Gospel of the day – 1st May

When Jesus had finished these parables he left the district; and, coming to his home town, he taught the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were astonished and said, ‘Where did the man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers? This is the carpenter’s son, surely? Is not his mother the woman called Mary, and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Jude? His sisters, too, are they not all here with us? So where did the man get it all?’ And they would not accept him. But Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is despised only in his own country and in his own house,’ and he did not work many miracles there because of their lack of faith.

The Saint of the day: St Joseph the Worker

Meta mbagħad Ġesù temm dawn il-parabboli, telaq minn hemm u mar lejn pajjiżu. Beda jgħallem lin-nies fis-sinagoga tagħhom, u huma baqgħu mistagħġba hekk li bdew jgħidu: “Mnejn ġieb dan l-għerf u din il-qawwa ta’ l-għaġeb? Dan m’huwiex bin il-mastrudaxxa? Ommu m’hijiex dik li jisimha Marija, u ħutu Ġakbu u Ġużeppi u Xmun u Ġuda? U ħutu l-bniet m’humiex kollha magħna? Mnejn ġieh dan kollu?” U tfixklu minħabba fih. Imma Ġesù qalilhom: “Ebda profeta ma hu bla ġieħ jekk mhux f’pajjiżu u daru stess.” U hemmhekk ma għamilx ħafna mirakli minħabba   n-nuqqas ta’ fidi tagħhom.

Il-Qaddis tal-jum: San Guzepp Haddiem