Gospel for the Day with Pointers
Reflect on the daily word of God
23rd Week, Ordinary Time: Wednesday 11th September 2019
Fixing his eyes on his disciples Jesus said: ‘How blessed are you who are poor: the kingdom of God is yours. ‘Blessed are you who are hungry now: you shall have your fill. ‘Blessed are you who are weeping now: you shall laugh. ‘Blessed are Continue Reading
Dorothy Kay23rd Week, Ordinary Time: Tuesday 10th September 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’: Simon whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Continue Reading
23rd Week, Ordinary Time: Monday 9th September 2019
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
23rd Week, Ordinary Time: Sunday 8th September 2019
Great crowds accompanied Jesus on his way and he turned and spoke to them. ‘Anyone who comes to me without hating father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, cannot be my disciple. No one who does not carry Continue Reading
22nd Week, Ordinary Time: Saturday 7th September 2019
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 6th September 2019
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