Gospel for the Day with Pointers
Reflect on the daily word of God
30th Week, Ordinary Time (Year A) : Monday, 30th October 2023
One Sabbath day Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and there before him was a woman who for eighteen years had been possessed by a spirit that crippled her; she was bent double and quite unable to stand upright. When Jesus Continue Reading
Dorothy Kay30th Week, Ordinary Time (Year A) : Sunday, 29th October 2023
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees they got together and, to put him to the test, one of them put a further question, ‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’ Jesus said to him, ‘You must love the Lord Continue Reading
SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles : Saturday, 28th October 2023
Jesus went onto the mountain 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
29th Week, Ordinary Time (Year A) : Friday, 27th October 2023
Jesus said to the crowds, ‘When you see a cloud looming up in the west you say at once that rain is coming, and so it does. And when the wind is from the south you say it's going to be hot, and it is. Continue Reading
29th Week, Ordinary Time (Year A) : Thursday, 26th October 2023
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already! There is a baptism I must still receive, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! ‘Do you suppose that I Continue Reading
29th Week, Ordinary Time (Year A) : Wednesday, 25th October 2023
Jesus said to his disciples, ‘You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what time the burglar would come, he would not have let anyone break through the wall of his house. You too must stand ready, because Continue Reading