DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“Loving God – How Much?”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims clearly and powerfully that we are to love God and live our faith with a single-minded and undivided love. Ponder on, “Do I love God, but only give Him and others, especially those in need, my leftover time, dissipated energies and loose change?”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Matthew 10:37-42
Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘Anyone who prefers father or mother to me is not worthy of me. Anyone who prefers son or daughter to me is not worthy of me. Anyone who does not take his cross and follow in my footsteps is not worthy of me. Anyone who finds his life will lose it; anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it.
‘Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me; and and those who welcome me welcome the one who sent me.
‘Anyone who welcomes a prophet because he is a prophet will have a prophet’s reward; and anyone who welcomes a holy man because he is a holy man will have a holy man’s reward.
‘If anyone gives so much as a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple, then I tell you solemnly, he will most certainly not lose his reward.’