Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Wednesday, 2nd September 2020

Leaving the synagogue Jesus went to Simon's house. Now Simon's mother-in-law was in the grip of a high fever and they asked him to do something for her. Standing over her he rebuked the fever and it left her. And she immediately got up and Continue Reading

22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Tuesday, 1st September 2020

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 his word carried authority. In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean devil, and Continue Reading

22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Monday, 31st August 2020

Jesus came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day as he usually did. He stood up to read, and they handed him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll he found the place Continue Reading

Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time : 30th August 2020

Jesus began to make it clear to his disciples that he was destined to go to Jerusalem and suffer grievously at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be put to death and to be raised up on the third Continue Reading

The Passion of St John the Baptist : Saturday, 29th August 2020

When the daughter of 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 Continue Reading

21st Week, Ordinary Time : Friday, 28th August 2020

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘The kingdom of Heaven will be like this: Ten wedding attendants took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were sensible: the foolish ones, though they took their lamps, took Continue Reading