News from the Church in Malta
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Feast
Readings of the day
First Reading: Micah 5, 1-4a
Psalm: 12, 6
Second Reading: Rom 8, 28-30
Gospel: Mt 1, 1-16. 18-23
The Book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham became the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 Cor 5, 1-8
Psalm: 5, 5-6.7.12
Gospel: Lk 6, 6-11
On a certain sabbath Jesus went into the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees watched him closely to see if he would cure on the sabbath so that they might discover a reason to accuse him… Read more »
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezek 33, 7-9
Psalm: 94 (95), 1-2.6-7.8-9
Second Reading: Rom 13, 8-10
Gospel: Mt 18, 15-20
Jesus said to his disciples: “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 Cor 4, 6b-15
Psalm: 144 (145), 17-18.19-20.21
Gospel: Lk 6, 1-5
While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. Some Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?”
Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you not read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry? … Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 Cor 4, 1-5
Psalm: 36 (37), 3-4.5-6.27-28.39-40
Gospel: Lk 5, 33-39
In those days the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “The disciples of John the Baptist fast often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same ; but yours eat and drink.”
Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? … Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 Cor 3, 18-23
Psalm: 23 (24), 1-2.3-4ab.5-6
Gospel: Lk 5, 1-11
While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, he asked him to put out a short distance from the shore… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 Cor 2, 10b-16
Psalm: 144 (145), 8-9.10-11.12-13ab.13cd-14
Gospel: Lk 4, 31-37
Jesus then went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee. He taught them on the sabbath, and they were astonished at his teaching because he spoke with authority.
In the synagogue there was a man with the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out in a loud voice, Ha! … Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 1 Cor 2, 1-5
Psalm: 118 (119), 97.98.99.100.101.102
Gospel: Lk 4, 16-30
Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor… Read more »
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: Jer 20, 7-9
Psalm: 62 (63), 2.3-4.5-6.8-9
Second Reading: Rom 12, 1-2
Gospel: Mt 16, 21-27
Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised… Read more »
Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, martyr
Readings of the day
First Reading: Jer 1, 17-19
Psalm: 70, 1-6.15.17
Gospel: Mk 6, 17-29
Herod was the one who had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, whom he had married. John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” Herodias harboured a grudge against him and wanted to kill him but was unable to do so… Read more »
