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Our hope is Jesus – The Archbishop at the 2025 Jubilee inauguration

Mass at the inauguration of the 2025 Jubilee titled 'Pilgrims of Hope'

29/12/2024 St Paul's Cathedral, Mdina

L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna

Għeżież, “araw b’liema għożża ħabbna l-Missier; nistgħu nissejħu wlied Alla, u hekk aħna tassew” (1 Ġw 3:1). Din il-kelma tal-Appostlu San Ġwann, fl-ewwel ittra tiegħu, tkun ta’ kuraġġ għalina, aħna u nibdew il-Ġublew Imqaddes tas-sena 2025. Ġublew, li l-Papa jixtieqna li fih nikbru bħala pellegrini ta’ tama. Il-pellegrin hu bniedem f’mixja; il-pellegrin ta’ tama jaf li hemm wegħda, kelma, li mhux se tonqos, u li mhux se tqarraq bih… Read more »

Let’s build our families on trust – The Archbishop

Mass on the feast of the Holy Family

29/12/2024 The Minor Basilica of St paul, Rabat

L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna

Din il-festa tal-familja Mqaddsa, din is-sena, is-silta minn San Luqa toħodna meta l-Mulej kellu 12-il sena. Tifel Lhudi ta’ 12-il sena kien jitqies tifel adult u kien jibda jissejjaħ Bin il-Patt (Bar Mitzvah) u allura seta’ jaqra fis-sinagoga, seta’ jistaqsi l-mistoqsijiet, jidħol fid-djalogu mal-għorrief fis-sinagoga.

Ġesù jmur mal-ġenituri f’Ġerusalemm għall-festa tal-Għid u ta’ 12-il sena jibda jieħu sehem fil-ħajja tas-sinagoga bħal wieħed adult… Read more »

Live: The inauguration of the Jubilee Year 2025, 29 December, 5pm

29/12/2024 The Minor Basilica of St Paul, Rabat | St Paul's Cathedral, Mdina

On Sunday, 29th December 2024, Archbishop Charles Scicluna will inaugurate the Jubilee Year 2025 in the Archdiocese of Malta under the theme ‘Pilgrims of Hope’. This event follows the official opening of the Holy Year by Pope Francis on Christmas Eve, marked by the opening of the Holy Door at St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, where the Pope then presided over Mass.

The celebration in the Church of Malta will begin at 5pm with a liturgical rite observed across the Catholic world… Read more »

Becoming pilgrims of hope

29/12/2024

Photo: Unsplash Message by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna

Pope Francis made a profoundly symbolic gesture on Christmas Eve when he eased open the Holy Door of St Peter’s Basilica, and declared that it will remain open for the special Jubilee Year 2025 during which the faithful are encouraged to make pilgrimages to Rome.

The aim of the Jubilee, the Holy Father said, is “to bring hope to the interminable, dreary days of prisoners, to the cold and dismal lodgings of the poor, and to all those places desecrated by war and violence”… Read more »

Hopeful, not hopeless

29/12/2024

Message by Bishop Joseph Galea-Curmi

This evening, the Jubilee Year 2025 will be inaugurated in the Archdiocese of Malta and the Diocese of Gozo. This follows the official inauguration of the Holy Year by Pope Francis on Christmas Eve, marked by the opening of the Holy Door at St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.

The Jubilee Year marks a significant milestone for the Catholic Church… Read more »

Sunday Mass – 29th December 2024, 9:30am

29/12/2024 Basilica of St Paul, Rabat

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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 Sunday Gospel: 29th December

29/12/2024

The Holy Family – Feast
Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Samuel 1:20-22,24-28
Psalm: 83 (84):2-3,5-6,9-10
Second Reading: 1 John 3:1-2,21-24

Gospel: Luke 2:41-52

Now every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up as usual for the festival. When the festival was ended and they started to return, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. … Read more »

Pope Francis: Hope and kindness make the world more beautiful

28/12/2024

VATICAN MEDIA Divisione Foto

In an audio message broadcast today by the BBC as the “Thought for the Day,” Pope Francis urges us not to look at the future “with pessimism and resignation,” but to always choose the path of love and view the world with “the gentle gaze of hope”.

“I hope that during this Jubilee, we practice kindness as a form of love to connect with others,” says Pope Francis in a message offered to the BBC’s “Thought for the Day.”

In his message, the Holy Father highlights the importance of hope and kindness, which he says “touch the very heart of the Gospel and show us the path to follow in our behaviour.”

A world full of hope and kindness, he says, “is a more beautiful world” while “a society that looks to the future with confidence and treats people with respect and empathy is more humane.”

‘We can choose love’

Pope Francis notes that the Jubilee Year, which began on Christmas Eve, calls us to be pilgrims of hope, and he encourages everyone to choose love in a world beset with wars, social injustices, and various forms of violence… Read more »

Pope at Angelus: God always forgives

26/12/2024 Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City

Dear brothers and sisters, happy feast day! Happy feast day to everyone.

Today, immediately after Christmas, the liturgy celebrates Saint Stephen, the first martyr. The account of his stoning is found in the Acts of the Apostles (cf. 6:8-12; 7:54-60) and presents it to us while, dying, he prays for his killers. And this gives us pause for thought: in fact, even though at first sight Stephen seems to be helplessly suffering violence, in reality, as a truly free man, he continues to love even his killers and to offer his life for them, like Jesus (cf. Jn 10:17-18; Lk 23:34); he offers his life so that they may repent and, having been forgiven, be given eternal life… Read more »

Mass & Rosary – 28th December 2024, 9:30am

28/12/2024 The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa at the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

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Prayer for Spiritual Communion