{"id":8963,"date":"2022-12-06T21:35:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T21:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/?page_id=8963"},"modified":"2026-07-26T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:26:15","slug":"dailygospel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/dailygospel\/","title":{"rendered":"DailyGospel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"761\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/coloured-glass-menu-x5a6.png\" alt=\"Scripture\" class=\"wp-image-440\" style=\"width:219px;height:88px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/coloured-glass-menu-x5a6.png 761w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/coloured-glass-menu-x5a6-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Daily Gospel Readings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Prayerfulness is deeply a part of you: in body, mind and spirit.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><font color=\"#0033CC\">Today&#8217;s Gospel Reading<\/font><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow the Gospel readings for each day of the Year. Read and reflect on them as part of your daily prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">_________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script>\n\/\/ All Mnths\n\nfunction MakeArray(n) {\n    this.length = n\n    return this\n}\nmonthNames = new MakeArray(12)\nmonthNames[1] = \"January\"\nmonthNames[2] = \"February\"\nmonthNames[3] = \"March\"\nmonthNames[4] = \"April\"\nmonthNames[5] = \"May\"\nmonthNames[6] = \"June\"\nmonthNames[7] = \"July\"\nmonthNames[8] = \"August\"\nmonthNames[9] = \"September\"\nmonthNames[10] = \"October\"\nmonthNames[11] = \"November\"\nmonthNames[12] = \"December\"\ndayNames = new MakeArray(7)\ndayNames[1] = \"Sunday\"\ndayNames[2] = \"Monday\"\ndayNames[3] = \"Tuesday\"\ndayNames[4] = \"Wednesday\"\ndayNames[5] = \"Thursday\"\ndayNames[6] = \"Friday\"\ndayNames[7] = \"Saturday\"\nfunction customDateString(oneDate) {\n    var theDay = dayNames[oneDate.getDay() + 1]\n    var theMonth = monthNames[oneDate.getMonth() + 1]\n    var theYear = oneDate.getFullYear()\n    theYear += (theYear < 100) ? 1900 : 0\n    return \"Today is: \" + theDay + \", \" + oneDate.getDate() + \" \" + theMonth + \", \" + theYear\n}\n\n<\/script>\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><font color='#0033CC'>\n<script>\ndocument.write (\"<B>\")\ntoday = new Date()\nvar header =\n(customDateString(today))\nheader += \"<BR>\"\ndocument.write(header)\n\n<\/script><\/font>\n<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gradient-text\">Today's Gospel<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n   <style>\n    \n    .day, .daya {\n      font-weight: bold;\n      font-size: 1em;\n      margin-bottom: 0.5em;\n      color: #0033CC;\n      white-space: pre-wrap;\n    }\n    \n    .title1, .title1a {\n      font-weight: bold;\n      font-size: 1em;\n      margin-bottom: 0.2em;\n      color: #0033CC;\n      white-space: pre-wrap;\n    }\n    \n    .title2, .title2a {\n      font-style: italic;\n      font-size: 1em;\n      margin-bottom: 0.5em;\n      white-space: pre-wrap;\n    }\n    \n    .main-text, .main-texta {\n      font-style: normal;\n      font-size: 1.em;\n      font-weight: normal;\n     \n      margin: 0 auto;\n    \n      text-align: justify;\n      white-space: pre-wrap;\n    }\n\n    .line-text {\n      font-style: normal;\n      font-size: 1.5em;\n      font-weight: bold;\n      margin-top: 0.8em;\n      margin-bottom: 1.2em;\n      color: #bbbbbb;\n    \n      text-align: center;\n      white-space: pre-wrap;\n     }\n\n\n    hr { margin: 2em 0; border: none; border-top: 2px solid #ccc; }\n  <\/style>\n\n\n  <div class=\"day\" id=\"day\"><\/div>\n  <div class=\"title1\" id=\"title1\"><\/div>\n  <div class=\"title2\" id=\"title2\"><\/div>\n  <div class=\"main-text\" id=\"mainText\"><\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"line-text\" id=\"lineText\"><\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"daya\" id=\"daya\"><\/div>\n  <div class=\"title1a\" id=\"title1a\"><\/div>\n  <div class=\"title2a\" id=\"title2a\"><\/div>\n  <div class=\"main-texta\" id=\"mainTexta\"><\/div>\n\n\n    <script>\n    const startDate2 = new Date('2026-07-26'); \/\/ Set your launch date\n    const today2 = new Date();\n    const diffDays2 = Math.floor((today2 - startDate2) \/ (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));\n\n    const entries = [\n\n\n      { Day: \t\"17th Sunday of Ordinary Time\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Matthew 13:44-52\",\n\t\tTitle2:  \"He sells everything he owns and buys the field\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"esus said to the crowds, \u201cThe kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field which someone has found; he hides it again, goes off happy, sells everything he owns and buys the field.\\n \u201cAgain, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls; when he finds one of great value he goes and sells everything he owns and buys it.\\n \u201cAgain, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet cast into the sea that brings in a haul of all kinds. When it is full, the fishermen haul it ashore; then, sitting down, they collect the good ones in a basket and throw away those that are no use. This is how it will be at the end of time: the angels will appear and separate the wicked from the just to throw them into the blazing furnace where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.\\n \u201cHave you understood all this?\u201d They said, \u201cYes.\u201d And he said to them, \u201cWell then, every scribe who becomes a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out from his storeroom things both new and old.\u201d\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Monday of Week 17 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of Matthew 13:31-35\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"The smallest of all seeds grows into the biggest shrub of all\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Jesus put a parable before the crowds: \u201cThe kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the biggest shrub of all and becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and shelter in its branches.\u201d\\nHe told them another parable: \u201cThe kingdom of heaven is like the yeast a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour till it was leavened all through.\u201d\\nIn all this Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables; indeed, he would never speak to them except in parables. This was to fulfil the prophecy:\\nI will speak to you in parables and expound things hidden since the foundation of the world.\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Tuesday of Week 17 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Matthew 13:36-43\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"As the darnel is gathered up and burnt, so it will be at the end of time\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"JLeaving the crowds, Jesus went to the house; and his disciples came to him and said, \u201cExplain the parable about the darnel in the field to us.\u201d He said in reply, \u201cThe sower of the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world; the good seed is the subjects of the kingdom; the darnel, the subjects of the evil one; the enemy who sowed them, the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; the reapers are the angels. Well then, just as the darnel is gathered up and burnt in the fire, so it will be at the end of time. The Son of Man will send his angels and they will gather out of his kingdom all things that provoke offences and all who do evil, and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth. Then the virtuous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. 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This is how it will be at the end of time: the angels will appear and separate the wicked from the just to throw them into the blazing furnace where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.\\n\u201cHave you understood all this?\u201d They said, \u201cYes.\u201d And he said to them, \u201cWell then, every scribe who becomes a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out from his storeroom things both new and old.\u201d\\nWhen Jesus had finished these parables he left the district.\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Friday of Week 17 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Matthew 13:54-58\",\n\t\tTitle2: \"A prophet is only despised in his own country\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Coming to his home town, Jesus taught the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were astonished and said, \u201cWhere did the man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers? This is the carpenter\u2019s son, surely? Is not his mother the woman called Mary, and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Jude? His sisters, too, are they not all here with us? So where did the man get it all?\u201d And they would not accept him. But Jesus said to them, \u201cA prophet is only despised in his own country and in his own house\u201d, and he did not work many miracles there because of their lack of faith.\" },\n\n      { Day: \t\"Saturday of Week 17 in OT\",\n\t\tTitle1: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Matthew 14:1-12\",\n\t\tTitle2:  \"The beheading of John the Baptist\",\n\t\t\"main-text\": \"Herod the tetrarch heard about the reputation of Jesus, and said to his court, \u201cThis is John the Baptist himself; he has risen from the dead, and that is why miraculous powers are at work in him.\u201d\\nNow it was Herod who had arrested John, chained him up and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip\u2019s wife. For John had told him, \u201cIt is against the Law for you to have her.\u201d He had wanted to kill him but was afraid of the people, who regarded John as a prophet. Then, during the celebrations for Herod\u2019s birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company, and so delighted Herod that he promised on oath to give her anything she asked. Prompted by her mother she said, \u201cGive me John the Baptist\u2019s head, here, on a dish.\u201d The king was distressed but, thinking of the oaths he had sworn and of his guests, he ordered it to be given her, and sent and had John beheaded in the prison. The head was brought in on a dish and given to the girl, who took it to her mother. John\u2019s disciples came and took the body and buried it; then they went off to tell Jesus.\" },\n\n      \/\/ ... 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