Yearly Archives: 2025

Let’s celebrate the Christmas spirit by helping others – The Archbishop

15/12/2025   Archbishop's Minor Seminary, Tal-Virtù

Il-President ta’ Malta Myriam Spiteri Debono żaret is-Seminarju Minuri tal-Arċisqof fil-15 ta’ Diċembru bħala parti mill-kampanja L-istrina BOV Piggy Bank. Hi kienet akkumpanjata mill-Arċisqof Charles Scicluna, u l-Ministru għall-Edukazzjoni Clifton Grima.

Waqt li indirizzat lill-istudenti, il-President ħeġġithom biex ikunu parti minn L-Istrina ta’ din is-sena, billi jikkontribwixxu mill-ftit tagħhom. Spjegat li matul is-sena ltaqgħet ma’ xi studenti li wara l-iskola ma jsibux familja għand min imorru, u oħrajn li qed ibatu minħabba li l-mard ħakem lilhom jew lill-familja tagħhom… Read more »

“The devil doesn’t wake up in the morning and decide to possess someone” – Fr Franco Fenech

18/12/2025

Waqt il-programm The Handbook fuq RTK103, Fr Franco Fenech tkellem dwar l-esperjenzi tiegħu bħala eżorċista fejn qal li x-xitan ma jaqbadx u jqum filgħodu u jiddeċiedi li jidħol f’xi ħadd.

Il-mistednin ta’ The Handbook ta’ din il-ġimgħa huma Fr Franco Fenech u Kristjana Casha. 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 – 18th December 2025, 9:30am

18/12/2025   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: 18th December

18/12/2025

Readings of the day

First Reading: Jeremiah 23:5-8
Psalm: 71 (72):2,12-13,18-19

Gospel: Matthew 1:18-24

Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly. 

But just when he had resolved to do this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfil what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet: “Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel,” which means, “God is with us.” 

When Joseph awoke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took her as his wife… Read more »

Let’s only look at the human heart and the need it has – The Archbishop

16/12/2025   The Malta Community Chest Fund Offices, Valletta

Il-messaġġ tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna

Ippermettuli nagħmel talba ta’ barka fuq dan il-post li hu għatba li fiha jersqu nies imtaqqlin u t-tama u t-talba tagħna tkun li kull min jiġi hawn joħroġ imserraħ. Jekk il-problema ma tisparixxix, almenu jkollu l-wens tas-soċjetà li hu l-poplu Malti u Għawdxi, li qegħdin lesti biex inkunu ta’ għajnuna.

Nirringrazzja lilek, Eċċellenza President, talli komplejt din it-tradizzjoni tal-predeċessuri, tradizzjoni antika ta’ solidarjetà, f’idejn il-kapijiet tal-istat tagħna… Read more »

COMECE position on the European Citizens’ Initiative “My Voice, My Choice”

16/12/2025

COMECE calls on Members of the European Parliament to avoid further tension within the European Union and to vote responsibly, with due respect for the existing EU order of competences in the field of abortion and for existing EU health programmes. Ahead of the vote in the European Parliament on the European Citizens’ Initiative “My Voice, My Choice, For Safe and Accessible Abortion” (ECI (2024) 000004), the Secretariat of COMECE wishes to express serious concerns regarding the overall objective of this initiative and to call on Members of the European Parliament to exercise responsibility in their vote, taking into account the implications of this initiative in the current context… Read more »

Mass & Rosary – 17th December 2025, 9:30am

17/12/2025   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: 17th December

17/12/2025

Readings of the day

First Reading: Genesis 49:2,8-10
Psalm: 71 (72):1-2,3-4ab,7-8,17

Gospel: Matthew 1:1-17

An account of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Aram, and Aram the father of Aminadab, and Aminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of King David… Read more »

Where power comes from – Bishop Galea‑Curmi

15/12/2025   The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa, Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

L-omelija tal-Isqof Joseph Galea-Curmi

“Ma felħux jissaportu meta raw l-għeġubijiet li kienu qegħdin isiru” (Mt 21:15). Dan il-kliem insibuh ftit qabel din il-ġrajja, u jirreferi għall-qassisin il-kbar u l-kittieba. Meta lil Ġesù rawh ifejjaq, u ftit qabel kien daħal fit-Tempju u keċċa l-bejjiegħa minn hemm, ma felħux jissaportu. U iktar, imbagħad, ilmentaw meta semgħu lit-tfal jgħidu fuq Ġesù: “Hosanna lil Bin David” (Mt 21:15).

Għalhekk, ftit versi wara meta nsibu din il-ġrajja fl-Evanġelju skont San Mattew, hemm dik il-mistoqsija li għamlu lil Ġesù, meta qalulu: “Int b’liema setgħa qed tagħmel dan kollu? … Read more »

Pope Leo effect: first Augustinian pope sparks interest in order

16/12/2025

Photo: Vatican Media

The election of the first-ever pope to hail from the Order of Saint Augustine appears to have renewed interest in the order, with a vocations director reporting receiving well over 400 inquiries from young men in the US.

The Order of Saint Augustine was officially formed in 1244, after hermits living in Tuscany petitioned the pope to be united as one group… Read more »