DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Challenging Jesus’ Authority” – Faith: In the Gospels, the Temple authorities challenge Jesus’ Authority: to drive out money changers from the Temple, heal on the Sabbath, proclaim the Good News of Salvation and forgive sins. Ponder on, “Only Jesus; the Son of God, and no other…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Genealogy of Jesus: In today’s Gospel, the three fourteen generations of the genealogy of Israel reveals that humanity was “born for greatness; lost his greatness and regained his greatness through Jesus, the Messiah of the line of David. Ponder on, “Thank God for the divine gift…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, “Rejection of the Messiah”: In today’s world, the “Messiah” continues to be rejected, persecuted and disfigured. Likewise, ponder on, “The great sadness of the “darkness” of secular power, atheistic ideologies and morality that promote “self-centred glory and gratification?” All these “destroy lives, families and obstruct the faith…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Faith – “Obstinacy, Blindness”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus was deeply saddened by the crowd whose hearts were hardened and whose eyes were blind to the Truth of Salvation. Ponder on, “Do we at times also ‘prefer’ to live a superficial life of the secular world; in…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Immaculate Conception of Mary: Today’s Gospel proclaims one of God’s greatest Mystery-Event of choosing a human person to become the Mother of the Son of God; Jesus the Messiah. Ponder on, “Let us ask for God’s grace of humility to allow this Truth to transform our hearts,…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Gospel of Compassion – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims clearly and with great commitment assures that we can always go to Him in all our needs, burdens and trials in life. He will never fail us and will always be there to embrace us in…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Joy in a Repentant Sinner: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims the “Parable of the Lost Sheep” to reveal the Good News that God’s Merciful Love has preferential love for sinners who are suffering from a crises of faith. Ponder on, “God’s Mercy is greater and deeper when…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Faith – Anger: In today’s Gospel, Jesus cured and forgave the sins of the paralytic. However, the Pharisee and scribes were angry at Jesus for doing so. Ponder on, “Is our faith in Jesus deep and committed, or is our faith superficial, reactive and angry towards people…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, John the Baptist – Mission: In today’s Gospel, we reflect on how John the Baptist lives a life of great abnegation, humility and dedication in preparing people to follow Jesus the Messiah. Ponder on, “Is our faith as God-centred, humble and dedicated or do we give God…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Dear Friend in the Lord, Witness – Jesus’ Good News: In today’s Gospel, Jesus commissions His apostles to proclaim the Good News of Salvation to all peoples. Ponder on, “As we are blessed to have the gift of faith in Jesus’ Good News of Salvation, we are also obliged to fulfil…