Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

All Saints : Sunday, 1st November 2020

This is what Jesus taught his disciples: ‘How blessed are the poor in spirit: the kingdom of Heaven is theirs. Blessed are the gentle: they shall have the earth as inheritance. Blessed are those who mourn: they shall be comforted. Blessed are those who hunger Continue Reading

30th Week in Ordinary Time : Saturday, 31st October 2020

Now on a Sabbath day Jesus had gone to share a meal in the house of one of the leading Pharisees; and they watched him closely. He then told the guests a parable, because he had noticed how they picked the places of honour. He Continue Reading

30th Week in Ordinary Time : Friday, 30th October 2020

On a Sabbath day Jesus had gone to share a meal in the house of one of the leading Pharisees; and they watched him closely. Now there in front of him was a man with dropsy, and Jesus addressed the lawyers and Pharisees with the Continue Reading

30th Week in Ordinary Time : Thursday, 29th October 2020

Some Pharisees came up. ‘Go away,’ they said. ‘Leave this place, because Herod means to kill you. He replied, ‘You may go and give that fox this message: Look! Today and tomorrow I drive out devils and heal, and on the third day I attain Continue Reading

SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles : Wednesday, 28th October 2020

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

30th Week in Ordinary Time : Tuesday, 27th October 2020

Jesus said, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it with? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his garden: it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air sheltered in its Continue Reading