News from the Church in Malta
Readings of the day
First reading: 2 Thessalonians 1:1-5,11b-12
Salm: 95 (96):1-2a,2b-3,4-5
Gospel: Matthew 23:13-22
Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! … Read more »
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: Isaiah 66:18-21
Psalm: 116 (117):1,2
Second Reading: Hebrews 12:5-7,11-13
Gospel: Luke 13:22-30
Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them, Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 43:1-7a
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
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
Psalm: 50 (51):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
Psalm: 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 »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 28:1-10
Psalm: Deuteronomy 32:26-27ab,27cd-28,30,35cd-36ab
Gospel: Matthew 19:23-30
Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and said, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.” Then Peter said to him in reply, “We have given up everything and followed you… Read more »
Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven – Solemnity
Readings of the day
First Reading: Rev 11: 19a; 12:1-6a,10ab
Psalm: 44:10bc,11-12ab,16
Second Reading: 1 Kor 15:20-26
Gospel: Luke 1:39-56
Mary set out in those days and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah,
where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth… Read more »
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: Jeremiah 38:4-6,8-10
Psalm: 39(40):2,3,4,18
Second Reading: Hebrews 12:1-4
Gospel: Luke 12:49-53
Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished! … Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 18:1-10,13b,30-32
Psalm: 51(50):12-13,14-15,18-19
Gospel: Matthew 19:13-15
Children were brought to Jesus that he might lay his hands on them and pray.
The disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
After he placed his hands on them, he went away… Read more »
