Gospel for the Day with Pointers
Reflect on the daily word of God
Solemnity of All Saints Day : Wednesday, 1st November 2023
This is what Jesus taught his disciples: ‘How blessed are the poor in spirit: the kingdom of Heaven is theirs. Blessed are the gentle: they shall have the earth as inheritance. Blessed are those who mourn: they shall be comforted. Blessed are those who hunger Continue Reading
Dorothy Kay30th Week, Ordinary Time (Year A) : Tuesday, 31st October 2023
Jesus said, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it with? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his garden: it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air sheltered in its Continue Reading
30th Week, Ordinary Time (Year A) : Monday, 30th October 2023
One Sabbath day Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and there before him was a woman who for eighteen years had been possessed by a spirit that crippled her; she was bent double and quite unable to stand upright. When Jesus Continue Reading
30th Week, Ordinary Time (Year A) : Sunday, 29th October 2023
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees they got together and, to put him to the test, one of them put a further question, ‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’ Jesus said to him, ‘You must love the Lord Continue Reading
SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles : Saturday, 28th October 2023
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
29th Week, Ordinary Time (Year A) : Friday, 27th October 2023
Jesus said to the crowds, ‘When you see a cloud looming up in the west you say at once that rain is coming, and so it does. And when the wind is from the south you say it's going to be hot, and it is. Continue Reading