News from the Church in Malta
Readings of the day
First Reading: 2 Thess 3, 6-10.16-18
Psalm: 127 (128), 1-2.4-5
Gospel: Mt 23, 27-32
Jesus said, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of filth. Even so, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 2 Thess 2, 1-3a.13-17
Psalm: 138 (139), 1-3.4-6
Gospel: Mt 23, 23-26
Jesus said: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgement and mercy and fidelity. But these you should have done, without neglecting the others… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Rev 21, 9b-14
Psalm: 144, 10-13.17-18
Gospel: Jn 1, 45-51
Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law, and also the prophets, Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth.” But Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Here is a true Israelite… Read more »
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: Is 22, 19-23
Psalm: 137 (138), 1-2a.2bc-3.6.8bc
Second Reading: Rom 11, 33-36
Gospel: Mt 16, 13-20
Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi and he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter said in reply, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
Jesus said to him in reply, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezek 43, 1-7a
Psalm: 84 (85), 9ab-10.11-12.13-14
Gospel: Mt 23, 1-12
Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees have taken their seat on the chair of Moses. Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, but do not follow their example. For they preach but they do not practice… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezek 37, 1-14
Psalm: 106 (107), 2-3.4-5.6-7.8-9
Gospel: Mt 22, 34-40
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,
and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezek 36, 23-28
Psalm: 50 (51), 12-13.14-15.18-19
Gospel: Mt 22, 1-14
Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and the elders of the people in parables saying,
“The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.
He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezek 34, 1-11
Psalm: 22 (23), 1-3a.3b-4.5.6
Gospel: Mt 20, 1-16a
Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire labourers for his vineyard. After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. Going out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and he said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard, and I will give you what is just.’ So they went off… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezek 28, 1-10
Psalm: Dewt 32, 26-27ab.27cd-28.30.35cd-36ab
Gospel: Mt 19, 23-30
Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and said, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.” Then Peter said to him in reply, “We have given up everything and followed you… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezek 24, 15-24
Psalm: Deut 32, 18-19.20.21
Gospel: Mt 19, 16-22
A young man approached Jesus and said, “Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?”
He answered him, “Why do you ask me about the good? There is only One who is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.” He asked him, “Which ones?” And Jesus replied, ” ‘You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; honour your father and your mother’; and ‘you shall love your neighbour as yourself.’”
The young man said to him, “All of these I have observed… Read more »
