Yearly Archives: 2018

Chilean bishops acknowledge failures in handling sexual abuse of minors

07/08/2018

  • Chile’s bishops acknowledged they had “failed to fulfil our duty by not listening, believing, attending or accompanying the victims of grave sins” after a five-day meeting to discuss the clergy sexual abuse crisis rocking the country.

    Bishop Santiago Silva of the Military Diocese of Chile, president of the bishops’ conference, also apologised to abuse survivors for the bishops’ failure to “react in time to the painful sexual abuse and abuse of power and authority” as the general assembly concluded Aug…

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Maltese altar boys meet Pope Francis

07/08/2018

  • Il-Ħadd li għadda, 5 ta’ Awwissu 2018, il-Papa Franġisku ħa pjacir jiltaqa’ mal-abbatini Maltin li bħalissa qegħdin iservu fil-Bażilika ta’ San Pietru fil-Vatikan. Il-grupp huwa magħmul minn 14-il abbati mid-djocesi ta’ Malta u 6 mid-djocesi ta’ Għadewx flimkien ma’ Dun Frans Bonnici, Dun Mark Ellul u Joseph Bajada, seminarista minn Għawdex.

    Il-Papa staqsa kif inhuma l-Isqfijiet Maltin u ħa pjacir ikun jaf li s-Sibt filgħaxija, it-tliet isqfijiet Maltin ordnaw lill-Isqof Awżiljarju l-ġdid ta’ Malta, Mons…

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The Gospel of the day: 7th August

07/08/2018

  • Saint Matthew 14:22-36 

    After he had fed the people, Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and precede him to the other side of the sea, while he dismissed the crowds. After doing so, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When it was evening he was there alone. Meanwhile the boat, already a few miles offshore, was being tossed about by the waves, for the wind was against it. During the fourth watch of the night, he came toward them, walking on the sea. When the disciples saw him walking on the sea they were terrified…

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Lord, by your Holy Image marked on this shroud, may we not lose hope or fall away from you – The Archbishop

Omelija waqt Quddiesa mal-Arċisqof ta' Turin, bħala parti mill-proġett ta' evanġelizzazzjoni tal-Komunità Abramo bl-isem ta' 'L-Akbar Imħabba'

06/08/2018
  • L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna

     

  • Il-knisja tal-Erwieħ, Ħal Tarxien
    21 ta’ Lulju 2018

    Ippermettuli fil-bidu ta’ din l-omelja, f’dil-knisja sabiħa, nirringrazzja lill-Arċisqof ta’ Turin, Mons. Cesare Nosiglia, talli kkonċeda din il-kopja awtentika tal-Liżar ta’ Kristu li qed tkun meqjuma hawnhekk.

    Eccellenza, vorrei dire un grande grazie per questo grande dono che ci ha fatto della replica autentica della Sacra Sindone…

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New director for Caritas Malta

06/08/2018

  • Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna has appointed Mr Anthony Gatt, psychologist, as the new director of the Church entity, Caritas Malta. Anthony Gatt will continue to strengthen the Church services, offered through Caritas free of charge, most especially in the field of drug rehabilitation, to build on her mission with people and families in need, and to strive for social justice and the development of the person…

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Ant-Man and the Wasp

06/08/2018

  • ****

    Direttur:          Peyton Reed

    Atturi:              Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michael Pena, Michelle Pheiffer, Walton Goggins, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer u Hannah John-Kamen

    Ħin tal-Film:    118 min

    Maħruġ minn KRS Releasing Ltd

    KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA:                 PG

    KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA:                      12

    Fl-1987, Janet van Dyne/Wasp tinxtorob bejn il-molekuli ta’ missila nukleari Russa b’riżultat li jirnexxilha tinkampaċitàh…

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The Gospel of the day: 6th August

06/08/2018

  • The Transfiguration of the Lord – Feast

    Saint Mark 9:1-9 

    Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus.Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here! …

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The Auxiliary Bishop’s first message at the conclusion of his episcopal ordination

05/08/2018
  • Homily by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Galea-Curmi

     

  • St Paul’s Cathedral, Mdina
    4th August 2018

    We have given our heartfelt thanks to God during the celebration of this Mass. To him all glory and praise.

    I would also like to thank you, beloved Archbishop of Malta, for this Ordination and for your pastoral ministry that you fulfil with such profound wisdom and boundless love…

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The Sunday Gospel: 5th August

05/08/2018

  • The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

    Saint John 6:24-35 

    When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus. And when they found him across the sea they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” Jesus answered them and said, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled. Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you…

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Bonus Altor (A kind and loving father)

The Archbishop's homily during the episcopal ordination of Mgr Joseph Galea-Curmi, Auxiliary Bishop of Malta

04/08/2018
  • Homily by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna

     


  • St Paul’s Cathedral, Mdina
    4th August 2018

    Dear Fr Joe,

    I thank you, on behalf of the Church in Malta, for accepting the new mission that Jesus, the Good Shepherd, is entrusting to you from the hands of His Holiness Pope Francis…

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