DEEP: Daily Encounter Enrichment Podcast

A #DEEP Dive on Today's Psalm 69 R.  Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live. But I pray to you, O LORD, for the time of your favor, O God! In your great kindness answer me with your constant help. R.  Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live. But I am afflicted and in pain; let your saving help, O God, protect me; I will praise the name of God in song, and I will glorify him...

A #DEEP Reflection on the Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 10:34-11:1 'Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth: it is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword. For I have come to set son against father, daughter against mother, daughter-in-law against mother-in-law; a person's enemies will be the members of his own household. ‘No one who prefers fathe...

A #DEEP Dive on the Gospel of Matthew 13:1-9 On that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by the sea. Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore. And he spoke to them at length in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and birds came and ate it up. Some fell on...

A #DEEP Dive on the Book of Psalms 105 R.  Be glad you lowly ones; may your hearts be glad! Glory in his holy name; rejoice, O hearts that seek the LORD! Look to the LORD in his strength; seek to serve him constantly. -------------------------------------------------- Pray Every Day with Hallow, the #1 Catholic App in the World. Download Hallow for FREE via https://hallow.com/praymideast or simply...

A #DEEP Reflection on the Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 10:16-23   16 "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. 17 Beware of men; for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their synagogues, 18 and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them and the Gent...

A #DEEP Dive on the Gospel of Matthew 10,7-15. Jesus said to his Apostles: “As you go, make this proclamation: 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give." Do not take gold or silver or copper for your belts; no sack for the journey, or a second tunic, or sandals, or...

A #DEEP Dive on the Gospel of Matthew 10,1-7. Jesus summoned his Twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; Jame...

A #DEEP Dive on Psalms Matthew 9:32-38 They had only just left when suddenly a man was brought to him, a dumb demoniac. And when the devil was driven out, the dumb man spoke and the people were amazed and said, 'Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.' But the Pharisees said, 'It is through the prince of devils that he drives out devils.' Jesus made a tour through all the t...

A #DEEP Dive on Psalms 91:1-2, 3-4, 14-15 You who live in the secret place of Elyon, spend your nights in the shelter of Shaddai, saying to Yahweh, 'My refuge, my fortress, my God in whom I trust!' He rescues you from the snare of the fowler set on destruction; he covers you with his pinions, you find shelter under his wings. His constancy is shield and protection. 'Since he clings to...

A #DEEP Dive on the Gospel of Matthew 11,25-30. At that time Jesus exclaimed, "I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no...

A #DEEP Dive on today's Psalm 135 For I know that the LORD is great; our LORD is greater than all gods. All that the LORD wills he does in heaven and on earth, in the seas and in all the deeps. R.  Praise the Lord for the Lord is good! -------------------------------------------------- Pray Every Day with Hallow, the #1 Catholic App in the World. Download Hallow for FREE via https://hallow.com...

A #DEEP Reflection on the Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 9:9-13   9 As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him. 10 And as he sat at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees s...

A #DEEP Dive on the Gospel of Matthew 9,1-8. After entering a boat, Jesus made the crossing, and came into his own town. And there people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Courage, child, your sins are forgiven." At that, some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man is blaspheming." Jesus knew what they...

A #DEEP Dive on the Gospel of Matthew 8,28-34. When Jesus came to the territory of the Gadarenes, two demoniacs who were coming from the tombs met him. They were so savage that no one could travel by that road. They cried out, "What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the appointed time?" Some distance away a herd of many swine was feeding. The dem...

A #DEEP Dive on the Gospel of Matthew 8:23-27 As Jesus got into a boat, his disciples followed him. Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by waves; but he was asleep. They came and woke him, saying, "Lord, save us!  We are perishing!" He said to them, "Why are you terrified, O you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the winds and...

A #DEEP Dive on the Gospel John 20:24-29 Thomas, called the Twin, who was one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him, 'We have seen the Lord,' but he answered, 'Unless I can see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe.' Eig...

A #DEEP Dive on the Gospel of Matthew  10:37-42 Jesus said to his apostles: "Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. "Whoever r...

A #DEEP Dive on the Gospel of Matthew 8,5-17. When Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion approached him and appealed to him, saying, "Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, suffering dreadfully." He said to him, "I will come and cure him." The centurion said in reply, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be heal...

A #DEEP Reflection on the Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 8:1-4 The Cleansing of a Leper. 1 When Jesus came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. 2 And then a leper *  approached, did him homage, and said, “Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean.” 3 He stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, “I will do it. Be made clean.” His leprosy was cleansed immediately....

A #DEEP Dive on the Gospel of Matthew 16,13-19. Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi and he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” They replied, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter said in reply, "You are the Messiah, the S...

A #DEEP Dive on the Gospel of Matthew 7,15-20. Jesus said to his disciples: "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will know them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Just so, every good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor...

A #DEEP Dive on the Gospel Matthew 7:6,12-14  'Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls in front of pigs, or they may trample them and then turn on you and tear you to pieces. 'So always treat others as you would like them to treat you; that is the Law and the Prophets. 'Enter by the narrow gate, since the road that leads to destruction is wide and spacious, and many...

A #DEEP Dive on the Gospel Matthew 7:1-5 'Do not judge, and you will not be judged; because the judgements you give are the judgements you will get, and the standard you use will be the standard used for you. Why do you observe the splinter in your brother's eye and never notice the great log in your own? And how dare you say to your brother, "Let me take that splinter out of your eye...

A #DEEP Dive on the Gospel of Matthew 10:26-33 Jesus said to the Twelve: "Fear no one. Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known. What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light; what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy...

Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist A #DEEP Dive on the Gospel of Luke 1:57-66, 80 When the time arrived for Elizabeth to have her child she gave birth to a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her. When they came on the eighth day to circumcise the child, they were going to call him Zechariah after his fa...