Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

23rd Week, Ordinary Time : Tuesday, 10th September 2024

Jesus went onto the mountain 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’: Simon whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Continue Reading

27th Week, Ordinary Time : Thursday, 10th October 2024

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘So I say to you: Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives; everyone who searches finds; everyone who knocks will Continue Reading

23rd Week, Ordinary Time : Monday, 9th September 2024

On the Sabbath Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach, and a man was present, and his right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees were watching him to see if he would cure somebody on the Sabbath, hoping to find something Continue Reading

23rd Week, Ordinary Time : Sunday, 8th September 2024

Returning from the territory of Tyre, Jesus went by way of Sidon towards the Lake of Galilee, right through the Decapolis territory. And they brought him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they asked him to lay his hand on Continue Reading

22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Saturday, 7th September 2024

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, Ordinary Time : Friday, 6th September 2024

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