News from the Church in Malta
First Reading: Jer 23, 5-8
Psalm: 71 (72), 2.12-13.18-19
Gospel: Matthew 1, 18-24
This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found with child through the Holy Spirit. Joseph her husband, since he was a righteous man, yet unwilling to expose her to shame, decided to divorce her quietly…
First Reading: Gen 49, 2.8-10
Psalm: 71 (72),1- 2.3-4ab.7-8.17
Gospel: Mt 1, 1-17
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…
First Reading: Zeph 3, 14-18a
Psalm: Is 12, 2-3.4bcd. 5-6
Second Reading: Phil 4, 4-7
Gospel: Luke 3, 10-18
And the crowds asked John the Baptist, “What then should we do?” He said to them in reply, “Whoever has two cloaks should share with the person who has none…
First Reading: Sir 48, 1-4.9-11
Psalm: 79 (80), 2ac, 3b. 15-16. 18-19
Gospel: Mt 17, 10-13
As they were coming down from the mountain, the disciples asked Jesus, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
He said in reply, “Elijah will indeed come and restore all things; but I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognise him but did to him whatever they pleased…
First Reading: Is 48, 17-19
Psalm: 1, 1-2.3.4 and 6
Gospel: Matthew 11, 16-19
Jesus said to the crowds: “To what shall I compare this generation? It is like children who sit in marketplaces and call to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance, we sang a dirge but you did not mourn.’
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they said, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is vindicated by her works.”
Saint of the day: Saint John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church
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First Reading: Is 41, 13-20
Psalm: 144 (145), 1, 9. 10-11.12-13ab
Gospel: Matthew 11, 11-15
Jesus said to the crowds: “Amen, I say to you, among those born of women there has been none greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he…
First Reading: Is 40, 25-31
Psalm: 102 (103), 1-2.3-4.8 and 10
Gospel: Matthew 11, 28-30
First Reading: Is 40, 1-11
Psalm: 95 (96), 1-2.3, 10ac.11-12.13
Gospel: Mt 18, 12-14
Jesus said to his disciples: “What is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray? …
First Reading: Is 35, 1-10
Psalm: 84 (85), 9ab-10.11-12.13-14
Gospel: Luke 5, 17-26
One day as Jesus was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was with him for healing…
First Reading: Baruch 5, 1-9
Psalm: 125 (126), 1-2ab. 2cd-3.4-5.6
Second Reading: Phil 1, 4-6.8-11
Gospel: Luke 3, 1-6
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the desert…
