Gospel for the Day with Pointers
Reflect on the daily word of God
22nd Week, Ordinary Time: Monday 2nd September 2019
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 1st September 2019
On a Sabbath day Jesus had gone to share a meal in 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 Continue Reading
21st Week, Ordinary Time: Saturday 31st August 2019
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
21st Week, Ordinary Time: Friday 30th August 2019
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Then 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, Continue Reading
The Passion of St John the Baptist: Thursday 29th August 2019
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: Wednesday 28th August 2019
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