Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

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

22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Tuesday, 1st September 2020

Jesus went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and taught them on the Sabbath.  And his teaching made a deep impression on them because his word carried authority. In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean devil, and Continue Reading

22nd Week, Ordinary Time : Monday, 31st August 2020

Jesus came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day as he usually did. He stood up to read, and they handed him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll he found the place Continue Reading

Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time : 30th August 2020

Jesus began to make it clear to his disciples that he was destined to go to Jerusalem and suffer grievously at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be put to death and to be raised up on the third Continue Reading