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Readings of the day
First Reading: Rom 9: 1-5
Psalm: 147: 12-13.14-15.19-20
Gospel: Lk 14: 1-6
One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched. There in front of him was a man suffering from abnormal swelling of his body. Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?” But they remained silent… Read more »
Two seminarians, who are currently in their fifth year of studies at the Archbishop’s Seminary, will ask Archbishop Charles Jude Scicluna to accept them officially as candidates for the Ordination to the Diaconate and the Priesthood. This celebration will be held on Monday, 1st November 2021, during All Saints Day Mass at St John’s Co‑Cathedral, Valletta, at 6:30 p.m.
Malcolm Saliba from the Parish of the Assumption of Our Lady, Ħ’Attard, and Karl Andrew Schembri from the Parish of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, Mellieħa, will publicly manifest their will to offer themselves to the Church to serve in the ministerial priesthood… Read more »
L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna
L-Evanġelju magħżul għal-lum, kif antiċipajt fl-introduzzjoni, jagħti l-lista ta’ dawn it-tnax-il dixxiplu, li Ġesù jagħżel wara li għamel lejl ta’ talb. Dan id-dettall jagħtihulna biss l-Evanġelju ta’ San Luqa. Ġesù “għadda l-lejl fit-talb lil Alla. Meta sebaħ, sejjaħ lejh id-dixxipli tiegħu u minnhom għażel tnax li semmiehom appostli” (Lq 6:12-13). L-appostli qabel xejn huma dixxipli. It-tieni huma frott tat-talb ta’ Ġesù… Read more »
Il-messaġġ tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna
Għażiż Arċipriet u membri tal-Kapitlu, kappillani, għeżież lajċi, nirringrazzjakom ħafna tal-preżenza tagħkom illejla. Nixtieq niġbed spunt minn dak li għidt inti. Hawnhekk se jkun post fejn hemm il-possibbiltà li nwettqu ħolma kbira tal-Papa Franġisku: li hawnhekk isir post, fejn ikun hemm djalogu bejn il-ġenerazzjonijiet; dak li l-Papa jħobb isejjaħlu: djalogu interġenerazzjonali. Għax hawnhekk se jkun ukoll post aċċessibbli għal dawk li ilhom ħafna żgħażagħ – l-anzjani… 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 »
Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apostles – Feast
Readings of the day
First Reading: Eph 2: 19-22
Psalm: 18: 2-5
Gospel: Lk 6: 12-19
In those days, Jesus went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was called the Zealot, and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. … Read more »
Caritas at work in Lebanon
Addressing the humanitarian needs that emerged at the end of World War II and assisting the victims of the conflict. When Pius XII established it on December 12, 1951, these were the main objectives of Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of national Caritas organisations – which has grown from the initial 13 to the 162 of today – that, in the course of these 70 years, has increasingly broadened its range of action and multiplied its sectors of intervention… Read more »
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!
Saint Paul’s preaching is completely centred on Jesus and his Paschal Mystery. In fact, the Apostle presents himself as a witness of Christ, and Christ crucified (cfr. 1 Cor 2:2). He reminds the Galatians, tempted to base their religiosity on the observance of precepts and traditions, that the centre of salvation and faith is the death and resurrection of the Lord… 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: Rom 8: 26-30
Psalm: 12 (13): 4-5.6
Gospel: Lk 13: 22-30
In those days, Jesus went through one town and village after another, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?”
He said to them, “Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. When once the owner of the house has got up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, “Lord, open to us,’ then in reply he will say to you, “I do not know where you come from.’ Then you will begin to say, “We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’ But he will say, “I do not know where you come from; go away from me, all you evildoers!’
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrown out.
Then people will come from east and west, from north and south, and will eat in the kingdom of God. Indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.” Read more »
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