Daily Gospel

The Gospel of the day: 23rd March

Readings of the day

First Reading: Num 21, 4-9
Psalm: 101 (102), 2-3.16-18.19-21

Gospel: Jn 8, 21-30

In those days, Jesus said to the Pharisees: “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.” So the Jews said, “He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?”

He said to them, “You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above… Read more »

The Gospel of the day: 22nd March

Qari tal-jum

L-Ewwel Qari: Dan 13, 1-9.15-17.19-30.33-62
Salm: 22 (23), 1-3a.3b-4.5.6

L-Evanġelju: Ġw 8, 1-11

Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them.

Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle… Read more »

The Sunday Gospel: 21st March

Fifth Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day

First Reading: Jer 31, 31-34
Psalm: 50(51), 3-4,12-13,14-15
Second Reading: Heb 5, 7-9

Gospel: Jn 12, 20-33

In those days, there were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the feast.
They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus… Read more »

The Gospel of the day: 20th March

Readings of the day

First Reading: Jer 11, 18-20
Psalm: 7, 2-3.9bc-10.11-12

Gospel: Jn 7, 40-53

In those days, some in the crowd who heard these words of Jesus said, “This is truly the Prophet.” Others said, “This is the Messiah.” But others said, “The Messiah will not come from Galilee, will he? Does not scripture say that the Messiah will be of David’s family and come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?” So a division occurred in the crowd because of him… Read more »

The Gospel of the day: 19th March

Saint Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Solemnity
Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Sam 7, 4-5a.12-14a.16
Psalm: 88, 2-5.27.29
Second Reading: Rum 4, 13.16-18.22

Gospel: Mt 1, 16.18-21.24a (or Lk 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 »

The Gospel of the day: 18th March

Readings of the day

First Reading: Exodus 32, 7-14
Psalm: 105 (106), 19-20.21-22.23

Gospel: Jn 5, 31-47

In those days, Jesus said to the Jews: “If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not true.
But there is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true… Read more »

The Gospel of the day: 17th March

Readings of the day

First Reading: Is 49, 8-15
Psalm: 144 (145), 8-9.13cd-14.17-18

Gospel: Jn 5, 17-30

In those days, Jesus answered the Jews: “My Father is at work until now, so I am at work.” For this reason the Jews tried all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God… Read more »

The Gospel of the day: 16th March

Readings of the day

First Reading: Ezek 47, 1-9.12
Psalm: 45 (46), 2-3.5-6.8-9

Gospel: Jn 5, 1-3a.5-16

There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes. In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled… Read more »

The Gospel of the day: 15th March

Readings of the day

First Reading: Is 65, 17-21
Psalm: 29 (30), 2 & 4.5-6.11-12a & 13b

Gospel: Jn 4, 43-54

At that time Jesus left Samaria for Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honour in his native place. When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast… Read more »

The Sunday Gospel: 14 ta’ Marzu

Fourth Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Cron 36, 14-16.19-23
Psalm: 136 (137), 1-2.3.4-5.6
Second Reading: Eph 2, 4-10

Gospel: Jn 3, 14-21

In those days, Jesus said to Nicodemus, “And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life… Read more »