Monthly Archives: July 2014

The Gospel of the day – 17th July

  • Matthew 11, 28-30

    ‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.’

    The Saint of the day: St Clement of Ochrid and companions

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Archbishop’s message on the impartation of the Sacrament of Confirmation

  • Madonna ta’ Lourdes, Raħal Ġdid
    6 ta’ Lulju 2014

    Ħuti, meta niġu hawnhekk niġu billi nagħmlu att ta’ fidi: hawnhekk se nisimgħu dak li qal il-Mulej Ġesù u nemmnuh u għalina jsir il-verita.

    Meta Ġesù ġie fid-dinja huwa kellimna dwar Alla l-Missier, dwar Alla l-Iben u Alla l-Ispirtu s-Santu. U aħna nemmnuh dak li qal Ġesù…

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The Pontiff to a group of economists – Enough throwing away

  • On Saturday, 12 July, Pope Francis met with the participants of an international conference which took place in the Casina Pio iv at the Vatican, on the theme of “For an ever more inclusive economy”, which was proposed in his Apostolic Exhortion, Evangelii gaudium. In his off-the-cuff address, the Pontiff criticized the reigning “anthropological reductionism”. “I believe that this moment is the most powerful time of anthropological reductionism”, he stated and then asked: When man loses his humanity, what awaits us? …

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The Gospel of the day – 16th July

  • Matthew 11, 25-27

    At that time Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him…

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

  • ****

    Direttur:          Matt Reeves
    Atturi:             Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbel, Judy Greer u Kodi Smit-McPhee
    Ħin tal-Film:    130 min.
     
    KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA:                 12A
    KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA:                      12

    Għaxar snin għaddew minn meta numru ta’ gorilli ħarbu minn żu ġewwa San Francisco. Sadanittant matul dawn is-snin, id-Dinja nħakkmet minn pandemija tal-vajrus ALZ-113…

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Jersey Boys

  • ***

    Direttur:        Clint Eastwood
    Atturi:            John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Vincent Piazza, Freya Tingley
    Ħin:                134 minuti
     
    Klassifika taċ-Ċensura:  12
    Klassifika tal-Knisja:       15
     
    Fl-1951 f’Belleville, New Jersey, Tommy DeVito jħajjar lil ħabibu Frankie Valli jingħaqad miegħu biex jibdew ikantaw flimkiem. Frankie jaħdem f’ħanut tax-xagħar, filwaqt li Tommy jagħmel xi xogħol għal boss tal-mafja Gyp DeCarlo, u dejjem moħħu fli jinnegozja xi ħaġa, inkluż it-talent ta’ Frankie li għandu vuċi tajba ħafna…

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Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie

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    Direttur:          Ben Kellett
    Atturi:             Brendan O’Carroll, Eilish O’Carroll, Nick Nevern, Paddy Houlihan, Fiona O’Carroll, Jennifer Gibney, Sorcha Cusack, Keith Duffy u Danny O’Carroll
    Ħin tal-film:    94 min
     
    KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA:     12
    KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA:          12

    Agnes Brown hi omm ta’ sitt itfal u taħdem f’suq miftuħ, tbiegħ frott u ħaxix. Sfortunatament membru parlamentari, P.R…

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Pope calls for protection of child migrants

    • Pope Francis has sent a message to the “Mexico/Holy See Colloquium on Migration and Development”, urging protection for tens of thousands of unaccompanied children who are migrating North from Central America and Mexico in increasing numbers. 

      The Holy Father’s letter was read to conference participants by Apostolic Nuncio Christophe Pierre.  The conference was also attended by the Vatican’s secretary of state Cardinal Pietro Parolin. 

  • In his message Pope Francis writes that globalization has rendered migration a “hallmark” of society today.  Despite this it is still seen as an emergency or as a circumstantial phenomenon…

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The Gospel of the day – 15th July

  • Matthew 11, 20-24

    Then he began to reproach the towns in which most of his miracles had been worked, because they refused to repent. ‘Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. Still, I tell you that it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on Judgement Day than for you…

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Courses for the Academic Year 2014/2015 from the Pastoral Formation Institute and other Church Entities

  • Fis-sena akkademika li tibda f’Ottubru, l-Istitut ta’ Formazzjoni Pastorali u diversi entitajiet formattivi oħra fil-Knisja ser joffru korsijiet varji ta’ formazzjoni Nisranija. B’kollox qed jiġu organizzati tnax-il kors fosthom tliet korsijiet ġodda li ser jitrattaw l-etika u l-politika, l-evanġelizzazzjoni fl-era diġitali u t-tmexxija tal-kant liturġiku. Il-korsijiet offruti huma dawn:

    • The Human Experience of God in Prayer
    • Ethics & Politics: The Call to Public Life
    • Module on the Ministry of the Liturgical Cantor
    • General Education Award in Evangelisation
    • Higher Education Award in Evangelisation in a Digital Age
    • Higher Education Award in Family Ministry
    • Higher Education Award in Adolescent and Youth Ministry
    • Higher Education Award in the Liturgy
    • Higher Education Award in Parish Nursing
    • Higher Education Award in Catholic Social Teaching
    • Higher Education Award in Missiology
    • Higher Education Award in Christian Leadership
  • Il-korsijiet tal-Istitut ta’ Formazzjoni Pastorali huma lkoll akkreditati mill-Malta Qualifications Council u jwasslu għal general jew higher education award…

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