News from the Church in Malta
First Reading: 1 Thess 1, 1-5.8b-10
Psalm: 149, 1-2.3-4.5-6a & 9b
Gospel: Mt 23, 13-22
Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! …
First Reading: Is 66, 18-21
Psalm: 116 (117), 1.2
Second Reading: Heb 12, 5-7. 11-13
Gospel: Lk 13, 22-30
Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them, Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough…
Saint Bartholomew, Apostle – Feast
Readings of the day
First Reading: Rev 21, 9b-14
Psalm: 144, 10-13.17-18
Gospel: Jn 1, 45-51
Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law, and also the prophets, Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth.” But Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Here is a true Israelite…
First Reading: Rut 1, 1.3-6.14b-16.22
Psalm: 145 (146), 5-6.7.8-9a.9bc-10
Gospel: Mt 22, 34-40
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind…
First Reading: Judges 11, 29-39a
Psalm: 39 (40), 5.7-8a.8b-9.10
Gospel: Mt 22, 1-14
Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and the elders of the people in parables saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son…
First Reading: Judges 6, 11-24a
Psalm: 84 (85), 9.11-12.13-14
Gospel: Mt 19, 23-30
Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and said, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.”
Then Peter said to him in reply, “We have given up everything and followed you…
First Reading: Judges 2, 11-19
Psalm: 105 (106), 34-35.36-37.39-40.43ab & 44
Gospel: Mt 19, 16-22
A young man approached Jesus and said, “Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?” He answered him, “Why do you ask me about the good? There is only One who is good…
First Reading: Jer 38, 4-6. 8-10
Psalm: 39 (40), 2.3.4.18
Second Reading: Heb 12, 1-4
Gospel: Lk 12, 49-53
Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! …
First Reading: Joshua 24, 14-29
Psalm: 15 (16), 1-2a & 5.7-8.11
Gospel: Mt 19, 13-15
Children were brought to Jesus that he might lay his hands on them and pray.
The disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
After he placed his hands on them, he went away…
First Reading: Joshua 24, 1-13
Psalm: 135 (136), 1-3.16-18.21-22 & 24
Gospel: Mt 19, 3-12
Some Pharisees approached Jesus, and tested him, saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?” He said in reply, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? …
