Gospel for the Day with Pointers
Reflect on the daily word of God
22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Monday, 1st September 2025
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 Continue Reading
Dorothy Kay22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Sunday, 31st August 2025
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. He said Continue Reading
21st Week, Ordinary Time : Saturday, 30th August 2025
Jesus told his disciples this parable: ‘A man about to go abroad who summoned his servants and entrusted his property to them. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to a third one, each in proportion to Continue Reading
The Passion of St John the Baptist : Friday, 29th August 2025
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 : Thursday, 28th August 2025
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Stay awake, because you do not know the day when your master is coming. You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what time of the night the burglar would come, he would have Continue Reading
21st Week, Ordinary Time : Wednesday, 27th August 2025
Jesus said: ‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look handsome on the outside, but inside are full of the bones of the dead and every kind of corruption. In just the same way, from the outside you Continue Reading