Daily Gospel Reflection on Veritas Catholic Network

Today’s Gospel Reading is Matthew 13:24-30. The Kingdom of Heaven can be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field but an enemy came in the night and sowed weeds.

This shows the Kingdom is b…

Today is the Feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, the grandparents of Jesus and the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Today’s Gospel reading is Matthew 13:18-23.

Jesus explains the parable of the sowe…

Today’s Gospel Reading is Matthew 20:20-28. Today is the feast of the Apostles James the Greater.

James’ and John’s mother asks that her sons would sit at Jesus’s right and left in His kingdom. Jesus…

Today’s Gospel Reading is Matthew 13:1-9. It is the very familiar parable of the sower and the seed.

As the seed grows, it grows on rocky soil, among the thorns, and good soil. On the rocky soil it g…

Today’s Gospel reading is Matthew 12:46-50.

“Whoever does the will of my Father” is mother, brother and sister to me. Whoever seeks and does the will of the Father is a brother or sister to Christ.

W…

Today is the feast of St. Mary Magdalene and the reading is John 20:1-2,11-18.  In the Gospel Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene. Mary is one of the first witnesses of the Resurrection and she is instru…

Today’s Gospel Reading is Mark 7:30-34.

After the apostles have gone out and have carried out the mission of proclaiming the Gospel, Jesus calls them back to rest together. 

Are we numbered among the…

Today’s Gospel Reading is Matthew 12:14-21. The pharisees begin their “rebellion” against Jesus. So, Jesus pulls back so that the focus can be on his teaching, and not so much the pharisees.  When He…

Today’s Gospel Reading is Matthew 12:1-8.  Jesus and his companions are picking the heads of grain as they walk through the fields. However, it’s the sabbath, and as such, they are “working on the Sa…

Today’s Gospel Reading is Matthew 11:28-30. Jesus invites us to come Himself, to learn from Him. Yet, how easily we look for other things.

Do we only turn to Him in suffering? Do we do so automatical…

Today’s Gospel Reading is Matthew 11:25-27. Jesus’s prays for the disciples as He sends them out to share the Gospel. Jesus was their “support behind the scenes”.

We have the same. Jesus prays for us…

Today is the feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. The Gospel is Matthew 11:20-24.
When Jesus comes to proclaim the Gospel, He proclaims the Gospel of repentance by calling to example cities where paganis…

Today is the feast of St. Bonaventure, the Gospel reading is Matthew 10:34 - 11:1. Jesus is preparing his disciples for the fact that there are many who will not accept the Gospel. Not only this, but…

Today’s Gospel Reading is Mark 6:7-13. Jesus sends out the disciples two by two with nothing but a walking stick. Where you are welcomed, receive it, drive out demons, heal the sick and share the Goo…

Today’s Gospel Reading is Matthew 10:24-33. Jesus continues to send his apostles out as messengers and witnesses. As he prepares them for persecution and difficulty he reminds them who is really in c…

Matthew 10:16-23. Jesus is sending out his apostles out as sheep among wolves. As such they must be shrewd as serpents but as gentle as doves. So too, they are not to prepare their defense ahead of t…

Today is the feast of St. Benedict, our reading is Matthew 10:7-15.

Jesus sends the disciples out to every town and village to cure the sick and preach the word. It is active and moving.

St. Benedict…

Today’s Gospel Reading is Matthew 10:1-7. Jesus sends the 12 out to the lost sheep of Israel. Israel, awaiting its savior, will come to know of its Messiah.

Just as Jesus sent out the 12, He sends us…

Today’s Gospel Reading is Matthew 9:32-38. Jesus sees the need of the people who follow him. They need God’s grace, they need His mercy.

He also sees their desire, the true desire to live in the Cove…

Today’s Gospel Reading is Matthew 9:18-26. It’s the story of the synagogue official and the woman with the hemorrhage. As we read this Gospel again we’re being invited to consider the healing power o…