News from the Church in Malta
Readings of the day
First Reading: Hebrews 11:32-40
Psalm: 30 (31):20,21,22,23,24
Gospel: Mark 5:1-20
Jesus and his disciples came to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes. When he got out of the boat, at once a man from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him. The man had been dwelling among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, even with a chain… Read more »
Presentation of the Lord – Feast
Readings of the day
First Reading: Malachi 3:1-4
Psalm: 23:7-10
Gospel: Luke 2:22-40
When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,” and to offer the sacrifice of “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons,” in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Hebrews 11:1-2,8-19
Psalm: Luke 1:69-70,71-72,73-75
Gospel: Mark 4:35-41
On that day, as evening drew on, Jesus said to his disciples: “Let us cross to the other side.”
Leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat just as he was. And other boats were with him. A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was already filling up… Read more »
Readings of the day
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. Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear… Read more »
Readings of the day
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… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Hebrews 10:11-18
Psalm: 109 (110):1,2,3,4
Gospel: Mark 4:1-20
In those days, 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. And he taught them at length in parables, and in the course of his instruction he said to them, “Hear this! … Read more »
Readings of the day
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… Read more »
Readings of the day
First reading: Hebrews 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? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand… Read more »
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: Nehemiah 8:2-4a,5-6,8-10
Psalm: 18 (19):8,9,10,15
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:12-30
Gospel: Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21
Since many have undertaken to set down an orderly account of the events that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed on to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, I too decided, after investigating everything carefully from the very first, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the truth concerning the things about which you have been instructed. … Read more »
Conversion of Saint Paul, apostle – Feast
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 22:3-16
Psalm: 117(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 baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned.
These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages… Read more »
