March 2015 Archives

The Gospel of the day: 24th March

24/03/2015

Saint John 8:21-30

Jesus said to the Pharisees: “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.” So the Jews said, “He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?” He said to them, “You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above…

23/03/2015

- Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna has appointed Fr Joseph Galea-Curmi as Vicar General. He will succeed Mgr Scicluna who also served as Vicar General following his appointment as Auxiliary Bishop of Malta on 6th October 2012. Fr Joseph Galea-Curmi was born in Malta on 1st January 1964, and ordained a priest on 5th July 1991. He studied at the Faculty of Theology, University of Malta, and at the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, where he obtained a doctorate in Theology (with specialization in Pastoral Theology)…

23/03/2015

Knisja ta’ Santa Katarina, iż-Żejtun 18 ta’ Frar 2015 Fis-silta li smajna, mill-Evanġelu ta’ San Mark (Mt 6,1-6.16-18), il-Mulej Ġesù jitkellem dwar tlett atteġjamenti: is-sawm, il-karità u t-talb. Jekk nirriflettu ftit fuq dawn it-tlett atteġġjamenti, li b’xi mod huma l-qafas tal-mixja tagħna lejn l-Għid, liema mixja nsejħulha r-Randan, nirrealizzaw li meta nitkellmu fuq is-sawm qed nitkellmu fuq mixja li rrid nagħmel fuqi nnifsi billi nitgħallem niċċaħħad u nitgħallem ir-rażan…

23/03/2015

- Fasting: Waiting – Anticipation – Feeling at Home – Forgiveness
Għeżież ħuti Nsara,

Fil-bidu ta’ dan ir-Randan Imqaddes tas-sena 2015, u bi preparazzjoni għall-mixja li ser nagħmlu f’dan iż-żmien, xtaqt inwassal messaġġ qasir lil kull wieħed u waħda minnkom.

Darba minnhom, il-Fariżej u l-kittieba staqsew lil Ġesù għaliex id-dixxipli tiegħu ma kinux qed isumu…

23/03/2015

Pope Francis says the lives of Christians must be coherent and express faith in action. Speaking to the crowds gathered in a rainy St. Peter’s Square for the Sunday Angelus, the Pope invited all believers to always bear in mind the message of the Gospel, the image of the Crucified Lord, and the need to be witnesses of faith. Calling on Christians to express their faith in action, the Pope also turned to those who have yet to experience an encounter with Christ offering the gift of a pocket-sized Gospel in which “we can meet Jesus, listen to Him, and get to know Him”…

23/03/2015

- Saint John 8:1-11
  
  Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle. They said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women…

22/03/2015

Pope Francis spoke of the ‘terrorism of gossip’ as the biggest sign of the devils work in a meeting with priests, religious and seminarians at Naples Cathedral Saturday. The Gothic ‘Duomo’ – home to the much revered relic of St. Januarius patron Saint of Naples – was the setting for Pope Francis’ first appointment of the afternoon. He was welcomed by Cardinal Crescenzio Seppe, the Archbishop of Naples and then surrounded by an enthusiastic group of cloistered nuns who had been given special permission to attend the encounter…

22/03/2015

First Reading
Book of Jeremiah 31:31-34

The days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers the day I took them by the hand to lead them forth from the land of Egypt; for they broke my covenant and I had to show myself their master, says the LORD. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD…

21/03/2015

Nhar l-21 ta’ Marzu 2015, sar l-Ingress Solenni ta’ Mons. Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna li sar mill-Knisja ta’ San Duminku sal-Katidral tal-Imdina.

Ir-Rotta minn Ħal Lija sal-Katidral

L-Arċisqof Scicluna telaq mid-dar privatament sakemm wasal sal-Knisja Parrokjali ta’ Ħal-Lija fit-8:15am fejn intlaqa’ min-nies tal-lokal u daħal fil-knisja għal mument ta’ talb quddiem Ġesù Sagramentat. Wara sellem lis-Sindku u l-Kunsill ta’ Ħal Lija u telaq bil-karozza, skortat mill-pulizija, lejn ir-Rabat…

21/03/2015

‘Tħobbni int?’
Il-kelmiet ta’ Ġesù lil Pietru jgħoddu għal kull wieħed u waħda minna. Ilum, b’mod speċjali, Ġesù jgħidhom lili, magħżul biex inkun ir-Ragħaj tagħkom. Id-domanda ta’ Ġesù tfakkarni fid-dgħufija tiegħi u fil-Ħniena tiegħu. Tfakkarni li l-qofol ta’ kull ministeru pastorali huwa l-imħabba: l-imħabba lejn Ġesù, ir-Ragħaj it-Tajjeb, li ħabbna qabel ħabbejnieh aħna, kif ukoll l-imħabba lejn kull membru tal-merħla tiegħu…