News from the Church in Malta
First Reading: Hos 14, 2-10
Psalm: 80 (81), 6c-8a.8bc-9.10-11ab.14 & 17
Gospel: Mk 12, 28b-34
One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?” Jesus replied, “The first is this: ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! …
First Reading: Jer 7, 23-28
Psalm: 94 (95), 1-2.6-7.8-9
Gospel: Lk 11, 14-23
Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute, and when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke and the crowds were amazed. Some of them 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…
First Reading: Deut 4, 1.5-9
Psalm: 147, 12-13.15-16.19-20
Gospel: Mt 5, 17-19
Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place…
First Reading: Dan 3, 25.34-43
Psalm: 24 (25), 4bc-5ab.6-7bc.8-9
Gospel: Mt 18, 21-35
Peter approached Jesus and asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times…
First Reading: Is 7, 10-14; 8, 10
Psalm: 39, 7-11
Second Reading: Heb 10, 4-10
Gospel: Lk 1, 26-38
In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary…
First Reading: Ez 3, 1-8a.13-15
Psalm: 102 (103), 1-2.3-4.6-7.8 & 11
Second Reading: 1 Cor 10, 1-6.10-12
Gospel: Lk 13, 1-9
Some people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. He said to them in reply, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? …
First Reading: Mic 7, 14-15.18-20
Psalm: 102 (103), 1-2.3-4.9-10.11-12
Gospel: Lk 15, 1-3.11-32
Tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus, but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So to them, he addressed this parable…
First Reading: Gen 37, 3-4.12-13a.17b-28
Psalm: 104 (105), 16-17.18-19.20-21
Gospel: Mt 21, 33-43.45-46
Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: “Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower…
First reading: Jer 17, 5-10
Psalm: 1, 1-2.3.4 & 6
Gospel: Lk 16, 19-31
Jesus said to the Pharisees: “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table…
First Reading: Jer 18, 18-20
Psalm: 30 (31), 5-6.14.15-16
Gospel: Mt 20, 17-28
As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the Twelve disciples aside by themselves, and said to them on the way, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.”
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee approached him with her sons and did him homage, wishing to ask him for something…
