Monthly Archives: February 2018

Meetings about the collective agreement for educators in Church schools

09/02/2018

  • The Secretariat for Catholic Education and the Malta Union of Teachers are meeting regularly to update the Church Schools collective agreement.

    Increments and allowances indicated in the Sectoral Agreement between the Government of Malta and the Malta Union of Teachers, dated 21st December 2017, will be given to all educators employed by Church Schools and the Secretariat for Catholic Education, once the agreement has been signed and approval received from the Ministry of Education and Employment…

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Two Mexican priests shot dead in ambush

09/02/2018
  • 21 priests have been killed in Mexico in the last five years

  • Two priests have been killed in an armed ambush in Mexico.

    Fr Ivan Anorve Jaimes and Fr Germain Muniz Garcia were attacked on the morning of February 5, as they drove between the cities of Taxco and Iguala in Guerrero state, 100 miles south of Mexico City…

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Have you ever wondered about all the capabilities of your body?

09/02/2018

  • What would you compare your body to? 

    A temple? People would chuckle at that. 

    What about a roller coaster? Enjoy the ride. After all, we might all be conditioned. Maybe we have certain impulses that make us more inclined towards one gender, whoever and whatever we are, but we’re pretty flexible. The body becomes an instrument for pleasure alone, and the body is a body…

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The Gospel of the day: 9th February

09/02/2018

  • Saint Mark 7:31-37 

    Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him. 

    He took him off by himself away from the crowd…

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Benedict XVI: ‘I am on a pilgrimage towards Home’

08/02/2018

  • In a new letter, the Pope Emeritus speaks of his declining strength but says he is surrounded by ‘love and goodness’

  • Pope emeritus Benedict has sent a short letter to the editor of the Italian news daily Il Corriere della Sera.

    The Pope emeritus was responding to the many inquiries from readers as to how he is spending “this last period of his life.” Noting the “slow decline” of his “physical strength,” Benedict says in the letter that “interiorly, I am on a pilgrimage towards Home.” The former Roman Pontiff admits that “this last stretch of the road” is “at times difficult,” but says, “It is a great grace for me to be surrounded by a love and goodness that I could not have imagined.”

    Concluding his letter, Benedict said he considers the concern of the readers for his well-being as an “accompaniment” for the journey…

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Pilgrimage and Eucharistic Celebration on the feast of St Paul’s Shipwreck in Burmarrad

08/02/2018

  • Fl-okkażjoni tal-festa ta’ San Pawl, nhar is-Sibt, 10 ta’ Frar 2018, ser isir pellegrinaġġ lejn San Pawl Milqi, li jintemm b’Quddiesa ċċelebrata mill-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna.

    L-attività ser tibda fid-9:15am ħdejn il-Knisja tal-Lunzjata, is-Salina, fejn ser ikun hemm mument ta’ talb u ssir żjara lill-Katakombi li hemm fiż-żona u wara jibda l-pellegrinaġġ lejn San Pawl Milqi, il-post marbut mat-tradizzjoni tal-laqgħa ta’ San Pawl fl-oqsma ta’ Publiju…

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The Gospel of the day: 8th February

08/02/2018

  • Saint Mark 7:24-30 

    Jesus went to the district of Tyre. He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it, but he could not escape notice. Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him. She came and fell at his feet. 

    The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, “Let the children be fed first…

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International St Francis de Sales Days: Communication at the service of the truth

07/02/2018

  • Some 300 Catholic communicators from many countries met at the Sanctuary of Lourdes (France) from 24 to 26 January to experience the 22nd International Days of Saint Francis de Sales. It was the first time the event was open to international participation.

    The meeting, organized by the Catholic Media Federation (FMC), the Secretariat for Communications of the Holy See and SIGNIS, was on the theme “Media and Truth”…

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“The path of light also embraces the path of the cross” – The Archbishop

Mass on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord and the 22nd World Day of the Consecrated Life

07/02/2018
  • L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna

  • Kappella tal-Monasteru tas-Sorijiet Klarissi, San Ġiljan
    2 ta’ Frar 2018

    L-ewwel nett nixtieq nirringrazzjakom talli lqajtuni biex flimkien niċċelebraw din l-Ewkaristija fil-festa tal-preżentazzjoni tal-Mulej u fil-jum iddedikat lill-ħajja reliġjuża. Illum ningħaqdu mal-Papa Franġisku biex nitolbu għar-reliġjużi kollha mad-dinja kollha.

    U nitolbu wkoll il-grazzja li, fid-dawl ta’ din il-festa, il-Mulej iqanqal fil-qlub taż-żgħażagħ dik il-ħeġġa li jagħtu ħajjtihom għalih…

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The Gospel of the day: 7th February

07/02/2018

  • Saint Mark 7:14-23 

    Jesus summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” 

    When he got home away from the crowd his disciples questioned him about the parable. He said to them, “Are even you likewise without understanding? …

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