News from the Church in Malta
Good Friday
Readings of the day
First Reading: Is 52, 13 – 53, 12
Psalm: 30 (31), 2.6.12-13.15-16.17. 25
Second Reading: Hebrews 4, 14-16. 5, 7-9
Gospel: Jn 18, 1 – 19, 42
The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to St John
Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered… Read more »
Maundy Thursday – Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ez 12, 1-8.11-14
Psalm: 115 (116), 12-13.15-16bc.17-18
Second Reading: 1 Cor 11, 23-26
Gospel: Jn 13, 1-15
Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Is 50, 4-9a
Psalm: 68 (69), 8-10.21bcd-22.31 & 33-34
Gospel: Mt 26, 14-25
One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver,
and from that time on he looked for an opportunity to hand him over… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Is 49, 1-6
Psalm: 70 (71), 1-2.3-4a.5-6ab.15 & 17
Gospel: Jn 13, 21-33.36-38
Reclining at table with his disciples, Jesus was deeply troubled and testified, «Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.» The disciples looked at one another, at a loss as to whom he meant. One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at Jesus’ side… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Is 42, 1-7
Psalm: 26 (27), 1.2.3.13-14
Gospel: Jn 12, 1-11
Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him. Mary took a litre of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair; the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil… Read more »
Palm Sunday and the Passion of the Lord
Readings of the day
First Reading: Is 50, 4-7
Psalm: 21 (22), 8-9.17-18a.19-20.23-24
Second Reading: Phil 2, 6-11
Gospel: Mk 14, 1 – 15, 47
The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were to take place in two days’ time. So the chief priests and the scribes were seeking a way to arrest him by treachery and put him to death… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezek 37, 21-28
Psalm: Jer 31, 10.11-12ab.13
Gospel: Jn 11, 45-56
Many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what Jesus had done began to believe in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do? … Read more »
Our Lady of Sorrows – Devotional feast
Readings of the day
First Reading: Rom 8, 31b-39
Psalm: 17
Gospel: Jn 19, 25-27
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. Read more »
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Annunciation of the Lord – Solemnity
Readings of the day
First Reading: Is 7, 10-14; 8, 10
Psalm: 39, 7-11
Second Reading: Hebrews 10, 4-10
Gospel: Lk 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: Dan 3, 14-20.91-92.95
Psalm: Dan 3, 52.53-54.55-56
Gospel: Jn 8, 31-42
In those days Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him, “If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone… Read more »
