Gospel for the Day with Pointers
Reflect on the daily word of God
22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Monday, 2nd September 2024
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 place Continue Reading
Dorothy Kay22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Sunday, 1st September 2024
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. So they asked him, ‘Why do your disciples not respect the tradition of Continue Reading
21st Week, Ordinary Time : Saturday, 31th August 2024
Jesus told his disciples this parable: ‘A man on his way abroad 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 his Continue Reading
21st Week, Ordinary Time : Friday, 30th August 2024
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘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, took Continue Reading
The Passion of St John the Baptist : Thursday, 29th August 2024
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 2024
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 dead men’s bones and every kind of corruption. In the same way, you appear to people from the Continue Reading