News from the Church in Malta
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Matthew 20, 1-16
‘Now the kingdom of Heaven is like a landowner going out at daybreak to hire workers for his vineyard. He made an agreement with the workers for one denarius a day and sent them to his vineyard. Going out at about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place and said to them, “You go to my vineyard too and I will give you a fair wage.” So they went…
Visiting Jesuit Fr Pierre de Charentenay S.J., PhD, will deliver a public lecture entitled ‘Restoration of a Charism’ on Friday 26th September at 7.30pm at Mount St Joseph Retreat House, Tarġa Gap, Mosta, as part of the bicentenary commemorative events marking the 1814 restoration of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits).
Pierre de Charentenay S.J., former president of the Jesuit Universities in Paris, France was also visiting Professor of Political Science at the Ateneo de Manila University…
Greetings of Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco & Cardinal Reinhard Marx
Madrid, Friday 19 September – “the Church is free to express a value judgement about everything that happens and believes to be good – not to judge the hearts of people, but to refer to a more profound and realistic vision of the human person, the common good, and social relationships”, said yesterday Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa and CCEE Vice-President, in his welcoming address at the II Catholic Social Days for Europe, taking place in the Spanish capital until Sunday 21…
Luke 8, 4-15
With a large crowd gathering and people from every town finding their way to him, he told this parable: ‘A sower went out to sow his seed. Now as he sowed, some fell on the edge of the path and was trampled on; and the birds of the air ate it up. Some seed fell on rock, and when it came up it withered away, having no moisture…
Il-Kummissjoni Pastorali fid-Dinja tax-xogħol tixtieq ittenni l-ħsieb f’waqtu li Mons. Arċisqof Pawlu Cremona O.P. għamel fl-okkażjoni tal-Festa Nazzjonali tal-Vitorja ta’ din is-sena.
Mons. Arċisqof f’dan il-Jum Nazzjonali semma u kkummenta fuq ir-realtà tax-xogħol meta qal: ‘F’pajjiż żgħir bħal tagħna jista’ faċilment jiġri li l-avvanz ekonomiku mhux dejjem ikun ta’ ġid għall-iżvilupp ħolistiku tal-pajjiż. Jekk tiġi maħnuqa l-inizjattiva u l-ħidma tal-intrapriżi żgħar u medji minn dawk li huma msejħa l-ġganti tat-tkabbir ekonomiku, għada pitgħada dan jista’ jkun ta’ detriment għall-ekonomija ta’ pajjiżna…
Pope Francis has sent a message – through his Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin – to the II Catholic Social Days for Europe, currently underway in Madrid.
The message states that “one of the great challenges for the Church in Europe is to find effective ways to bring the light of the Gospel to bear upon the pressing issues which affect the continent”, which include teh plague of youth unemployment and rising tides of popularism…
Luke 8, 1-3
Now it happened that after this he made his way through towns and villages preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. With him went the Twelve, as well as certain women who had been cured of evil spirits and ailments: Mary surnamed the Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, Joanna the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, Susanna, and many others who provided for them out of their own resources…
L-Uffiċċju Djoċesan tal-Volontarjat qed jistieden lil dawk kollha nvoluti fil-qasam tal-volontarjat, għal seminar bit-tema ‘Għall-Qadi tal-Bniedem: Il-Vizjoni tal-Papa Franġisku’. Dan ser isir nhar is-Sibt 25 t’Ottubru 2014, fis-Seminarju tal-Virtu’, ir-Rabat, bejn id-9.15 a.m. u n-12.30 p.m.
Il-programm jinkludi preżentazzjoni minn Fr Joe Galea Curmi, Assistent Segretarju Pastorali, li ser iwieġeb għal diversi mistoqsijiet fosthom: x’inhuma l-isfidi li qed iħabbtu wiċċhom magħhom dawk li jaħdmu fis-servizz għall-oħrajn, b’liema mod il-bniedem jista’ jitqiegħed fiċ-ċentru tas-servizzi offruti, u kif nistgħu naħdmu kontra l-kultura tal-iskart fejn il-bniedem jispiċċa eskluż u mormi…
Pope Francis encouraged Catholics go forth and bring the Gospel message to the world and to their communities.
Speaking on Wednesday during his General Audience the Pope spoke of the universal and apostolic nature of the Catholic Church.
Pope Francis explained that the word catholic means that she is universal, something that she shows by speaking all languages, which – he said – is the effect of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit gave to the Apostles and the whole Church the gift of proclaiming the Good News of God’s salvation and love to all, even to the ends of the earth…
