Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

24th Week, Ordinary Time: Wednesday 18th September 2019

Jesus said to the people: ‘What comparison, then, can I find for the people of this generation? What are they like? They are like children shouting to one another while they sit in the market place: We played the pipes for you, and you wouldn't Continue Reading

24th Week, Ordinary Time: Tuesday 17th September 2019

Jesus went to a town called Nain, accompanied by his disciples and a great number of people. Now when he was near the gate of the town there was a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a Continue Reading

24th Week, Ordinary Time: Monday 16th September 2019

Jesus went into Capernaum. A centurion there had a servant, a favourite of his, who was sick and near death. Having heard about Jesus he sent some Jewish elders to him to ask him to come and heal his servant. When they came Continue Reading

24th Week, Ordinary Time: Sunday 15th September 2019

The tax collectors and sinners, however, 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 Continue Reading

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross: Saturday 14th September 2019

Jesus said to Nicodemus: ‘No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of man; as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up so that everyone who Continue Reading

23rd Week, Ordinary Time: Friday 13th September 2019

Jesus told a parable to his disciples, ‘Can one blind person guide another? Surely both will fall into a pit?  Disciple is not superior to teacher; but fully trained disciple will be like teacher. Why do you observe the splinter in your brother's eye and Continue Reading