News from the Church in Malta
Tħabbret il‑mewt ta’ Mons. Sylvester Carmel Magro, O.F.M., Isqof ta’ Salde u Vigarju Appostoliku ta’ Bengażi, il‑Libja, bejn l‑1997 u l‑2016. L‑Isqof Magro li huwa mir‑Rabat miet illum, is‑Sibt, 20 ta’ Jannar 2018, fis‑2:20 a.m., fl‑età ta’ 76 sena.
Il‑Quddiesa praesente cadavere tal‑Isqof Magro ser issir nhar it‑Tnejn, 22 ta’ Jannar 2018, fil‑Katidral tal‑Imdina. Id‑dettalji tal‑funeral jitħabbru fil‑ħin li ġej…
Pope Francis held a moving encounter on Friday with Peruvian children without families at “The Little Prince” Home where they live in Puerto Maldonado.
Be “little stars that light up the night”, the Pope told them, taking his cue from the story whose title inspired the home’s name.
‘Light of hope’
The Holy Father invited the children who had passed through “The Little Prince” Home to be a light of hope for those who live there now…
Saint Mark 3:20-21
Jesus came with his disciples into the house. Again the crowd gathered, making it impossible for them even to eat.
When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”
Saint of the day: St Sebastian
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Pope Francis arrived in Peru’s capital city Lima on Thursday evening beginning the second leg of an apostolic visit that is also scheduled to take him to the Amazon city of Puerto Maldonado and to the northern coastal city of Trujillo.
The Pope will be in Peru from 18 to 21. This is the third papal journey to the nation after Saint Pope John Paul II who visited the nation twice, in 1985 and 1988…
A celebration of The Archbishop’s Seminary School’s patron saint, St Paul, was organised on Wednesday 17th January 2018, with the participation of Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna.
The day started off with two separate activities for the students of Years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, where students discussed with the Archbishop ways in which they can share the Good News with others…
On Friday 19th January 2018, at 6:30 p.m., at the Basilica of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, Senglea, Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna will preside over the Diocesan Ecumenical Service. All are welcome to attend.
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is being held between Thursday, 18th January and 25th January 2018. During this week, the members of different Christian Churches meet for ecumenical prayer…
Saint Mark 3:13-19
Jesus went up the mountain and summoned those whom he wanted and they came to him. He appointed twelve, whom he also named apostles, that they might be with him and he might send them forth to preach and to have authority to drive out demons.
He appointed the twelve: Simon, whom he named Peter; James, son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, whom he named Boanerges, that is, sons of thunder; Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus; Thaddeus, Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.
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Pope Francis performed on Thursday the first-ever papal marriage ceremony aboard the plane bound for Iquique, the final day of his Apostolic Visit to Chile.
The newly-weds – Paula Podest Ruiz and Carlos Ciuffardi Elorriaga – were already married civilly and had intended on being married in a Catholic Church but their church was destroyed in an earthquake in 2010…
A small exhibition featuring religious items brought from Iraq which were found in the rubble of churches that had been desecrated, burnt and damaged by ISIS, will be held at the Archbishop’s Curia in Floriana.
Among the items there are broken crosses, burnt and damaged statues and reliquary and perhaps the most frightening, a chalice with bullet holes. The items were recovered from several churches in Teleskuf and Qaraqosh and they are being exhibited in the 24 countries where the Aid to the Church in Need has its offices…
The Church Tribunals of the Maltese Ecclesiastical Province have welcomed Pope Francis’ invitation to be more open to a great number of Christian faithful who seek to enlighten their consciences, but are often kept back from the juridical structures of the Church because of physical or moral distance. Therefore, mindful of this, the Church Tribunals in Malta and Gozo would like to highlight that charity and mercy demand that the Church, like a good mother, be near to her children who feel themselves estranged from her…
