News from the Church in Malta
First Reading: 1 Sam 1, 24-28
Psalm: 1 Sam 2, 1.4-5.6-7.8abcd
Gospel: Luke 1, 46-55
Mary said: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my saviour. For he has looked with favour on his lowly servant; from this day all generations will call me blessed…
First Reading: Songs 2, 8-14 or Soph 3, 14-18a
Psalm: 32 (33), 2-3.11-12.20-21
Gospel: Luke 1, 39-45
Mary set out in those days and travelled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth…
First Reading: Is 7, 10-14
Psalm: 23 (24), 1-2.3-4ab.5-6
Gospel: Luke 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: Judges 13, 2-7.24-25a
Psalm: 70 (71), 3-4a.5-6ab.16-17
Gospel: Luke 1, 5-25
In the days of Herod, King of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah of the priestly division of Abijah; his wife was from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. Both were righteous in the eyes of God, observing all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly…
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…
