News from the Church in Malta
First Reading: Lev 19, 1-2.11-18
Psalm: 18 (19), 8.9.10.15
Gospel: Mt 25, 31-46
Jesus said to his disciples: “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assembled before him…
First Reading: Deut 26, 4-10
Psalm: 90 (91), 1-2.10-11.12-13.14-15
Second Reading: Rom 10, 8-13
Gospel: Lk 4, 1-13
Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil…
Readings of the day
First Reading: Is 58, 9b-14
Psalm: 85 (86), 1-2.3-4.5-6
Gospel: Lk 5, 27-32
Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him…
First Reading: Is 58, 1-9a
Psalm: 50 (51), 3-4.5-6a.18-19
Gospel: Mt 9, 14-15
The disciples of John approached Jesus and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?”
Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? …
First Reading: Deut 30, 15-20
Psalm: 1, 1-2.3.4 & 6
Gospel: Luke 9, 22-25
Jesus said to his disciples: “The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised.”
Then he said to all, “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me…
First Reading: Joel 2, 12-18
Psalm: 50 (51), 3-4.5-6a.12-13.14 & 17
Second Reading: 2 Cor 5, 20 – 6, 2
Gospel: Mt 6, 1-6.16-18
Jesus said to his disciples: “Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them; otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father…
First Reading: Sir 35, 1-15
Psalm: 49 (50), 5-6.7-8.14 & 23
Gospel: Mk 10, 28-31
Peter began to say to Jesus, “We have given up everything and followed you.”
Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come.”
But many that are first will be last, and the last will be first.”
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F’dak iż-żmien, waqt li Ġesù kien se jaqbad it-triq, mar fuqu wieħed jgħaġġel, niżel għarkupptejh quddiemu u qallu: “Mgħallem tajjeb, x’għandi nagħmel biex nikseb il-ħajja ta’ dejjem?”. Ġesù qallu: “Għaliex qiegħed issejjaħli tajjeb? Ħadd ma hu tajjeb ħlief Alla biss…
First Reading: Sir 27, 5-8
Psalm: 91 (92), 2-3.13-14.15-16
Second Reading: 1 Cor 15, 54-58
Gospel: Lk 6, 39-45
Jesus told his disciples a parable: “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? …
First Reading: Sir 17, 1-13
Psalm: 102 (103), 13-14.15-16.17-18a
Gospel: Mk 10, 13-16
People were bringing children to Jesus that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these…
