Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

30th Week in Ordinary Time : Saturday, 29th October 2022

Now on a sabbath day Jesus had gone for a meal to the house of one of the leading Pharisees; and they watched him closely. He then told the guests a parable, because he had noticed how they picked the places of honour. He Continue Reading

SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles : Friday, 28th October 2022

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 ‘apostles’. He then came down with them and stopped at Continue Reading

30th Week in Ordinary Time : Thursday, 27th October 2022

Some Pharisees came up to Jesus. ‘Go away,’ they said. ‘Leave this place, because Herod means to kill you.’  He replied, ‘You may go and give that fox this message: Learn that today and tomorrow I cast out devils and on the third day attain Continue Reading

30th Week in Ordinary Time : Wednesday, 26th October 2022

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 in Ordinary Time : Tuesday, 25th October 2022

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

30th Week in Ordinary Time : Monday, 24th October 2022

One sabbath day Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who for eighteen years had been possessed by a spirit that left her enfeebled; she was bent double and quite unable to stand upright. When Jesus Continue Reading