News from the Church in Malta
Annunciation of the Lord – Solemnity
Readings of the day
First Reading: Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10
Psalm: 39:7-11
Second Reading: Hebrews 10:4-10
Gospel: Luke 1:26-38
In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,
to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Jeremiah 7:23-28
Psalm: 94 (95):1-2,6-7,8-9
Gospel: Luke 11:14-23
Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute, and when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke and the crowds were amazed. Some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons.” Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Deuteronomy 4:1,5-9
Psalm: 147:12-13,15-16,19-20
Gospel: Mathew 5:17-19
Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Daniel 3:25,34-43
Psalm: 24 (25):4bc-5ab,6-7bc,8-9
Gospel: Matthew 18:21-35
Peter approached Jesus and asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.
That is why the kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who decided to settle accounts with his servants… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 2 Kings 5:1-15a
Psalm: 41 (42):2,3; 42 (43):3,4
Gospel: Luke 4:24-30
Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land… Read more »
Third Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day
First Reading: Exodus 3:1-8a,13-15
Psalm: 102(103):1-2,3-4,6-7,8,11
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 10:1-6,10-12
L-Evanġelju: Luke 13:1-9
Some people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. He said to them in reply, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? … 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 (or Luke 2:41-51a)
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: Genesis 37:3-4,12-13a,17b-28
Psalm: 104 (105):16-17,18-19,20-21
Gospel: Matthew 21:33-43,45-46
Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: “Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Jeremiah 17:5-10
Psalm: 1:1-2,3,4 u 6
Gospel: Luke 16:19-31
Jesus said to the Pharisees: “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Jeremiah 18:18-20
Psalm: 30 (31):5-6,14,15-16
Gospel: Matthew 20:17-28
As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the Twelve disciples aside by themselves, and said to them on the way, Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.”
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee approached him with her sons and did him homage, wishing to ask him for something… Read more »
