• Readings of the day

• First Reading: Rom 3, 21-30
  Psalm: 129 (130), 1-2.3-4b.4c-6

  Gospel: Lk 11, 47-54

• The Lord said: “Woe to you! You build the memorials of the prophets whom your ancestors killed. Consequently, you bear witness and give consent to the deeds of your ancestors, for they killed them and you do the building…

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• Readings of the day

• First Reading: Rom 2, 1-11
  Psalm: 61 (62), 2-3.6-7.9

  Gospel: Lk 11, 42-46

• The Lord said: “Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint and of rue and of every garden herb, but you pay no attention to judgement and to love for God. These you should have done, without overlooking the others…

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• Readings of the day

• First Reading: Rom 1, 16-25
  Psalm: 18 (19), 2-3.4-5

  Gospel: Luke 11, 37-41

• After Jesus had spoken, a Pharisee invited him to dine at his home. He entered and reclined at table to eat. The Pharisee was amazed to see that he did not observe the prescribed washing before the meal…

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• Readings of the day

• First Reading: Rom 1, 1-7
  Psalm: 97 (98), 1.2-3ab.3cd-4

  Gospel: Lk 11, 29-32

• While still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them, “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah…

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• Readings of the day

• First Reading: Joel 4, 12-21
  Psalm: 96 (97), 1-2.5-6.11-12

  Gospel: Lk 11, 27-28

• While Jesus was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed.” He replied, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”

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• Readings of the day

• First Reading: Joel 1, 13-15; 2, 1-2
  Psalm: 9, 2-3.6 & 16.8-9

  Gospel: Lk 11, 15-26

• When Jesus had driven out a demon, some of the crowd said: “By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons.” Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven…

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• Readings of the day

• First Reading: Mal 3, 13-20a
  Psalm: 1, 1-2.3.4 & 6

  Gospel: Lk 11, 5-13

• Jesus said to his disciples: “Suppose one of you has a friend to whom he goes at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey and I have nothing to offer him,’ and he says in reply from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been locked and my children and I are already in bed…

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• Readings of the day

• First Reading: Jonah 4, 1-11
  Psalm: 85 (86), 3-4.5-6.9-10

  Gospel: Lk 11, 1-4

• Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.” He said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come…

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• Anniversary of the Dediaction of the Cathedral of Malta – Feast
  Readings of the day

• First Reading: Kings 8, 22-23. 27-30
  Psalm: 83, 3-5, 10-11

  Gospel: Lk 19, 1-10

• Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. And there was a man named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector, and rich. And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not, on account of the crowd, because he was small of stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way.  And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, make haste and come down; for I must stay at your house today.” So he made haste and came down, and received him joyfully. And when they saw it they all murmured, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”  And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have defrauded any one of anything, I restore it fourfold.” And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost.” 

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