Monthly Archives: May 2011

CHINA’S POPULATION PROBLEMS

baby boy and baby girl

China is under pressure to change its one-child family planning policy following publication of the latest census figures.

The population increased to 1.34 billion in 2010, compared to 1.27 billion in 2000, the Wall Street Journal reported, April 29. The average annual growth for the last decade was 0.57%, a significant decline over the previous decade’s 1.07%… Read more »

PRAYER MEETINGS FOR THE FAMILY

Nhar it-Tlieta 17 ta’ Mejju saret laqgħa oħra ta’ Talb għall-Familji.  Din saret fil-Knisja Parrokkjali ta’ Birżebbuġia sehem tal-Parroċċi ta’ Gudja, Għaxaq,Marsaxlokk u Żejtun  li jiffurmaw parti mill-istess Unità 15.

Dawn il-laqgħat qed jiġu organizzati mis-Segretarjat tal-Parroċċi flimkien mas-Segretarjat tal-Lajċi li għalihom l-insara Maltin kollha huma mistiedna jattendu sabiex ilkoll flimkien, kemm lajċi, kemm saċerdoti kif ukoll reliġjużi rġiel u nisa, jiltaqgħu f’mumenti ta’ talb għall-familji kollha ta’ pajjiżna.  … Read more »

Daily Gospel – 23rd May

John 14,21-26

Whoever holds to my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me; and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and reveal myself to him.’ Judas — not Judas Iscariot — said to him, ‘Lord, what has happened, that you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?’ Jesus replied: Anyone who loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make a home in him… Read more »

May 23 – 29

Monday

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

Tuesday

9.30 a.m. The Archbishop meets H.L. Bishop Vittorio Lupi of Savona at the Curia.

Wednesday

10.00 a.m. The Archbishop meets the assistant parish priests at his residence in Attard.

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

6.30 p.m… Read more »

STRENGTHENING OUR MARRIAGE

Nhar it-Tnejn 23 ta’ Mejju, 2011, Fr.Brendon Gatt se jkun qed jiddiskuti s-suġġett ‘Insaħħu ż-Żwieġ Tagħna’.

Din ser issir fiċ-Ċentru Familja Karmelitani, Fleur de Lys fis – 6.00 p.m. Read more »

Daily Gospel & Kelma Ghall-Hajja – 22nd May

Click on the image below to watch the latest edition of the programme ‘Kelma ghall-Hajja’.

John 14,1-12

Do not let your hearts be troubled. You trust in God, trust also in me. In my Father’s house there are many places to live in; otherwise I would have told you… Read more »

OPTING IN FAVOUR OF PERMANENT MARRIAGE – REFERENDUM 2011

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

On this fifth Sunday of Easter, God has offered us the gift of his Word in order that it may enlighten us, at a moment when, as Catholics, we are called upon to make a choice in favour of our Lord Jesus Christ: “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life; No one comes to the Father, except through me” (John 14, 6)… Read more »

Daily Gospel – 21st May

John 14, 7-14

If you know me, you will know my Father too. From this moment you know him and have seen him. Philip said, ‘Lord, show us the Father and then we shall be satisfied.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? ‘Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father, so how can you say, “Show us the Father”? … Read more »

CATHOLICS IN CHINA NEED PRAYERS, POPE SAYS IN AUDIENCE

The persecuted Catholic Church in China needs and deserves the prayers of Catholics throughout the world, Pope Benedict XVI said. “There, as elsewhere, Christ is living his passion” because of government restrictions and pressures on the church, the pope said May 18 at the end of his weekly general audience. He asked Catholics everywhere to observe May 24, the feast of Our Lady Help of Christians, as a day of prayer for Catholics in mainland China… Read more »