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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: 1 John 4:7-16
Psalm: 33:2-11
Gospel: John 11:19-27
Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother Lazarus, who had died. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat at home. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died… Read more »
Dear brothers and sisters, happy Sunday!
Today the Gospel of the Liturgy tells us about the miracle of the loaves and fishes (cf. Jn 6:1-15). A miracle, that is a “sign”, a “sign”, whose protagonists perform three gestures that Jesus will come to repeat at the Last Supper. What are these gestures? Offering, giving thanks, and sharing… Read more »
In 2024, almost 300,000 children are threatened by severe acute malnutrition in six drought-affected countries in Southern Africa, reported the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, in a July 25 statement.
Increasing food insecurity and malnutrition, challenges in accessing safe water and sanitation, as well as risks to disease outbreaks such as cholera, UNICEF deplores, are “a serious threat.”
7.4 Million in child food poverty
“Thousands of children are on the brink of being irreversibly impacted in their health and growth,” it decries, “because of the climate-related crisis and this warning should not go unheard by the international community.”
In Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, UNICEF highlights, 7.4 million children are living in child food poverty, of which over 2 million are surviving on extremely poor diets that include at most two food groups… Read more »
L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna
Ma nafx jekk tiftakrux, li fil-bidu ta’ din is-sena, kont għidtilkom li hi sena speċjali ddedikata lill-Evanġelista San Mark, li hu l-iqsar Evanġelju; u għalhekk, b’mod speċjali fil-perjodu tas-sajf, se nibdew nisimgħu wkoll siltiet mir-raba’ evanġelju, mill-Evanġelju ta’ San Ġwann. U nibdew illum, proprju, billi nitilqu ftit l-Evanġelju ta’ San Mark, li qed jitħabbar fil-Ħdud ta’ Matul is-Sena; u nibdew nisimgħu siltiet sbieħ mill-Evanġelju ta’ San Ġwann, kapitlu 6… Read more »
Message by Bishop Joseph Galea-Curmi
We are just a few months away from the Jubilee Year of 2025, which has as theme “Pilgrims of Hope”, and we are witnessing strong signs of hope in the pastoral actions of the Church in Malta.
A few weeks ago, the deed was signed through which the Archdiocese of Malta handed over the imposing Dar Saura in Rabat, a €25 million property covering an expanse of 5,500 square metres, to the Malta Trust Foundation for 65 years, to be converted into an empowerment hub for young people with a disability… Read more »
Dear brothers and sisters,
God never abandons his children, never. Even when our age advances and our powers decline, when our hair grows white and our role in society lessens, when our lives become less productive and can risk appearing useless. God does not regard appearances (cf. 1 Sam 16:7); he does not disdain to choose those who, to many people, may seem irrelevant… 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 »
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day
First Reading: 2 Kings 4:42-44
Psalm: 144(145):10-11,15-16,17-18
Second Reading: Ephesians 4:1-6
Gospel: John 6:1-15
In those days, Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near.
When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?” He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, “Six months’ wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.” One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish… Read more »
L-omelija tal-Isqof Joseph Galea-Curmi
“Henjin għajnejkom, għax qegħdin jaraw. Henjin widnejkom għax qegħdin jisimgħu” (Mt 13:16). Dan hu l-kliem li smajna fl-Evanġelju skont San Mattew, li Ġesù jgħid lid-dixxipli tiegħu. Jgħid dan il-kliem għax id-dixxipli tiegħu setgħu jarawh u jisimgħuh imma dawk li ġew qabel, il-profeti u nies ġusti ta’ qabel, ma kellhomx din ix-xorti li lilu jarawh u jisimgħuh personalment.
Qegħdin nagħmlu l-festa ta’ Sant’ Anna li flimkien ma’ żewġha San Ġwakkin, it-tnejn li huma, kellhom din ix-xorti li lil Ġesù jarawh u jisimgħuh, imma kelhom grazzja akbar, għax kienu n-nanniet tiegħu… Read more »
