Yearly Archives: 2018

The seven in heaven: Meet the new saints canonised today

14/10/2018

  • In the midst of the Synod on Youth, today, Sunday 14th October 2018, Pope Francis canonised seven new saints of the Catholic Church. This include Pope Paul VI and Oscar Romero, two well-known figures in the Catholic Church who made significant contributions in the past century. Yet, there are others, including a teenager, a parish priest and a few religious sisters.

    Below are brief biographies on each of their lives, as well as photos of each saint’s banner currently on display at St Peter’s Square. 

     

  • Saint Pope Paul VI

     

  • Born Giovanni Battista Montini in 1897 and ordained a priest in 1920, he did graduate studies in literature, philosophy, and canon law in Rome before beginning to work for the Vatican Secretariat of State…

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The Sunday Gospel: 14th October

14/10/2018

  • The Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

    Saint Mark 10:17-30 

    As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus answered him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: ‘You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; you shall not defraud; honour your father and your mother.’” He replied and said to him, “Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth.” Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him, “You are lacking in one thing…

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Renewing the way we look at progress

The proposals by the Church's Justice and Peace Commission for the 2019 Budget

13/10/2018

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  • The Justice and Peace Commission believes that the financial prosperity currently experienced should translate into a better quality of life for all. In its document with proposals prior to the upcoming 2019 Budget, the Commission presented recommendations in relation to five major focus areas: transport, environment, health, affordable housing and migration.

    Transport:  More long-term solutions rather than quick fixes are needed…

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The Gospel of the day: 13th October

13/10/2018

  • Saint Luke 11:27-28 

    While Jesus was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed.” 

    He replied, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”

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Synod Day 8: the digital world, fear, loneliness and Korea

12/10/2018
  • Dr Paolo Ruffini, the Prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Communications, said that discussions in the Synod assembly continued in a serene and cheerful manner with lots of joyful interactions between the bishops and young people. He said that there was an emphasis on the fact that charity mustn’t just be preached but also seen in action. He told journalists that one young person told the Synod Fathers that thousands of young people looked towards them for something concrete from the Synod, they trusted the Fathers would meet their hopes…

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The Gospel of the day: 12th October

12/10/2018

  • Saint Luke 11:15-26 

    When Jesus had driven out a demon, some of the crowd said: “By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons.” Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven. But he knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste and house will fall against house. And if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? …

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Court upholds prohibitory injunction against UPE directives

11/10/2018

  • Is‑Segretarjat għall‑Edukazzjoni Nisranija llum għamel mandat ta’ inibizzjoni fil‑Qorti kontra d‑direttivi tal‑UPE (Union of Professional Educators) fl‑iskejjel tal‑Knisja.

    Is‑Segretarjat ħa din l‑azzjoni għaliex il‑UPE ma mxietx mal‑proċeduri li għandhom jiġu segwiti f’każ ta’ nuqqas ta’ qbil kif stabbilit fil‑Ftehim Kollettiv. Dawn il‑proċeduri jistabilixxu li union l‑ewwel tiddiskuti ma’ kap ta’ skola, u jekk il‑każ ma jissolvix tiddiskuti mas‑Segretarjat…

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10 points of encouragement to chaplains and pastoral teams in Church schools

Auxiliary Bishop meets chaplains and pastoral teams in Church schools

11/10/2018
  • Il-messaġġ tal-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi

     


  • Il-Kurja tal-Arċisqof, il-Furjana
    2 ta’ Ottubru 2018

     

    1. Nixtieq nuri apprezzament min-naħa tal-Knisja f’Malta għall-ħidma li qed isir fil-qasam tal-kura pastorali u ċ-chaplaincy fl-iskejjel tal-Knisja. Hi ħidma li ħafna draba ssir fil-kwiet, b’kuntatti personali, u jkun tajjeb li aħna lkoll nivvalorizzaw din il-ħidma…

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Synod Day 7: We don’t believe in a “google” God

11/10/2018

  • The Prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Communications, Mr Paolo Ruffini, began today’s Synod press briefing with a report outlining numerous interventions made in the Synod’s general assembly hall. The bishops have begun working on the second part of the Instrumentum Laboris, analysing the context in which young people find themselves today.

    Mr Ruffini also clarified the fact that the Chinese bishops would not be staying for the entire Synod…

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The Gospel of the day: 11th October

11/10/2018

  • Saint Luke 11:5-13 

    Jesus said to his disciples: “Suppose one of you has a friend to whom he goes at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey and I have nothing to offer him,’ and he says in reply from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been locked and my children and I are already in bed…

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