Yearly Archives: 2025

Let’s be guardians, not destroyers – Bishop Galea-Curmi

Malta’s beauty is not an infinite resource; it is fragile and finite, and once lost, it cannot be rebuilt

12/10/2025

Message by Bishop Joseph Galea-Curmi

Malta – once known for its clear seas, rich biodiversity, and vibrant countryside – is now a changed land. Concrete keeps spreading, natural spaces are vanishing, and the sea itself bears the wounds of pollution and slime. It is time to understand something basic: we are destroying the very land and sea that sustain us. The protection of creation is not a luxury, a talking point, or a political slogan… Read more »

Sunday Mass – 12th October 2025, 9:30am

12/10/2025   The Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, Blata l-Bajda

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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: 12th October

12/10/2025

The Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Kings 5:14-17
Psalm: 97 (98):1,2-3ab,3cd-4
Second Reading: 2 Timothy 2:8-13

Gospel: Luke 17:11-19

As Jesus continued his journey to Jerusalem, he travelled through Samaria and Galilee. As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him. They stood at a distance from him and raised their voice, saying, “Jesus, Master! … Read more »

“Keep setting an example even if you think no one will notice you” – Ian Borg

11/10/2025

Waqt il-programm The Handbook fuq RTK103, Ian Borg qal li meta wieħed iħossu differenti mill-oħrajn, m’għandux jaqta’ qalbu u għandu jibqa’ jagħti eżempju tajjeb anki jekk jaħseb li mhux qed jiġi nnutat.

Il-mistednin ta’ The Handbook ta’ din il-ġimgħa huma Ian Borg u Luca Fenech. The Handbook jixxandar kuljum fuq RTK103 fil-05.30, fis-12:40, fis-19.20 u fid-21.30, kif ukoll fuq Facebook permezz tal-paġna The Handbook… Read more »

Mass & Rosary – 11th October 2025, 9:30am

11/10/2025   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: 11th October

11/10/2025

Readings of the day

First Reading: Joel 4:12-21
Psalm: 96 (97):1-2,5-6,11-12

Gospel: Luke 11:27-28

While he was saying this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!” But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”

Saint of the day: Saint John XXIII, pope Read more »

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CCEE discusses how to be missionary disciples in a secularised Europe

The Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe analysing the current cultural situation during their Plenary Assembly

10/10/2025   Fátima, Portugal

The CCEE Plenary Assembly opened on Tuesday, 7 October, with a solemn Holy Mass in the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, presided by Msgr José Ornelas Carvalho, SCI, Bishop of Leiria-Fátima and President of the Portuguese Bishops’ Conference. At the end of the celebration, the Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe entrusted their mission and the continent to the Blessed Virgin Mary through the Act of Consecration… Read more »

The Pope to Consecrated People: God as the fullness and meaning of our lives, is everything

Mass at the Jubliee of Consecrated Life

09/10/2025   St. Peter's Square, the Vatican

Homily by Pope Leo XIV

“Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you” (Lk 11:9). With these words, Jesus invites us to turn with trust to the Father for all our needs.

These are also the words we listen to as you gather from all over the world to celebrate the Jubilee of Consecrated Life… Read more »

MSSP Oratory Youth to hold vigil for peace

10/10/2025

Photo: Ian Noel Pace – Archdiocese of Malta

The MSSP Oratory Youth will hold a Vigil for Peace on Thursday, 16th October at 8.00pm at the Oratory MSSP in Birkirkara, joining Pope Leo’s worldwide invitation for the Church to dedicate this month to prayer for peace.

The vigil comes at a moment of deep global tension. Wars continue to scar communities in Gaza, Ukraine, and beyond, while countless lives are disrupted by violence, displacement, and loss… Read more »

Mass & Rosary – 10th October 2025, 9:30am

10/10/2025   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 »