Monthly Archives: February 2012

TWO NEW CANDIDATES FOR THE PRIESTHOOD

22/02/2012

On Friday 24th February 2012, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. will preside over a concelebrated Mass during which two seminarians will ask the Church to accept them officially as candidates for their Ordination to the Diaconate and the Presbiterate. This celebration is being held at Ħal Għaxaq Parish Church at 6.30pm.

The two seminarians, who are in their fifth year of formation, are Luke Cutajar from Saint Paul’s Parish, Rabat, and Brian Gialanzè from Saint Peter in Chains Parish, Birżebbuġa… Read more »

Daily Gospel – 22nd February

22/02/2012

Ash Wednesday:

Mt 6,1-6.16-18

‘Be careful not to parade your uprightness in public to attract attention; otherwise you will lose all reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give alms, do not have it trumpeted before you; this is what the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win human admiration… Read more »

“LENT IS TIME TO HELP OTHERS SPIRITUALLY, MATERIALLY” – POPE

21/02/2012

This Wednesday, the Universal Church enters the liturgical period of Lent; the 40 days of fasting, prayer and almsgiving, that lead us towards Easter. In his message this year, Pope Benedict called believers to show fraternal concern for one another. His invitation is echoed by the Patriarch of the Holy Land Faud Twal, who asks us not to forget the families struggling to keep a Christian presence alive in the land of Our Lord’s Passion, Death and Resurrection:

He says that in the Holy Land “the situation is still really not encouraging”… Read more »

LENT

21/02/2012

Għada, l-Erbgħa 22 ta’ Frar, il-Knisja tagħti bidu għar-Randan Imqaddes: erbgħin jum ta’ talb u penitenza bi tħejjija għaċ-ċelebrazzjoni tal-Passjoni, il-Mewt u l-Qawmien mill-mewt ta’ Sidna Ġesù Kristu.

Matul ir-Randan, il-Knisja tħeġġeġ lill-membri tagħha biex, fost affarjiet oħra, jaqraw il-Kelma ta’ Alla, jieħdu sehem fis-sagramenti, u jattendu l-Eżerċizzi Spiritwali.

Bħala gwida dwar ċaħda personali u ta’ karita’, l-Isqfijiet iqiegħdu quddiem il-membri tal-Knisja għadd ta’ opri tajba biex jagħżlu minn fosthom dawk li l-iktar jiswewlhom sagrifiċċju… Read more »

Daily Gospel – 21st February

21/02/2012

Mark 9, 30-37

After leaving that place they made their way through Galilee; and he did not want anyone to know, because he was instructing his disciples; he was telling them, ‘The Son of man will be delivered into the power of men; they will put him to death; and three days after he has been put to death he will rise again.’ But they did not understand what he said and were afraid to ask him… Read more »

Daily Gospel – 20th February

20/02/2012

Mark 9,14-29

As they were rejoining the disciples they saw a large crowd round them and some scribes arguing with them. At once, when they saw him, the whole crowd were struck with amazement and ran to greet him. And he asked them, ‘What are you arguing about with them?’ A man answered him from the crowd, ‘Master, I have brought my son to you; there is a spirit of dumbness in him, and when it takes hold of him it throws him to the ground, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and goes rigid… Read more »

February 20 – 26

19/02/2012

Monday

1.30 p.m. The Archbishop returns to Malta from Rome.

4.30 p.m. The Archbishop meets the community of Cloistered Nuns of St Julians as part of his pastoral visit to the parish.

6.00 p.m. The Archbishop meets the Leaders of the Family and Couples Commission of St Julians.

7.30 p.m. The Archbishop meets the Parish Pastoral Council, the Council for the Implementation of the Synod and the Parish Economical Council, of St Julians… Read more »

Daily Gospel – 19th February

19/02/2012

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mark 2, 1-12

When he returned to Capernaum, some time later word went round that he was in the house; and so many people collected that there was no room left, even in front of the door. He was preaching the word to them when some people came bringing him a paralytic carried by four men, but as they could not get the man to him through the crowd, they stripped the roof over the place where Jesus was; and when they had made an opening, they lowered the stretcher on which the paralytic lay… Read more »

NEW CARDINALS MUST LOVE GOD, THE CHURCH AND THEIR FELLOW MAN

18/02/2012

Cardinal Prospero Grech

St. Peter’s Basilica at 10.30 a.m. Saturday morning, Benedict XVI celebrated the fourth ordinary public consistory of his pontificate, during which he created twenty-two new cardinals.

Following the opening prayer and the proclamation of the Gospel, the Holy Father pronounced his homily, extracts of which are given below:

“‘Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam’… Read more »

The Exile – Lent 2012

18/02/2012

Dear brothers and sisters,

Once again, it is the time of Lent. The culmination of Lent is the suffering, death and resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ.  These events are very relevant for our lives and during the coming forty days, we need to reflect upon them and prepare ourselves, not only through prayer, but also by pondering upon their relevance in our lives… Read more »