News from the Church in Malta
Fifth Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 37:12-14
Psalm: 129 (130):1-2,3-4ab,4c-6,7-8
Second Reading: Romans 8:8-11
Gospel: John 11:1-45
Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Jeremiah 11:18-20
Psalm: 7:2-3,9bc-10,11-12
Gospel: John 7:40-53
In those days, some in the crowd who heard these words of Jesus said, “This is truly the Prophet.” Others said, “This is the Messiah.” But others said, “The Messiah will not come from Galilee, will he? Does not scripture say that the Messiah will be of David’s family and come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?” So a division occurred in the crowd because of him… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Wisdom 2:1a,12-22
Psalm: 33 (34):17-18,19-20,21,23
Gospel: John 7:1-2,10,25-30
Jesus moved about within Galilee; but he did not wish to travel in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him. But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near. But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, he himself also went up, not openly but (as it were) in secret… Read more »
Saint Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Solemnity
Readings of the day
First Reading: 2 Samuel 7:4-5a,12-14a,16
Psalm: 88:2-5,27,29
Second Reading: Romans 4:13,16-18,22
Gospel: Matthew 1:16,18-21,24a
Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary. Of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ. Now this is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Isaiah 49:8-15
Psalm: 144 (145):8-9,13cd-14,17-18
Gospel: John 5:17-30
In those days, Jesus answered the Jews: “My Father is at work until now, so I am at work.” For this reason the Jews tried all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 47:1-9,12
Psalm: 45 (46):2-3,5-6,8-9
Gospel: John 5:1-3a,5-16
There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes. In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled.
One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Isaiah 65:17-21
Psalm: 29 (30):2, 4, 5-6, 11-12a, 13b
Gospel: John 4:43-54
At that time Jesus left Samaria for Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honour in his native place. When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast… Read more »
The Fourth Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 Samuel 16:1b ,6-7, 10-13a
Psalm: 22 (23):1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6
Second Reading: Ephesians 5:8-14
Gospel: John 9:1-41
As Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Hosea 6:1-6
Psalm: 50 (51):3-4, 8-19, 20-21ab
Gospel: Luke 18:9-14
Jesus addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else. “Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector.
The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity – greedy, dishonest, adulterous – or even like this tax collector… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Hosea 14:2-10
Psalm: 81(80):6c-8a, 8bc-9, 10-11ab, 14, 17
Gospel: Mark 12:28b-34
One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?” Jesus replied, “The first is this: ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
The scribe said to him, “Well said, teacher… Read more »
