Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

15th Week, Ordinary Time: Thursday, 18th July 2019

Jesus exclaimed: ‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is Continue Reading

15th Week, Ordinary Time: Wednesday, 17th July 2019

Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me Continue Reading

15th Week, Ordinary Time: Tuesday, 16th July 2019

Jesus began to reproach the towns in which most of his miracles had been worked, because they refused to repent. ‘Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have Continue Reading

15th Week, Ordinary Time: Monday, 15th July 2019

Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘No one who prefers father or mother to me is worthy of me. No one who prefers son or daughter to me is worthy of me. Anyone who does not take his cross and follow in my footsteps is Continue Reading

15th Week, Ordinary Time: Sunday, 14th July 2019

A Lawyer was anxious to justify himself and said to Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbour?’ In answer Jesus said, ‘A man was once on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of bandits; they stripped him, beat him Continue Reading

14th Week, Ordinary Time: Saturday, 13th July 2019

Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; fear him rather who can destroy both body and soul in hell. Can you not buy two sparrows for a penny? And yet not Continue Reading