News from the Church in Malta
Readings of the day
First Reading: Jeremiah 3:14-17
Psalm: Jeremiah 31:10,11-12ab,13
Gospel: Matthew 13:18-23
Jesus said to His disciples: “Hear then the parable of the sower. The seed sown on the path is the one who hears the word of the kingdom without understanding it, and the evil one comes and steals away what was sown in his heart.
The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and receives it at once with joy… Read more »
Saint James, Apostle – Feast
Readings of the day
First Reading: 2 Corinthians 4:7-15
Psalm: 125:1-6
Gospel: Matthew 20:20-28
The mother of the sons of Zebedee approached Jesus with her sons and did him homage, wishing to ask him for something. He said to her, “What do you wish?” She answered him, “Command that these two sons of mine sit, one at your right and the other at your left, in your kingdom.” Jesus said in reply, “You do not know what you are asking… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Jeremiah 1:1,4-10
Psalm: 71(70):1-2,3-4a,5-6ab,15ab,17
Gospel: Matthew 13:1-9
On that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by the sea. Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore.
And he spoke to them at length in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Galatians 2:19-20
Psalm: 33: 2-11
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 »
Saint Mary Magdalene – Feast
Readings of the day
First Reading: Song of Songs 3:1-4a
Psalm: 62:2-6,8-9
Gospel: John 20:1-2,11-18
On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.” But Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping… Read more »
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: Jeremiah 23:1-6
Psalm: 22 (23):1-3a,3b-4,5,6
Second Reading: Ephesians 2:13-18
Gospel: Mark 6:30-34
In those days, the apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. He said to them, “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. Now many saw them going and recognised them, and they hurried there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.
As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things. Read more »
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Qari tal-jum
First Reading: Micah 2:1-5
Psalm: 9 (10):22-23,24-25,28-29,35
Gospel: Matthew 12:14-21
In those days, the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him. When Jesus became aware of this, he departed. Many crowds followed him, and he cured all of them, and he ordered them not to make him known. This was to fulfil what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
“Here is my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Isaiah 38:1-6,21-22,7-8
Psalm: Isaiah 38:10,11,12abcd,16
Gospel: Matthew 12:1-8
Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.”
He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry, how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat? … Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Isaiah 26:7-9,12,16-19
Psalm: 101 (102):13-14ab and 15,16-18,19-21
Gospel: Matthew 11:28-30
Jesus said to the crowds: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” Read more »
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Readings of the day
First Reading: Is 10:5-7,13-16
Psalm: 93 (94):5-6,7-8,9-10,14-15
Gospel: Mt 11:25-27
At that time Jesus exclaimed, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father… Read more »
