News from the Church in Malta
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 37:1-14
Psalm: 106 (107):2-3,4-5,6-7,8-9
Gospel: Matthew 22:34-40
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,
and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 36,23-28
Psalm: 51(50),12-13.14-15.18-19
Gospel: Matthew 22,1-14
Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and the elders of the people in parables saying,
“The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.
He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 34:1-11
Psalm: 22 (23):1-3a,3b-4,5,6
Gospel: Matthew 20:1-16a
Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire labourers for his vineyard. After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. Going out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and he said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard, and I will give you what is just.’ So they went off… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 28:1-10
Psalm: Deuteronomy 32:26-27ab,27cd-28,30,35cd-36ab
Gospel: Matthew 19:23-30
Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and said, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.” Then Peter said to him in reply, “We have given up everything and followed you… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 24:15-24
Psalm: Deuteronomy 32:18-19,20,21
Gospel: Matthew 19:16-22
A young man approached Jesus and said, “Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?”
He answered him, “Why do you ask me about the good? There is only One who is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.” He asked him, “Which ones?” And Jesus replied, “‘You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; honour your father and your mother’; and ‘you shall love your neighbour as yourself.’”
The young man said to him, “All of these I have observed… Read more »
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: Proverbs 9:1-6
Psalm: 33(34):2-3,10-11,12-13,14-15
Second Reading: Ephesians 5:15-20
Gospel: John 6:51-58
Jesus said to the crowds: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
The Jews quarrelled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?”
Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 18:1-10,13b,30-32
Psalm: 51(50):12-13,14-15,18-19
Gospel: Matthew 19:13-15
Children were brought to Jesus that he might lay his hands on them and pray.
The disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
After he placed his hands on them, he went away… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 16:1-15,60,63
Psalm: Isaiah 12:2-3,4bcd,5-6
Gospel: Matthew 19:3-12
Some Pharisees approached Jesus, and tested him, saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?” He said in reply, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? … Read more »
Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven – Solemnity
Readings of the day
First Reading: Revelations 11: 19a; 12:1-6a,10ab
Psalm: 44:10bc,11-12ab,16
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:20-26
Gospel: Luke 1:39-56
Mary set out in those days and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah,
where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit,
cried out in a loud voice and said, “Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezek 9:1-7; 10:18-22
Psalm: 112 (113):1-2,3-4,5-6
Gospel: Mt 18:15-20
Jesus said to his disciples: “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that ‘every fact may be established on the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church… Read more »
