Yearly Archives: 2019

The Gospel of the day: 12th November

Readings of the day

First Reading: Wis 2, 23 – 3,9
Psalm: 33 (34), 2-3.16-17.18-19

Gospel: Lk 17, 7-10

Jesus said to the Apostles: “Who among you would say to your servant who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, ‘Come here immediately and take your place at table’? Would he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat… Read more »

Msida Pastoral Visit begins

22 adolexxent mill-parroċċa jirċievu s-Sagrament tal-Griżma

  Il-Knisja Parrokkjali ta' San Ġużepp, l-Imsida

Nhar il-Ħadd 10 ta’ Novembru ngħatat bidu tal-Viżta Pastorali fil-Parroċċa tal-Imsida mill-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi. Dakinhar 22 adolexxent irċivew is-Sagrament tal-Griżma ta-Isqof u wara l-Isqof iltaqa’ ma’ dawk preżenti.

Messaġġ tal-okkażjoni mill-Isqof Awżiljarju Mons. Joseph Galea-Curmi

Għeżież membri tal-parroċċa tal-Imsida, huwa ta’ ferħ kbir għalija li f’dawn il-jiem se niġi għall-Viżta Pastorali f’din il-parroċċa għażiża.

Il-parroċċa tagħkom, taħt il-ħarsien ta’ San Ġużepp, hija parroċċa li sentejn ilu ċċelebrat il-150 sena parroċċa… Read more »

Recognition and appreciation for those who worked for the kingdom of God

Mass by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Galea-Curmi in suffrage of bishops, priests and religious people

  The Cathedral of St Paul, Mdina

L-Omelija tal-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi

Jekk għoddejt sew il-lista li nqrat fil-bidu tal-quddiesa, huma 40 is-saċerdoti u r-reliġjużi li mill-aħħar ċelebrazzjoni f’Novembru tas-sena li għaddiet, għaddew għall-ħajja ta’ dejjem.
Nixtieq nagħmel dawn it-tliet riflessjonijiet qosra.

Rikonoxxenza

Illum nirringrazzjaw lil Alla b’rikonoxxenza u apprezzament għal kull wieħed u waħda minn dawn is-saċerdoti u r-reliġjużi. Niftakru wkoll f’dawk li għaddew għall-ħajja ta’ dejjem fis-snin ta’ qabel, imma nitolbu speċjalment għal dawn tal-aħħar sena… Read more »

Pope at Angelus: We are called to prepare for Eternal life with our choices

Before the recitation of the Marian prayer, Pope Francis focuses his attention on Sunday’s Gospel reading in which Jesus is provoked by a question by the Sadducees and in turn offers a wonderful teaching on the resurrection of the dead.

The Pope remarked that the Lord does not fall into the trap set by the Sadducees who ask him when a woman dies who has been married to 7 brothers, one after the another, whose wife will she be? … Read more »

The Gospel of the day: 11th November

Readings of the day

First Reading: Wis 1, 1-7
Psalm: 138 (139), 1-3.4-6.7-8.9-10

Gospel: Lk 17, 1-6

Jesus said to his disciples, “Things that cause sin will inevitably occur, but woe to the person through whom they occur. It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin… Read more »

European Conference on Catholic Education in Malta

50 delegates from 27 European countries representing 8.5 million students

  The Archbishop’s Curia, Floriana

Madwar 50 rappreżentat tal-iskejjel Kattoliċi fl-Ewropa attendew konferenza li saret fil-Kurja tal-Arċisqof u li ġiet organizzata mis-Segretarjat għall-Edukazzjoni Kattolika tal-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta. Il-konferenza nfetħet b’Quddiesa li tmexxiet mill-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi.

Id-delegati minn 27 pajjiż li jirrappreżentaw 8.5 miljun student fl-iskejjel tal-Knisja fl-Ewropa ddiskuttew diversi temi, inizjattivi u prattiċi pożittivi relatati mal-edukazzjoni Kattolika. Huma ddiskutew ukoll il-formazzjoni tal-kapijiet edukattivi u tal-edukaturi f’soċjetà pluralista u post-sekulari… Read more »

Make me a channel of your peace – Remembrance Day 2019

Pontifical Mass by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Galea-Curmi

  St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta

Homily by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Galea-Curmi

‘Lord, make me a channel of your peace.’ This prayer comes to our heart and mind on Remembrance Sunday – a day that was established a century ago, one year after the end of the First World War, to remember the fallen. We are commemorating this day on the morrow of the thirtieth anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall – an important event that changed the course of history… Read more »

The Catholic Action: 90 years on

The General Assembly of the Catholic Action

  The Catholic Institute, Floriana

Nhar il-Ġimgħa 8 ta’ Novembru ġiet organizzata l-Assemblea Ġenerali tal-Azzjoni Kattolika Maltija. Din is-sena kienet waħda speċjali għall-membri tal-għaqda għax kienet attività parti miċ-ċelebrazzjonijiet tad-90 Anniversarju. L-Assemblea Ġenerali bdiet billi disa’ persuni li kellhom bejn l-10 u d-90 sena, qasmu l-esperjenzi tagħhom fl-Azzjoni Kattolika, tul dawn id-90 sena li ilha mwaqqfa f’Malta.

Josef DeBono, il-President Ġenerali tal-Azzjoni Kattolika Maltija tenna li dawn l-aħħar 90 sena mhux biss jirrakkontaw storja iżda juru wkoll ħeġġa għal dak li ġej, għax huwa iktar importanti minn dak li diġà għadda… Read more »

The Sunday Gospel: 10th November

Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Macc 7, 1-2. 9-14
Psalm: 16 (17), 1.5-6.8b & 15
Second Reading: 2 Thess 2, 16 – 3, 5

Gospel: Lk 20, 27-38

Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.’

Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died childless… Read more »