October 2014 Archives

Live-In for New Parish Priests

04/10/2014

Bejn nhar it-Tlieta 23 u l-Ħamis 25 ta’ Settembru 2014, sar live-in għall-kappillani ġodda (dawk li ġew maħtura għal dan il-ministeru għall-ewwel darba), fid-Dar tal-Irtiri Porziuncola, Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq.
Għal dan il-kors attendew seba’ kappillani, li xi uħud minnhom ħadu l-pussess din is-sena, minn total ta’ disa’.

It-temi prinċipali li ġew indirizzati kienu jinkludu l-Viżjoni Pastorali, kemm dik tal-Papa Franġisku kif ukoll tas-Sinodu (Fr Joe Galea Curmi), Self Awareness (Fr Frankie Cini MSSP), Temi Prattiċi u l-Ispiritwalità tal-Kappillan (Fr Ray Toledo) u qsim ta’ esperjenzi (Fr Gordon Refalo, Kappillan ta’ Ħal Luqa u President tal-Kulleġġ tal-Kappillani u Joe Farrugia, Delegat tal-Arċisqof għal-Lajċi…

04/10/2014

Ċentru Pastorali Sant’Andrija, il-Mosta
27 ta’ Settembru 2014
Il-Ftuħ tas-Sena Pastorali tal-Moviment ta’ Kana, din is-sena qed isir fil-kuntest tas-Sinodu tal-Isqfijiet dwar il-Familja. Għall-Papa Franġisku, tant hi importanti l-familja li mhux sinodu wieħed sejjaħ, imma tnejn. Ftit ġranet oħra ser tibda tiltaqa’ l-Assembleja Ġenerali Straordinarja tas-Sinodu tal-Isqfijiet. Is-Sena d-dieħla tiltaqa’ l-Assembleja Ġenerali Ordinarja tas-Sinodu ta;-Isqfijiet, dejjem bil-familja bħala tema…

04/10/2014

‘Family and future of Europe’ is the theme of the plenary assembly taking place in these days at the Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE). On Friday morning Pope Francis received seventy of its members, including the President of the Maltese Episcopal Conference, Bishop Mario Grech, to whom he delivered an off-the-cuff address. He subsequently handed them a written discourse underlining how, as pastors close to their flock, they well know the complexity of the panorama and the challenges the mission of the Church faces, even in Europe…

02/10/2014

02/10/2014

Oratorju tal-Konkatidral ta’ San Ġwann, il-Belt Valletta
1 ta’ Ottubru 2014
Insellem lilek Eċċellenza Aġent President, u nirringrazzja lilkom ilkoll tal-preżenza tagħkom.

Jiena nixtieq nislet ftit ħsibijiet ispirati mill-kelma ta’ Alla li għadna kemm smajna. Il-kelma hija dik assenjata mill-Knisja għal din il-ġurnata, it-tlieta fis-26 ġimgħa ta’ matul is-sena. Illum infakkru wkoll il-festa ta’ Santa Tereżina tal-Bambin Ġesù, Tereża ta’ Lisieux…

02/10/2014

The marriage and the family: the European paradox Rome, Domus Pacis, 2-4 October 2014 This afternoon (2 October) sees the start of the annual Plenary Assembly of CCEE, being held in Rome (Domus Pacis) and scheduled to end on Saturday 4 October. Cardinals Péter Erdő, CCEE President, and Angelo Bagnasco, President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference and Vice-President of CCEE, will open the meeting…

02/10/2014

02/10/2014

On the eve of the one year anniversary of a devastating shipwreck, Pope Francis has called on the men and women of Europe to ‘open the doors of their hearts’ and welcome migrants who risk their lives at sea to flee war and poverty.
Around 370 people, most of them Eritrean and Syrian asylum-seekers, drowned on Oct. 3, 2013 when their smugglers’ boat capsized off the island of Lampedusa…

01/10/2014

On Wednesday 1st October 2014, Bishop Mario Grech, President of the Maltese Episcopal Conference, addressed a press conference, before leaving Malta to attend an Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. The Synod, which starts on Sunday 5th October and ends on Sunday 19th October, will be discussing the theme ‘Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the context of Evangelisation’…

01/10/2014