Monthly Archives: July 2017

Dunkirk

  • ****

    Direttur:          Christopher Nolan

    Atturi:              Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Aneurin Barnard, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy  u Kenneth Branagh

    Ħin tal-Film:    106 min

    Maħruġ minn KRS Releasing Ltd

    KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA:                 12A

    KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA:                       12

    Il-film huwa mqassam fi tliet partijiet…

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The Gospel of the day: 28th July

  • Saint Matthew 13:18-23 

    Jesus said to His disciples: “Hear then the parable of the sower.

    The seed sown on the path is the one who hears the word of the kingdom without understanding it, and the evil one comes and steals away what was sown in his heart.  

    The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and receives it at once with joy…

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Cardinal Pell to plead ‘not guilty’ in abuse case

  • Cardinal George Pell made a brief appearance at an Australian court on Wednesday in a preliminary hearing regarding the accusation of “historical sexual offences”.

    His lawyer said he would plead “not guilty” to the charges leveled against him by police in the state of Victoria.

    Escorted by Australian police, Cardinal George Pell made his way through a mass of journalists and protesters to arrive at a filing hearing before the Melbourne Magistrate’s Court…

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“Today is a new beginning of your participation in the Church” – The Archbishop to the adolescents in Paola who received their Confirmation

  • L-Omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna
  • Parroċċa tal-Madonna ta’ Lourdes, Raħal Ġdid

    25 ta’ Ġunju 2017

    Illum se tistqarru l-fidi fil-Missier, fl-Iben u fl-Ispirtu s-Santu minn rajkom, għax tridu. Wara din l-omelija se nistaqsikom biex tiċħdu lix-xitan u biex tistqarru l-fidi tagħkom u intom se tirrisponduni; meta kontu trabi rrispondew għalikom il-ġenituri u l-parrini tagħkom, illum tirrispondu intom…

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A prayer for trying to conceive

  • God of faith,
    Hear the deepest prayer of our hearts,
    for a child to be ours.
    Help us to believe –
    even when we wrestle with doubt,
    even when months pass empty,
    even when darkness threatens our joy –
    that your promise of love for us
    remains faithful, good, and true.

    God of hope,
    Hold our dreams for a child
    within your loving hands…

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The Gospel of the day: 27th July

  • Saint Matthew 13:10-17 

    The disciples approached Jesus and said, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” He said to them in reply, “Because knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been granted to you, but to them it has not been granted. To anyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; from anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away…

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Search continues for the sacred objects stolen from the Cospicua Church

  • Wara s-serqa mill-knisja l-ġimgħa li għaddiet, fl-aħħar sigħat, il-komunità Bormliża qed taħdem qatigħ biex kemm jista’ jkun issib malajr ritratti tal-oġġetti kollha li nsterqu fil-lejl ta’ bejn il-Ġimgħa 21 u s-Sibt 22 ta’ Lulju. Dan sabiex min jara xi wieħed minnhom jew jaf b’xi dettall, ikellem minnufih lill-Pulizija.

    L-oġġetti misruqa huma tmienja u jammontaw għal €30,000. Dawn huma: kalċi tal-Arċipriet Dun Anton Cassar, kalċi ta’ Dun Reuben Vella, kalċi ta’ Dun Jesmond Manicaro, labra bil-brillantini u kalċi, żewġ pissidi u ċiborju li jappartjenu lill-Knisja ta’ Bormla…

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A year after his murder, Fr Jacques Hamel remembered

  • One year after the brutal killing of Fr. Jacques Hamel, French bishops recalled the beautiful example of the man who lived out every day in simple faithfulness, rooted in the love of Christ.

    Archbishop Georges Pontier of Marseille wrote in a statement Monday that Fr. Jacques Hamel, who was murdered by Islamist extremists while celebrating Mass, was, in the words of his sister, Roseline: “above all a man among men.”

    “It was this man among men who was killed…

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The Gospel of the day: 26th July

  • Saint Matthew 13:1-9  

    On that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by the sea. Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore.

    And he spoke to them at length in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow…

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Pope Francis prays for Charlie Gard as parents end legal fight

  • Pope Francis is praying for the parents of Charlie Gard after a U.S. doctor told them nothing could be done to help their son.

    Chris Gard and Connie Yates announced in London’s High Court on 24 July that they had ended their legal struggle to take their baby overseas for treatment after a U.S. neurologist, Dr Michio Hirano, said he was no longer willing to offer Charlie experimental nucleoside therapy after he examined the results of a new MRI scan…

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