Monthly Archives: April 2020

Pope at Audience: True peacemakers always seek reconciliation

15/04/2020   The Vatican

Pope Francis during the weekly General Audience  (Vatican Media)

Pope Francis dedicates his catechesis during his Wednesday General Audience to the seventh beatitude, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God”.

True inner tranquility flows from “the peace of Christ that comes from His Cross and generates humanity anew.”

Thosewere the Pope’s words on Wednesday during his Weekly General Audience livestreamed from the Vatican Library… Read more »

In every Mass we allow the Lord to open our hearts to the Scriptures – The Archbishop

Mass on the feast of St Gregory

15/04/2020   The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa, the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna

Dan ir-rakkont sabiħ, aħna nafuh bħala r-rakkont tad-dixxipli ta’ Għemmaws,  jagħti l-istruttura ta’ dak kollu li aħna niċċelebraw meta nfakkru bil-qima l-mewt u l-qawmien ta’ Ġesù mill-imwiet.

Jekk aħna nħarsu lejn dan ir-rakkont, nirrealizzaw li bħalna d-dixxipli ta’ Għemmaws għalkemm kienu semgħu r-rakkont kollu tal-passjoni ta’ Ġesù u anke l-qawmien tiegħu għax semgħu wkoll dak li qalu n-nisa, xorta jgħaddu għal għonq it-triq b’sens ta’ dieqa f’qalbhom… Read more »

The test we face as a nation – The Archbishop

15/04/2020

The Archbishop with Peace Lab residents

We have been called upon to make many sacrifices in recent weeks to halt the spread of the insidious and deadly COVID-19 virus that poses great risk to everyone and everything we hold dear. 

New terms have come into being, such as social-distancing and self-isolation; while we have had to adopt practices that seemed unthinkable just a few weeks ago, the cruellest being not being able to see in the flesh members of our own families… Read more »

The Gospel of the day: 15th April

15/04/2020

Wednesday of Easter Week
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 3, 1-10
Psalm: 104 (105), 1-2.3-4.6-7.8-9

Gospel: Lk 24, 13-35

That very day, the first day of the week, two of Jesus’ disciples were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus, and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred. And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognising him… Read more »

Jesus calls us his ‘brethren’ because through his death and resurrection he reconciled us to one another and to the Father – The Archbishop

Mass offered for the protection of life in every circumstance

14/04/2020   The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa, the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna

L-anġli u anke Ġesù l-ġardinar fid-djalogu tagħhom ma’ Marija ta’ Magdala jsejħulha sempliċement ‘mara’. U jagħmlulha din il-mistoqsija, kemm l-anġli u kemm Ġesù l-ġardinar: “Mara, għalfejn qiegħda tibki?” (Ġw 20:13,15).

Id-domanda hija domanda ironika. L-anġli u Ġesù l-ġardinar jafu r-risposta, jafu li qiegħda tibki l-mewt ta’ Ġesù. U issa trawma oħra: il-fatt li l-katavru ta’ Ġesù m’għadhux fil-qabar… Read more »

The Gospel of the day: 14th April

14/04/2020

Tuesday of Easter Week
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 2, 36-41
Psalm: 32 (33), 4-5.18-19.20 & 22

Gospel: Jn 20, 11-18

Mary Magdalene stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been… Read more »

An open heart to the living Christ – Bishop Galea-Curmi

Mass with prayers for the three COVID-19 victims

13/04/2020   The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa, Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

L-Omelija tal-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi

“Kemmxa flus ġmielha”. Dan kien li l-qassisin il-kbar u x-xjuħ taw lill-għases biex jivvintaw storja ħa jagħmlu cover-up, ħa jgħattu l-ġrajja tal-qawmien ta’ Ġesù.

Il-ġrajja tal-qawmien fil-fatt hi ġrajja fundamentali għall-fidi tagħna. Naraw kif toħloq reazzjonijiet differenti: hawn għandna l-kuntrast fl-Evanġelju bejn dawk li kellhom qalbhom magħluqa, anzi kif juri l-Evanġelju, qalb korrotta; u dawk li kellhom qalb miftuħa, u aċċettaw u laqgħu lil Kristu ħaj… Read more »