Yearly Archives: 2019

Jesus understands that the sinner is one who is lost and needs to be found – The Archbishop in Brussels

Mass at St Anthony's Parish in Belgium. The Maltese community in Brussels was also invited to attend.

  • Homily by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna
  • St Anthony’s Parish Church, Kraainem, Belgium
    15 September 2019

    I would like to offer some brief snippets on this extraordinary reading that Fr Patrick has proclaimed to us. It is chapter 15 from the Gospel of Luke and it is an extraordinary masterpiece of narrative and we have three stories…

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The Franciscan friars celebrate the Provincial Chapter

  • Bejn id-9 u t-13 ta’ Settembru, il-Provinċja Maltija ta’ San Pawl Appostlu tal-Patrijiet Franġiskani Konventwali ċċelebrat it-30 Kapitlu Provinċjali Ordinarju fiċ-Ċentru Kulturali Franġiskan, Birkirkara.

    Matul il-ġimgħa tal-Kapitlu l-patrijiet talbu flimkien u rriflettew dwar il-ħajja tal-Provinċja. F’dan il-Kapitlu, ippresedut mill-Ministru Ġenerali tal-Ordni Patri Carlos Alberto Trovarelli u fil-preżenza tal-Assistent Ġenerali Patri Giovanni Voltan, saru wkoll l-elezzjonijiet tal-Ministru Provinċjali u tal-Kunsill tiegħu…

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Woman donates kidney to ex-husband for the sake of their children

  • When parents break up, experts advise that they continue to collaborate as parents. Even if their relationship no longer works and each one decides to take a different direction in life, it’s important that they work together to raise their children.

    Dan Pyatt and Kelly Hope had already been divorced for five years when, despite their separation, Kelly gave a great lesson of love to her family…

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The Gospel of the day: 16th September

  • Readings of the day
  • First reading: 1 Tim 2, 1-8
    Psalm: 27 (28), 2.7.8-9

    Gospel: Lk 7, 1-10

  • When Jesus had finished all his words to the people, he entered Capernaum. A centurion there had a slave who was ill and about to die, and he was valuable to him. When he heard about Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and save the life of his slave…

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An altar with which we keep on building ourselves as a live and united community – The Auxiliary Bishop

Quddiesa u Konsagrazzjoni tal-artal fil-Knisja tad-Duluri, il-Ħamrun

  • L-omelija tal-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi
  • Il-Knisja tad-Duluri, il-Ħamrun
    14 ta’ Settembru 2019

    Illum hi festa speċjali f’din il-knisja ddedikata lid-Duluri hawnhekk il-Ħamrun. Il-konsagrazzjoni ta’ dan l-artal ġdid hi ċelebrazzjoni sabiħa tal-komunità li tiltaqa’ f’din il-knisja. Nixtieq nirringrazzja lill-Arċipriet tal-Parroċċa ta’ San Gejtanu Dun Walter Cauchi, nirringrazzja lir-Rettur Dun Timon Mercieca tal-ħidma pastorali li qed jagħmel f’din il-komunità b’dedikazzjoni kbira, u miegħu wkoll lil Mons…

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The Sunday Gospel: 15th September

  • The Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
    Readings of the day
  • First Reading: Ex 32, 7-11. 13-14
    Psalm: 50 (51), 3-4.12-13. 17 & 19
    Second Reading: 1 Tim 1, 12-17

    Gospel: Lk 15, 1-32

  • Tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus, but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So to them he addressed this parable…

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Open Weekend at the Cathedral Museum in Mdina

  • The Mdina Cathedral Museum is a unique and eclectic museum dealing with Maltese identity over the ages. Housed in the magnificent baroque palace on the right hand side of the Mdina Cathedral, it used to serve as the first purpose-built seminary. Amongst the museum’s priceless collections one finds a complete collection of original Albrecht Dürer prints; a fine picture gallery; ecclesiastical and household silver, including the Apostolato of 15 silver statues, once at risk of being lost to plunder during French occupation; furniture found in period Maltese households; a reconstruction of the 1486 choir stalls; the late medieval retable of St Paul, once the main altarpiece of Mdina’s medieval cathedral; and a numismatic hall, which includes a particularly stout collection of coins of antiquity…

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Bahamas: Catholic Church trying to meet basic needs of hurricane survivors

  • Archbishop Patrick Pinder of Nassau told Vatican News that his archdiocese is trying to meet the immediate needs of the evacuees as well as those who have remained behind in the affected islands after Hurricane Dorian.

    Hurricane Dorian, a devastating category-5 storm, left a trail of death and destruction in the Bahamas, after battering the north-western islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco for more than 24 hours on 1 September. 

    According to official estimates, at least 50 people have died and around 70,000 have been affected.  Thousands of hurricane survivors are being evacuated to New Providence, which includes the capital, Nassau.  Most of them have little or no idea of how or where to begin to rebuild their lives. 

    Archbishop Patrick Pinder of Nassau on Monday visited some of the affected areas in Grand Bahama and Abaco…

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The Gospel of the day: 14th September

  • The Exaltation of the Holy Cross – Feast Readings of the day
  • First Reading: Num 21:4b-9
    Psalm: 77, 1-2, 34-38

    Gospel: Jn 3:14-17

  • Jesus said to Nicodemus : “No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

    For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life…

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An agreement between the Holy See and the Government of Malta for the provision of laptops for educators in Church Schools

Press conference at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Palazzo Parisio, Valletta

  • Message by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna
  • I would like to thank the Maltese Government for the support it has always shown and continues to show in so many concrete ways and means for the education of the children and young people entrusted by so many Maltese parents to the effective and holistic services rendered by Church Schools…

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