Yearly Archives: 2018

Tomorrow: The Diocesan Via Sacra

27/03/2018

  • Hekk kif ninsabu fil-Ġimgħa Mqaddsa, l-Insara kollha huma mistiedena jattendu għall-Via Sacra Djoċesana, li ser issir għada l-Erbgħa, 28 ta’ Marzu 2018, lejlet it‑Tridu tal‑Għid, li matulu l‑Knisja Universali tfakkar il‑passjoni, il‑mewt u l‑qawmien ta’ Sidna Ġesù Kristu.  

    Il-Via Sacra, immexxija mill-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna, ser tibda fis-7:30pm minn ħdejn l‑istatwa ta’ Kristu Re (quddiem il‑lukanda Phoenicia) u tintemm quddiem il‑Konkatidral ta’ San Ġwann, il‑Belt Valletta…

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Pacific Rim Uprising

27/03/2018

  • ****

    Direttur:           Steven S. DeKnight

    Atturi:              John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Jing Tian, Cailee Spaeny, Rinko Kikuchi, Burn Gorman,  Adria Arjona, Zhang Jin u Charlie Day

    Ħin tal-Film:    111 min

    Maħruġ minn KRS Releasing Ltd

    KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA:                 12A

    KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA:                       12

    Jake, abbanduna t-taħriġ fil-karriera ta’ pilota ta’ Jaeger u beda jgħix ħajja mtajra, jindieħes ma’ nies kriminali…

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The Gospel of the day: 27th March

27/03/2018

  • Tuesday of Holy Week

    Saint John 13:21-33.36-38 

    Reclining at table with his disciples, Jesus was deeply troubled and testified, «Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.» The disciples looked at one another, at a loss as to whom he meant. One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at Jesus’ side…

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Pope Palm Sunday Mass: Sing out loud “Hosanna”

26/03/2018

  • Reflecting on the Liturgy of Palm Sunday, Pope Francis contrasted the joy of the people who celebrated Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem with the cries of those who want to silence him.

  • Pope Francis invites us all to see ourselves in the Palm Sunday liturgy. He says that the liturgy “expresses the contradictory feelings that we too, … experience”: love and hatred, self-sacrifice and “washing our hands”, loyalty and betrayal…

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The Gospel of the day: 26th March

26/03/2018

  • Monday of Holy Week

    Saint John 12:1-11 

    Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him. Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair; the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil…

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Are we going to accept this great offering of mercy and love? – The Archbishop on Palm Sunday

25/03/2018
  • Homily by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna

  • St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta
    25th March 2018

    The account of the passion according to Saint Mark that has just been proclaimed, repeats several times the idea, the concept and the verb of handing over: Judas tries to find the right time to hand over Jesus to the high priest; Pilate, to appease the mob, hands over Jesus for crucifixion; the Lord himself hands himself over to the Father; Joseph of Arimathea asks Pilate to hand over the body of Jesus for burial…

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The Gospel for Palm Sunday: 25th March

25/03/2018

  • Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

    Saint Mark 14:1-15:47
    The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were to take place in two days’ time. So the chief priests and the scribes were seeking a way to arrest him by treachery and put him to death. They said, “Not during the festival, for fear that there may be a riot among the people.” When he was in Bethany reclining at table in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of perfumed oil, costly genuine spikenard…

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Pope’s message for WYD 2018: Do not be afraid!

Message of the Holy Father Francis for the 33rd World Youth Day

24/03/2018

  • Pope Francis, accompanied by youths, passes through the Door of Mercy ahead of a prayer vigil on the occasion of the World Youth Day, in Campus Misericordiae in Brzegi, near Krakow, Poland, Saturday, July 30, 2016.

  • Dear young people,

    World Youth Day 2018 represents another step in preparation for the international WYD due to take place in Panama in January 2019…

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“Kemm hi sabiħa li aħna l-ulied ikollna l-grazzja nuru l-imħabba tagħna lejn il-ġenituri” – L-Arċisqof f’Jum id-Duluri

24/03/2018

  • Knisja ta’ Santa Marija ta’ Ġesù, il-Belt Valletta
    23 ta’ Marzu 2018

    Bir-raġun bħal-lum infakkru din ix-xena fuq il-Kalvarju: ħdejn is-salib ta’ Ġesù kkundannat għall-mewt għaliex ippretenda li jkun is-sultan tal-Lhud; dik kienet il-kundanna: Ġesù ta’ Nażaret Sultan tal-Lhud. Il-kundanna kienet fiha nnifisha umiljazzjoni għaliex is-Sultan tal-Lhud ma kienx fuq tron liebes il-porpra imma kien għeri, imsallab ma’ għuda…

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In Mary we see suffering that is not two thousand years old, but of our time; we remember so many mothers who are worried for their children – The Archbishop

The Archbishop celebrates Mass with students of MCAST on the commemoration of Our Lady of Sorrows

24/03/2018
  • Homily by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna

  • MCAST, Paola
    23rd March 2018

    Today’s feast is a devotional one and goes back in time. The Maltese, like other Mediterranean peoples, have treasured this feast since time immemorial and will continue to do so. You might recall that in his commentary on this feast, Oliver Friggieri called it “a truly national feast” because brings so many people together that might be at each other’s throats for the rest of the year, and these days even more because of social media…

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