Yearly Archives: 2018

Two years from the passing of Archbishop Emeritus Mgr Joseph Mercieca

14/03/2018

    • Fl‑okkażjoni tat‑tieni anniversarju mill‑mewt tal‑Arċisqof Emeritu Ġużeppi Mercieca, nhar l‑Erbgħa, 21 ta’ Marzu 2018, l‑Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ser jiċċelebra Quddiesa b’suffraġju għal ruħ Mons. Mercieca. Din ser issir fil‑Knisja Parrokkjali ta’ Santa Katarina, iż‑Żejtun, il‑parroċċa fejn miet, fis-6pm.

      L‑Insara huma mistiedna jattendu għal din il-Quddiesa u jkomplu jitolbu għal Mons. Ġużeppi Mercieca li miet fil‑21 ta’ Marzu 2016, fl‑età ta’ 87 sena…

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Church and aid groups appeal for an end to Syrian conflict

14/03/2018

  • As the Syrian civil war enters its eighth year this week, the humanitarian agency Save the Children has issued a new report urging the international community to push for an immediate end to the conflict.

    In the report, published on Monday, Save the Children, describes the “apocalyptic” bombing campaign in Eastern Ghouta that has targeted homes, schools, hospitals and other medical facilities, forcing thousands of families to live in underground shelters…

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The Gospel of the day: 14th March

14/03/2018

  • Saint John 5:17-30 

    Jesus answered the Jews: “My Father is at work until now, so I am at work.” For this reason the Jews tried all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God. 

    Jesus answered and said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, a son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees his father doing; for what he does, his son will do also…

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St John’s Co-Cathedral as you have never seen it before

13/03/2018

  • The St John’s Co-Cathedral Foundation has announced that on Monday the 19th of March, the public can visit the Co-Cathedral for free. The event will be held from 5pm onwards and visitors will also have the opportunity to view the internal gallery which was recently re-opened for the public.

    “Through an inclusive and accessible culture, we are able to increase awareness of this vast sector which has a sound foundation in our country, especially when it comes to our identity,” stated Minister for Justice, Culture and Local Government Owen Bonnici…

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Worrisome decisions by Planning Authority and Environment Resources Authority

Statement by the Church Environment Commission

13/03/2018

  • The Church Environment Commission (KA) is one of the entities who was in favour of the splitting up of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA) into two separate authorities[1], to ensure that environmental interests would take priority over other interests which do not contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of all citizens…

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4 inspiring women who are “Doctors of the Church”

13/03/2018

  • Beginning in the 13th century, popes began pointing out specific saints who were exemplary teachers in various theological or spiritual topics. These holy men and women were given the official title of “Doctor,” which stems from the Latin root word docere, meaning “to teach.”

    The list is relatively small compared to the number of saints in the Church…

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Pope Benedict XVI: there is continuity with Pope Francis’ pontificate

13/03/2018

  • Pope Benedict wanted to give a contribution, very significant as always, to the interior spiritual unity of the two pontificates. Thus Msgr Dario Edoardo Viganò characterizes the letter sent to him by the Pope Emeritus.

    Regarding the magisterium of Pope Francis, Benedict writes that “there is interior unity” between his pontificate and that of Pope Francis, his successor…

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The Gospel of the day: 13th March

13/03/2018

  • Saint John 5:1-16 

    There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate, a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes. In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. 

    When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be well?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me.” 

    Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.” Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked…

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“We have no right over our own life much less over the life of others, from conception to natural death” – The Archbishop

Mass on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Savio College

12/03/2018
  • L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna

  • Savio College, Ħad-Dingli
    11 ta’ Marzu 2018

    “Min jagħmel is-sewwa jersaq lejn id-dawl” (Ġw 3, 21). Jiena nixtieqkom tiftakru din il-frażi qasira mill-Evanġelju skont San Ġwann bħala tifsira profonda ta’ dak li qegħdin niċċelebraw illum. Aħna ltqajna biex nirringrazzjaw lil Alla ta’ din l-inizjattiva tas-Salesjani, ulied San Ġwann Bosco, li fetħu dan il-kulleġġ…

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New apostolic nuncio expected to further Korean reconciliation

12/03/2018

  • The newly-appointed apostolic nuncio to South Korea, Monsignor Alfred Xuereb is expected to encourage the warming relations between the two Koreas and play an active role in peace initiatives in the region.

    Mgr Xuereb, good news for Korean reconciliation

    According to Monsignor Marco Sprizzi, who has been in charge of the Nunciature in Seoul since the retirement of Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Osvaldo Padilla on 15 September, 2017, the appointment of Monsignor Xuereb by Pope Francis bodes well for inter-Korean reconciliation…

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