Gospel for the Day with Pointers

Reflect on the daily word of God

5th Week of Lent : Monday, 18th March 2024

Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At daybreak he appeared in the Temple again; and as all the people came to him, he sat down and began to teach them. The scribes and Pharisees brought a woman along who had been caught committing adultery; Continue Reading

5th Week of Lent : Sunday, 17th March 2024

Among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. These approached Philip, who came from Bethsaida in Galilee, and put this request to him, ‘Sir, we should like to see Jesus.’ Philip went to tell Andrew and Andrew and Philip together Continue Reading

4th Week of Lent : Saturday, 16th March 2024

Some of the crowd who had been listening said, ‘Jesus is indeed the prophet,’ and some said, ‘He is the Christ,’ but others said, ‘Would the Christ come from Galilee? Does not scripture say that the Christ must be descended from David and come from Continue Reading

4th Week of Lent : Friday, 15th March 2024

Jesus travelled round Galilee; he could not travel round Judaea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. As the Jewish feast of Shelters drew near, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went up as well, not publicly but Continue Reading

4th Week of Lent : Thursday, 14th March 2024

Jesus said to the Jews: ‘Were I to testify on my own behalf, my testimony would not be true; but there is another witness who speaks on my behalf, and I know that his testimony is true. You sent messengers to John, and he gave Continue Reading

4th Week of Lent : Wednesday, 13th March 2024

Jesus said to the Jews: ‘My Father still goes on working, and I am at work, too.’ But that only made the Jews even more intent on killing him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he spoke of God as his own Continue Reading