News from the Church in Malta
L‑Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ħatar lil Dun Reuben Micallef bħala kappillan tal‑parroċċa ta’ Pembroke.
Dun Reuben twieled fid‑29 ta’ Lulju 1977. Huwa rċieva l‑edukazzjoni tiegħu fl‑iskola primarja Immaculate Conception f’ Ħal Tarxien, fil‑Kulleġġ De La Salle, fil‑Junior College (G.F. Abela) l‑Imsida, u kompla l‑istudji terzjarji fil‑Fakulta tat‑Teoloġija (Filosofija u Teoloġija) fl‑Università ta’ Malta…
“Malta’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union offers our nation the opportunity to give a strong impetus to revitalizing faith in the European project. We augur that Malta will continue to consolidate and implement the values of human dignity, democracy, human rights, justice, solidarity and the rule of law cherished by the founding fathers of the European Union, in the areas of the six priorities adopted for its Presidency: migration, security, the single market, social inclusion, neighbourhood policy and the maritime sector.”
This was the message conveyed by the Archbishop of Malta, Mgr Charles J…
Pope Francis met on Thursday with hundreds of Italians from the archdiocese of Spoleto-Norcia, devastated by a series of powerful earthquakes over the past six months. The central Italian town of Amatrice and surrounding areas were hit by a 6.3 magnitude quake in August which killed nearly 300 people. Other powerful quakes caused major damage in the same region on October 26th and 30th, with the latest tremors reported in Spoleto last Monday, January 2nd…
Four seminarians, who are currently in their fifth year of studies at the Archbishop’s Seminary, will ask Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna to accept them officially as candidates for the Ordination to the Diaconate and the Priesthood, on Sunday 8th January 2017. This will take place during Epiphany Mass at St. John’s Co‑Cathedral, Valletta, at 9:15 a.m.
Peter Ellul from the Parish of St Paul’s Shipwreck, Valletta, Jean Gové from Our Lady of Assumption, Mosta, Aayrton‑Ray Muscat from St Lucy Parish, Imtarfa, and Matthew Pulis from The Holy Family Parish of Iklin, will publicly manifest their will to offer themselves to the Church to serve in the ministerial priesthood…
Pope Francis on Wednesday continued his series of reflections on Christian hope, speaking of the inconsolable pain of a parent losing a child. The Pope focused his words on the Old Testament figure of Rachel, wife of Jacob, who is described by the prophet Jeremiah as weeping bitter tears for her children in exile.
In the book of Genesis, we learn that Rachel died in childbirth, giving life to her second son, Benjamin…
On Thursday, 5 January, the Vigil of Epiphany, Pope Francis will meet at the Vatican with victims of the devastating earthquakes that struck central Italy in the course of the past year.
Almost 300 people were killed in an earthquake that struck near the town of Amatrice on August 24. Just over two months later, a series of quakes struck the same region, including a magnitude 6.6 earthquake on October 30 – the largest quake to strike Italy in over thirty years…
Parroċċa tal-Fgura
23 ta’ Diċembru 2016
“O Għimmanu-El, sultan li tajtna liġi, ejja u salvana Mulej Alla tagħna”. Din l-antifona hija propju ta’ dan il-jum, tat-23 ta’ Diċembru, u ngħiduha kull sena f’dan il-jum biex infakkru li tassew qorob il-jum tat-twelid tal-Mulej…
Direttur: Martin Scorsese
Atturi: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Tadanobu Asano Ciaran Hands u Liam Neeson
Ħin tal-Film: 2h 41 min
Maħruġ minn KRS Releasing Ltd.
KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA: 12A
KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA: 15
Fis-seklu sbatax, żewg patrijiet Ġiżwiti, Sebastiao Rodrigues u Francisco Garrpe jiddeċiedu li jmorru ġewwa l-Ġapan wara li s-superjur tagħhom għarrafhom, b’sogħba kbira, li l-missjunarju Father Cristovao Ferreira ma baqgħax iktar Ġiżwita billi taħt tortura kien ċaħad il-fidi tiegħu…
Diretturi: Eric Summer u Eric Warin
Ilħna: Elle Fanning, Dane DelHaan, Maddie Ziegler, Carly Rae Jepsen, Elena Dunkelmar u Shoshana Sparling
Ħin tal-Film: 89 min
Maħruġ minn KRS Releasing Ltd.
KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA: U
KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA: U
Ninsabu fis-sena 1879, Felicie, tifla orfni ta’ ħdax –il sena, tgħix ġewwa orfanatrofju…
