News from the Church in Malta
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Direttur: James Bobin
Atturi: Isabela Moner, Eugenio Derbez, Michael Pena, Eva Longoria, Jeff Wahlberg, Nicholas Coombe, Madaleine Madden, Temuera Morrison u Adriana Barrazza
Ħin tal-Film: 102 min
Maħruġ minn KRS Releasing Ltd
KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA: PG
KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA: PG
F’ġungla fil-Peru, tinsab tgħix Dora mal-ġenituri tagħha, Cole u Elena, esploraturi…
First Reading: 1 Tess 2, 1-8
Psalm: 138 (139), 1-3.4-6
Gospel: Mt 23, 23-26
Jesus said: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgement and mercy and fidelity…
Il-Ħadd, 26 ta’ Awwissu 2019, l-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi ċċelebra Quddiesa fil-festa ta’ San Ġiljan, fil-knisja parrokkjali tal-istess parroċċa. Il-paniġierku ntiseġ mill-Kan. David Cilia. Preżenti kien hemm ukoll komunità ta’ Nsara pellegrini mill-Ukrajna, fosthom żewġ qassisin li kkonċelebraw fil-quddiesa. Fi tmiemha huma tawh ikona tal-qaddis patrun tagħhom bħala tifkira tal-okkażjoni.
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At the Angelus on Sunday, Pope Francis noted the universal concern for the “vast fires” that are raging throughout the Amazon region. The Holy Father prayed that, “with the commitment of all,” the fires “might be contained as soon as possible.”
“That forest lung is vital for our planet,” the Pope said…
First Reading: 1 Thess 1, 1-5.8b-10
Psalm: 149, 1-2.3-4.5-6a & 9b
Gospel: Mt 23, 13-22
Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! …
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference issues a statement calling for the development of a “Christian spirituality of ecology” which begins in personal and family life.
In the opening lines of his encyclical on the environment, Laudato sì, Pope Francis describes the earth as “burdened and laid waste, among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor”.
Urgency
In their statement, the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales return to that encyclical as they highlight the urgency of the current environmental crisis. The earth, they write, “cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our own irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her.”
The Bishops go on to outline the extent of the ecological crisis, and to suggest a Catholic response…
First Reading: Is 66, 18-21
Psalm: 116 (117), 1.2
Second Reading: Heb 12, 5-7. 11-13
Gospel: Lk 13, 22-30
Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them, Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough…
The Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean (CELAM) express their deep concern for destructive fires burning the world’s forests.
The “seriousness” of the fires currently raging in Alaska, Siberia, Greenland, the Canary Islands, and “in particular, the Amazon” is not only local, say the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean. It is “of planetary proportions”…
Saint Bartholomew, Apostle – Feast
Readings of the day
First Reading: Rev 21, 9b-14
Psalm: 144, 10-13.17-18
Gospel: Jn 1, 45-51
Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law, and also the prophets, Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth.” But Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Here is a true Israelite…
