Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

4th Week of Lent : Wednesday, 17th March 2021

Jesus said to the Jews: ‘My Father goes on working, and so do I.’ But that only made the Jews even more intent on killing him, because not content with  breaking the sabbath, but he spoke of God as his own Father and so made Continue Reading

4th Week of Lent : Tuesday, 16th March 2021

There was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now at the  Sheep Pool in Jerusalem there is a building called Bethesda in Hebrew, consisting of five porticos; and under these were crowds of sick people - blind, lame, paralysed. One Continue Reading

4th Week of Lent : Monday, 15th March 2021

On Jesus’ arrival, the Galileans received him well, having seen all that he had done at Jerusalem during the festival which they too had attended. He went again to Cana in Galilee, where he had changed the water into wine. Now there was a royal Continue Reading

4th Sunday of Lent : 14th March 2021

Jesus said to Nicodemus: ‘The Son of man must be lifted up as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, Continue Reading

Third Week of Lent : Saturday, 13th March 2021

Jesus spoke the following parable to some people who prided themselves on being virtuous and despised everyone else, ‘Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood there and said this prayer to himself, Continue Reading

Third Week of Lent : Friday, 12th March 2021

One of the scribes came up to Jesus and put a question to him, ‘Which is the first of all the commandments?’ Jesus replied, ‘This is the first: Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is the one Lord, and you must love the Lord your Continue Reading