Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

21st Week, Ordinary Time : Tuesday, 27th August 2024

Jesus said: ‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay your tithe of mint and dill and cummin and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law - justice, mercy, good faith! These you should have practised, those not neglected. You blind guides, Continue Reading

21st Week, Ordinary Time : Monday, 26th August 2024

Jesus said: ‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut up the kingdom of Heaven in people's faces, neither going in yourselves nor allowing others to go in who want to. These are the men who devour the property of widows and for Continue Reading

21st Week, Ordinary Time – Lay Apostolate Sunday : Sunday, 25th August 2024

Jesus said to his followers: ‘There are some of you who do not believe.’ For Jesus knew from the outset who did not believe and who was to betray him. He went on, ‘This is why I told you that no one could come to Continue Reading

St Bartholomew, Apostle : Saturday, 24th August 2024

Philip found Nathanael and said to him, ‘We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth.’ Nathanael said to him, ‘From Nazareth? Can anything good come from that place?’ Philip replied, ‘Come and see.’ Continue Reading

20th Week, Ordinary Time : Friday, 23rd August 2024

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees they got together and, to disconcert him, one of them put a further question, ‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’ Jesus said, ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your Continue Reading

The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary : Thursday, 22nd August 2024

The angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph. He went in and said to her, ‘Rejoice, you who enjoy God's favour! The Lord is with you.’ Mary Continue Reading