Yearly Archives: 2019

Catholic priest slain by criminal gang in El Salvador

  • 38-year-old father Cecilio Perez was reportedly shot dead by a presumed gang member while he slept on Saturday night in his parish in El Salvador.

    Father Perez was the parish priest of San José la Majada, in Sosonate Diocese near the Guatemala border.

    His body, with three bullet wounds, was found in his room by a group of faithful who had agreed to meet him at 5 am for morning prayers…

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Tolkien

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    Direttur:          Dome Karukoski

    Atturi:              Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, Derek Jacobi, Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson, Tom Glynn-Carney,Craig Roberts, Pam Ferris u James MacCallum

    Ħin tal-Film:    111 min

    Maħruġ minn KRS Releasing Ltd

    KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA:                 PG

    KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA:                      12

    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien twieled fit-3 ta’ Jannar 1892 ġewwa Bloemfontein, fl-Orange Free State fl-Afrika t’Isfel…

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Maltese Bishop for the diocese of Las Cruces in New Mexico

  • Il-Papa Franġisku ħatar lill-Isqof Peter Baldacchino biex imexxi d-Djoċesi ta’ Las Cruces, fi New Mexico fl-Istati Uniti. Huwa l-ewwel isqof djoċesan assoċjat mal-Mixja Neokatekumenali biex iservi fi djoċesi daqshekk kbira fl-Istati Uniti tal-Amerika. Mons. Baldacchino twieled fil-5 ta’ Diċembru 1960 f’Tas-Sliema u ilu Isqof Awżiljaru ta’ Miami fi Florida mill-2014. Huwa ġie ordnat saċerdot fl-1996 fl-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Newark fl-istat ta’ New Jersey…
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Appeal for more education about the evil of racism

Stqarrija mill-Kummissjoni Emigranti

  • It-Taqsima Refuġjati tal-Kummissjoni Emigranti temmen li x-xokk kbir li ħa l-poplu ta’ dawn il-gżejjer meta sar jaf li l-persuni suspettati bil-qtil ta’ Lassana Cisse Souleyman mill-Kosta tal-Ivorju, u l-korriment ta’ żewġ immigranti oħra, fis-6 ta’ April 2019, huma żewġ membri tal-Forzi Armati ta’ Malta, jitlob li jkun segwit minn azzjoni ġdida favur edukazzjoni aħjar u akbar dwar il-kruha u d-deni ta’ sentimenti jew attitudnijiet razzisti u xenofobiċi…

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The Gospel of the day: 20th May

  • Readings of the day
  • First Reading: Acts 14, 5-18
    Psalm: 113B (115), 1-2.3-4.15-16

    Gospel: Jn 14, 21-26

  • Jesus said to his disciples: “Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”

    Judas, not the Iscariot, said to him, “Master, then what happened that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

    Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him…

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Pope calls for humble and free journalism that serves truth and goodness

  • Meeting some 400 journalists of the Foreign Press Association of Italy on May 18, Pope Francis urged for a humble and free journalism.


  • Pope Francis is encouraging a humble and free journalism that does not indulge in selling the “rotten food of misinformation” but rather offers the healthy bread of truth and goodness…

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The Sunday Gospel: 19th May

  • The Fifth Sunday of Easter
    Readings of the day
  • First Reading: Acts 14, 21b-27
    Psalm: 144 (145), 8-9.10-11.12-13ab
    Second Reading: Rev 21, 1-5a

    Gospel: Jn 13, 31-33a.34-35

  • When Judas had left them, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him at once…

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Pastoral Visit by the Auxiliary Bishop at Ta’ Xbiex Parish

  • Il-Ħadd, 19 Mejju 2019, l-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi ser jibda l-viżta pastorali fil-Parroċċa ta’ San Ġwann tas-Salib, f’Ta’ Xbiex, fejn se jiltaqa’ mat-tfal u l-ġenituri tagħhom u l-katekisti, mal-komunità Tereżjana tal-parroċċa kif ukoll mal-membri tal-Kunsill Lokali u rappreżentanti tas-soċjetà ċivili. Il-Viżta Pastorali tintemm it-Tlieta, 21 ta’ Mejju 2019.

    Hawn taħt tista’ taqra l-messaġġ tal-Isqof Galea-Curmi lill-parruċċani ta’ Ta’ Xbiex.


     

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The Gospel of the day: 18th May

  • Readings of the day
  • First Reading: Acts 13, 44-52
    Psalm: 97 (98), 1.2-3ab.3cd-4

    Gospel: Jn 14, 7-14

  • Jesus said to his disciples: “If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”  Philip said to him, “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? …

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