Yearly Archives: 2020

Pope at Audience: Healing the world is an opportunity to build something better

19/08/2020

Dear brothers and sisters, good day!

The pandemic has exposed the plight of the poor and the great inequality that reigns in the world. And the virus, while it does not distinguish between people, has found, in its devastating path, great inequalities and discrimination. And it has exacerbated them!

The response to the pandemic is therefore dual. On the one hand, it is essential to find a cure for this small but terrible virus, which has brought the whole world to its knees… Read more »

The Gospel of the day: 19th August

19/08/2020

Readings of the day

First Reading: Ezek 34, 1-11
Psalm: 22 (23), 1-3a.3b-4.5.6

Gospel: Mt 20, 1-16a

Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire labourers for his vineyard. After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. Going out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and he said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard, and I will give you what is just.’ So they went off… Read more »

Stella Maris Parish Museum opens to the general public

18/08/2020

The Stella Maris Exhibition Rooms will be inaugurated on Sunday 23rd August 2020, after the 10:30am Solemn Mass on the occasion of the feast of Stella Maris. The parish museum is situated at 50, High Street, Tas-Sliema, adjacent to Stella Maris Parish Church.

Since Stella Maris was the first parish in Tas-Sliema, there are some interesting items being exhibited pertaining to the history of Tas-Sliema.  The main focus is the parish itself, as well as the love of the parishioners for their church and for the priests who ministered to them… Read more »

Jesus wants us to be affluent in love and not in material wealth – The Archbishop

Mass on the feast of St Helen's

18/08/2020   The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa at the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna

“L-għani se jsibha iebsa biex jidħol fis-saltna tas-smewwiet” (Mt 19:23).

Ħafna setet iwiegħdu lil min jidħol fihom li Ġesù għandu l-qawwa jfejjaq il-mard kollu tagħhom, jagħmilhom għonja u sinjuri u kollox se jkun jimxi ħarir, fuq ir-rubini, kif ngħidu. Ġesù, meta jgħallimna r-regola ta’ min irid jimxi warajh ma jwegħidniex la għana, la saħħa, la sbuħija, ma jwegħidniex il-frugħa ta’ din id-dinja… Read more »

The Gospel of the day: 18th August

18/08/2020

Readings of the day

First Reading: Ezek 28, 1-10
Psalm: Dewt 32, 26-27ab.27cd-28.30.35cd-36ab

Gospel: Mt 19, 23-30

Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and said, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.” Then Peter said to him in reply, “We have given up everything and followed you… Read more »

Pope at Angelus: humble faith has no bounds

17/08/2020

On Sunday Pope Francis focused his words before reciting the Angelus on the day’s Gospel. He highlighted the faith of the Canaanite woman who sought healing for her daughter and showed that humble faith has no bounds.

Cry of suffering

While Jesus is in foreign territory to the north of Galilee a Canaanite woman approached him begging Him to heal her daughter… Read more »

Faith that moves mountains – Bishop Galea-Curmi

Mass on the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time

16/08/2020   The Parish Church of the Annunciation, Ħal Balzan

Mal-ewwel daqqa ta’ għajn, jaħsadna dan l-Evanġelju li smajna llum. U ngħidu: dan l-istess Ġesù li nafu? Hawnhekk, meta din il-mara tersaq lejh, għall-bidu jinjoraha. Imbagħad, meta d-dixxipli jgħidulu biex jeħles minnha, ma jagħtix kashom. Imbagħad meta terġa’ tkellmu hi, kważi kważi jqabbilha mal-ġriewi, mal-klieb. Għalhekk dan l-Evanġelju jaħsadna! Ngħidu: dan hu l-istess Ġesù li nafu li kien ifejjaq il-morda, li kien jagħder lill-midinbin, li dejjem ifittex li jagħmel il-ġid lil kulħadd? … Read more »