The Blessed Virgin Mary of Fatima – Memorial
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 17:15,22 – 18:1
Psalm: 148:1-2,11-12ab,12c-13a,13bcd-14

Gospel: John 16:12-15

Jesus said to his disciples: “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 16:22-34
Psalm: 137 (138):1-2a,2bc-3,7c-8

Gospel: John 16:5-11

Jesus said to his disciples: “Now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts. But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 16:11-15
Psalm: 149:1-2,3-4,5-6a & 9b

Gospel: John 15:26 – 16:4a

Jesus said to his disciples: “When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me. And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning… Read more »

Saint George Preca, Priest and Founder of the Society of Christian Doctrine, M.U.S.E.U.M – Feast
Readings of the day

First Reading: Sirach 21:11-17,21 or 2 Timothy 2:1-11
Psalm: 119:33-42

Gospel: Mark 16:14a,15-20

Later Jesus appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting at the table; and he said to them, “The one who believes and is baptised will be saved; but the one who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.” 

So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and proclaimed the good news everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that accompanied it… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 15:22-31
Psalm: 56 (57):8-9,10-12

Gospel: John 15:12-17

Jesus said to his disciples: “This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 15:7-21
Psalm: 95 (96):1-2a,2b-3,10

Gospel: John 15:9-11

Jesus said to his disciples: “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.” Read more »

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Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 15:1-6
Psalm: 121 (122):1-2,3-4a,4b-5

Gospel: John 15:1-8

In those days, Jesus told his disciples: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 14:19-28
Psalm: 144 (145):10-11,12-13ab,21

Gospel: John 14:27-31a

Jesus said to his disciples: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. You heard me tell you, ‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I… Read more »

Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 14:5-18
Palm: 113b (115):1-2,3-4,15-16

Gospel: John 14:21-26

Jesus said to his disciples: “Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”

Judas, not the Iscariot, said to him, “Master, (then) what happened that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him… Read more »