News from the Church in Malta
Matthew 23,27-32
‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look handsome on the outside, but inside are full of the bones of the dead and every kind of corruption. In just the same way, from the outside you look upright, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. ‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! …
L-Arċisqof Pawlu Cremona O.P. ser jgħaddi l-jiem ta’ mistrieħ tas-sajf bejn nhar it-Tlieta 26 ta’ Awwissu u t-Tlieta 2 ta’ Settembru.
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Monday
9.15 a.m. The Archbishop presides over a Curia senior staff meeting, at his residence, Attard.
6.00 p.m. The Archbishop participates in a consultation meeting with regards to the preparatory document for the Bishops’ Synod, Mount St.Joseph, Mosta.
Tuesday
9.00 a.m. The Archbishop participates in a meeting of the Episcopal Conference, at his residence, Attard.
6.00 p.m. The Archbishop participates in a second consultation meeting with regards to the preparatory document for the Bishops’ Synod, Mount St.Joseph, Mosta…
Monday
9.15 a.m. The Archbishop presides over a Curia senior staff meeting, at his residence, Attard.
Tuesday
7.00 p.m. The Archbishop participates in a celebration in Valletta on the occasion of the 72nd Anniversary from the arrival in Malta of St Mary’s Convoy.
Wednesday
Thursday
5.45 p.m. The Archbishop presides over translation, vespers and Mass on the occasion of the Feast of the Assumption, at the Cathedral, Mdina.
Friday
9.30 a.m…
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI celebrated a special Mass Sunday morning upon conclusion of the Schuelerkreis, a yearly gathering of theologian Joseph Ratzinger’s former students. The liturgy was held in the church of the Campo Santo Teutonico, or German cemetery within Vatican City.
Theologian Karl-Heinze Menke, Dogmatic Professor at the University of Bonn, was the primary relator at the liturgy.
The Schuelerkreis sessions from 21-24 August at the Mariapoli Center in Castelgandolfo outside Rome explored the theme of the Theology of the Cross…
The ‘Grupp Żgħażagħ Gudja’, with the support of RTK4Charity, will be organising the first edition of “Walk, Cycle, Run” in aid of Id-Dar tal-Providenza on Sunday 28th September 2014. This activity, that the organisers explained is not a marathon or a competition with an eventual winner, is built on three different sports disciplines.
A Walk – that starts from the main square in Siġġiewi at 8.45am
A Cycle – that starts from the square in front of Mdina Cathedral at 9.15am
A Run – starting from in front of the Żurrieq Parish Church at 9.15am
The three activities will end up at Id-Dar tal-Providenza though at different times…
This year’s second edition of the Children Cinema Day is scheduled to be on Saturday 13th September when once again cinemas in Malta and Gozo will be offering a selection of no fewer than 16 films at reduced prices of admission.
The films programmed to be screened on the day include a variety of genres ranging from animation adventures and comedies, live action adventure, drama and a thriller…
Direttur: Damon Beesley, Iain Morris
Atturi: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas
Ħin: 96 minuti
Klassifika taċ-Ċensura: 15
Klassifika tal-Knisja: 18
Madwar sitt xhur wara l-ġrajja ta’ l-ewwel film, Simon u Neil imorru jaraw lil Will li issa jinsab fl-universita’ ta’ Bristol fejn ma tantx jidher li qiegħed miexi tajjeb, filwaqt li Simon għandu l-problemi tiegħu ukoll minħabba li t-tfajla li ltaqa’ magħha s-sajf ta’ qabel fi Kreta trid tibqa’ mwaħħla miegħu…
The Holy See’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin has sent a message of condolence on behalf of Pope Francis for the family of the U.S. journalist James Foley, brutally executed by Islamic State militants. The message was read out Sunday at a memorial mass for Foley at the family’s Catholic parish, Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church in Rochester, New Hampshire. The letter, addressed to the Bishop of Rockeville Centre, William Francis Murphy, reads:
“The Holy Father, deeply saddened by the death of James Wright Foley, asks you kindly to convey his personal condolences and the assurance of his closeness in prayer to James’ loved ones. He commends James to the loving mercy of God our Father, and joins all who mourn him in praying for an end to senseless violence and the dawn of reconciliation and peace among all the members of the human family. Upon the Foley family, and upon his friends and colleagues, he invokes the consolation and strength borne of our hope in Christ’s Resurrection.”
The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr…
Matthew 23,23-26
‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay your tithe of mint and dill and cummin and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law-justice, mercy, good faith! These you should have practised, those not neglected. You blind guides, straining out gnats and swallowing camels! ‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! …
