News from the Church in Malta
‘You have heard how it was said: Eye for eye and tooth for tooth. But I say this to you: offer no resistance to the wicked. On the contrary, if anyone hits you on the right cheek, offer him the other as well; if someone wishes to go to law with you to get your tunic, let him have your cloak as well… Read more »
Monday
9.00 a.m. The Archbishop presides over a Curia senior staff meeting.
4.30 p.m. The Archbishop holds individual meetings with seminarians, celebrates Mass, and stays with them for dinner, at the Seminary in Rabat.
Tuesday
9.30 a.m. The Archbishop presides over a meeting of the Episcopal Conference.
4.00 p.m. The Archbishop participates in a radio programme on Radju Marija… Read more »
One of the Pharisees invited him to a meal. When he arrived at the Pharisee’s house and took his place at table, suddenly a woman came in, who had a bad name in the town. She had heard he was dining with the Pharisee and had brought with her an alabaster jar of ointment. She waited behind him at his feet, weeping, and her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them away with her hair; then she covered his feet with kisses and anointed them with the ointment. … Read more »
St Peter's
Pope Benedict XVI has strongly defended the Catholic Church’s rule of celibacy for priests, speaking to 10,000 priests in St Peter’s Square in Rome. He called it a sign of faith in an increasingly secular world. But the Pope made no reference to the paedophile priests scandal that has rocked the Church in recent months.
The rally of priests from more than 90 nations was one of the largest gatherings of clergy ever seen at the Vatican… Read more »
Every year his parents used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up for the feast as usual. When the days of the feast were over and they set off home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents knowing it. They assumed he was somewhere in the party, and it was only after a day’s journey that they went to look for him among their relations and acquaintances. … Read more »
Click on the links below to watch in five parts the programme ‘Qalb in-Nies’ broadcast on TVM on Sunday, 6th June, 2010.
L-Uffiċċju Komunikazzjoni fil-Kurja tal-Arċisqof qed joffri kopja tal-programm ‘Qalb in-Nies’ li xxandar il-Ħadd 6 ta’ Ġunji, 2010, u li tratta s-Sagramenti taż-Żwieġ u l-Ewkaristija, biex jintuża għall-skopijiet pastorali, bħal laqgħat ta’ diskussjoni fi gruppi parrokkjali… Read more »
To mark the end of the Year for Priests, which will be celebrated on Friday 11th June, 2010, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. is presently in Rome to attend a Congress which is being organized by the Congregation for the Clergy. He is accompanied by another twenty priests from Malta and Gozo. Around 11,000 priests from 110 other countries are attending this Congress.
The Congress, which started on the 9th June, aimed to offer a variety of meetings and liturgical celebrations… Read more »
So he told them this parable: ‘Which one of you with a hundred sheep, if he lost one, would fail to leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the missing one till he found it? And when he found it, would he not joyfully take it on his shoulders and then, when he got home, call together his friends and neighbours, saying to them, “Rejoice with me, I have found my sheep that was lost.” In the same way, I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting than over ninety-nine upright people who have no need of repentance… Read more »
Middle East – Special Synod October 2010
A translation of the unofficial synthesis of the “instrumentum laboris” (working document) of the Special Assembly for the Middle East of the Synod of Bishops, which will take place in October in Rome, is available on ZENIT’s Web page.
The unofficial summary was published Saturday by the Vatican press office.
Benedict XVI delivered the “instrumentum laboris” to the seven patriarchs and two archbishops of the Middle East on Sunday, the last day of his apostolic journey to Cyprus… Read more »
Kull erba snin id-dilettanti tal-futbol jistennew b’ħerqa kbira it-Tazza tad-Dinja, imsejħa l-akbar spettaklu tat-televizjoni. Il-futbol pero’, aktar milli jkun biss spettaklu għandu missjoni x’jaqdi, għaliex permezz tiegħu ż-żgħażagħ li jħobbuh u jippratikawh jistgħu isiru persuni aħjar jekk jgħixu l-valuri li joffri.
Għal dan il-għan, is-Segretarjat għall-Katekezi tal-Knisja f’ Malta, b’kollaborazzjoni mal-Youth Football Association, qed jorganizzaw seminar bit-tema: TAZZA TAD-DINJA 2010 – IL-VALURI Fl-ISPORTS… Read more »
