Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

15th Week in Ordinary Time : Friday, 16th July 2021

Jesus took a walk one sabbath day through the cornfields. His disciples were hungry and began to pick ears of corn and eat them. The Pharisees noticed it and said to him, ‘Look, your disciples are doing something that is forbidden on the sabbath.’ Continue Reading

15th Week in Ordinary Time : Thursday, 15th July 2021

Jesus exclaimed: ‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ‘Yes, my yoke is Continue Reading

15th Week in Ordinary Time : Wednesday, 14th July 2021

Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me Continue Reading

15th Week in Ordinary Time : Tuesday, 13th July 2021

Jesus began to reproach the towns in which most of his miracles had been worked, because they refused to repent. ‘Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have Continue Reading

15th Week in Ordinary Time : Monday, 12th July 2021

Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth: it is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against Continue Reading

15th Week in Ordinary Time : Sunday, 11th July 2021

Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs, giving them authority over unclean spirits. And he instructed them to take nothing for the journey except a staff -- no bread, no haversack, no coppers for their purses. They were to wear Continue Reading