News from the Church in Malta
Readings of the day
First Reading: Phil 2, 12-18
Psalm: 26 (27), 1.4.13-14
Gospel: Lk 14, 25-33
Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them, “If any one comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Phil 2, 5-11
Psalm: 21 (22), 26b-27.28-30a.31-32
Gospel: Lk 14, 15-24
One of those at table with Jesus said to him, “Blessed is the one who will dine in the kingdom of God.” He replied to him, “A man gave a great dinner to which he invited many. When the time for the dinner came, he dispatched his servant to say to those invited, ‘Come, everything is now ready.’
But one by one, they all began to excuse themselves… Read more »
All Souls
Readings of the day
First Reading: Job 19, 1.23-27a
Psalm: 26
Second Reading Rom 19, 1.23-27a
Gospel: Jn 6, 37-40
In those days, Jesus told the crowd: “Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and anyone who comes to me I will never drive away; for I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. This is indeed the will of my Father, that all who see the Son and believe in him may have eternal life; and I will raise them up on the last day.” Read more »
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All Saints – Solemnity
First Reading: Rev 7, 2-4,9-14
Psalm: 23 (24), 1-2.3-4ab.5-6
Second Reading: 1 Jn 3, 1-3
Gospel: Mt 5, 1-12a
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Phil 1, 18b-26
Psalm: 41 (42), 2.3.5bcd
Gospel: Lk 14, 1.7-11
On a Sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. He told a parable to those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places of honour at the table… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Phil 1, 1-11
Psalm: 110 (111), 1-2.3-4.5-6
Gospel: Lk 14, 1-6
On a Sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. In front of him there was a man suffering from dropsy.
Jesus spoke to the scholars of the law and Pharisees in reply, asking, “Is it lawful to cure on the Sabbath or not?” But they kept silent; so he took the man and, after he had healed him, dismissed him… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Eph 6, 10-20
Psalm: 143 (144), 1.2.9-10
Gospel: Lk 13, 31-35
Some Pharisees came to Jesus and said, “Go away, leave this area because Herod wants to kill you.” He replied, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and I perform healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I accomplish my purpose… Read more »
Saints Simon and Jude, apostles – Feast
Readings of the day
First Reading: Eph 2, 19-22
Psalm: 18, 2-5
Gospel: Lk 6, 12-19
Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was called the Zealot, and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them. Read more »
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Readings of the day
First Reading: Eph 5, 21-33
Psalm: 127 (128), 1-2.3.4-5
Gospel: Lk 13, 18-21
Jesus said, “What is the Kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that a person took and planted in the garden. When it was fully grown, it became a large bush and ‘the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches.’”
Again he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? … Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Eph 4, 32 -5, 8
Psalm: 1, 1-2.3.4 & 6
Gospel: Lk 13, 10-17
Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the Sabbath. And a woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by a spirit; she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect.
When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said, “Woman, you are set free of your infirmity.”
He laid his hands on her, and she at once stood up straight and glorified God… Read more »
