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The Sunday Gospel: 11th July

11/07/2021

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Amos 7, 12-15
Psalm: 84 (85), 9ab-10. 11-12. 13-14
Second Reading: Ephes 1, 3-14

Gospel: Mk 6, 7-13

In those days, Jesus called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts; but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics.

He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place. If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.”

So they went out and proclaimed that all should repent. They cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them. Read more »

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New archpriest for Mdina parish

10/07/2021

Aktar ritratti: knisja.mt/ritratti

L‑Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna ħatar lil Dun Mario Tong bħala arċipriet tal‑parroċċa tal-Konverżjoni ta’ San Pawl, l‑Imdina.

Dun Mario Tong twieled fid‑29 ta’ April 1953. Huwa ħa l‑formazzjoni tiegħu fis‑Seminarju u ġie ordnat saċerdot fid‑19 ta’ Ġunju 1977.

Beda l‑ħidma pastorali tiegħu fid‑Djoċesi ta’ Ġibiltà fejn għal diversi snin serva fil‑Katidral ta’ Santa Marija Inkurunata, fil-parroċċa ta’ San Ġużepp Ħaddiem, u kien ukoll il‑kappillan tal‑isptar ġenerali ta’ Ġibiltà… Read more »

‘Dying To Live – Stories From Refugees On The Road To Freedom’

A book launch organised by Justice & Peace Commission, JRS and Migrants Commission

10/07/2021 The Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

“No one wants to leave home, but life forces you.” These were the poignant words by one of the refugees whose experience features in the book ‘Dying to Live’ by Danielle Vella, journalist and director of the International Reconciliation Program for the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS). The book was launched during an event hosted by Archbishop Charles Scicluna at the Curia in Floriana, during which the author herself as well Daniel Jude Okoeguale, an asylum seeker residing in Malta, were interviewed… Read more »

Refugees who suffer because of ‘man’s inhumanity to man’ – The Archbishop

Message for the book launch ‘Dying to Live – Stories from Refugees on the Road to Freedom’

08/07/2021 The Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

Message by Archbishop Charles Scicluna

Thank you for this extraordinary experience of listening to you Danielle [Vella] and you Daniel [Jude Okoeguale] for sharing your experiences. After reading pages of the book I found it gripping but also very moving. And I find that we need to share these narratives, because we need to make statistics alive. And thank you very much Daniel for your witness because you are not a number, you are a brother… Read more »

Wise and discreet can go together – Bishop Galea-Curmi

09/07/2021 The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa at the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

L-omelija tal-Isqof Joseph Galea-Curmi

Hemm diversi nies li jisseparaw, jagħmlu firda bejn min hu twajjeb u min iħaddem moħħu. Fil-fatt, tismagħha din, fuq xi ħadd: “Dak veru twajjeb, m’għandux ħażen”, imbagħad wara ftit “jagħmlu li jridu bih!” U fuq ħaddieħor; “Dak ħażin, moħħu jilħaqlu, ma jidħkux bih!”

Qisha hemm firda bejn il-wieħed u l-ieħor, ma tistax tkun il-wieħed u l-ieħor f’daqqa. Fil-fatt, diversi nies jgħidu li kważi aħjar ma tkunx twajjeb, ħalli n-nies ma jagħmlux li jridu bik… Read more »

Pope recovering normally; Sunday ‘Angelus’ from hospital

10/07/2021

Pope Francis “spent a quiet day”, Thursday, with “normal clinical progress”. “He continued to eat regularly and continued his scheduled treatment,” Matteo Bruni, the director of the Holy See Press Office, said in a brief statement on Friday.

The Holy Father is recovering normally after a scheduled surgery for “diverticular stenosis of the colon” on Sunday at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital.

In his update on the Pope’s convalescence, Bruni said he “walked in the corridor and resumed his work, alternating it with moments of reading texts”. Thursday afternoon, “he celebrated Holy Mass in the chapel of his private apartment” in the hospital, “attended by all those assisting him during his hospitalization”… Read more »

Holy Mass & Rosary – 10th July, 9:30am

10/07/2021 The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa at the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

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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 »

The Gospel of the day: 10th July

10/07/2021

Readings of the day

First Reading: Gen 49, 29-33; 50, 15-26a
Psalm: 104 (105), 1-2.3-4.6-7

Gospel: Mt 10, 24-33

In those days, Jesus told his apostles: “A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master; it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household!

“So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops.

Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? … Read more »

Holy Mass & Rosary – 9th July, 9:30am

09/07/2021 The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa at the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

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Prayer for Spiritual Communion

The Gospel of the day: 9th July

09/07/2021

Readings of the day

First Reading: Gen 46, 1-7. 28-30
Psalm: 36 (37), 3-4.18-19.27-28.39-40

Gospel: Mt 10, 16-23

In those days, Jesus told his apostles: “See, I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. Beware of them, for they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues; and you will be dragged before governors and kings because of me, as a testimony to them and the Gentiles. When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you at that time; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death; and you will be hated by all because of my name… Read more »