Yearly Archives: 2025

Sunday Mass – 17th August 2025, 9:30am

  The Church of St. Paul’s Shipwreck, St. Paul's Bay

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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: 17th August

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Jeremiah 38:4-6,8-10
Psalm: 39(40):2,3,4,18
Second Reading: Hebrews 12:1-4

Gospel: Luke 12:49-53

Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished! … Read more »

Saint Mary – Mother of hope – Bishop Galea‑Curmi

Mass on the Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Mother Mary

  St Mary's Church, Mqabba

L-omelija tal-Isqof Joseph Galea-Curmi

Kien proprju 75 sena ilu, fl-1 ta’ Novembru, li l-Papa Piju XII, bil-Kostituzzjoni Appostolika tiegħu Munificentissimus Deus, iddikjara d-domma li Marija ġiet imtellgħa s-sema bir-ruħ u l-ġisem. Għalhekk dis-sena hi sena tassew speċjali, anniversarju li qegħdin infakkru llum fis-Solennità ta’ Santa Marija.

Illum inġbarna b’ferħ kbir biex mhux biss niċċelebraw avveniment tal-passat, iżda nipparteċipaw fir-realtà tal-glorja ta’ Marija issa fis-sema… Read more »

In Mary of Nazareth, we recognize our own history: the history of the Church, immersed in the common lot of humanity

Holy Mass on the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

  Pontifical Parish of Saint Thomas of Villanova,Castel Gandolfo, Italy

Dear brothers and sisters,

Today is not Sunday, yet we celebrate in another way the Paschal Mystery of Jesus, which changed the course of history. In Mary of Nazareth, we recognize our own history: the history of the Church, immersed in the common lot of humanity. By taking flesh in her, the God of life — the God of freedom — has conquered death… Read more »

“One can never say: God has given up on me” – Fr Josef

Waqt il-programm The Handbook fuq RTK103, ġiet diskussa t-tixbiha tan-nagħġa l-mitlufa fejn Fr Josef Mifsud qal li wieħed żgur qatt ma jista’ jgħid li Alla qata’ qalbu minnu.

Il-mistednin ta’ The Handbook ta’ din il-ġimgħa huma Fr Josef Mifsud u Daniela Borg. 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 HandbookRead more »

Mass & Rosary – 16th August 2025, 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: 16th August

Readings of the day

First Reading: Joshua 24:14-29
Psalm: 15 (16):1-2a & 5,7-8,11

Gospel: Matthew 19:13-15

In those days, little children were being brought to Jesus in order that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples spoke sternly to those who brought them; but Jesus said,

“Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.” And he laid his hands on them and went on his way.  … Read more »

The love and obedience of Mary: the daily path to God – The Archbishop

Mass on the Feast of St Mary

  St Mary's Parish Church, Gudja

L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna

“Imbierka inti fost in-nisa, imbierek il-frott tal-ġuf tiegħek, Ġesù” (Lq 1:42).

Dawn il-kliem li lissnet Eliżabetta u li smajna fl-Evanġelju tal-lum jiġbru s-sinifikat profond ta’ din il-festa solenni li qiegħda tiġi ċċelebrata llum madwar id-dinja: l-Assunta – it-Tlugħ fis-Sema ta’ Marija ta’ Nazaret, Omm l-Iben t’Alla magħmul bniedem.

Il-ħarsa, il-ħaddejn u x-xufftejn ta’ Marija

Imbierka inti fost in-nisa, imbierka l-ħarsa ta’ għajnejk – il-ħarsa li iltaqet mal-ħarsa tal-messaġġier tal-Mulej, l-Arkanġlu Gabriel, meta għamillek proposta tremenda: li ssir Omm Alla… Read more »

Mass on the Feast of St Mary – 15th August 2025, 9:00am

  St Mary's Parish Church, Gudja

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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: 15th August

Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven – Solemnity
Readings of the day

First Reading: Revelation 11: 19a; 12:1-6a,10ab
Psalm: 44:10bc,11-12ab,16
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:20-26

Gospel: Luke 1:39-56

Mary set out in those days and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah,
where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit,
cried out in a loud voice and said, “Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb… Read more »