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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 »
Birth of Saint John the Baptist – Solemnity
Readings of the day
First Reading: Isaiah 49:1-6
Psalm: 138:1-3,13-15
Second Reading: Acts 13:22-26
Gospel: Luke 1:57-66,80
Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. Her neighbours and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah after his father. But his mother said, “No; he is to be called John.” They said to her, “None of your relatives has this name.”
Then they began motioning to his father to find out what name he wanted to give him. He asked for a writing tablet and wrote, “His name is John.” And all of them were amazed. Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue freed, and he began to speak, praising God.
Fear came over all their neighbours, and all these things were talked about throughout the entire hill country of Judea. All who heard them pondered them and said, “What then will this child become?” For, indeed, the hand of the Lord was with him. The child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he appeared publicly to Israel… Read more »
The Archdiocese of Malta wishes to thank the Government for listening to the concerns that had been raised about the proposed amendment.
The Archdiocese also wishes to thank all those who contributed to this positive outcome, which continues to foster a culture of care that promotes the right to life of every human being while at the same time respecting the values of support and solidarity, especially to women in difficulty… Read more »
L-omelija tal-Isqof Joseph Galea-Curmi
“Bħal nagħaġ bla ragħaj” (Mt 9:36). Din hija d-deskrizzjoni li nsibu llum fl-Evanġelju skont San Mattew, ta’ dawn in-nies li kienu viċin Ġesù, u li Ġesù, meta ħares lejhom, rahom “bħal nagħaġ bla ragħaj”.
Aħna nafu x’irid ifisser meta jgħid “nagħaġ bla ragħaj”. Għax mingħajr ir-ragħaj, in-nagħaġ huma mitlufa, jitħawdu, ma jafux id-direzzjoni fejn iridu jmorru, huma disorjentati. Fil-fatt, l-Evanġelju jgħid li “kienu mdejqa u mitluqa bħal nagħaġ bla ragħaj”.
Tħassarhom u ħa azzjoni
U x’għamel Ġesù? … Read more »
F’Għawdex se jkun qed isir ir-Rit tat-Tberik tat-Tarbija fil-Ġuf li se jitmexxa mill-Isqof ta’ Għawdex Anton Teuma.
Dan ir-rit se jsir nhar il-Ħadd 25 ta’ Ġunju fis-6.30pm fis-Santwarju tal-Madonna Ta’ Pinu.
Dar Ġużeppa Debono u l-Komunità Anawim qed jistiednu lil dawk il-koppji u familji li qed jistennew tarbija għal din il-quddiesa. Wara r-Rit, se jkun hemm mument flimkien fuq iz-zuntier tas-Santwarju… 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 »
Readings of the day
First Reading: 2 Cor 11:18,21b-30
Psalm: 33 (34):2-3,4-5,6-7
Gospel: Mt 6:19-23
In those days, Jesus told his disciples: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
The eye is the lamp of the body… Read more »
On Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th June 2023, all parishes in Malta will be collecting offerings for Peter’s Pence, the traditional collection to support the charitable work of Pope Francis to help our suffering brothers and sisters as well as to support the work of the Holy See around the world.
What is Peter’s Pence?
Peter’s Pence is the name given to the financial support offered by the faithful to the Holy Father as a sign of their sharing in the concern of the Successor of Peter for the many different needs of the Universal Church and for the relief of those most in need… Read more »
The General Secretariat of the Synod published the “Instrumentum laboris”, the document that will guide the work of the two-part General Assembly that will meet in Rome in October 2023 and October 2024.
Instrumentum laboris, which is some sixty pages long, was released on Tuesday morning, and incorporates the experiences of local Churches in every region of the world – Churches that are experiencing wars, climate change, economic systems that produce “exploitation, inequality, and ‘waste’.”
Churches whose faithful suffer martyrdom, in countries where they are minorities or where they are coming to terms “with an increasingly driven, and sometimes aggressive, secularisation.” Churches wounded by sexual abuse, or abuses of power and conscience,” whether economic and institutional – wounds that demand answers and “conversion.”
Churches that are fearlessly confronting the challenges by engaging in the synodal discernment, without trying to “resolve them at all costs”: “Only in this way can these tensions become sources of energy and not lapse into destructive polarisations.”
Deliberately conceived as a starting point and not a point of arrival, the Instrumentum laboris brings together the experiences of dioceses around the world over the last two years, starting from 10 October 2021, when Pope Francis set in motion a journey to discern what steps to take “to grow as a synodal Church.”
The Instrumentum laboris, therefore, is intended as an aid for discernment “during” the General Assembly, while at the same time serving as a means of preparation for participants as it looks ahead to the gathering… 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 »
