Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

22nd Week in Ordinary Time : Saturday, 3rd September 2022

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 in Ordinary Time : Friday, 2nd September 2022

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 in Ordinary Time : Thursday, 1st September 2022

Jesus said to Simon, ‘Put out into deep water and pay out your nets for a catch.’ ‘Master’, Simon replied, ‘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 in Ordinary Time : Wednesday, 31st August 2022

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

22nd Week in Ordinary Time : Tuesday, 30th August 2022

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 he spoke with authority. In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean devil, and Continue Reading

The Passion of St John the Baptist : Monday, 29th August 2022

When the daughter of this same 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 Continue Reading