Monthly Archives: January 2012

Daily Gospel – 24th January

Mark 3, 31-35

Now his mother and his brothers arrived and, standing outside, sent in a message asking for him. A crowd was sitting round him at the time the message was passed to him, ‘Look, your mother and brothers and sisters are outside asking for you.’ He replied, ‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’ And looking at those sitting in a circle round him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers… Read more »

ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION ON THE HOLY SEE’S DOCUMENT ON THE FINANCIAL AND MONETARY SYSTEM

On Tuesday 24th January 2012, the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation (Malta Chapter) and DISCERN – Institute for Research on the Signs of the Times are organising a Round-Table Discussion on The Holy See’s Document Reforming the International Financial and Monetary System.The general public is invited to attend.

The event will be held at Palazzo de Piro, Mdina, at 6.30 p.m… Read more »

ARCHBISHOP’S MESSAGE ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS EPISCOPAL ORDINATION

Konkatidral, ta’ San Ġwann, il-Belt Valletta

22 ta’ Jannar 2012

Ħuti,

Nirringrazzjakom talli ġejtu miegħi biex jiena nagħmel dan is-sagrifiċju ta’ radd il-ħajr lil Alla fil-ħames anniversarju ta’ meta l-Q.T. il-Papa għoġbu jaħtarni  Isqof ta’ din il-gżira.

L-ewwel ħaġa li tiġi f’moħħok hija l-anniverarji jiswew biex aħna niftakru propju fil-ħin ta’ meta saret il-ġrajja.  … Read more »

Daily Gospel – 23rd January

Mark 3,22-30

The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, ‘Beelzebul is in him,’ and, ‘It is through the prince of devils that he drives devils out.’ So he called them to him and spoke to them in parables, ‘How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot last. And if a household is divided against itself, that household can never last… Read more »

NEW ARCHPRIEST FOR SENGLEA

Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. has appointed Fr Ivan Scicluna as the new archpriest of Senglea.

Fr Ivan Scicluna was born in Tal-Pietá on 24th March, 1970. He received his education at St Giovanna Antida Primary School, the Junior Lyceum in tal-Handaq and Gan Frangisk Abela School in Msida. He continued his tertiary education in the Institute of Health Care and later in the Faculty of Theology (Philosophy and Theology) at the University of Malta… Read more »

January 23 – 29

Monday

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

4.30 p.m. The Archbishop meets with children who attend catechism at the ‘Gesu il-Habib tat-Tfal’ Centre in San Gwann, as part of his pastoral visit to the parish.

6.00 p.m. The Archbishop meets the Catechists at the Parish Centre in San Gwann… Read more »

Daily Gospel – 22nd January

Mark 1, 14-20

After John had been arrested, Jesus went into Galilee. There he proclaimed the gospel from God saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the gospel.’As he was walking along by the Lake of Galilee he saw Simon and Simon’s brother Andrew casting a net in the lake — for they were fishermen… Read more »

THE EPISCOPAL ORDINATION OF FR PROSPERO GRECH O.S.A.

Il-Provinċja Agostinjana ta’ Malta, b’kollaborazzjoni mal-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta, ħejjiet il-programm ta’ ċelebrazzjonijiet fl-okkażjoni tal-Ordinazzjoni Episkopali ta’ Mons. Prospero Grech O.S.A. Għal dan il-għan twaqqaf kumitat sabiex jorganizza l-aspetti kollha ta’ dan l-avveniment.

Mons. Grech ser ikun ordnat isqof u ngħata t-titlu personali ta’ Arċisqof Titulari ta’ San Leone fil-Basilicata (Italja). Din is-sede veskovili twaqqfet fis-seklu XIV u kienet soppressa fl-1571. Lejn tmiem is-sekli XIV u l-bidu tas-seklu XV żewġ Agostinjani mexxew din id-djoċesi (Nicola de Lorenzo O.E.S.A u Geminiano Giovanni de Sochefani O.E.S.A)… Read more »