Monthly Archives: June 2025

Pope Leo XIV to spend summer holidays in Castel Gandolfo

18/06/2025

Photo: Vatican Media (main square of Castel Gandolfo)

Pope Leo XIV will resume the tradition of spending some time in Castel Gandolfo during the summer holidays.

According to a statement published by the Prefecture of the Papal Household on Tuesday, the Holy Father will spend two separate periods in the hilltop town near Rome.

He will spend half of July at the papal residence and then return for the holiday of the Feast of the Assumption on August 15… Read more »

Mass & Rosary – 21st June 2025, 9:30am

21/06/2025   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: 21st June

21/06/2025

Readings of the day

First Reading:  2 Cor 12:1-10
Psalm:  33 (34):8-9,10-11,12-13

Gospel: Matthew 6:24-34

Jesus said to his disciples: “No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat (or drink), or about your body, what you will wear… Read more »

Praying for the Eucharist to be what leads us to heaven – The Archbishop

Mass on the 450th anniversary from the foundation of the confraternities of the Holy Sacrament

23/06/2025   St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta

Ħsieb żgħir ispirat minn dan l-Evanġelju li juri kemm Ġesù mhux biss interessat fil-fejqan tagħna imma anke fin-nutriment tagħna. “Agħtuhom intom x’jieklu” (Lq 9:13).

F’dan il-kmand hemm ukoll il-misteru kbir tal-Ewkaristija li qed niċċelebraw. Il-qawwa li Ġesù poġġa fil-knisja tiegħu li l-ġisem u d-demm tiegħu jingħata bħala ikel u xorb spiritwali. “Agħtuhom intom x’jieklu” (Lq 9:13).

Ejjew nitolbu biex l-Ewkaristija tkun l-ikel li jmexxina lejn is-sema… Read more »

Concerns voiced by disability advocates on embryo screening and euthanasia practice

20/06/2025

Photo by RDNE

As the Maltese Federation of Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (MFOPD), we are deeply concerned about the growing trend in some EU countries to expand euthanasia and assisted dying legislation in ways that may endanger the dignity and rights of persons with disabilities.

While euthanasia is often framed as a personal choice in the face of unbearable suffering, international experience has shown that persons with disabilities can be disproportionately affected… Read more »

The wealth that formation gives us – Bishop Galea‑Curmi

End of Academic Year Mass – Institute of Pastoral Formation

17/06/2025   Iklin Parish Church

L-omelija tal-Isqof Joseph Galea-Curmi

“Faħħar, ruħ tiegħi, lill-Mulej!” (Salm 146:1) Dan hu li tlabna flimkien fis-Salm, dan l-innu ta’ tifħir lil Alla, u dan hu s-sentiment tagħna, ta’ tifħir u ringrazzjament lil Alla, aħna u nagħmlu llum din iċ-ċelebrazzjoni f’għeluq din is-sena ta’ formazzjoni mill-Istitut ta’ Formazzjoni Pastorali.

Nixtieq l-ewwel nett nirringrazzja lid-Direttur u t-tmexxija tal-Istitut ta’ Formazzjoni Pastorali għall-impenn kbir tagħhom, kif ukoll lil dawk kollha li taw sehemhom – il-lecturers u l-istudenti kollha li matul din is-sena li għaddiet ħadu b’serjetà kbira dawn il-korsijiet ta’ formazzjoni… Read more »

Cardinal Grech meets Patriarch Bartholomew: Let us build bridges

20/06/2025

A fraternal meeting—marked by an embrace reminiscent of those often exchanged with Pope Francis—took place on the afternoon of June 17 at the Phanar between Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I and Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod, who is currently in Istanbul for the meeting of the General Secretaries of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE).

During the gathering, Cardinal Grech presented to all participants the process accompanying the implementation phase of the Synod… Read more »

Pope Leo XIV Celebrates the 43rd Anniversary of His Ordination

20/06/2025

Pope Leo XIV celebrated the 43rd anniversary of his priestly ordination today. On June 19, 1982, Robert Prevost was ordained a priest by Belgian Archbishop Jean Jadot in St. Monica Chapel, located just outside the Vatican. He was 26 years old. He entered the Augustinian order in 1977 and took his first vows on Sept. 2, 1978.

St. Monica Chapel, located next to the Plaza del Santo Oficio — where the pontiff currently resides — holds particular symbolic value for Leo XIV… Read more »

Mass & Rosary – 20th June 2025, 9:30am

20/06/2025   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: 20th June

20/06/2025

Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Cor 11:18,21b-30
Psalm: 33 (34):2-3,4-5,6-7

Gospel: Mt 6:19-23

In those days, Jesus told his disciples: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.  … Read more »