Gospel for the Day with Pointers
Reflect on the daily word of God
30th Week, Ordinary Time (Year A) : Friday, 3rd November 2023
On a Sabbath day Jesus had gone to share a meal in the house of one of the leading Pharisees; and they watched him closely. Now there in front of him was a man with dropsy, and Jesus addressed the lawyers and Pharisees with the Continue Reading
Dorothy KayAll Souls – Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed : Tuesday, 2nd November 2023
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
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
30th 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