News from the Church in Malta
First Reading: Heb 12, 1-4
Psalm: 21 (22), 26b-27.28 & 30.31-32
Gospel: Mk 5, 21-43
When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to the sea. One of the synagogue officials, named Jairus, came forward…
First Reading: Heb 11, 32-40
Psalm: 30 (31), 20.21.22.23.24
Gospel: Mark 5, 1-20
Jesus and his disciples came to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes. When he got out of the boat, at once a man from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him…
First Reading: Jer 1, 4-5. 17-19
Psalm: 70 (71), 1-2. 3-4a. 5-6ab. 15ab & 17
Second Reading: 1 Cor 12, 31 – 13, 13
Gospel: Luke 4, 21-30
Jesus began speaking in the synagogue saying: “Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.”
And all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth…
First Reading: Mal 3,1-4
Psalm: 23, 7-10
Second Reading: Heb 2, 14-18
Gospel: Luke 2, 22-40
When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,” and to offer the sacrifice of “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons,” in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord…
First Reading: Hebrews 10, 32-39
Psalm: 36 (37), 3-4.5-6.23-24.39-40
Gospel: Mark 4, 26-34
Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the Kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how…
First Reading: Hebrews 10, 19-25
Psalm: 23 (24), 1-2.3-4ab.5-6
Gospel: Mark 4, 21-25
Jesus said to his disciples, “Is a lamp brought in to be placed under a bushel basket or under a bed, and not to be placed on a lampstand? For there is nothing hidden except to be made visible; nothing is secret except to come to light…
First Reading: Hebrews 10, 11-18
Psalm: 109 (110), 1.2.3.4
Gospel: Mark 4, 1-20
On another occasion, Jesus began to teach by the sea. A very large crowd gathered around him so that he got into a boat on the sea and sat down. And the whole crowd was beside the sea on land…
First Reading: Hebrews 10, 1-10
Psalm: 39 (40), 2 & 4ab.7-8a.10.11
Gospel: Mark 3, 31-35
The mother of Jesus and his brothers arrived at the house. Standing outside, they sent word to Jesus and called him. A crowd seated around him told him, “Your mother and your brothers and your sisters are outside asking for you.”
But he said to them in reply, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” And looking around at those seated in the circle he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers…
First reading: Heb 9, 15.24-28
Psalm: 97 (98), 1.2-3ab.3cd-4.5-6
Gospel: Mark 3, 22-30
The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said of Jesus, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “By the prince of demons he drives out demons.” Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan? …
First Reading: Neh 8, 2-4a. 5-6. 8-10
Psalm: 18 (19), 8. 9. 10. 15
Second Reading: 1 Cor 12, 12-30
Gospel: Luke 1, 1-4; 4, 14-21
Since many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the events that have been fulfilled among us, just as those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning and ministers of the word have handed them down to us, I too have decided, after investigating everything accurately anew, to write it down in an orderly sequence for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may realize the certainty of the teachings you have received…
