Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

23rd Week, Ordinary Time : Sunday, 8th September 2024

Returning from the territory of Tyre, Jesus went by way of Sidon towards the Lake of Galilee, right through the Decapolis territory. And they brought him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they asked him to lay his hand on Continue Reading

22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Saturday, 7th September 2024

One Sabbath Jesus happened to be taking a walk through the cornfields, and his disciples were picking ears of corn, rubbing them in their hands and eating them.  Some of the Pharisees said, ‘Why are you doing something that is forbidden on the Sabbath day?’ Continue Reading

22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Friday, 6th September 2024

The Pharisees and the scribes said to Jesus, ‘John's disciples are always fasting and saying prayers and the disciples of the Pharisees, too, but yours go on eating and drinking.’ Jesus replied, ‘Surely you cannot make the bridegroom's attendants fast while the bridegroom is still Continue Reading

22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Thursday, 5th September 2024

Jesus said to Simon, ‘Put out into deep water and pay out your nets for a catch.’ Simon replied, ‘Master, we worked hard all night long and caught nothing, but if you say so, I will pay out the nets.’ And when they had done Continue Reading

22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Wednesday, 4th September 2024

Leaving the synagogue he went to Simon's house. Now Simon's mother-in-law was in the grip of a high fever and they asked him to do something for her. Standing over her he rebuked the fever and it left her. And she immediately got up Continue Reading

22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Tuesday, 3rd September 2024

Jesus went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and taught them on the Sabbath.  And his teaching made a deep impression on them because his word carried authority. In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean devil, and Continue Reading