Yearly Archives: 2025

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 »

“My mother helped me forgive the person accused of killing my brother” – Fr Franco Fenech

16/12/2025

Waqt il-programm The Handbook fuq RTK103, Fr Franco Fenech irrakkonta l-esperjenza tal-mewt ta’ ħuh u kif ommu għenitu jaħfer lil min kien akkużat li qatlu.

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.

Silta mill-qari tal-lum
Qari mill-Evanġelju skont San Luqa – Lq 11, 47-54
“Ħażin għalikom intom l-għorrief tal-Liġi! … Read more »

Mass & Rosary – 16th December 2025, 9:30am

16/12/2025   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: 16th December

16/12/2025

Readings of the day

First Reading: Zephaniah 3:1-2,9-13
Psalm: 33 (34):2-3,6-7,17-18,19 & 23

Gospel: Matthew 21:28-32

In those days, Jesus told the chief priests and elders of the people: “What do you think? A man had two sons; he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’ He answered, ‘I will not’; but later he changed his mind and went.  … Read more »

Pope: Jesus’ words free us from the prison of despair

Angelus

14/12/2025   St Peter's Square, the Vatican

Message of Pope Leo XIV

Dear brothers and sisters, happy Sunday!

Today’s Gospel places in jail with John the Baptist, who finds himself imprisoned because of his preaching (cf. Mt 14:3-5). Nevertheless, he does not lose hope, thus becoming for us a sign that a prophet, even in chains, retains the ability to use his voice in the pursuit of truth and justice… Read more »