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New director for Missio Malta

30/03/2023

The Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples of the Holy See has appointed Fr Victor Agius as the new director of MISSIO Malta for the next five years (2023‑2028).

MISSIO aims to help the Pope in spreading the missionary spirit among priests, religious, adults and children and encourages supporting the poor through financial aid for projects in Third World countries. MISSIO also takes care of spreading the Word of God in countries that have never been evangelised… Read more »

A new team of priests for Chaplaincy at Mater Dei hospital

27/03/2023

In recent months, the Province of Capuchin Friars passed on the responsibility for the pastoral work carried out at Mater Dei Hospital to the Archdiocese of Malta.  Archbishop Charles Scicluna appointed a team of priests to continue providing 24‑hour pastoral support from Monday to Sunday at the hospital. The Chaplaincy team now consists of Fr Louis Farrugia, Fr Reuben Vella and Fr Reuben Deguara, as well as Fr René Camilleri as coordinator of this work… Read more »

A new parish priest for Marsaskala parish

26/03/2023

Fr Luke Cutajar has been appointed as the new parish priest for the Parish of St Anne in Marsascala, the same parish in which he has served as vice-parish priest for 7 years.

Fr Luke was born in Siġġiewi in 1988 and raised in Rabat, receiving his primary and secondary education at Stella Maris College, Gżira, before entering De La Salle College for Sixth Form… Read more »

The Sunday Gospel: 26th March

26/03/2023

Fifth Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day

First Reading: Ezekiel 37:12-14
Psalm: 129 (130):1-2,3-4ab,4c-6,7-8
Second Reading: Romans 8:8-11

Gospel: John 11:1-45

Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill… Read more »

Let us continue to accompany our dear ones with respect and dignity

Pastoral Letter for Lent 2023

25/03/2023

“I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26). Jesus poses this question to Martha, sister to Lazarus and Mary, three of Jesus’s closest friends. The Gospel we have just heard today clearly shows that Jesus loved Martha, Mary and Lazarus very much. 

At the beginning of the Gospel, Jesus receives bad news about Lazarus’s health: “Lord, your friend is sick.”(John 11:3)… Read more »

Clergy to meet funeral corteges at church rather than morgue

24/03/2023

The Archdiocese of Malta has decided that from next month clergy will receive funeral processions at the church door, where a blessing will take place before the Mass, instead of accompanying corteges from the morgue to the funeral service.

A spokesperson for the Archdiocese said: “The bishops have taken this difficult decision, after consultation with parish priests, due to the declining number of clergy in parishes, increasingly lengthy travel times and a long-felt need for priests to be present in church before the funeral service takes place to console relatives and friends as well as hear confessions.”

Priests will continue to be available when loved ones pass away, either in a residence or in hospital, and will also continue to take part in the procession from the church to the cemetery where burial takes place… Read more »

The Sunday Gospel: 19th March

19/03/2023

The Fourth Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Samuel 16:1b,6-7,10-13a
Psalm: 22 (23):1-3a,3b-4,5,6
Second Reading: Ephesians 5:8-14

Gospel: John 9:1-41

As Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him… Read more »

Lenten talks for separated persons

15/03/2023   The Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

‘It-Triq, il-Verità u l-Ħajja: l-akkumpanjament spiritwali’ huma eżerċizzi spiritwali maħsuba għall-persuni separati mmexxija minn Dun Marco Portelli.

Huma eżerċizzi spiritwali li joffru t-tama u jqawwu l-fidi fit-triq tal-ħajja mimlija sfidi. Jimxu lejn verità iktar sħiħa tal-istorja ta’ ħajjitna, b’dak li nafu sal-lum u dak li nsibu fil-ħajja ta’ kuljum. F’akkumpanjament spiritwali u bl-esperjenzi ta’ xulxin, naslu ma’ Kristu li jridna ferħanin u nħarsu ‘l quddiem b’kuraġġ… Read more »

KDT meet up with the Archbishop in the heart of Mellieħa nature

11/03/2023   Mellieħa

Is-Sibt 11 ta’ Marzu 2023, il-membri tal-Kummissjoni Djoċesana Tfal (KDT), kellhom waħda mil-laqgħat tagħhom mal-Arċisqof Charles Scicluna fl-inħawi tat-Torri l-Aħmar, il-Mellieħa.

Il-laqgħa saret fl-apert fuq suġġeriment tal-Arċisqof innifsu, fejn qasam l-imħabba li għandu għan-natura u l-fjuri. Mgħammar bi ktejjeb dwar il-fjuri fis-selvaġġ f’Malta, l-Arċisqof spjega lit-tfal liema fjuri u pjanti ltaqgħu magħhom matul mixja li saret mit-Torri l-Aħmar sar-Radar Tower.

It-tfal membri fil-KDT jiltaqgħu mal-Arċisqof tliet darbiet fis-sena biex f’diskussjoni miftuħa jitkellmu miegħu dwar diversi suġġetti li jolqtu lit-tfal… Read more »