Gospel for the Day with Pointers
Reflect on the daily word of God
31st Week in Ordinary Times : Thursday, 4th November 2021
The tax collectors and sinners were all seeking the company of Jesus to hear what he had to say, and the Pharisees and the scribes complained. ‘This man’ they said ‘welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So he told this parable to them: ‘What man Continue Reading
Dorothy Kay31st Week in Ordinary Times : Wednesday, 3rd November 2021
Jesus spoke to the crowd, ‘Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. And indeed, which of you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if he Continue Reading
All Souls Day : Tuesday, 2nd November 2021
When the sixth hour came there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ‘Eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani?’ whic means, ‘My God, my God, why have you deserted me?’ When Continue Reading
Solemnity of All Saints : Monday, 1st November 2021
This is what Jesus taught his disciples: ‘How blessed are the poor in spirit: theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Happy the gentle: they shall have the earth for their inheritance. Happy those who mourn: they shall be comforted. Happy those who hunger and thirst Continue Reading
31st Week in Ordinary Times : Sunday, 31st October 2021
One of the scribes came up to Jesus and put a further question to him, ‘Which is the first of all the commandments?’ Jesus replied, ‘This is the first: Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is the one Lord, and you must love the Lord Continue Reading
30th Week in Ordinary Times : Saturday, 30th October 2021
Now on a sabbath day Jesus had gone for a meal to the house of one of the leading Pharisees; and they watched him closely. He then told the guests a parable, because he had noticed how they picked the places of honour. Continue Reading