Yearly Archives: 2024

Do not set aside our lives, do not set aside our country – Bishop Galea-Curmi

29/01/2024   The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa at the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

L-omelija tal-Isqof Joseph Galea-Curmi

“Oħroġ, ja spirtu ħażin, minn dan il-bniedem!” (Mk 5:8) Dan hu li Ġesù jgħid lil dan il-bniedem, kif rajna fl-Evanġelju llum. Huwa każ ta’ Ġesù li jeħles lil dan il-bniedem mill-ispirtu ħażin, anzi minn spirti ħżiena fih. Ġesù kien għadu kif qasam il-baħar bid-dgħajsa, u ġie n-naħa l-oħra flimkien mad-dixxipli tiegħu. U mal-ewwel jersaq fuqu dal-bniedem. Nafu li Ġesù, bħalma għamel f’ċirkustanzi oħra, l-ewwel ħaġa li jagħmel hu li lil dal-bniedem jeħilsu mill-ispirti ħżiena ta’ ġo fih… Read more »

27,000 people turned up at Soup Kitchen in 2023

30/01/2024

27,000 individuals turned up as guests at the Soup Kitchen OFM Valletta in 2023, the organisation said on Saturday as it published its figures for the previous year.

The majority of the guests were Maltese (86%) and male (62%) the same report shows.

The guests were mainly from Valletta, Floriana, Marsa, Qormi, Żebbuġ, St Paul’s Bay, Kirkop, tal-Pietà, Msida, Gżira, Ħamrun, Ħal Luqa, Bormla, Birkirkara, Paola, Sliema and Fgura… Read more »

Applications for admission to Church schools in Malta and Gozo

Scholastic Year 2024-2025

30/01/2024
Church Schools Skejjel knisja

Applications from ‘Other Applicants’ for admission to Church schools in Malta and Gozo for the scholastic year commencing in September 2024 will be accepted online from 1st to 14th February and from 20th to 29th February 2024. There is a total of 884 vacant places for students (794 in Malta and 90 in Gozo). Applications from asylum seekers will be accepted in March.

Details on the number of places filled by ‘Criteria One’ applications received and processed by the Secretariat for Catholic Education last November and December can be found on Church.mt… Read more »

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

30/01/2024   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: 30th January

30/01/2024

Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Samuel 18:9-10,14b,21a,24-25a,30 – 19:3
Psalm: 85 (86):1-2,3-4,5-6

Gospel: Mark 5:21-43

When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to the sea. One of the synagogue officials, named Jairus, came forward. Seeing him he fell at his feet and pleaded earnestly with him, saying, “My daughter is at the point of death… Read more »

Pope at Angelus – Am I capable of saying “no” to the temptations of evil?

28/01/2024   Saint Peter's Square, The Vatican

Dear brothers and sisters, buongiorno!

Today’s Gospel shows us Jesus freeing a person possessed by an “evil spirit” (see Mk 1:21-28), tormenting and making them scream (see. vv. 23, 26). This is how the devil acts this is the way he acts: he wants to take possession of us in order to “enchain our souls.” To enchain our souls: this is what the devil wants… Read more »

They had a reason to be in awe – Bishop Galea-Curmi

28/01/2024   Parish Church, Balzan

L-omelija tal-Isqof Joseph Galea-Curmi

“Baqgħu mistagħġbin” (Mk 1:22). Dawn iż-żewġ kelmiet ifissru dak li n-nies ħassew meta kienu qed jisimgħu lil Ġesù fis-sinagoga ta’ Kafarnahum. L-Evanġelju jgħidilna li Ġesù, meta wasal Kafarnahum, malajr daħal fis-sinagoga u qagħad jgħallem; u ħoloq dan l-istagħġib.

X’kienet ir-raġuni? Għaliex stagħġbu meta semgħuh jitkellem? Qal xi ħaġa ta’ barra minn hawn, jew diskors mhux f’postu? Xejn minn dan! … Read more »

Pope on Holy Land war: Without two states, true peace remains distant

29/01/2024

In an interview with the Italian newspaper ‘La Stampa’, Pope Francis renews calls for a global ceasefire, warning the world is on the brink of the abyss, and says the recent declaration ‘Fiducia supplicans’ seeks to include, not divide.

“There was the Oslo agreement—so clear—with the solution of the two states. Until that agreement is applied, true peace remains distant.”

This is Pope Francis’ judgment on events in the Holy Land, following the attacks by Hamas and the war that is destroying the cities of the Gaza Strip… Read more »

Mass & Rosary – 29th January 2024, 9:30am

29/01/2024   The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa at the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

Help the Archdiocese carry out its mission Donate »

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: 29th January

29/01/2024

Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Samuel 15:13-14,30; 16:5-13a
Psalm: 3:2-3,4-5,6-7

Gospel: Mark 5:1-20

Jesus and his disciples came to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes.
When he got out of the boat, at once a man from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him. The man had been dwelling among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, even with a chain… Read more »