Gospel for the Day with Pointers
Reflect on the daily word of God
All Saints Day: Friday 1st November 2019
This is what Jesus taught his disciples: ‘How blessed are the poor in spirit: the kingdom of Heaven is theirs. Blessed are the gentle: they shall have the earth as inheritance. Blessed are those who mourn: they shall be comforted. Blessed are those who hunger Continue Reading
Dorothy Kay30th Week, Ordinary Time: Thursday 31st October 2019
Some Pharisees came up. ‘Go away,’ they said. ‘Leave this place, because Herod means to kill you. He replied, ‘You may go and give that fox this message: Look! Today and tomorrow I drive out devils and heal, and on the third day I attain Continue Reading
30th Week, Ordinary Time: Wednesday 30th October 2019
Through towns and villages Jesus went teaching, making his way to Jerusalem. Someone said to him, ‘Sir, will there be only a few saved?’ He said to them, ‘Try your hardest to enter by the narrow door, because, I tell you, many will try Continue Reading
30th Week, Ordinary Time: Tuesday 29th October 2019
Jesus said, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it with? It is like a mustard seed which a man took and threw into his garden: it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air sheltered in its Continue Reading
30th Week, Ordinary Time: Monday 28th October 2019
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’. He then came down Continue Reading
30th Week, Ordinary Time: Sunday 27th October 2019
Jesus spoke the following parable to some people who prided themselves on being upright and despised everyone else, ‘Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood there and said this prayer to himself, Continue Reading