DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“Names in Heaven” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus highlighted to the seventy-two disciples that they should greatly rejoice that “their names are written in heaven. Ponder on, “Like these disciples, to live in the certainty of faith and the great hope that we will live for all eternity with God, is to have the most precious gift in our whole life”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Luke 10:17-22
The seventy-two came back rejoicing. ‘Lord,’ they said, ‘even the devils submit to us when we use your name.’
Jesus said to them, ‘I watched Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Look, I have given you power to tread down serpents and scorpions and the whole strength of the enemy; nothing shall ever hurt you. Yet do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you; rejoice instead that your names are written in heaven.’
Just at this time, filled with joy by the Holy Spirit, he said, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children. Yes, Father, for that is what it has pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.’