Gospel for the Day with Pointers
Reflect on the daily word of God
Third Week of Lent: Monday 13th March, 2023
Jesus came to Nazara and spoke to the people in the synagogue: ‘In truth I tell you, no prophet is ever accepted in his own country. ‘There were many widows in Israel, I can assure you, in Elijah's day, when heaven remained shut for Continue Reading
Dorothy KayThird Week of Lent: Sunday 12th March, 2023
Jesus came to the Samaritan town called Sychar near the land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there and Jesus, tired by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. When a Samaritan Continue Reading
Second Week of Lent: Saturday 11th March, 2023
The tax collectors and sinners, however, were all crowding round to listen to Jesus, so he told them this parable: ‘There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, “Father, let me have the share Continue Reading
Second Week of Lent: Friday 10th March, 2023
Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people: ‘Listen to another parable. There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard; he fenced it round, dug a winepress in it and built a tower; then he leased it to Continue Reading
Second Week of Lent: Thursday 9th March, 2023
Jesus said to the Pharisees: ‘There was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and feast magnificently every day. And at his gate there used to lie a poor man called Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to fill himself Continue Reading
Second Week of Lent: Wednesday 8th March, 2023
Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, and on the road he took the Twelve aside by themselves and said to them, ‘Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man is about to be handed over to the chief priests and Continue Reading