News from the Church in Malta
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 »
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 »
“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 »
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 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 »
‘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 »
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 »
L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna
“Ġesù għajjien kif kien mill-mixi” (Ġw 4:6). L-Evanġelju li għadna kemm smajna jibda b’din is-sitwazzjoni ta’ Ġesù li flimkien mad-dixxipli qed iterraq, jiġi f’belt tas-Samarija u jaqbdu l-għatx. Id-dixxipli jmoru l-belt jixtru x’jieklu. Hi sitwazzjoni tagħna l-bnedmin tal-għatx u l-ġuħ.
Hawnhekk b’dan id-dettall l-evanġelista jurina min hu Bin il-bniedem, min hu Ġesù. Hu bniedem imma dak li għandu joffri jmur ’l hemm minn dak li jidher… Read more »
The Third Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day
First Reading: Ezekiel 17:3-7
Psalm: 94 (95):1-2.6-7.8-9
Second Reading: Romans 5:1-2.5-8
Gospel: John 4:5-42
Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well… Read more »
