Daily Word Of GodLuke 6:20-26 Fixing his eyes on his disciples Jesus said: ‘How happy are you who are poor: yours is the kingdom of God. ‘Happy are you who are hungry now: you shall be satisfied. ‘Happy are you who weep now: you shall laugh. ‘Happy are you when people hate you, drive you…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 6:12b-19 Jesus went onto the hills to pray; and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. When day came he summoned his disciples and picked out twelve of them; he called them ‘apostles’: Simon whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 6:6-11 On the sabbath Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach, and a man was there whose right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees were watching him to see if he would cure a man on the sabbath, hoping to find something to use against him. But…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 14:25-28, 31, 33 Great crowds accompanied Jesus on his way and he turned and spoke to them. ‘Anyone who comes to me without hating father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, cannot be my disciple. Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 6:1-5 One Sabbath Jesus happened to be taking a walk through the cornfields, and his disciples were picking ears of corn, rubbing them in their hands and eating them. Some of the Pharisees said, ‘Why are you doing something that is forbidden on the sabbath day?’ Jesus answered them, ‘So you…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 5:33-38 The Pharisees and the scribes said to Jesus, ‘John's disciples are always fasting and saying prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees, too, but yours go on eating and drinking.’ Jesus replied, ‘Surely you cannot make the bridegroom's attendants fast while the bridegroom is still with them? But the time…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 5:4b-11 Jesus said to Simon, ‘Put out into deep water and pay out your nets for a catch.’ ‘Master’, Simon replied, ‘we worked hard all night long and caught nothing, but if you say so, I will pay out the nets.’ And when they had done this they netted such a…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 4:38-42a Leaving the synagogue Jesus went to Simon's house. Now Simon's mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever and they asked him to do something for her. Leaning over her he rebuked the fever and it left her. And she immediately got up and began to wait on them. At sunset…
Daily Word Of GodLuke 4:31-36 Jesus went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and taught them on the Sabbath. And his teaching made a deep impression on them because he spoke with authority. In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean devil, and it shouted at the top…
Daily Word Of GodMark 6:22-28a When the daughter of this same Herodias came in and danced, she delighted Herod and his guests; so the king said to the girl, ‘Ask me anything you like and I will give it you.’ And he swore her an oath, ‘I will give you anything you ask, even half…