Gospel, Jesus, with deep sadness, reveals that one of His Twelve apostles is going to betray Him. The eleven apostles were shocked to hear this. However, Judas has already made up his mind to betray Jesus. Let us pray for the…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Denial of Peter: In today’s Gospel, even as Peter had great desires to die for Jesus, he denied Him when his life was threatened. Let us pray for the graces we need to remain faithful to God when our vocation is being tested by the traumas…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Repentance: In today’s Gospel, Mary Magdalene expressed her deep contrition for her sins by washing Jesus’ feet with her tears of sorrow, dried them with her hair and anointed them with a very costly ointment. Ponder on, “Lord, my sins have added to Your Suffering; move my…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Palm Sunday: In today’s Gospel, the Passion of Jesus shows how His enemies’ cruelty knows no bounds. They condemned Jesus to the cruel death by crucifixion. In contrast, they clamoured for Barabbas, a murderer to be released. Do our hearts harbour hurts and hatred that destroy…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Insecurity – Faith: In today’s Gospel, the insecurities of Caiaphas, the high priest, were that Jesus’ Teachings and Actions attracted followers, at their expense. Thus they were determined to kill Him. Ponder on, “Are our “insecurities” harming our loved ones and relationship with Jesus”? The greatest…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Stoning Jesus”: In today’s Gospel, the Jews wanted to stone Jesus, because He claims to be God. Millions of people in today’s world are “stoning” the Truth of Jesus’ Gospel through promoting evil ways and lifestyles that are deliberately destroying lives, e.g. abortion, euthanasia, cloning, human…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Jesus – Father: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims, “I know the Father, and I keep His Word.” To have the gift of faith is to be blessed to know God our Father, through Jesus who reveals Him. There is no other way of knowing our Loving…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Freedom – Sin: In today’s Gospel, Jesus says, “The Truth will set you free.” Jesus was urging the crowd to believe and live the Gospel. This will set us free from the grip of sin and evil. Let us pray for the Holy Spirit to enlighten and…