Saint Mary Magdalene – Feast
Readings of the day

First Reading: Song of Songs 3:1-4a
Psalm: 62:2-6,8-9

Gospel: John 20:1-2,11-18

On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.” But Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping… Read more »

Qari tal-jum

First Reading: Micah 2:1-5
Psalm: 9 (10):22-23,24-25,28-29,35

Gospel: Matthew 12:14-21

In those days, the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him. When Jesus became aware of this, he departed. Many crowds followed him, and he cured all of them, and he ordered them not to make him known. This was to fulfil what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah: 

“Here is my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Isaiah 38:1-6,21-22,7-8
Psalm: Isaiah 38:10,11,12abcd,16

Gospel: Matthew 12:1-8

Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.”

He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry, how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat? … Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Isaiah 26:7-9,12,16-19
Psalm: 101 (102):13-14ab and 15,16-18,19-21

Gospel: Matthew 11:28-30

Jesus said to the crowds: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” Read more »

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Readings of the day

First Reading: Is 10:5-7,13-16
Psalm: 93 (94):5-6,7-8,9-10,14-15

Gospel: Mt 11:25-27

At that time Jesus exclaimed, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.

All things have been handed over to me by my Father… Read more »

Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Kings 18:42b-45a
Psalm: 14:1-4

Gospel: John 19:25-27

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”

Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Is 1:10-17
Psalm: 49 (50):8-9,16bc-17,21 u 23

Gospel: Mt 10:34 – 11:1

Jesus said to his Apostles: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man ‘against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s enemies will be those of his household.’

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Isaiah 6:1-8
Psalm: 92 (93):1ab,1c-2.5

Gospel: Matthew 10:24-33

Jesus said to his Apostles: “No disciple is above his teacher, no slave above his master.
It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, for the slave that he become like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household! … Read more »