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Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: Prov 31, 10-13.19-20.30-31
Psalm: 127 (128), 1-2.3.4-5
Second Reading: 1 Thess 5, 1-6
Gospel: Mt 25, 14-30
Jesus told his disciples this parable: “A man going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them. To one he gave five talents; to another, two; to a third, one– to each according to his ability… Read more »
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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… Read more »
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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… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 3 Jn 5-8
Psalm: 111 (112), 1-2.3-4.5-6
Gospel: Lk 18, 1-8
In those days, Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. He said, “There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being. And a widow in that town used to come to him and say, ‘Render a just decision for me against my adversary.’ For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, ‘While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being, because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.’”
The Lord said, “Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says… Read more »
L-omelija tal-Isqof Joseph Galea-Curmi
Meta nisimgħu dan il-kliem ta’ Ġesù, għall-bidu nieħdu l-idea li hu kliem li jbeżża’. Jitkellem b’ton li qisu jippreokkupak. Hawnhekk Ġesù qed jitkellem fuq it-Tieni Miġja tiegħu. Imma fil-fatt mhuwiex l-iskop ta’ Ġesù li jbeżża’. U nifhmu tassew is-sens tal-kliem tiegħu, għalina dixxipli tiegħu, meta niftakru f’dak li għedna fil-versett ta’ qabel l-Evanġelju, li hu wkoll kliem ta’ Ġesù li hu jgħid aktar tard fl-Evanġelju ta’ San Luqa, meta jgħid: “Qawwu qalbkom u erfgħu raskom, għax il-fidwa tagħkom hi fil-qrib”… Read more »
Jesuit Refugee Service working with children. Pope Francis praises the work of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in a letter to mark its 40th anniversary.
It’s been 40 years since the Jesuit Refugee Service began its mission to help the many men, women and children who seek refuge and assistance.
Christian ethos
In a letter to mark four decades of service, Pope Francis recalled its founder, the Servant of God Father Pedro Arrupe, SJ, who, he said, is an example of “this intimately Christian and Ignatian desire to care for the well-being of all those who find themselves in a state of deep despair.”
Father Aruppe, wrote the Pope, transformed his dismay at the plight of the suffering “into a deeply practical attention to their physical, psychological and spiritual well-being.”
JRS past and present
The work of JRS has taken its cue from its Christian ethos, from its beginnings with the Vietnamese boat people in the 1980s up to the present day with the coronavirus pandemic, which has shown how the entire human family is “in the same boat,” finding itself faced with unprecedented economic and social challenges, the Pope said… Read more »
The Faculty of Theology and Għaqda Studenti tat-Teoloġija have published the latest edition of the journal Melita Theologica which is dedicated – in the words of Fr Hector Scerri, the co-editor of this issue – to ‘two magnetic personalities bridging the twentieth and the twenty‑first centuries’, namely, John Paul II and Chiara Lubich.
The latest edition of this peer-reviewed journal, which has been published continuously since 1947, brings together seven original articles from established local and international universities… Read more »
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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… Read more »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 2 Jn 4-9
Psalm: 118 (119), 1.2.10.11.17.18
Gospel: Lk 17, 26-37
Jesus said to his disciples: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man; they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all… Read more »
Following the recommendation of the Safeguarding Commission, the Church imposed a restriction on 4 persons in 2018, and a restriction on one other person in 2019. These involved diocesan priests, religious priests and lay persons, where an allegation of sexual abuse was substantiated. Three other restrictions concerned physical and emotional abuse, and poor practice. Andrew Azzopardi, the Head of the Safeguarding Commission, explained that all these cases were referred to civil authorities… Read more »
