Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

All Saints : Friday, 1st November 2024

This is what Jesus taught his disciples: ‘How blessed are the poor in spirit: theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Happy the gentle: they shall have the earth for their inheritance. Happy those who mourn: they shall be comforted. Happy those who hunger and thirst Continue Reading

30th Week, Ordinary Time : Thursday, 31st October 2024

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 2024

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 best to enter by the narrow door, because, I tell you, many will try Continue Reading

30th Week, Ordinary Time : Tuesday, 29th October 2024

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

SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles : Monday, 28th October 2024

Jesus went out into the hills 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 ‘apostle’: He then came down with them and stopped at Continue Reading

30th Week, Ordinary Time : Sunday, 27th October 2024

As Jesus left Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus (that is, the son of Timaeus), a blind beggar, was sitting at the side of the road. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout and to say, Continue Reading