News from the Church in Malta
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…
First Reading: 2 Tim 1: 1-8
Psalm: 95, 1-3.7-8a
Gospel: Luke 10: 1-9
The Lord Jesus appointed seventy-two others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit. He said to them, “The harvest is abundant but the labourers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out labourers for his harvest…
First Reading: Acts 22: 3-16
Psalm: 116, 1.2
Gospel: Mark 16: 15-18
Jesus said to the eleven: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptised will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned…
First Reading: Hebrews 7, 25 – 8, 6
Psalm: 39 (40), 7-8a.8b-9.10.17
Gospel: 3, 7-12
Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples. A large number of people followed from Galilee and from Judea. Hearing what he was doing, a large number of people came to him also from Jerusalem, from Idumea, from beyond the Jordan, and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon…
Jesus entered the synagogue. There was a man there who had a withered hand. They watched him closely to see if he would cure him on the sabbath so that they might accuse him. He said to the man with the withered hand, “Come up here before us.”
Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?” But they remained silent…
