Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

5th Week, Ordinary Time (Year A) : Thursday 9th February, 2023

Jesus left Gennesaret and set out for the territory of Tyre. There he went into a house and did not want anyone to know he was there; but he could not pass unrecognised. At once a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard Continue Reading

5th Week, Ordinary Time (Year A) : Wednesday 8th February, 2023

Jesus called the people to him and said, ‘Listen to me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that goes into someone from outside can make that person unclean; it is the things that come out of someone that make that person unclean. Anyone who has Continue Reading

5th Week, Ordinary Time (Year A) : Tuesday 7th February, 2023

The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered round Jesus, and they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing them. So the Pharisees and scribes asked him, ‘Why do your disciples not Continue Reading

5th Week, Ordinary Time (Year A) : Monday 6th February, 2023

Having made the crossing, Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret and moored there. When they disembarked people at once recognised him, and started hurrying all through the countryside and brought the sick on stretchers to wherever they heard he was. And wherever Continue Reading

5th Week, Ordinary Time (Year A) : Sunday 5th February, 2023

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘You are salt for the earth. But if salt loses its taste, what can make it salty again? It is good for nothing, and can only be thrown out to be trampled under people's feet. ‘You are light for the Continue Reading

4th Week, Ordinary Time : Saturday 4th February, 2023

The apostles rejoined Jesus and told him all they had done and taught. And he said to them, ‘Come away to some lonely place all by yourselves and rest for a while’; for there were so many coming and going that there was no time Continue Reading