News from the Church in Malta
First Reading: Gen 37, 3-4.12-13a.17b-28
Psalm: 104 (105), 16-17.18-19.20-21
Gospel: Mt 21, 33-43.45-46
Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: “Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower…
Recalling its proposal of two years ago, the Interdiocesan Environment Commission (KA) urges the Government to publish all the studies and research carried out in relation to:
F’għeluq it-tielet sena mill-mewt tal‑Arċisqof Emeritu Ġużeppi Mercieca, illum il-Ħamis, 21 ta’ Marzu, l‑Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ser jiċċelebra Quddiesa b’suffraġju għal ruħ Mons. Mercieca.
Il-Quddiesa ser issir fil-Katidral ta’ San Pawl, l-Imdina u tibda fis-6pm.
L‑Arċisqof Mercieca miet fil‑21 ta’ Marzu 2016 fl‑età ta’ 87 sena. L‑Insara huma mistiedna jattendu għal din il-Quddiesa u jkomplu jitolbu għalih…
A group of 18 scientists and bioethicists have called for a global moratorium on the practice of editing human genes until an “international framework” is in place to ensure that ethical standards are maintained.
The international group of scientists, in a March 13 editorial for the journal Nature, called for a “fixed period during which no clinical uses of germline editing whatsoever are allowed” until an “international framework” is agreed upon which would take into account ethical questions involved in gene editing…
L‑Arċisqof Emeritu Pawlu Cremona O.P. ser jiċċelebra Quddiesa ta’ Radd il‑Ħajr lil Alla f’għeluq il‑50 sena mill‑Ordinazzjoni Presbiterali tiegħu. Din ser issir nhar il‑Ħadd 24 ta’ Marzu 2019, fil‑5:30 p.m., fil‑Konkatidral ta’ San Ġwann, il‑Belt Valletta.
F’din il‑Quddiesa ser jikkonċelebra Mons. George Frendo O.P., l‑Arċisqof ta’ Tirana fl‑Albanija, li wkoll qed jiċċelebra l‑50 anniversarju tal‑Ordinazzjoni Presbiterali.
Is-saċerdoti huma mistiedna biex jikkonċelebraw u l-pubbliku huwa mistieden jieħu sehem f’din iċ-ċelebrazzjoni…
First reading: Jer 17, 5-10
Psalm: 1, 1-2.3.4 & 6
Gospel: Lk 16, 19-31
Jesus said to the Pharisees: “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table…
Il-Knisja Parrokkjali, l-Imsida
19 ta’ Marzu 2019
San Ġużepp huwa qaddis magħruf mal-Knisja kollha. Is-sena d-dieħla hi l-150 sena minn meta kien iddikjarat minn Papa Piju IX patrun tal-Knisja universali fl-1870.
Imma San Ġużepp ma tismax ħossu fl-Evanġelju. Kważi dejjem qisu minn wara l-kwinti…
At the end of the summit on the protection of minors in the Church, Pope Francis outlined eight points that the Church will focus on in an “all-out battle” against the sexual abuse of minors”. According to the Pope, “we are thus facing a universal problem, tragically present almost everywhere and affecting everyone”. The eights guidelines are:
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First Reading: Jer 18, 18-20
Psalm: 30 (31), 5-6.14.15-16
Gospel: Mt 20, 17-28
As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the Twelve disciples aside by themselves, and said to them on the way, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.”
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee approached him with her sons and did him homage, wishing to ask him for something…
First Reading: 2 Sam 7, 4-5a.12-14a.16
Psalm: 88, 2-5.27.29
Second Reading: Rom 4, 13.16-18.22
Gospel: Mt 1, 16.18-21.24a
Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary. Of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ…
