Yearly Archives: 2020

Live: Holy Mass & Rosary from the Archbishop’s Curia – 1 May 2020, 9:30am

04/05/2020   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: 4th May

04/05/2020

Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 11, 1-18
Psalm: 41 (42), 2-3; 42 (43), 3.4

Gospel: Jn 10, 11-18

Jesus said: “I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf catches and scatters them… Read more »

Life in abundance – Bishop Galea‑Curmi

Mass on the Fourth Sunday of Easter

03/05/2020   Annunciation of Our Lady Parish Church, Ħal Balzan

Homily by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Galea-Curmi

“I came so that you may have life, and life in abundance”. The last sentence of today’s Gospel sums up what Jesus wants to give us: life and life in abundance.

When Jesus said this, he was speaking about himself as the Good Shepherd. When he mentioned the shepherd, the people’s minds would immediately go to the Psalm we recited today at Mass “The Lord is my shepherd.” Jesus is telling them that he is the Good Shepherd… Read more »

The documents which led to the solemn coronation of the miraculous statue of Our Lady of Victories in Senglea

03/05/2020

Since the 13th century May has traditionally been regarded by Christians as ‘the month of Mary’. May of 1920 turned out to be a Marian month like no other in the maritime city of Senglea. The reason was that during that month the city learned that the request made by the Collegiate Chapter for the solemn crowning of the miraculous and cherished statue of Our Lady of Victories, locally known as Il-Bambina, had been granted by Pope Benedict XV… Read more »

Jesus laid down his life to protect and nurture us – The Archbishop

Mass on the Fourth Sunday of Easter and World Vocations Day, for the repose of the soul of Mgr Arthur Said Pullicino

03/05/2020   The Chapel of the Centre for Vocations, the Archbishop's Seminary, Tal-Virtù, Rabat

Homily by Archbishop Charles Jude Scicluna

Reading the Gospel of St John chapter 10, we are used to hear Jesus calling himself the Good Shepherd. In the first 10 verses of the same chapter, however Jesus insists that he is also the gate of the sheepfold.

And if you understand what the sheepfold used to be in Jesus’ time, you would understand that the gate or the door he refers to, is actually an interval between stones where sheep could actually go in and come out and at night when the shepherd needed to protect the sheep in the sheepfold, he would stand in that interval, in that space between the rock, between this sort of space created in the wall and he would become the door physically, personally, directly… Read more »

Sunday Mass – 3 May

The Fourth Sunday of Easter & World Day of Prayer for Vocations

03/05/2020

Mass in Maltese from the Archbishop’s Seminary, Tal-Virtù, Rabat at 9:30am

Mass in English from the Archbishop’s Seminary, Tal-Virtù, Rabat at 10:30am

Mass in Maltese from the Parish Church of the Annunciation in Ħal Balzan at 11:30am

Follow today’s Mass readings from here.

Prayer for Spiritual Communion

My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most Blessed Sacrament… Read more »

The Sunday Gospel: 3rd May

02/05/2020

Fourth Sunday of Easter – Vocations Sunday
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 2, 14a.36-41
Psalm: 22 (23), 1-3a. 3b-4. 5. 6
Second Reading: 1 Pt 2, 20b-25

Gospel: Jn 10, 1-10

Jesus said: “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber… Read more »

World Vocations Day 2020

02/05/2020

Tomorrow, Sunday 3rd May 2020, is the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. On this occasion, Archbishop Charles Scicluna will be celebrating Mass from the Chapel at the Vocations Centre at the Archbishop’s Seminary in Tal-Virtù. Mass in Maltese will be broadcast at 9:30am, and Mass in English will be at 6:30pm, both on TVM2 and on Church.mt. This evening at 7pm, a seminarian who is receiving his formation at the Archbishop’s Seminary will be participating in a Mass for youth which will be broadcast on Church.mt and on the official Facebook page and YouTube channel of the Archdiocese of Malta.     … Read more »

Holy Mass on Saturday – 2 May

02/05/2020

Mass & Rosary from the Archbishop’s Curia at 9:30am

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Mass for Youths by Fr Brendan Gatt at 7pm

Follow Sunday’s Mass readings and hymns 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… Read more »

The Gospel of the day: 2nd May

02/05/2020

Saturday of the Third Week of Easter
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 9, 31-42
Psalm: 115 (116), 12-13.14-15.16-17

Gospel: Jn 6, 60-69

Many of the disciples of Jesus who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?” Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you? … Read more »