Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

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

14th Week in Ordinary Time : Saturday, 10th July 2021

Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘The disciple is not superior to teacher, nor the slave to his master. It is enough for the disciple that he should grow to be like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the Continue Reading

14th Week in Ordinary Time : Friday, 9th July 2021

Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘Remember, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be cunning as serpents and yet as harmless as doves. ‘Beware of men: they will hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues. You Continue Reading