Yearly Archives: 2025

“At funerals, I ask myself: am I living or just existing?” – Fr Chris Ellul

28/12/2025

Waqt il-programm The Handbook fuq RTK103, Fr Chris Ellul semma kif meta jisma’ b’mewt ta’ xi ħadd li kien jaf jew waqt li jmexxi xi funeral, ta’ spiss tixgħellu bozza fejn jistaqsi jekk hux tassew qed jgħix jew jeżisti.

Il-mistednin ta’ The Handbook ta’ din il-ġimgħa huma Fr Chris Ellul u Mariella Porter. 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 »

The Gospel of the day: 28th December

28/12/2025

The Holy Family – Feast
Readings of the day

First Reading: Sirach 3:2-6,12-14
Psalm: 127 (128):1-2,3,4-5
Second Reading: Colossians 3:12-21

Gospel: Matthew 2:13-15,19-23

When the Magi had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him.” Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt… Read more »

Live: Mass marking the end of the Jubilee – 28th December 2025, 6pm

28/12/2025   The Metropolitan Cathedral of St Paul, Mdina

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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 »

Il-Kċina ta’ Marta and the Archdiocese’s Volunteers Office provide and deliver 350 Christmas meals across Malta

27/12/2025

Photo: Ian Noel Pace – Archdiocese of Malta

On Christmas day, Il-Kċina ta’ Marta (Marta’s Kitchen) together with 220 volunteers from the Volunteers Office of the Archdiocese of Malta, successfully delivered 350 two-course meals to 120 different addresses, along with a dessert, and a Christmas gift for the children in the household, to individuals in need across Malta. The meals were delivered directly to beneficiaries’ homes by dedicated volunteers, ensuring that those unable to attend the Curia Christmas lunch because of mobility or health issues, or other challenges, were not left without a warm, nutritious meal… Read more »

Mass & Rosary – 27th December 2025, 9:30am

27/12/2025   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: 27th December

27/12/2025

Saint John, apostle and evangelist – Feast
Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 John 1:1-4
Psalm: 96:1-2,5-6,11-12

Gospel: John 20:2-8

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. 

So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. 

Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb… Read more »

“Not everything aligns with your calling – learn to say no” – Fr Chris Ellul

26/12/2025

Waqt il-programm The Handbook fuq RTK103, Fr Chris Ellul qal li aħna msejħin biex ngħixu l-vokazzjoni tagħna u hemm affarijiet li ma jmorrux mas-sejħa tagħna u għalhekk irridu nkunu kapaċi ngħidu le għalihom.

Il-mistednin ta’ The Handbook ta’ din il-ġimgħa huma Fr Chris Ellul u Mariella Porter. 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 – 26th December 2025, 9:30am

26/12/2025   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: 26th December

26/12/2025

Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59
Psalm: 30:3cd-4,6ab,7b,8a,16

Gospel: Matthew 10:17-22

Jesus said to His disciples: “Beware of men, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues, and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans. When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say… Read more »

Pope Leo: Announce the joy of Christmas, a feast of faith, charity, and hope

Midnight Mass on the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord

24/12/2025   Papal Chapel, St Peter's Basilica, the Vatican

Homily of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV

Dear brothers and sisters,

For millennia, across the earth, peoples have gazed up at the sky, giving names to the silent stars, and seeing images therein. In their imaginative yearning, they tried to read the future in the heavens, seeking on high for a truth that was absent below amidst their homes. Yet, as if grasping in the dark, they remained lost, confounded by their own oracles… Read more »