Monthly Archives: August 2015

PIXELS

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    Direttur:          Chris Columbus

    Atturi:              Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad, Brian Cox, Ashley Benson u Jane Krakowski

    Ħin tal-film:    105 min
     

    KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA:                 PG

    KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA:                      12
     

    Fis-sajf ta’ l-1982, iż-żagħżugh Sam Brenner jidħol għal-kompettizzjoni mondjali f’logħba tal-vidjowgejms. Fl-istess żmien, in-NASA  bagħtet  kapsula fl-ispazju li fiha kien hemm elementi tal-kultura preżenti fid-dinja tagħna…

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Southpaw

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    Direttur:        Antoine Fuqua

    Atturi:            Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, Rachel McAdams, Oona Laurence

    Ħin:                124 minuti

    Klassifika tal-Gvern: 15

    Klassifika tal-Knisja: 18
     

    Billy “The Great” Hope ikun il-middleweight champion li qatt għadu ma’ ġie megħlub. Iżda issa li beda jikber fiż-żmien Billy beda juri vulnerabilita’: qed jaqla’ aktar daqqiet u fl-aħħar ġlieda li kellu jkollu jitħabat ħafna biex jirbah…

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Environment Commission reactions to the three bills related to the MEPA demerger

  • Development Planning Act, 2015

    Environment and Planning Review Tribunal Act, 2015

    Environment Protection Act, 2015

    Having proposed the idea of the demerger of MEPA in 2009 (before it was ever proposed as an electoral promise), the Interdiocesan Commission for the Environment (KA) submitted its reactions to the three Bills which aim to split MEPA into two Authorities, with the aim of further clarifying its position on the issue, thus clearing up any misinterpretation of its original stance…

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Mercy towards migrants – Pope Francis

  • Pope Francis has chosen as the theme for the 2016 World Day for Migrants and Refugees the theme: Migrants and refugees challenge us. The response of the Gospel of Mercy. A communique released by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People said the choice of this theme fits in well within the context of the upcoming Jubilee Year of Mercy proclaimed by the Pope…

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The Gospel of the day: 21st August

  • St Matthew 22, 34-40

    When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind…

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The Gospel of the day: 20th August

  • St Matthew 22, 1-14 Jesus again in reply spoke to them in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come. A second time he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those invited: “Behold, I have prepared my banquet, my calves and fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready; come to the feast.”’ Some ignored the invitation and went away, one to his farm, another to his business…
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All faiths must work together on ecological crisis – Cardinal Turkson

  • The President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Turkson, on Monday sent greetings to a two-day Islamic Climate Change Symposium taking place in Istanbul.

    In a Message presented by Fr. John T. Brinkman, Cardinal Turkson called the on-going ecological crisis “the gravest and most intractable of all” the problems facing the modern world.

    “A great motivation which unites Christians, Muslims and many others is the firm belief in God,” the Message reads…

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The Gospel of the day: 19th August

  • St Matthew 20, 1-16a

    “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the labourers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing…

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Jubilee of Mercy a time to care for sick and dying – Pope Francis

  • Pope Francis has said the Jubilee of Mercy will be a “good opportunity for increasing the collaboration between pastors and the laity in the mission of affectionately and tenderly caring for the sick and dying.”

    His words were conveyed in a message sent to Manuel Martin Sjöberg, President of the Federación de Servicios de sacerdotales Urgencia y Nocturno (Federation of Priestly Emergency Services)…

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The Gospel of the day: 18th August

  • St Matthew 19:23-30

    Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God…

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