News from the Church in Malta
First Reading: Gen 23, 1-4.19; 24, 1-8.62-67
Psalm: 105 (106), 1-2.3-4a.4b-5
Gospel: Mt 9, 9-13
As Jesus passed by, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the customs post. He said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him. While he was at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat with Jesus and his disciples…
Pope Francis is informed of the tragedy that killed fourteen Russian sailors on board a deep water research submarine and is grieving for the victims.
Answering questions put to him by journalists, Alessandro Gisotti, the interim director of the Holy See Press Office, said the Pope has expressed his condolences and closeness to the families of the victims and to all who have been affected by the disaster…
The Vatican has announced it is opening two tombs within a cemetery on Holy See territory to see if Emanuela Orlandi, the teenage girl who went missing 36 years ago, is buried there.
The two tombs are to be opened on 11 July, interim director of the Holy See Press Office, Alessandro Gisotti, confirmed on Tuesday. Gisotti said that the decision was made by Vatican promoter of justice, Gian Piero Milano, and his assistant, Alessandro Diddi in response to the request of Emanuela Orlandi’s family and their questioning “the possible concealment of her cadaver in the small cemetery located within Vatican City State.”
In April, the Vatican authorised the opening of an investigation into a tomb in the Teutonic Cemetery – a medieval cemetery reserved for Germans, Austrians, Dutch and Flemish people to be buried inside the walls of the Vatican – after the Orlandi family received an anonymous letter claiming the girl’s remains were buried there…
First Reading: Gen 22, 1-19
Psalm: 116 (117), 1-2.3-4.5-6.8-9
Gospel: Mt 9, 1-8
After entering a boat, Jesus made the crossing, and came into his own town. And there people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Courage, child, your sins are forgiven.”
At that, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.” Jesus knew what they were thinking, and said, “Why do you harbour evil thoughts? …
“B’Qalb Imħeġġa” huwa t-titlu tal-Aġġornament tal-Kleru 2019 fejn din is-sena ngħatat ħarsa lejn il-prijoritajiet li l-Knisja f’Malta għandha tpoġġi quddiemha llum meta affaċċjata b’soċjetà pluralista u multikulturali. Kienet ix-xewqa tal-Arċisqof Charles, J. Scicluna u tal-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea Curmi li s-saċerdoti jagħtu l-kontribut dirett tagħhom biex jindikaw l-għażliet li Alla qed jitlob li jagħmlu b’kuraġġ u ħeġġa.
B’ispirazzjoni mill-ġrajja ta’ Għemmaws u fid-dawl ta’ Evangelii Gaudium, ġew identifikati erba’ għażliet sabiex jorjentaw il-prijoritajiet tad-djoċesi: Knisja li tisma’, Knisja li tilqa’, Knisja li takkumpanja u Knisja li toħroġ (outreach)…
How do we deal with and communicate a crisis situation? Are there standard strategies? What is the role of the Press Office? These are some of the questions that opened the annual meeting of the Press Officers and Spokespersons of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe.
53 participants, coming from 27 European countries, arrived in Malta from the 17th to 19th June to discuss important issues related to communication and the media
The meeting, entitled “Communication in crisis situations”, kicked off at the Curia of the Archdiocese of Malta with the greetings of the Auxiliary Bishop, H. E…
First Reading: Ef 2, 19-22
Psalm: 116, 1.2
Gospel: Jn 20:24-29
Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nailmarks and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
Now a week later his disciples were again inside and Thomas was with them…
Matul ix-xahar ta’ Ġunju 2019, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna għamel fil-Parroċċa ta’ San Lawrenz Levita Martri, il-Birgu.
Matul il-Viżta Pastorali l-Arċisqof Scicluna ċċelebra Quddiesa fil-knisja parrokkjali u matulha ta l-Ewwel Tqarbina lil tmintax-il tifel u tifla. Fl-erbat ijiem li qatta’ fil-Birgu l-Arcisqof kellu l-opportunità jiltaqa’ mat-tfal, iż-żgħażagħ, il-katekisti u l-operaturi pastorali tal-parroċċa. Huwa ltaqa’ wkoll ma’ rappreżentanti tas-soċjetà ċivili kif ukoll mas-sorijiet Benedittini u l-patrijiet u t-terzjarji Dumnikani li jagħtu sehem fil-Birgu.
…
At a Consistory of Cardinals on Monday, Pope Francis formally approved Blessed John Henry Newman’s canonisation along with that of Sister Mariam Thresia, of Giuseppina Vannini, of Dulce Lopes Pontes and of Margarita Bays.
In February, the Pope signed a decree recognising a second miracle attributed to Blessed John Henry Newman, the inexplicable healing of a woman with a “life-threatening pregnancy”…
First Reading: Gen 19, 15-29
Psalm: 25 (26), 2-3.9-10.11-12
Gospel: Mt 8, 23-27
As Jesus got into a boat, his disciples followed him. Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by waves; but he was asleep. They came and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! …
