The Church is a community of disciples who follow Christ because they recognize they are sinners in need of forgiveness, Pope Francis said during the Wednesday general audience in St Peter’s Square. This week’s catechesis of the Pope centred on the Gospel account of Jesus calling St Matthew – a tax collector and a sinner – to be his disciple. He said that by eating with the tax collectors and sinners, Jesus shows how even they can become disciples…
Saint John 6:52-59 The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his Flesh to eat?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven…
Seminar in Malta for catechists on the inclusion of persons with Autism in catechism and the Eucharistic Celebration
14/04/2016
On the occassion of Autism Awareness Day, the Secretariat for Catechesis within the Archdiocese of Malta in collaboration with Id-Dar tal-Providenza and the Catechetica Office within the Italian Episcopal Conference organised a two-day Seminar for catechists on the inclusion of persons with autism in catechetical formation and the Eucharistic Celebration. The guest speakers for this seminar were Sr Veronica Amata Donatello, Fiorenza Pestelli and Maria Grazia Fiore who are all active in the disability field…
In a statement released ahead of Pope Francis’ visit to the Greek island of Lesbos the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) says the papal visit could not come at a more critical time. The statement says that the recent EU deal with Ankara that pushes back refugees and migrants arriving to the Greek shores to Turkey is in clear violation of international law “and the principle of non-refoulement or not pushing back people in need of protection. “During a time when push backs are seemingly the solution being put forward by the EU, we hope the Pope’s visit is not just a symbol of hope for refugees, but a concrete push for the Greek government and other European states to actualise those hopes,” said Fr Thomas Smolich SJ, JRS International Director…
Saint John 6:44-51 Jesus said to the crowds: “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day. It is written in the prophets: ‘They shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.” Saint of the day: St…
There are two types of persecution against Christians, the Pope said on Tuesday morning, 12 April, during Mass at Santa Marta. There is the explicit kind — to which he related the martyrs killed at Easter in Pakistan — and the sort of persecution that is “polite, disguised as culture, modernity and progress”, and ends up taking away man’s freedom and even the right to conscientious objection…
Nhar it-Tnejn 11 ta’ April 2016, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ta l-Ministeru tal-Lettorat lil żewġ seminaristi waqt Quddiesa fil-Kappella tas-Seminarju tal-Arċisqof, Tal-Virtù. Iż-żewġ seminaristi, li bħalissa jinsabu fil-ħames sena tal-formazzjoni fis-Seminarju tal-Arċisqof, huma Anton D’Amato, mill-Parroċċa ta’ Santa Katarina, iż-Żurrieq, u Bernard Micallef, mill-Parroċċa ta’ Marija Annunzjata, Ħal Tarxien. Bil-Ministeru tal-Lettorat is-seminaristi saru qarrejja uffiċjali tal-Kelma ta’ Alla waqt il-quddies u waqt ċelebrazzjonijiet liturġiċi oħra…
Saint John 6:35-40 Jesus said to the crowds, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst. But I told you that although you have seen (me), you do not believe. Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me, because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me. And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day.” Saint of the day: St…
It-Tlieta 12 ta’ April 2016, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna laqa’ lil Fr Cyril Axelrod, fi żjara ta’ korteżija fil-Kurja tal-Arċisqof il-Furjana. Fr Cyril huwa saċerdot tal-Ordni Redemptorista, li ħadem fost persuni neqsin mis-smigħ fil-pajjiżi tal-Afrika t’Isfel, iċ-Ċina u l-Ingilterra. Huwa ppreżenta l-bijografija tiegħu fi ktieb, bl-isem, ‘U Jibda l-Vjaġġ’ lill-Arċisqof, tradott għall-Malti minn Fred Bezzina.
‘Dun Cyril Axelrod ta kontribut uniku u profond lid-dinja…mhux minkejja n-nuqqas ta’ smigħ u tad-dawl imma minħabba fih…
**** Ditettur: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan Atturi: Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt, Nick Frost, Sam Claflin, Rob Brydon u Jessica Chastain Ħin tal-Film: 114 min. Maħruġ minn KRS Releasing Ltd Klassifika taċ-Ċensura: 12A Klassifika tal-Knisja: 12 Qabel ma nkitbet l-istorja ta’ Snow White and the Huntsman, ir-Regina ħażina Ravenna kienet ħatfet ir-renju minn idejn dawk li kienu ssaltnu qabel…
