News from the Church in Malta
First Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day
First Reading: Deuteronomy 26:4-10
Psalm: 90(91):1-2,10-11,12-13,14-15
Second Reading: Romans 10:8-13
Gospel: Luke 4:1-13
Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over He was hungry… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Isaiah 58:9b-14
Psalm: 85 (86):1-2,3-4,5-6
Gospel: Luke 5:27-32
Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, “Follow me.”
And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed Him. Then Levi gave a great banquet for Him in his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were at table with them… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Isaiah 58:1-9a
Psalm: 50 (51):3-4,5-6a,18-19
Gospel: Matthew 9:14-15
In those days the disciples of John approached Jesus and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?”
Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.” Read more »
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Readings of the day
First Reading: Deuteronomy 30:15-20
Psalm: 1:1-2,3,4,6
Gospel: Luke 9:22-25
In those days Jesus said to His disciples: “The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised.”
Then He said to all, “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me… Read more »
Ash Wednesday
Readings of the day
First Reading: Joel 2:12-18
Psalm: 50 (51):3-4.5-6a,12-13,14 & 17
Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 5:20 – 6: 2
Gospel: Matthew 6:1-6,16-18
In those days Jesus said to His disciples: “Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them; otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father.
When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win the praise of others… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Sirach 35:1-15
Psalm: 49 (50):5-6,7-8,14 & 23
Gospel: Mark 10:28-31
In those days, Peter began to say to him, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.” Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the good news, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this age—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”
Saint of the day: Saint Casimir Read more »
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Readings of the day
First Reading: Sir 17:20-28
Psalm: 31(32):1-2,5,6,7-8
Gospel: Mark 10:17-27
As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus answered him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: ‘You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; you shall not defraud; honor your father and your mother.’”
He replied and said to him, “Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth.” Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him, “You are lacking in one thing… Read more »
Eight Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: Sirach 27:5-8
Psalm: 91(92):2-3,13-14,15-16
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:54-58
Gospel: Luke 6:39-45
He also told them a parable: “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully qualified will be like the teacher… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Sirach 17:1-13
Psalm: 102(103):13-14,15-16,17-18a
Gospel: Mark 10:13-16
People were bringing children to Jesus that He might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this He became indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Sirach 6:5-17
Psalm: 118(119):12,16,18,27,34,35
Gospel: Mark 10:1-12
Jesus came into the district of Judea and across the Jordan. Again crowds gathered around Him and, as was his custom, He again taught them.
The Pharisees approached and asked, “Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?” They were testing Him. He said to them in reply, “What did Moses command you?” They replied, “Moses permitted him to write a bill of divorce and dismiss her.” But Jesus told them, “Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this commandment… Read more »
