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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 »
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 33:7-9
Psalm: 94 (95):1-2,6-7,8-9
Second Reading: Romans 13:8-10
Gospel: Matthew 18:15-20
Jesus said to his disciples: “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that ‘every fact may be established on the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church… Read more »
L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna
Għażiż Arċipriet, aħna u nisimgħu l-Kelma ta’ Alla llum, nixtieq nafdalek dawn iż-żewġ kelmiet, li jsiru wkoll talba fuqek, għalik, u għall-parroċċa għażiża ta’ Ħaż-Żabbar. Xmun is-sajjied, Xmun bi Ġona, irrisponda għall-mistoqsija li għamel Ġesù lil sħabu. “Intom min tgħidu li jien?” (Mt 16:15). L-ewwel isaqsihom x’jgħid il-poplu: Min jgħidu li jien? U jsemmi diversi profeti. Imma Ġesù jinteressah dak li hemm fil-qalb ta’ kull wieħed u kull waħda minna: Imma inti, inti, min tgħid li jien? … 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: Colossians 1:21-23
Psalm: 53 (54):3-4,6 & 8
Gospel: Luke 6:1-5
One sabbath while Jesus was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked some heads of grain, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them. But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?”
Jesus answered, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and gave some to his companions?” Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”
Saint of the day: Saint Peter Claver, priest 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 »
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Solemnity
Readings of the day
First Reading: Micah 5:1-4a
Psalm: 12:6
Second Reading: Romans 8:28-30
Gospel: Matthew 1:1-16,18-23
An account of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Aram, and Aram the father of Aminadab, and Aminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse… Read more »
Homily by Bishop Joseph Galea-Curmi
The national feast of Our Lady of Victory is an important feast for the Maltese. Tomorrow, 8 September, the birth of Our Lady is celebrated worldwide. This feast has a very special link with our history. We call it Our Lady of Victory because we commemorate the end of the Great Siege in 1565, and the end of the Siege during the Second World War when Italy surrendered eighty years ago, in 1943… 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 »
While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, he asked him to put out a short distance from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat… Read more »
