News from the Church in Malta
Readings of the day
First Reading: James 1:12-18
Psalm: 93 (94):12-13a,14-15,18-19
Gospel: Mark 8:14-21
The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.
He enjoined them, “Watch out, guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” They concluded among themselves that it was because they had no bread… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 13:46-69
Psalm: 116:1,2
Gospel: Luke 10:1-9
After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of Him in pairs to every town and place where He Himself intended to go. He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into His harvest. Go on your way… Read more »
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: Jeremiah 17:5-8
Psalm: 1:1-2,3,4,6
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:12,16-20
Gospel: Luke 6:17,20-26
And He came down with them and stood on a stretch of level ground. A great crowd of His disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 kings 12:26-32; 13:33-34
Psalm: 105 (106):6-7a,19-20,21-22
Gospel: Mark 8:1-10
In those days when there again was a great crowd without anything to eat, Jesus summoned the disciples and said, “My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 Kings 11:29-32; 12:19
Psalm: 80 (81):10-11ab,12-13,14-15
Gospel: Mark 7:31-37
Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. And people brought to Him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay His hand on him… Read more »
The Apostle St Paul, Patron of Malta – Solemnity
Readings of the day
First Reading: Wisdom 14:3-7
Psalm: 107:21-31
Second Reading: Acts 27:16-44; 28:1-10
Gospel: Mark 16:15-20
And He said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation. The one who believes and is baptized 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: 1 Kings 10:1-10
Psalm: 36 (37):5-6,30-31,39-40
Gospel: Mark 7:4-23
Jesus summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.
Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.”
When he got home away from the crowd his disciples questioned him about the parable… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 Kings 8:22-23,27-30
Psalm: 83 (84):3,4,5 and 10,11
Gospel: Mark 7:1-13
When the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus,
they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands. (For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews, do not eat without carefully washing their hands, keeping the tradition of the elders… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 Kings 8:1-7,9-13
Psalm: 131 (132):6-7,8-10
Gospel: Mark 6:53-56
After making the crossing to the other side of the sea, Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret and tied up there. As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him. They scurried about the surrounding country and began to bring in the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was… Read more »
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the Day
First Reading: Isaiah 6:1-2a,3-8
Psalm: Psalm 137(138):1-2a,2bc-3,4-5,7c-8
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Gospel: Luke 5:1-11
While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets… Read more »
