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Make me a channel of your peace – Remembrance Day 2019

Pontifical Mass by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Galea-Curmi

10/11/2019   St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta

Homily by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Galea-Curmi

‘Lord, make me a channel of your peace.’ This prayer comes to our heart and mind on Remembrance Sunday – a day that was established a century ago, one year after the end of the First World War, to remember the fallen. We are commemorating this day on the morrow of the thirtieth anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall – an important event that changed the course of history… Read more »

The Catholic Action: 90 years on

The General Assembly of the Catholic Action

08/11/2019   The Catholic Institute, Floriana

Nhar il-Ġimgħa 8 ta’ Novembru ġiet organizzata l-Assemblea Ġenerali tal-Azzjoni Kattolika Maltija. Din is-sena kienet waħda speċjali għall-membri tal-għaqda għax kienet attività parti miċ-ċelebrazzjonijiet tad-90 Anniversarju. L-Assemblea Ġenerali bdiet billi disa’ persuni li kellhom bejn l-10 u d-90 sena, qasmu l-esperjenzi tagħhom fl-Azzjoni Kattolika, tul dawn id-90 sena li ilha mwaqqfa f’Malta.

Josef DeBono, il-President Ġenerali tal-Azzjoni Kattolika Maltija tenna li dawn l-aħħar 90 sena mhux biss jirrakkontaw storja iżda juru wkoll ħeġġa għal dak li ġej, għax huwa iktar importanti minn dak li diġà għadda… Read more »

Breathing with two lungs – the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Statement by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Galea-Curmi and 26 other representatives of all European Episcopal Conferences (COMECE)

09/11/2019

The fall of the Berlin Wall on the 9th of November 1989 was one of the most important events in European history in the last decades. It was a moment full of emotion. After having been separated by a concrete wall for more than 28 years, people – relatives, friends and neighbours – living in the same city were able to meet each other, to celebrate and to express their joy and hopes… Read more »

The importance of sound planning in Malta – Environment Commission

Message on the occasion of World Town Planning Day 2019

08/11/2019

Every year, the Interdiocesan Environment Commission (KA) issues a statement on this day to highlight the importance of sound planning for Malta, one of the most densely populated countries in the world. For such a small country, a planning process which is not hijacked by vested interests is of paramount importance, if the country is to pursue the route to sustainable development for the benefit of both current and future generations… Read more »

Ecology Week organised by the Faculty of Theology and the Carmelite Institute Malta

08/11/2019

The Faculty of Theology, in collaboration with the Carmelite Institute Malta, is holding Ecology Week between 13 and 17 December 2019. The guest scholar for this event is Rev. Dr Eduardo Agosta Scarel, an Argentinian Carmelite who holds a doctorate in Climate Science and lectures at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires. 

On Saturday 14 December 2019, Dr Agosta Scarel will lead a day-seminar at the Carmelite Institute, Mdina, entitled ‘One with Nature, One with God: A Christian Ecological Spirituality‘. He will offer elements for a spirituality of ecology based on categories of interpretation of the reality of the current ecological, socio-environmental crisis described in the encyclical Laudato Si’ of Pope Francis… Read more »

An education which helps students grow in an active and responsible participation in society – The Auxiliary Bishop

Mass on the opening and blessing of new the facilities in St Michael School, Santa Venera

06/11/2019

Omelija tal-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi

Okkażjoni bħal tal-lum hija okkażjoni verament sabiħa għalikom ilkoll, jiġifieri l-istudenti, kull min jaħdem hawnhekk, kull min ta l-kontribut tiegħu imma wkoll għall-Knisja f’Malta. Għaliex meta tara l-iskola kif intqal fil-bidu tkompli tiżviluppa tul is-snin – work in progress – tieħu gost bil-ħajja li hawn f’dan il-qasam hekk importanti tal-edukazzjoni.

Jien xtaqt insemmi tliet punti li ħadthom mill-mission statement tal-iskola tagħkom, li naħseb huma ħafna importanti għalina lkoll… Read more »

The seeds we should be sowing – The Archbishop

07/11/2019

Some of the participants at The Good Neighbourhood Dinner, organised last June by the Archdiocese of Malta with the aim of encouraging a society that embraces diversity. Message by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna

A remark by former minister Tonio Borg, who kindly wrote the foreword to my book ‘Religion and the 1921 Malta Constitution’, caused a ripple of laughter at the launch of the publication last week after he quoted s.2(2) of our Constitution, which states “the authorities of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church have the duty and the right to teach which principles are right and which are wrong”… Read more »

Three seminarians instituted in the Acolyte Ministry

06/11/2019

Nhar it-Tnejn 4 ta’ Novembru ta l-Ministeru tal-Akkolitat lil tliet seminaristi fis-seminajru tal-Arċisqof, Tal-Virtù, ir-Rabat. It-tliet seminaristi kienu Joshua Cortis mill-Parroċċa ta’ San Gejtanu l-Ħamrun u Roderick Baldacchino u Jean-Claude Schembri mill-Parroċċa taż-Żejtun.

L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna

Għeżież intom u tirċievu l-ministeru tal-Akkolitat, il-Knisja qiegħda tistedinkom biex titgħallmu tħejju l-mejda għażiża tal-Ewkaristija.

Ġesù meta indirizzana, u dan il-kliem għażiż qalu fl-aħħar ikla tiegħu mad-dixxipli, qalilna: “Ma nsejħilkomx qaddejja, insejħilkom ħbieb, għax kulma smajt mingħand Missieri, għarraftulkom” (Ġw 15:15)… Read more »

I ask you to do your utmost to be a welcoming community – The Archbishop to the parishioners of Marsa

04/11/2019

L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna

Ftit tal-ġimgħat ilu qrajna kapitlu sabiħ minn dan l-istess Evanġelju, mill-Evanġelju skont San Luqa, il-kapitlu 15 li fih Ġesù jagħtina tliet parabboli dwar il-ħniena: ir-ragħaj li ntilfitlu nagħġa u mar ifittixha, il-mara armla li ntilfitilha munita prezzjuża ħafna (drakma) u qagħdet tfittixha mad-dar kollha, u l-missier li kellu żewġ ulied u wieħed minnhom telaq.

It-tliet parabboli għandhom xi ħaġa in komuni; Ġesù fit-tliet parabboli jitkellem fuq xi ħaġa jew xi ħadd li ntilef, instab u mbagħad issir festa kbira… Read more »