Monthly Archives: April 2020

The debate on cannabis for ‘recreational’ use

Statement by Caritas Malta, Sedqa, Fondazzjoni Oasi and the Maltese Association of Psychiatry

28/04/2020

Dibattitu dwar il-kannabis għall-użu ‘rikreattiv’

Caritas Malta, l-Aġenzija Sedqa, il-Fondazzjoni Oasi u l-Assoċjazzjoni tal-Psikjatrija f’Malta jinsabu fi qbil li:

  1. Hemm bżonn iktar sensibilità lejn persuni li jużaw il-kannabis.
  2. Il-liġi tal-2015 – Rijabilitazzjoni u mhux Priġunerija – kienet liġi effettiva u pass ’il quddiem biex persuni li jinqabdu bi kwantitajiet żgħar għall-użu personali jiġu dekriminalizzati u depenalizzati.
  3. Liġi dwar il-kannabis mediċinali kellha passi ’l quddiem peress li l-kannabis għandha propjetajiet mediċi u li meta jiġu użati abbażi ta’ riċerka, ikunu ta’ benefiċċju għall-pazjent…

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Visions add nothing to what the Lord wants to reveal to us – The Archbishop

Mass offered for those who lack the basic necessities of life and for those single parents who are raising their children alone

28/04/2020   The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa, the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna

Naqsam magħkom żewġ ħsibijiet ispirati minn din is-silta mill-kapitlu 6 ta’ San Ġwann li qegħdin naqraw biċċa biċċa f’dawn il-jiem.

Ġesu jintroduċi lilu nnifsu bħala l-ħobż “li jinżel mis-sema u jagħti l-ħajja lid-dinja” (Ġw 6:33) u jgħid ukoll li dan il-ħobż, hu nnifsu, huwa mibgħut mill-Missier. “Jien hu l-ħobż tal-ħajja” (Ġw 6:35). ’Il quddiem għarfu kif Ġesù jieħu din it-tema tal-ħobż u biha jgħallimna nafdaw fih, infittxuh biex ikollna ħajja tajba f’din l-art u anke fl-eternità… Read more »

Holy Mass & Rosary from the Archbishop’s Curia – 28 April, 9:30am

Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter

28/04/2020   The Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

Follow today’s Mass readings from here.

Prayer for Spiritual Communion

My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things.
I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace You as if You were already there, and unite myself wholly to You… Read more »

The Gospel of the day: 28th April

28/04/2020

Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 7, 51 – 8, 1a
Psalm: 30 (31), 3cd-4. 6ab, 7b, 8a. 17 & 21ab

Gospel: Jn 6, 30-35

The crowd said to Jesus: “What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you? What can you do? Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

So Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven… Read more »

Striving for what endures – Bishop Galea-Curmi

Mass offered to patients at Mater Dei Hospital especially those suffering from a disease or have been involved in an accident

27/04/2020   The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa, the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

L-Omelija tal-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi

“Tħabtu mhux għall-ikel li jgħaddi, iżda għall-ikel li jibqa’ għall-ħajja ta’ dejjem”. Dan hu l-kliem li Ġesù qal lin-nies meta dawn marru jfittxuh, u fl-aħħar sabuh, u allura kienu kuntenti li sabuh. Imma Ġesù, l-ewwel ħaġa li qalilhom hija li kienu qed ifittxuh għax kienu kielu u xebgħu.

Dawn kienu n-nies li kienu semgħu lil Ġesù, imbagħad Ġesù temagħhom bil-miraklu tat-tkattir tal-ħobż, fejn ir-rakkont jgħid li kielu kemm riedu; u allura marru warajh għax raw fih dak li jista’ jipprovdilhom il-ħobż u l-affarijiet neċessarji… Read more »

Pope at Mass prays for artists and for the grace of creativity

27/04/2020

Pope Francis introduced morning Mass on Monday of the Third Week of Easter, with special thoughts for artists.

“Let us pray today for artists, for those who have this great capacity for creativity,” and for showing us the way to beauty. He continued: “May the Lord give us all the grace of creativity at this time.”

He then reflected on the Gospel reading of the day (Jn 6:22-29) in which Jesus redirects the crowd for seeking Him after the multiplication of the loaves and fishes only because their stomachs had been filled by exhorting them “not to work for food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life.”

Being good people, the Pope said, they asked him how to accomplish this and Jesus replied: “This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.”

Pope Francis explained that the crowd listened to Jesus “without getting tired.” Once sated, they thought they would make Him king, “but they had forgotten their first enthusiasm for His Word.”

Remembering the first encounter with Jesus

So, he continued, the Lord reminded the crowd of their first encounter with the Word, and “He corrected the path of the people who had taken a more worldly, rather than evangelical path.”

This happens to us too, the Pope warned, when we move away from the path of the Gospel and we lose the memory of our first enthusiasm for the Word of the Lord… Read more »

Holy Mass & Rosary from the Archbishop’s Curia – 27 April, 9:30am

27/04/2020   The Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

Prayer for Spiritual Communion

My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things.
I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,
come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace You as if You were already there, and unite myself wholly to You… Read more »

The Gospel of the day: 27th April

27/04/2020

Monday of the Third Week of Easter
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 6, 8-15
Psalm: 118 (119), 23-24.26-27.29-30

Gospel: Jn 6, 22-29

The day after Jesus had walked on the sea, the crowd that remained across the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gone along with his disciples in the boat, but only his disciples had left… Read more »

Nobody was injured in an accident at Dar Saura

26/04/2020   Dar Saura, Rabat

L-amministrazzjoni tad-Djar tal-Knisja għall-anzjani tikkonferma li ħadd ma weġġa’ wara li llejla żviluppa nar żgħir f’kamra f’Dar Saura, ir-Rabat. Filwaqt li ġew imsejħa l-membri tal-protezzjoni ċivili, in-nar kien laħaq intefa minn ħaddiema tal-istess dar. Fuq il-post ġew imsejħa wkoll il-pulizija u team mediku mill-isptar Mater Dei li taw l-għajnuna meħtieġa u ċċertifikaw li ħadd ma weġġa’. Żewġ residenti, nurse u carer kellhom jingħataw l-ossiġnu minħabba d-dħaħen li belgħu.  

F’Dar Saura bħalissa hemm 61 resident… Read more »