Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

5th Week, Ordinary Time : Monday, 5th February 2024

Having made the crossing, Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret and moored there. When they disembarked people at once recognised him, and started hurrying all through the countryside and brought the sick on stretchers to wherever they heard he was. And wherever Continue Reading

5th Week, Ordinary Time : Sunday, 4th February 2024

At evening, after sunset, they brought to Jesus all who were sick and those who were possessed by devils. The whole town came crowding round the door, and he cured many who were sick with diseases of one kind or another; he also drove out Continue Reading

4th Week, Ordinary Time : Saturday, 3rd February 2024

The apostles rejoined Jesus and told him all they had done and taught. And he said to them, ‘Come away to some lonely place all by yourselves and rest for a while’; for there were so many coming and going that there was no time Continue Reading

Presentation of the Lord : Friday, 2nd February 2024

When the day came for them to be purified in keeping with the Law of Moses, the parents of Jesus took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord - observing what is written in the Law of the Lord: Every first-born Continue Reading

4th Week, Ordinary Time : Thursday, 1st February 2024

Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs, giving them authority over unclean spirits. And he instructed them to take nothing for the journey except a staff - no bread, no haversack, no coppers for their purses. They were to wear Continue Reading

4th Week, Ordinary Time : Wednesday, 31st January 2024

Jesus went to his home town, and his disciples accompanied him. With the coming of the Sabbath he began teaching in the synagogue, and most of them were astonished when they heard him. They said, ‘Where did the man get all this? What is this Continue Reading