Gospel for the Day with Pointers
Reflect on the daily word of God
31st Week, Ordinary Time : Thursday, 7th November 2024
The tax collectors and sinners were all seeking the company of Jesus to hear what he had to say, and the Pharisees and the scribes complained. ‘This man’ they said ‘welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So he told this parable to them: ‘What man Continue Reading
Dorothy Kay31st Week, Ordinary Time : Wednesday, 6th November 2024
Jesus spoke to the crowd, ‘Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. And indeed, which of you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if he Continue Reading
31st Week, Ordinary Time : Tuesday, 5th November 2024
Jesus said to those gathered round the table, ‘There was a man who gave a great banquet, and he invited a large number of people. When the time for the banquet came, he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, Continue Reading
31st Week, Ordinary Time : Monday, 4th November 2024
Jesus said to his host, ‘When you give a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relations or rich neighbours, in case they invite you back and so repay you. No; when you have a party, invite the Continue Reading
31st Week, Ordinary Time : Sunday, 3rd November 2024
One of the scribes came up to Jesus and put a further question to him, ‘Which is the first of all the commandments?’ Jesus replied, ‘This is the first: Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is the one, only Lord, and you must love the Continue Reading
The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed – All Souls Day : Saturday, 2nd November 2024
When the sixth hour came there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ‘Eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani?’ which means, ‘My God, my God, why have you deserted me?’ Continue Reading