Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

32nd Week, Ordinary Time: Monday 11th November 2019

Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Causes of falling are sure to come, but alas for the one through whom they occur! It would be better for such a person to be thrown into the sea with a millstone round the neck than to be the Continue Reading

32nd Week, Ordinary Time: Sunday 10th November 2019

Some Sadducees - those who argue that there is no resurrection - approached Jesus and they put this question to him. Jesus replied, ‘The children of this world take wives and husbands, but those who are judged worthy of a place in the other Continue Reading

31st Week, Ordinary Time: Saturday 9th November 2019

When the time of the Jewish Passover was near Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting there. Making a whip out of cord, he drove them all out of Continue Reading

31st Week, Ordinary Time: Friday 8th November 2019

Jesus said to his disciples, ‘There was a rich man and he had a steward who was denounced to him for being wasteful with his property. He called for the man and said, “What is this I hear about you? Draw me up an Continue Reading

31st Week, Ordinary Time: Thursday 7th November 2019

The tax collectors and sinners were all crowding round to listen to Jesus, and the Pharisees and scribes complained saying, ‘This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So he told them this parable: ‘Which one of you with a hundred sheep, if he lost Continue Reading

31st Week, Ordinary Time: Wednesday 6th November 2019

Jesus spoke to the crowd: ‘No one who does not carry his cross and come after me can be my disciple. And indeed, which of you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if Continue Reading