News from the Church in Malta
The Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco, Fr Pascual Chavez SDB, has begun his Extraordinary Visitation of the Salesian Delegation of Malta; the first he has undertaken personally during his term as successor of Don Bosco.
He arrived on the 2nd of September, at the airport of Gudja, where he was welcomed by Fr Paul Formosa, the Provincial Delegate… Read more »
Having returned from his pastoral visit to the Italian town of Carpineto Romano, the Holy Father appeared at the balcony overlooking the inner courtyard of the Apostolic Palace at Castelgandolfo to pray the Angelus with faithful gathered there.
Before the Marian prayer, Benedict XVI made brief mention of his recently-published Message for the twenty-sixth World Youth Day, due to be celebrated in Madrid, Spain, in August 2011… Read more »
Now it happened in those days that he went onto the mountain to pray; and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. When day came he summoned his disciples and picked out twelve of them; he called them ‘apostles’: Simon whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon called the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot who became a traitor. … Read more »
Now on another Sabbath he went into the synagogue and began to teach, and a man was present, and his right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees were watching him to see if he would cure somebody on the Sabbath, hoping to find something to charge him with. But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man with the withered hand, ‘Get up and stand out in the middle!’ And he came forward and stood there… Read more »
Monday
Tuesday
5.30 a.m. The Archbishop returns to Malta from Poland.
4.30 p.m. His Lordship Mgr. Angelus Kujur, Bishop of Purnea in India, pays a courtesy visit to the Archbishop, at his residence in Attard.
Wednesday
10.00 a.m. The Archbishop celebrates Pontifical Mass on the occasion of the Feast dedicated to the Nativity of Our Lady, National Day, at St… Read more »
Great crowds accompanied him on his way and he turned and spoke to them. ‘Anyone who comes to me without hating father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, cannot be my disciple. No one who does not carry his cross and come after me can be my disciple. ‘And indeed, which of you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if he had enough to complete it? … Read more »
F’dawn il-jiem, voluntiera Maltin, membri tal-Mission Fund, qed iwettqu proġett ta’ bini fi sptar fit-Tanzanija mmexxi mit-tabiba Maltija, Sr Maria Borda MMM, reliġjuża fi ħdan il-Kongregazzjoni Medical Missionaries of Mary.
F’kummenti lil IL-ĠENSILLUM online, Fr Marċellino Micallef OFM, Direttur Spiritwali tal-Mission Fund u li bħalissa jinsab it-Tanzanija, fisser li l-binja li qed tittellgħa fl-Isptar Makiungu “qed issir realtà bl-għajnuna ġeneruza tal-poplu Malti u Għawdxi”… Read more »
1One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels. 2Some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”
3Jesus answered them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? … Read more »
When attending Mass and receiving the Eucharist, Catholics must be filled with gratitude for God’s great gifts, Pope Benedict XVI told a group of his former students. “Despite the fact that we have nothing to give in return and we are full of faults,” the pope said, Jesus “invites us to his table and wants to be with us.” The pope presided at a Mass Aug… Read more »
They then said to him, ‘John’s disciples are always fasting and saying prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees, too, but yours go on eating and drinking.’ Jesus replied, ‘Surely you cannot make the bridegroom’s attendants fast while the bridegroom is still with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them; then, in those days, they will fast.’ He also told them a parable, ‘No one tears a piece from a new cloak to put it on an old cloak; otherwise, not only will the new one be torn, but the piece taken from the new will not match the old. … Read more »
