Gospel for the Day with Pointers
Reflect on the daily word of God
23rd Week in Ordinary Time : Tuesday, 6th September 2022
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, Continue Reading
23rd Week in Ordinary Time : Monday, 5th September 2022
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 Continue Reading
23rd Week in Ordinary Time : Sunday, 4th September 2022
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 Continue Reading
22nd Week in Ordinary Time : Saturday, 3rd September 2022
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?’ Continue Reading
22nd Week in Ordinary Time : Friday, 2nd September 2022
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 Continue Reading
22nd Week in Ordinary Time : Thursday, 1st September 2022
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 Continue Reading