News from the Church in Malta
‘As it was in Noah’s day, so will it also be in the days of the Son of man. People were eating and drinking, marrying wives and husbands, right up to the day Noah went into the ark, and the Flood came and destroyed them all. It will be the same as it was in Lot’s day: people were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but the day Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and it destroyed them all. … Read more »
Pope signing
“Rediscovering the centrality of God’s Word” in personal life and in the life of the Church as well as “the urgency and beauty” of announcing it. This is in brief Benedict XVI’s message in the post-synod apostolic exhortation “Verbum Domini” presented in the Vatican Newsroom today. The document contains the reflections and proposals submitted at the Episcopal Synod on “God’s Word in the life and mission of the Church”, that took place in the Vatican from 5 to 26 October 2008 and is composed of nearly 200 pages, divided into three parts, according to the structure of the topic of the synodal meeting… Read more »
The Theology Students Association is organizing a Lectio Divina next Saturday 13th November at 7:30pm, at the Carmelites’ Priory in Mdina. It will be led by Rev Fr John Curmi, in Maltese. Everyone is welcome to attend.
The exercise of the Lectio Divina is the reflection and contemplation of the will of God for you through the Sacred Scriptures… Read more »
Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was to come, he gave them this answer, ‘The coming of the kingdom of God does not admit of observation and there will be no one to say, “Look, it is here! Look, it is there!” For look, the kingdom of God is among you.’ He said to the disciples, ‘A time will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of man and will not see it. … Read more »
From an ecumenical service
The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity will celebrate its 50th birthday with an ecumenical event this Nov. 17.
The event will be presided over by Archbishop Kurt Koch, president of the council, and will be attended by Cardinal Walter Kasper, retired president, Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury, and Metropolitan Pergamo Ioannis (Zizioulas) of the ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople… Read more »
On Tuesday, 9th November, 2010, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. presided over the graduation ceremony of the Pastoral Formation Institute, at the Seminary in tal-Virtu’.
The main aim behind the Pastoral Formation Institute is to form its members through evangelisation.
Around 138 people finished successfully the course which is further proof of the main aim and reason for such courses… Read more »
Uffiċjal għoli fil-Gvern Ingliż stqarr li tfal minn familji mkissrin kellhom disa’ darbiet iktar ċans li jwettqu atti kriminali minn tfal oħrajn imrobbijin f’familji stabbli, waqt li kkwantifika l-ispiża tal-Gvern Ingliż minħabba t-tkissir tal-familji bħala £100 biljun.
F’indirizz li għamel lir-rappreżentanti ta’ ‘Relate’, għaqda karitattevoli nazzjonali li hi impenjata fit-tisħiħ tar-relazzjonijiet umani, is-Segretarju tal-Istat għax-Xogħol u l-Pensjonijiet, Iain Duncan Smith, qal li t-tkissir taż-żwieġ wassal għal splużjoni fir-rata ta’ kriminalità, u ddupplikat iċ-ċans li persuna tgħix fil-faqar… Read more »
Now it happened that on the way to Jerusalem he was travelling in the borderlands of SamariaGod at the top of his voice and threw himself prostrate at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan. This led Jesus to say, ‘Were not all ten made clean? The other nine, where are they? … Read more »
Pope with College of Cardinals
Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, has sent a letter to the members of the college, and to the cardinals-elect, announcing that the Pope has invited them all to participate in a day of “reflection and prayer” due to be held in the Vatican’s New Synod Hall on Friday 19 November.
The day of prayer, which falls on the eve of the ordinary public consistory of 20 November, will focus on two themes… Read more »
On Tuesday, 9th November, 2010, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. visited Higher Secondary School in Naxxar and consecrated the students and staff to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. During his visit, the Archbishop not only met teachers and the students but also answered questions which they asked him. The Archbishop also blessed a large wooden cross which was placed infront of the school chapel… Read more »
