Gospel for the Day with Pointers
Reflect on the daily word of God
30th Week, Ordinary Time: Monday 28th October 2019
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’. He then came down Continue Reading
Dorothy Kay30th Week, Ordinary Time: Sunday 27th October 2019
Jesus spoke the following parable to some people who prided themselves on being upright 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
29th Week, Ordinary Time: Saturday 26th October 2019
Jesus told this parable, ‘A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it but found none. He said to his vinedresser, “For three years now I have been coming to look for fruit on this fig Continue Reading
29th Week, Ordinary Time: Friday 25th October 2019
Jesus said to the crowds, ‘When you see a cloud looming up in the west you say at once that rain is coming, and so it does. And when the wind is from the south you say it's going to be hot, and it is. Hypocrites! Continue Reading
29th Week, Ordinary Time: Thursday 24th October 2019
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already! There is a baptism I must still receive, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! ‘Do you suppose that I Continue Reading
29th Week, Ordinary Time: Wednesday 23rd October 2019
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what time the burglar would come, he would not have let anyone break through the wall of his house. You too must stand ready, because Continue Reading