News from the Church in Malta
Readings of the day
First Reading: Mic 6, 1-4.6-8
Psalm: 49 (50), 5-6.8-9.16bc-17.21 & 23
Gospel: Mt 12, 38-42
Some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” He said to them in reply, “An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet… Read more »
The Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: Wisdom 12, 13.16-19
Psalm: 85 (86), 5-6.9-10.15-16a
Second Reading: Rom 8, 26-27
Gospel: Mt 13, 24-43
Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds. “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Mic 2, 1-5
Psalm: 9 (10), 22-23.24-25.28-29.35
Gospel: Mt 12, 14-21
The Pharisees went out and took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. When Jesus realised this, he withdrew from that place. Many people followed him, and he cured them all, but he warned them not to make him known. This was to fulfill what had been spoken through Isaiah the prophet:
“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom I delight; I shall place my spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Is 38, 1-6.21-22.7-8
Psalm: Is 38, 10.11.12abcd.16
Gospel: Mt 12, 1-8
Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.”
He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry, how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat? … Read more »
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Readings of the day
L-Ewwel Qari: Kings 18, 42b-45a
Psalm: 14, 1-4
Gospel: Jn 19, 25-27
In those day, standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Is 10, 5-7.13-16
Psalm: 93 (94), 5-6.7-8.9-10.14-15
Gospel: Mt 11, 25-27
At that time Jesus exclaimed, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Is 7, 1-9
Psalm: 47 (48), 2-3a.3b-4.5-6.7-8
Gospel: Mt 11, 20-24
Jesus began to reproach the towns where most of his mighty deeds had been done, since they had not repented. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Is 1, 10-17
Psalm: 49 (50), 8-9.16bc-17.21 u 23
Gospel: Mt 10, 34 – 11, 1
Jesus said to his Apostles: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man ‘against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s enemies will be those of his household.’
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me… Read more »
The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: Is 55, 10-11
Psalm: 64 (65), 10abcd.10e-11.12-13.14
Second Reading: Rom 8, 18-23
Gospel: Mt 13, 1-23
On that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by the sea. Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore… Read more »
Saint Benedict, Abbot & Patron of Europe – Feast
Readings of the day
First Reading: Pr 2, 1-19
Psalm: 33, 2-4.6.9.12.14-15
Gospel: Mt 19, 27-29
In those days Peter said to Jesus, “Lo, we have left everything and followed you. What then shall we have?”
Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of man shall sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. Read more »
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