Yearly Archives: 2010
Daily Gospel – 5th June
05/06/2010
In his teaching he said, ‘Beware of the scribes who like to walk about in long robes, to be greeted respectfully in the market squares, to take the front seats in the synagogues and the places of honourproperty of widows and for show offer long prayers. The more severe will be the sentence they receive.’ He sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the treasury, and many of the rich put in a great deal. … Read more »
CELEBRATION AT ST VINCENT DE PAULE RESIDENCE
04/06/2010
Matul din il-ġimgħa l-anzjani fir-Residenza San Vinċenz De Paul iċċelebraw għeluq il-mitt sena mill-bini tal-Knisja ddedikata lill-Qalb ta’ Ġesu`. Għal din l-okkażjoni speċjali, tħejja programm ta’ ċelebrazzjonijiet li kienu mqassma matul il-ġimgħa. Il-programm tal-festa inkluda kemm attivitajiet fil-kappella kif ukoll festi esterni.
Fost oħrjan l-anzjani jattendew għal diversi attivitajiet reliġjużi u għall-marċ tradizzjonali tal-festa li akkumpanja l-vara tal-Qalb ta’ Ġesu` fis-swali kollha fir-Residenza… Read more »
NEW MEDIA HAS “EXTRAORDINARY POTENTIAL” FOR EVANGELISATION
04/06/2010new media
New media have the “extraordinary potential” to bring the message of Christ to more and more people, says Benedict XVI.
The Pope said this today at the general audience in St. Peter’s Square in which he offered a long-distance greeting to those who are participating in the Catholic Media Convention, under way through Friday in New Orleans.
The theme of the convention, sponsored by the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada, has as its theme “Spreading the Good News — Byte by Byte.”
The Pope said the theme “highlights the extraordinary potential of the new media to bring the message of Christ and the teaching of his Church to the attention of a wider public.”
He continued: “If your mission is to be truly effective — if the words you proclaim are to touch hearts, engage people’s freedom and change their lives — you must draw them into an encounter with persons and communities who witness to the grace of Christ by their faith and their lives… Read more »
Daily Gospel – 4th June
04/06/2010
While teaching in the Temple, Jesus said, ‘How can the scribes maintain that the Christ is the son of David? David himself, moved by the Holy Spirit, said: The Lord declared to my Lord, take your seat at my right hand till I have made your enemies your footstool. David himself calls him Lord; in what way then can he be his son?’ And the great crowd listened to him with delight… Read more »
Year of the Priesthood comes to an end
03/06/2010
Punti mill–omelija tal-Arċisqof Pawlu Cremona O.P. waqt il-Quddiesa li saret nhar l-Erbgħa, 2 ta’ Ġunju, 2010, fil-Katidral tal-iMdina, f’għeluq is-Sena Saċerdotali.
Mark 12, 18-27
- Dawl li qiegħed jagħtina l-Mulej fuq iż-żwieġ u bħala konsegwenza fuq iċ-ċelibat.
- Qiegħed ifakkarna fil-pjan sabiħ ta’ Alla li fit-temporalità tagħna li tinkludi l-bniedem shih – ruħ u ġisem – huwa għamel dan il-pjan li jagħmel lill-bniedem raġel u mara biex permezz tal-imħabba tagħhom, li tesprimi ruħha anki fl-għaqda fiżika, jista’ jkun hemm kontinwità fil-ħolqien tiegħu li l-bnedmin jitkattru…
10 EUROPEAN STATES JOIN ITALY TO DEFEND CRUCIFIX
03/06/2010A crucifix in the classroom
The “crucifix trial” in the European Court of Human Rights has given rise to an unprecedented intervention of 10 member States as third parties. The European Centre for Law and Justice, which was also authorized to become a third party in the court hearing regarding the legitimacy of displaying crucifixes in Italian schools, reported today that ten other States will have this amicus curiae status in the “Lautsi vs… Read more »
Daily Gospel – 3rd June
03/06/2010
One of the scribes who had listened to them debating appreciated that Jesus had given a good answer and put a further question to him, ‘Which is the first of all the commandments?’ Jesus replied, ‘This is the first: Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is the one, only Lord, and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength… Read more »
‘EVEN ATHEISTS NEED TO SWITCH OFF ON SUNDAYS’
02/06/2010family together on Sunday
Germany’s highest court has ruled that Sunday should be kept as a day of rest and has overturned a Berlin law easing restrictions on Sunday shopping. Most German newspapers on Wednesday greet the ruling, some for reasons of religion and tradition, others out of a concern for workers’ rights.
Many visitors to Germany can find themselves standing outside a closed department store, perplexed to find that they cannot do a bit of shopping during their weekend trip… Read more »
Daily Gospel – 2nd June
02/06/2010
Then some Sadducees – who deny that there is a resurrection – came to him and they put this question to him, ‘Master, Moses prescribed for us that if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married a wife and then died leaving no children… Read more »