News from the Church in Malta
Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:17-25
Responsorial: Psalm 32 (33):1-2,4-5,10ab & 11
Gospel: Matthew 25:1-13
Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones, when taking their lamps, brought no oil with them, but the wise brought flasks of oil with their lamps… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:1-9
Responsorial: Psalm 89 (90):3-4,12-13,14 & 17
Gospel: Matthew 24:42-51
Jesus said to his disciples: “Stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 2 Thess 3:6-10,16-18
Responsorial: Psalm 127 (128):1-2,4-5
Gospel: Mt 23:27-32
Jesus said, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of filth. Even so, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3a,13-17
Responsorial: Psalm 138 (139):1-3,4-6
Gospel: Matthew 23:23-26
Jesus said: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgement and mercy and fidelity. But these you should have done, without neglecting the others. Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel! … Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Revelations 21:9b-14
Responsorial: Psalm 144:10-13,17-18
Gospel: John 1:45-51
In those days, Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth.” Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, “Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!” Nathanael asked him, “Where did you get to know me?”
Jesus answered, “I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you.” Nathanael replied, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! … Read more »
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: Isaiah 22:19-23
Responsorial: Psalm 137 (138):1-2a,2bc-3,6.8bc
Second Reading: Romans 11:33-36
Gospel: Matthew 16:13-20
Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi and he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter said in reply, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
Jesus said to him in reply, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 43:1-7a
Responsorial: Psalm 84 (85):9ab-10,11-12,13-14
Gospel: Matthew 23:1-12
Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees have taken their seat on the chair of Moses. Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, but do not follow their example. For they preach but they do not practice… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 37:1-14
Responsorial: Psalm 106 (107):2-3,4-5,6-7,8-9
Gospel: Matthew 22:34-40
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 36,23-28
Responsorial: S 51(50),12-13.14-15.18-19
Gospel: Matthew 22,1-14
Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and the elders of the people in parables saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 34:1-11
Responsorial: S 22 (23):1-3a,3b-4,5,6
Gospel: Matthew 20:1-16a
Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire labourers for his vineyard. After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. Going out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and he said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard, and I will give you what is just.’ So they went off… Read more »
