Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

23rd Week in Ordinary Time : Monday, 7th September 2020

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

Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time : 6th September 2020

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with him alone, between your two selves. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.  If he does not listen, take one or two others along Continue Reading

22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Saturday, 5th September 2020

One Sabbath Jesus was walking 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?’ Jesus answered them, ‘So Continue Reading

22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Friday, 4th September 2020

 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

22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Thursday, 3rd September 2020

When Jesus had finished speaking he said to Simon, ‘Put out into deep water and pay out your nets for a catch.’  Simon replied, ‘Master, we worked hard all night long and caught nothing, but if you say so, I will pay out the nets.’ Continue Reading

22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Wednesday, 2nd September 2020

Leaving the synagogue Jesus went to Simon's house. Now Simon's mother-in-law was in the grip of a high fever and they asked him to do something for her. Standing over her he rebuked the fever and it left her. And she immediately got up and Continue Reading