DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
Challenges – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus cautioned His apostles about the trials and persecutions of proclaiming the Good News of Salvation. Jesus the Master and Messiah, takes the lead and even dies for our sake and Salvation. Do we not feel privileged to live, serve and die for Jesus?
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Matthew 10:17-22
Jesus said to his apostles: ‘Be prepared for people to hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues. You will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, as evidence to them and to the gentiles. But when you are handed over, do not worry about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will be given to you when the time comes, because it is not you who will be speaking; the Spirit of your Father will be speaking in you.
‘Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will come forward against their parents and have them put to death. You will be universally hated on account of my name; but anyone who stands firm to the end will be saved.’