DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
Holy Spirit – Others: In today’s Gospel, Jesus reminds His disciples that to win back someone from the community who has gone astray, seek the help of good persons. The Holy Spirit can use others as His instrument of peace and unity. Ponder on, “How have I experienced the Holy Spirit using others, to build a stronger and more united community?”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Matthew 18:15-20
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with him alone, between your two selves. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you: whatever the misdemeanour, the evidence of two or three witnesses is required to sustain the charge. But if he refuses to listen to these, report it to the community; and if he refuses to listen to the community, treat him like a gentile or a tax collector.
‘In truth I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
‘In truth I tell you once again, if two of you on earth agree to ask anything at all, it will be granted to you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three meet in my name, I am there among them.’