Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

3rd Week, Ordinary Time: Friday 31st January 2020

Jesus said to the crowd, ‘This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the land. Night and day, while he sleeps, when he is awake, the seed is sprouting and growing; how, he does not know. Of its own Continue Reading

3rd Week, Ordinary Time: Thursday 30th January 2020

Jesus said to the crowd: ‘Would you bring in a lamp and put it under a tub or under the bed? Surely to be put on the lamp-stand? For there is nothing hidden, but it must be disclosed, nothing kept secret except to be brought Continue Reading

3rd Week, Ordinary Time: Wednesday 29th January 2020

Jesus taught the crowd many things in parables, and in the course of his teaching he said to them, ‘Listen! Imagine a sower going out to sow. Now it happened that, as he sowed, some of the seed fell on the edge of the path, Continue Reading

3rd Week, Ordinary Time: Tuesday 28th January 2020

The mother and brothers of Jesus arrived and, standing outside, sent in a message asking for him. A crowd was sitting round him at the time the message was passed to him, ‘Look, your mother and brothers and sisters are outside asking for you.’ He Continue Reading

3rd Week, Ordinary Time: Monday 27th January 2020

The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, ‘Beelzebul is in him,’ and, ‘It is through the prince of devils that he drives devils out.’ So Jesus called them to him and spoke to them in parables, ‘How can Satan drive out Satan? Continue Reading

3rd Week, Ordinary Time: Sunday 26th January 2020

As Jesus was walking by the Lake of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon, who was called Peter, and his brother Andrew; they were making a cast into the lake with their net, for they were fishermen. And he said to them, ‘Come after me Continue Reading