Yearly Archives: 2024

Ordination of four new deacons

10/04/2024

This Saturday, 13th April 2024, Archbishop Charles Scicluna will ordain four new deacons. The four deacons are seminarian Matthew Sammut from the Parish of the Resurrection of Christ in Pembroke; Johan Bugeja, Salesian of Don Bosco; and two students from the Institute for World Evangelisation – ICPE Mission: Tian Ci Shawn Dominic Wong from Singapore and Jerome Savioraj Barnabas from India.

The Mass will be celebrated at St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta and broadcast live on Church.mt and Newsbook.com.mt… Read more »

Mass & Rosary – 10th April 2024, 9:30am

10/04/2024   The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa at the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

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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 »

The Gospel of the day: 10th April

10/04/2024

Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 5:17-26
Psalm: 33 (34):2-3,4-5,6-7,8-9

Gospel: John 3:16-21

God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him… Read more »

COMECE Presidency issues statement ahead of EP vote on the inclusion of abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

09/04/2024

Ahead of the vote by the European Parliament on the Resolution for the ‘Inclusion of the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights’ (2024/2655 RSP), scheduled for Thursday, 11 April 2024, the Presidency of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) has issued the following statement.

Yes to the promotion of women and to the right to life, no to abortion and ideological imposition

The promotion of women and their rights is not related to the promotion of abortion… Read more »

Mother to our Saviour – Bishop Galea-Curmi

08/04/2024   Parish Church, Balzan

L-omelija tal-Isqof Joseph Galea-Curmi

Waħda mill-espressjonijiet li tisma’ fil-Festa tal-Lunzjata – rajtha wkoll miktuba – hija “Viva Omm is-Salvatur”. Naturalment, għandi nifhem li għal ħafna jkun hemm intenzjoni retta f’din l-espressjoni, imma nixtieq li niffoka fuqha fil-Festa tal-Lunzjata ta’ din is-sena u naraw x’tgħallimna.

Marija tmexxina lejn Ġesù

L-ewwel nett, Marija hija tassew Omm Ġesù li hu s-Salvatur tagħna. Fil-festa tal-lum, għandna l-mument meta hi aċċettat li ssir omm… Read more »

Mass & Rosary – 9th April 2024, 9:30am

09/04/2024   The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa at the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

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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 »

The Gospel of the day: 9th April

09/04/2024

Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 4:32-37
Psalm: 92 (93):1ab,1c-2,5

Gospel: John 3:7b-15

Jesus said to Nicodemus: “’You must be born from above.’ The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Nicodemus answered and said to him, “How can this happen?”

Jesus answered and said to him, “You are the teacher of Israel and you do not understand this? … Read more »

Webinar on Religious Heritage

08/04/2024

The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) is delighted to invite you to the online conference “Religious Heritage: an overlooked driver for a more sustainable and inclusive society”, to be held on Thursday, 11 April 2024, from 11:00 to 12:30 (CET).

The event is organised in the context of the New European Bauhaus Festival 2024 and will showcase a series of innovative projects to make religious heritage sites more sustainable and inclusive by fostering adaptation to climate change challenges, becoming more environmentally-friendly and connecting local communities to these sites to secure their future… Read more »

Pope at Regina Caeli: Ask yourself “do I believe that Jesus is risen?”

07/04/2024   Saint Peter's Square, The Vatican

Dear brothers and sisters, happy Sunday!

Today, the second Sunday of Easter, dedicated by Saint John Paul II to Divine Mercy, the Gospel (cf. Jn 20:19-30) tells us that, by believing in Jesus, Son of God, we can have eternal life in His name (v. 31). “To have life”: what does it mean?

We all want to have life, but there are various ways of having it… Read more »