DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “The Beatitudes” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims the “Beatitudes” of those who are spiritually fulfilled’ in God. The secular world would not comprehend such Divine Truths. Ponder on, “When we love God humbly and faithfully, we will discover the Truth in the “Beatitudes”. Pride…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Jesus’ Body and Blood: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims clearly to the Jews, “I am the Bread from heaven; anyone who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood has eternal life.” Ponder on, “Only with faith in Jesus, and not through secular thinking can we accept…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Authentic Living: In today’s Gospel, Jesus cautions the crowd to beware of the scribes, who look for honour and glory from people, but are corrupt and deceptive. However, ponder on, “Genuine honour is to have a generosity that shares sincerely, selflessly and unconditionally; with dignity and…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Jesus as Saviour: In today’s Gospel, Jesus teaches in the Temple that Christ is our Messiah, Lord and Saviour. Ponder on, “The gift of faith is beyond our human logical thinking. However, our faith will enlighten us to live our daily lives with greater meaning, direction…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Greatest Commandments: In today’s Gospel, the scribes agreed with Jesus that the first and the greatest Commandment is to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, and then inseparable from this is; to love our neighbour through our deeds. Ponder on, “Do we…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Resurrection – Faith: In today’s Gospel, the Sadducees’ earthly thinking about marriage after death creates confusion. Ponder on Jesus’ response, “When we rise from the dead, (after we die) we do not marry; we are like angels in heaven. Ponder on and pray for the insights…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Hypocrisy – Faith”: In today’s Gospel, the Pharisees want to trap Jesus with questions on paying taxes to Caesar. Their hypocrisy was to create animosity between Jesus and the Roman authorities. Ponder on, “As sinners we live our faith imperfectly. However, living our faith hypocritically is…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Presumptuous Faith: In today’s Gospel, the tenants became presumptuous; and this led them to cease the harvest unjustly from the landlord, and even murdered his son. Ponder on, “When we take God’s abundant blessings for granted, we may become unjust and destructive, like the ‘tenants’; and…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Faith in Jesus as Saviour: In today’s Gospel, Jesus assured Nicodemus, “No one who believes in Him will be condemned but, those who refuses to believe are condemned already.” Ponder on, “Do we have faith in Jesus as our Saviour and Lord? If so, are we…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Challenging Jesus: The chief priests, scribes and elders challenged Jesus’ authority for expelling money changers from the Temple. Ponder on, “When we try to ‘challenge’ the Truth and Authority of Jesus and the Church. . . we will surely not find the deep peace, fulfillment and Joy…