Yearly Archives: 2024

Spiritual Development in Schools: helping students and teachers stop, reflect and pray

Religious education lessons may well be the most visible presence of the Catholic Church in Maltese state schools, but dozens of religious counsellors – and many volunteers and pastoral workers – also play an active role, helping in the spiritual and personal development of students, educators and staff alike.

And their efforts are coordinated by a team of three: Fr Reuben Gauci and pastoral workers Silvana Cardona and Anne Marie Gatt, who form the Spiritual Development in Schools (SDS) team within the Archdiocese of Malta’s Vicariate of Evangelisation… Read more »

Fr Marcello Ghirlando appointed as Assistant Visiting General of the Holy Land

Patri Marcello Ghirlando ofm, li bħalissa qed iservi bħala Gwardjan fil-komunità tal-Patrijiet Franġiskani Minuri f’Għajnsielem, għadu kemm ġie maħtur Assistent Viżitatur Ġenerali fil-Kustodja tal-Art Imqaddsa, proċess li jiftaħ it-triq għall-elezzjoni ta’ Kustodju ġdid.

Il-Kustodju tal-Art Imqaddsa prattikament hu l-Ministru Provinċjal fir-reġjun tal-Lvant Nofsani, li barra Iżrael u l-Palestina, jinkludi wkoll il-Ġordan, il-Libanu, parti mill-Eġittu, Ċipru u Rodi, barra d-diversi Kummissarjati mxerrdin mad-dinja, fosthom dak f’Malta… Read more »

Live-in for parish priests 2024: A Church closer to the community

  The Archbishop's Seminary, Tal-Virtù

Parish priests in Malta recently convened for their annual live-in event, themed “an outgoing Church,” aligning with the ecclesial renewal process of the Church in Malta under the banner of “one Church, one journey.”

The focus of this gathering was to explore ways of being a vibrant presence in the community while sharing the Gospel’s joy.

Throughout the event, various speakers discussed their experiences addressing different societal challenges and emphasised the pivotal role parishes can play in positively impacting people’s lives… Read more »

Mass & Rosary – 19th January 2024, 9:30am

  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: 19th January

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Samuel 24:3-21
Psalm: 56 (57):2,3-4,6 & 11

Gospel: Mark 3:13-19

In those days Jesus went up the mountain and called to him those whom he wanted, and they came to him. And he appointed twelve, whom he also named apostles, to be with him, and to be sent out to proclaim the message, and to have authority to cast out demons. 

So he appointed the twelve: Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter; James son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder; and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him… Read more »

“Do not shy away from emphasising the value of mass to children” – Bishop Galea-Curmi to parents

L-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi appella lill-ġenituri biex ma jiddejqux milli jenfasizzaw il-valur tal-quddiesa lit-tfal mindu jkunu ta’ età żgħira.

F’intervista waqt il-programm Għal Kulħadd fuq RTK103, li jixxandar bejn it-Tnejn u l-Ġimgħa bejn id-9am u nofsinhar, l-Isqof Awżiljarju stqarr li “jien naħseb li mindu t-tfal ikunu żgħar, mhux dejjem dak li tiżra taħsad imma jekk qatt ma tiżra, żgur m’intix se taħsad! … Read more »

Church entities appeal for the ban of sales of HHC products in Malta

Caritas Malta, Fondazzjoni Oasi, the Church Schools Association and the Secretariat for Catholic Education are advocating for the banning of HHC products being sold across the Maltese Islands.

With the legislation for the Responsible Use of Cannabis, we have seen the sprouting of a number of cannabis stores or grow shops around the island marketing and selling low THC (the active ingredient producing the ‘high’ in cannabis) products, cannabis seeds and cannabis related equipment… Read more »

Mass & Rosary – 18th January 2024, 9:30am

  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: 18th January

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7
Psalm: 55 (56):2-3.9-10ab,10c-11.12-13

Gospel: Mark 3:7-12

In those days, Jesus departed with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him; hearing all that he was doing, they came to him in great numbers from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and the region around Tyre and Sidon. 

He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him; for he had cured many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him. Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and shouted, “You are the Son of God!” But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.  Read more »

Pope at Audience – Falling in love is one of the purest feelings

  Paul VI Audience Hall, The Vatican

Brothers and sisters, good morning!

And today, let us listen well to the catechesis, because afterwards there will be a circus that will perform for us. Let us continue our journey concerning vices and virtues; and the ancient Fathers teach us that, after gluttony, the second ‘demon’ – that is, vice – that is always crouching at the door of the heart is that of lust, called porneia in Greek… Read more »