Yearly Archives: 2010

Daily Gospel – 12th August

12/08/2010

Matthew 18,21-19,1

Then Peter went up to him and said, ‘Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times?’  Jesus answered, ‘Not seven, I tell you, but seventy-seven times.  ‘And so the kingdom of Heaven may be compared to a king who decided to settle his accounts with his servants. When the reckoning began, they brought him a man who owed ten thousand talents; he had no means of paying, so his master gave orders that he should be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions, to meet the debt.   … Read more »

PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION ON POVERTY

11/08/2010

Il-Caritas Malta qed torganizza kompetizzjoni tal-fotografija taħt il-patroċinju tal-
Malta Photographic Society għall-okkażjoni tas-Sena Ewropea għall-Ġlieda kontra l-Faqar u l-Esklużjoni Soċjali.

Il-Kompetizzjoni, bit-tema: Ilqa’ l-isfida: Ġib il-Faqar fix-Xejn, hija miftuħa għar-risidenti kollha ta’ Malta u Għawdex u tagħlaq fit-23 ta’ Settembru, 2010.  Formoli tal-parteċipazzjoni u l-kundizzjonijiet tad-dħul jistgħu jinkisbu mill-ħwienet ewlenin tal-fotografija, il-Caritas Malta u l- Malta Photographic Society.  Din il-kompetizzjoni hija sponsorjata mill-Actavis… Read more »

THREE NAMED TO SAINTS’ CAUSES CONGREGATION

11/08/2010

Benedict XVI named three new members to the Congregation for Saints’ Causes.

A Vatican communiqué announced Saturday’s appointment of the three prelates.

Archbishop Fortunato Baldelli, 74, who has been serving for the past year as major penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary, was named to the congregation.

Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke, 62, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature, was also appointed to the dicastery… Read more »

Daily Gospel – 11th August

11/08/2010

Matthew 18,15-20

‘If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with him alone, between your two selves. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you: whatever the misdemeanour, the evidence of two or three witnesses is required to sustain the charge.  But if he refuses to listen to these, report it to the community; and if he refuses to listen to the community, treat him like a gentile or a tax collector.   … Read more »

HOLY LAND – NUMBERS OF PILGRIMS UP IN 2010

10/08/2010

In the first six months of 2010, some 1.6 million tourists have visited the Holy Land, a marked increase compared to 2009, and one that Franciscan Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa attributes to a variety of factors.

The number of tourists is up some 39% from last year, and the Custos of the Holy Land told Vatican Radio that this can be attributed first to “a great activity on the part of episcopal conferences, dioceses and parish priests.”

The pilgrims come primarily from the United States, Russia, France, Great Britain, Germany and Italy… Read more »

Daily Gospel – 10th August

10/08/2010

John 12,24-26

In all truth I tell you, unless a wheat grain falls into the earth and dies, it remains only a single grain; but if it dies it yields a rich harvest.  Anyone who loves his life loses it; anyone who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.  Whoever serves me, must follow me, and my servant will be with me wherever I am… Read more »

JOHN PAUL II CONTINUES TO INSPIRE VOCATIONS

09/08/2010

One of Hong Kong’s four new permanent deacons says his vocation is linked to Pope John Paul II, and particularly to the Pontiff’s death.

Deacon Stephen Kwok Ping-fai was one of four to be ordained July 24 at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Hong Kong.

Decon Kwok, 45, recounted to the Catholic Weekly that the news coverage of the Pope’s death in 2005 led him to reflect on his baptismal vocation… Read more »

Daily Gospel – 9th August

09/08/2010

Matthew 25, 1-13

‘Then the kingdom of Heaven will be like this: Ten wedding attendants took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.  Five of them were foolish and five were sensible:  the foolish ones, though they took their lamps, took no oil with them,  whereas the sensible ones took flasks of oil as well as their lamps.   … Read more »

August 9 – 15

08/08/2010

Monday

9.00 a.m. The Archbishop presides over a Curia senior staff meeting.

5.30 p.m. The Archbishop meets the members of the Parish Pastoral Council of Marsaxlokk about the new parish priest.

Tuesday

6.00 p.m. The Archbishop meets the Honorary Consul of Malta in California, Mr Louis Vella.

Wednesday

Thursday

8.30 p.m… Read more »

Daily Gospel – 8th August

08/08/2010

Luke 12,32-48

‘There is no need to be afraid, little flock, for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom. ‘Sell your possessions and give to those in need. Get yourselves purses that do not wear out, treasure that will not fail you, in heaven where no thief can reach it and no moth destroy it. For wherever your treasure is, that is where your heart will be too… Read more »