Yearly Archives: 2018

Professional development seminar for the Maltese Ecclesiastical Tribunals

  • In the same spirit of dialogue and accountability that motivated the Maltese Ecclesiastical Tribunals to organise the first inauguration of the Judicial Year last January, the Tribunals of the First and Second Instance of the Maltese Archdiocese recently organised a professional development seminar for all judges, auditors, chancellors and defenders of the bond.

    The seminar that focused on the dialogue between the psychological expert and the judges, was moderated by psychologists Rev…

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Pope at Mass: ‘Forgive, love our enemies’

  • Pope Francis at Mass on Tuesday morning said the mystery of Christian life is loving our enemies and praying for our persecutors.

    He drew inspiration from the day’s Gospel (Mt 5:43-48), in which Jesus invites his followers to a higher standard of human relations, so as to be “perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

    The Holy Father said forgiveness, prayer, and love for those who seek to destroy us is the path Jesus has laid out for us…

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The Gospel of the day: 19th June

  • Saint Matthew 5:43-48 

    Jesus said to his disciples: “You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. 

    For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? …

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Book Club

  • Direttur:           Bill Holderman

    Atturi:              Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Andy Garcia u Don Johnson

    Ħin tal-Film:    103 min

    Maħruġ minn KRS Releasing Ltd

    KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA:                 12A

    KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA:                       15

    Erbgħa nisa, dawn l-aħħar tletin sena, kienu jattendu kull xahar, Klabb għal Qari…

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

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    Direttur:           J. A. Bayona

    Atturi:              Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeff Goldblum, Ted Levine, Rafe Spall, Toby Jones, Justice Smith, B. D. Wong, James Cromwell u Geraldine Chaplin

    Ħin tal-Film:    128 min

    Maħruġ minn KRS Releasing Ltd

    KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA:                 12A

    KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA:                       12

    F’lejl tempestuż, fuq Isla Nublar, sit fejn sa tliet snin ilu kien hemm il-park Jurassic World, tim ta’ merċenarji f’sottomarin żgħir jieħdu kampjun ta’ DNA  minn dinosawru Indominus rex li l-fdalijiet tiegħu kienu jinsabu ġewwa l-lagoon park Mosasaurus…

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Super Troopers 2

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    Direttur:          Jay Chandrasekhar

    Atturi:              Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Eric Stolhanske, Rob Lowe u Brian Cox

    Ħin tal-Film:    100 min

    Maħruġ minn KRS Relesing Ltd

    KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA:                 15

    KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA:                       18

    Il-ħames troopers li ltqajna maghhom sbatax-il sena ilu, illum insibuhom barra minn Spurbury Police Department wara li kienu responsabbli  għall-mewt ta’ Fred Savage waqt ċajta li rriżultat fil-mewt tiegħu…

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Pope apologises to Chile diocese rocked by sexual abuse scandal

  • The cathedral of the southern Chilean diocese of Osorno during a Mass led by papal representative Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna at the end of his pastoral visit to the diocese. (Credit: Courtesy Misión Pastoral Osorno.)

     

  • An investigator assigned by Pope Francis to visit Chile’s southern diocese of Osorno, which has been the epicentre of that country’s clerical sexual abuse scandals, has said the pontiff instructed him to ask forgiveness for the suffering those scandals have caused…

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The Gospel of the day: 18th June

  • Saint Matthew 5:38-42 

    Jesus said to his disciples: “You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil.

    If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well. Should anyone press you into service for one mile, go with him for two miles…

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Open our eyes and hearts to those who are abandoned – The Vicar General

The Vicar General Mgr Joe Galea Curmi celebrates Mass on the feast of Our Lady of the Abandoned, in Wardija

  • Knisja tal-Madonna tal-Abbandunati, il-Wardija
    16 ta’ Ġunju 2018

    Waħda mill-iktar esperjenzi koroh fil-ħajja hi l-abbandun – li xi ħadd ikun skartat, abbandunat. Papa Franġisku jitkellem fuq il-kultura tal-iskart fi żmienna. Jgħid li m’hijiex biss kultura li tisfrutta lin-nies, li tqiegħed lil xi nies fil-periferija, imma wkoll li tittrattahom bħal skart. Hu jgħid li l-kultura tal-iskart ma tibqax tistma l-ħajja umana bħala valur primarju li wieħed għandu jirrispetta u jipproteġi…

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