Monthly Archives: March 2024

Public lecture: And your hands teach me everything

A talk about Oliver Friggieri and St George Preca

04/03/2024

Ċentru Studji Dun Ġorġ, within the Society of Christian Doctrine MUSEUM, is organising a public lecture about Oliver Friggieri and St George Preca by Dr David Aloisio.

Prof. Friggieri used describe Dun Ġorġ as “a man who did not belong in this world and who lived waiting to go back to his place. In the meantime, he tried to drag everyone with him, with the word that was action and the action that was revealed in the word”… Read more »

Pope at Angelus: Let’s all say ‘Enough!’ Stop the war in the Middle East

03/03/2024   St Peter's Square, the Vatican

Għeżież ħuti, il-jum it-tajjeb!

L-Evanġelju tal-lum itina xena iebsa: Ġesù jkeċċi lil-merkanti mit-tempju (ara Ġw 2:13-25), Ġesù jkeċċi lill-bejjiegħa, jaqleb il-bankijiet tas-sarrafa tal-flus u jwiddeb lil kulħadd b’dal-kliem: “Id-dar tiegħi tagħmulhiex dar tan-negozju: (v. 16). Nieqfu ftit fuq il-kuntrast bejn dar u suq: dawn huma żewġ modi kif bniedem jippreżenta ruħu quddiem il-Mulej.

Fit-tempju meqjus bħala suq, biex wieħed ikun f’postu ma’ Alla kien biżżejjed jixtri nagħġa, iħallas tagħha u jikkunsmaha fuq il-ħatab tal-altar… Read more »

The Father’s house and the heart of the human being – Bishop Galea-Curmi

Mass on the third Sunday of Lent

03/03/2024   The Parish Church of the Annunciation, Ħal Balzan

L-omelija tal-Isqof Joseph Galea-Curmi

“Dar Missieri tagħmluhiex dar tan-negozju” (Ġw 2:16) Dan hu li qal Ġesù dak inhar li daħal fit-tempju u għamel xi ħaġa li baqgħet tissemma fost in-nies – tant hu hekk li huma l-erba’ evanġelisti li lkoll jagħtuna r-rakkont ta’ din il-ġrajja. Ġesù daħal fit-tempju u beda jkeċċi lil dawk li kienu qed ibigħu l-annimali għas-sagrifiċċju u jaqleb l-imwejjed u jxerred il-flus ta’ dawk li kienu jsarrfu l-flus, u qalilhom: “Dar Missieri tagħmluhiex dar tan-negozju”… Read more »

Mass & Rosary – 4th March 2024, 9:30am

04/03/2024   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: 4th March

04/03/2024

Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Kings 5:1-15a
Psalm: 41 (42):2,3; 42 (43):3,4

Gospel: Luke 4:24-30

Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land… Read more »

Jesus is working to purify us from a perceived ‘religion of exchange’ – The Archbishop

Mass on the third Sunday of Lent

03/03/2024   The Parish of St Joseph, Kalkara

L-episodju li għadna kemm smajna hu episodju tant importanti fil-ħajja ta’ Ġesù li nsibuh fl-erba’ evanġelji. Mhux kollox insibu fl-erba’ evanġelji imma hemm ċerti affarijiet bħall-mewt ta’ Ġesù, il-qawmien tiegħu mill-imwiet li huma tant importanti li nsibuhom fl-Evanġelju ta’ San Mattew, ta’ San Mark, ta’ San Luqa u ta’ San Ġwann.

Din is-silta li għadna kemm smajna hi mill-Evanġelju skont San Ġwann. Id-differenza bejn l-evanġelji hi meta jpoġġu dan l-inċident… Read more »

Pope Francis’s Laudate Deum document published in Maltese

03/03/2024

Id-Dar Editriċi tal-Franġiskani Konventwali, Reliġjon u Ħajja (RuĦ), għadha kif ippubblikat id-dokument Laudate Deum tal-Papa Franġisku bil-Malti. It-traduzzjoni saret minn Francesco Pio Attard, il-ktejjeb hu ta’ 48 paġna u bl-istess format tal-Enċiklika Laudato Si’ li kienet ppubblikata fl-2015. Il-ktieb bl-Enċiklika Laudato Si’ bil-Malti kien ġie eżawrit u RuĦ ħarġet edizzjoni ġdida tiegħu flimkien mad-dokument Laudate Deum… Read more »

Let us not put ourselves in God’s place – Bishop Galea Curmi

01/03/2024   The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa at the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

L-omelija tal-Isqof Joseph Galea-Curmi

“Fl-aħħar bagħtilhom lill-ibnu” (Mt 21:37).  Hekk naqraw f’din is-silta, il-parabbola li qal Ġesù llum fl-Evanġelju skont San Mattew, li hi parabbola li tfisser fil-qosor l-Istorja tas-Salvazzjoni. Meta Ġesù jsemmi hawnhekk lil sid l-għalqa li jqabbilha lil xi bdiewa, imbagħad jibgħat lill-qaddejja tiegħu biex jiġbru l-frott, sid il-għalqa jirrappreżenta lil Alla li bagħat diversi profeti tul is-snin, imma li ħafna nies daru kontriehom… Read more »

Leaders of Jerusalem Churches strongly condemn latest deadly attack in Gaza

03/03/2024

Palestinians wounded in Israeli fire while waiting for aid, according to health officials, lie on beds at Al Shifa hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City.

In a statement issued on Friday 1 March, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem have joined the international community in condemning the “wanton attack against innocent civilians” that took place the previous day in Gaza City during the distribution of humanitarian aid. 

On Thursday 29 February, a doctor from al-Chifa hospital and witnesses said that Israeli soldiers fired on a crowd of civilians desperately seeking food aid being distributed from aid trucks in Gaza City in the north of the Palestinian enclave… Read more »

Mass on the third Sunday of Lent – 3rd March 2024, 9:30am

03/03/2024   Saint Joseph's Parish Church, Kalkara

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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 »