Yearly Archives: 2018

Vatican, Versace and Vogue team up to exhibit papal vestments

01/03/2018

  • Italian designer Donatella Versace poses on February 26, 2018, with editor-in-chief of Vogue Anna Wintour and cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Vatican Pontifical Council for Culture, at Rome’s Palazzo Colonna.

  • The Vatican, Versace and Vogue are joining forces to show off the Catholic influences in fashion.

    The Vatican’s culture minister joined Donatella Versace and Vogue’s Anna Wintour on Monday to offer sneak peek of gorgeous Vatican liturgical vestments, jeweled miters and historic papal tiaras that will star in a spring exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York…

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The Gospel of the day: 1st March

01/03/2018

  • Saint Luke 16:19-31 

    Jesus said to the Pharisees: “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table. Dogs even used to come and lick his sores. When the poor man died, he was carried away by angels to the bosom of Abraham…

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Hosts ‘miraculously’ preserved 16 months after devastating earthquake in Italy

28/02/2018

  • Forty ‘miraculously’ preserved, consecrated hosts have been discovered in a church that was destroyed by a large earthquake in central Italy in 2016.

    The hosts, recovered from a tabernacle recently retrieved from the ruins of the parish church of Arquata del Tronto, have no bacteria or mold, as usually happens to hosts after a few weeks, according to the Italian bishops’ newspaper Avvenire…

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Artillery strikes disrupt Syrian ceasefire

28/02/2018

  • The United Nations says fighting continued in Eastern Ghouta on Tuesday, despite a brief five-hour daily truce ordered by Russia.

  • A daily five-hour temporary ceasefire began on Tuesday, but first indications suggest Assad-government artillery strikes on Douma, Harasta and Misraba continued unabated.

    For their part, the Russian government accused the rebels of firing mortars on routes earmarked for evacuations, as the violence derailed all aid deliveries and medical evacuations…

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Inauguration of Senglea’s Christ the Redeemer statue

28/02/2018

  • Nhar is‑Sibt, 3 ta’ Marzu 2018, ser tiġi inawgurata mill‑ġdid l‑istatwa devota ta’ Ġesù Redentur, fil‑Bażilika tal‑Isla, wara x‑xogħol ta’ restawr u konservazzjoni li sar. L‑inawgurazzjoni, li tibda fil‑5:30 p.m., ser tinkludi preżentazzjoni tax‑xogħol li sar matul l‑aħħar disa’ xhur ta’ ħidma intensiva.

    Dan wara li l‑Parroċċa ta’ Marija Bambina kkummissjonat numru ta’ studji xjentifiċi sabiex isir ir‑restawr u l‑konservazzjoni tal‑istatwa li beda f’Mejju tas‑sena li għaddiet…

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The Gospel of the day: 28th February

28/02/2018

  • Saint Matthew 20:17-28. 

    As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the Twelve disciples aside by themselves, and said to them on the way, Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.” 

    Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee approached him with her sons and did him homage, wishing to ask him for something…

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Ad multos annos to Archbishop Scicluna on the third anniversary of his appointment as Archbishop of Malta

27/02/2018

  • Il-Knisja f’Malta tifraħ lill-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna f’għeluq it-tliet snin minn meta l-Papa Franġisku ħatru Arċisqof ta’ Malta.

    Kien fis-27 ta’ Frar 2015, f’konferenza tal-aħbarijiet fil-Kurja, li n-Nunzju Appostoliku ta’ dak iż-żmien, Mons. Aldo Cavalli, ħabbar uffiċjalment li l-Papa Frangisku ħatar lil Mons. Charles Scicluna bħala s-suċċessur tal-Arċisqof Pawlu Cremona. 

    Fl-ewwel kelmtejn tiegħu lill-midja, bħala l-Arċisqof-elett, Mons…

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The Gospel of the day: 27th February

27/02/2018

  • Saint Matthew 23:1-12 

    Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees have taken their seat on the chair of Moses. Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, but do not follow their example. For they preach but they do not practice. 

    They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they will not lift a finger to move them…

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The Archdiocese of Malta congratulates Archbishop-elect Mgr Alfred Xuereb

26/02/2018

  • L‑Arċidjocesi ta’ Malta tifraħ lill‑Arċisqof-elett, Mons. Alfred Xuereb, għall‑ħatra mill‑Papa Franġisku ta’ Nunzju Appostoliku fil‑Korea ta’ Isfel. L‑Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta tingħaqad mad‑Djoċesi ta’ Għawdex fit‑talb għall‑Arċisqof-elett biex il‑Mulej jagħtih l‑għajnuna f’din il‑missjoni ġdida tiegħu.

  • Profil ta’ Mons. Alfred Xuereb

  • Mons. Alfred Xuereb twieled il-Belt Victoria, Għawdex, fl-14 ta’ Ottubru 1958. Huwa għamel l-istudji filosofiċi u teoloġiċi tiegħu fis-Seminarju Maġġuri ta’ Għawdex…

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The Gospel of the day: 26th February

26/02/2018

  • Saint Luke 6:36-38 

    Jesus said to his disciples: «Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.

    Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap…

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