News from the Church in Malta
Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 16, 11-15
Psalm: 149, 1-2.3-4.5-6a & 9b
Gospel: Jn 15, 26 – 16, 4a
Jesus said to his disciples: “When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me… Read more »
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 8, 5-8.14-17
Psalm: 65 (66), 1-3a.4-5.6-7a.16.20
Second Reading: 1 Pt 3, 15-18
Gospel: Jn 14, 15-21
Jesus said to his disciples: If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it… Read more »
Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 16, 1-10
Psalm: 99 (100), 1-2.3.5
Gospel: Jn 15, 18-21
Jesus said to his disciples: “If the world hates you, realise that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you… Read more »
Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 15, 22-31
Psalm: 56 (57), 8-9.10-12
Gospel: Jn 15, 12-17
Jesus said to his disciples: “This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you… Read more »
Saint Matthias, apostle – Feast
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 1, 15-17. 20-26
Psalm: 112, 1-8
Gospel: Jn 15, 9-17
Jesus said to his disciples: “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love… Read more »
Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter / Our Lady of Fatima
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 15, 1-6
Psalm: 121 (122), 1-2.3-4a.4b-5
Gospel: Jn 15, 1-8
Jesus said to his disciples: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and everyone that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit… Read more »
Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 14, 19-28
Psalm: 144 (145), 10-11.12-13ab.21
Gospel: Jn 14, 27-31a
Jesus said to his disciples: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid… Read more »
Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Readings of the day
First Reading Acts 14, 5-18
Psalm: 113B (115), 1-2.3-4.15-16
Gospel: Jn 14, 21-26
Jesus said to his disciples: “Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.” Judas, not the Iscariot, said to him, “Master, then what happened that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”
Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him… Read more »
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 6, 1-7
Psalm: 32 (33), 1-2.4-5.18-19
Second Reading: 1 Pt 2, 4-9
Gospel: Jn 14, 1-12
Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places… Read more »
Saint George Preca, Priest – Feast
Readings of the day
First Reading: Sir 21, 11-17, 21 or 2 Tim 2, 1-11
Psalm: 119, 33-42
Gospel: Mk 16, 14a. 15-20
Later Jesus appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting at the table; and he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation. The one who believes and is baptised will be saved; but the one who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and proclaimed the good news everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that accompanied it… Read more »
