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God takes care of us – Bishop Galea-Curmi

15/10/2021   The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa at the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

L-omelija tal-Isqof Joseph Galea-Curmi

Hemm kelma li Ġesù jgħidha b’enfasi fl-Evanġelju tal-lum: “tibżgħux”. Hi l-kelma li niltaqgħu magħha ħafna drabi fl-Iskrittura, speċjalment meta Alla jsejjaħ lil xi ħadd u jagħtih missjoni. Dejjem jgħidlu: “tibżax”. U Ġesù nnifsu użaha kemm-il darba mad-dixxipli tiegħu: “tibżgħux”.

Għalfejn Ġesù jgħid “tibżgħux” lid-dixxipli tiegħu? L-ewwel nett, għax aħna qegħdin taħt il-ħarsien ta’ Alla, li jieħu ħsiebna. U għalhekk ma għandniex għalfejn nibżgħu: għax hemm Alla li jieħu ħsiebna… Read more »

The recipe for a pure heart – The Archbishop

12/10/2021   The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa at the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna

Ġesù jagħtina riċetta sabiħa għal qalb safja. Mhix kwistjoni ta’ kif nidhru, mhix kwistjoni ta’ x’jaħsbu fuqna n-nies. Dak kollu hu li jidher minn barra, imma hu l-qalb, il-qalb li Alla jafha, jaraha. Ħin minnhom jgħid: “U Missierkom li jara fil-moħbi, iroddulkom”. “Agħtu karità minn dak li hemm ġewwa, minn qalbek u taraw kif kollox ikunilkom nadif” (Lq 11:41).

L-Iskrittura wkoll tgħid li l-imħabba, il-karità, l-għajnuna lill-fqar tgħatti ħafna dnubiet… Read more »

The best sign – Bishop Galea-Curmi

11/10/2021   The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa at the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

L-omelija tal-Isqof Joseph Galea-Curmi

Il-profeta Ġona hu dak li Ġesù jsemmi fil-bidu u fl-aħħar tal-Evanġelju tal-lum, u speċjalment jenfasizza s-“sinjal ta’ Ġona”. Dan għaliex kien qed jitkellem ma’ nies li riedu sinjal mingħandu. Issa hu kien diġà għamel ħafna sinjali, bil-mirakli li għamel. Imma dawn riedu sinjal spettakolari, xi ħaġa li tgħaġġeb lil kulħadd. U Ġesù jgħidilhom: ebda sinjal ma jingħata lil dan in-nisel ħlief is-sinjal ta’ Ġona… Read more »

Are you willing to share what you have with others? – The Archbishop

Mass on the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time and on Grandparents Day

10/10/2021   The Shrine of Our Lady of Atocia (Tas-Samra), Ħamrun

L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna

Dan ir-raġel li ltaqa’ ma’ Ġesù kien raġel tassew twajjeb; kien raġel għani, kif jgħidilna l-Evanġelju ta’ San Mark li għadu kemm qara Fr Andrew. Imma kellu wkoll l-għatx għall-ħajja ta’ dejjem. “Mgħallem tajjeb, x’għandi nagħmel biex nikseb il-ħajja ta’ dejjem?” (Mk 10:17). Donnu dan ir-raġel, għalkemm kien raġel li kellu ħafna flus, kellu x’aktarx għelieqi u ġid, kien jaf li din il-ħajja mhux għal dejjem, hemm ħajja li ma tispiċċa qatt, il-ħajja ta’ dejjem… Read more »

The Sunday Gospel: 10th October

10/10/2021

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Wisdom 7:7-11
Psalm: 89(90):12-13,14-15,16-17
Second Reading: Hebrews 4:12-13

Gospel: Mk 10:17-30

In those days, Jesus was setting out on a journey, when a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 

Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? … Read more »

Caritas Malta and the Oasi Foundation in response to the Cannabis reform bill

07/10/2021

Caritas Malta flimkien mal-Fondazzjoni Oasi, jinsabu ferm konċernati li l-proposta ta’ qafas legali ġdid għall-użu responsabbli tal-kannabis, kif ippreżentata mill-Ministru għar-Riċerka u l-Innovazzjoni Owen Bonnici, fis-6 ta’ Ottubru 2021, tmur oltrè minn dak li ġie ppreżentat fil-White Paper u jikkontempla wkoll id-distribuzzjoni tal-kannabis minn assoċjazzjonijiet għall-użu rikreattiv. Flimkien mal-proposti l-oħra dwar il-pussess u l-kultivazzjoni, dan hu pass ieħor lejn iktar normalizzazzjoni tal-użu tal-kannabis, iżid il-perċezzjoni liż-żgħażagħ li l-kannabis m’għandhiex perikli, u li eventwalment ikompli jiżdied l-użu… Read more »

The Gospel of the day: 7th October

07/10/2021

Our Lady of the Rosary
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 1,12-14
Psalm: Lk 1,46-55

Gospel: Lk 1,26-38

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, favoured one! … Read more »

Pope Francis grateful for the victims’ courage to speak out so that the Church may take the path of redemption

06/10/2021

An independent commission established by French Catholic Bishops and religious has revealed that an estimated total of 330,000 people in France have been victims of sexual abuse within Church as children, and that between 2,900 and 3,200 priests and religious committed these crimes over a period of seventy years.

The Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE) published its findings on Tuesday in a 2,500-page report after a two-and-a half-year investigation… Read more »

French bishops on sexual abuse in the Church: “There is still a long way to go before we can hope to deserve their forgiveness

06/10/2021

Mr. Jean-Mark Sauvé, president of CIASE  (AFP or licensors)

An estimated 216,000 children were victims of sexual violence by between 2,900 to 3,200 priests, men and women religious in France over the past 70 years. However, when the victims of attacks by “lay people working in Catholic Church institutions” were included, the figure rose to 330,000. These shocking “figures” were released on Tuesday, October 5, in Paris in a Report presented by Jean-Marc Sauvé, president of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuses in the Church ( CISAE), to Monsignor Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, president of the Bishops’ Conference of France ( CEF), and to Sister Véronique Margron, president of the Conference of Men and Women Religious in France ( CORREF)… Read more »

Completion of structural works at St Michael Hospice

The Archbishop visits the Church property transferred to Hospice Malta for a palliative care complex

05/10/2021

Archbishop Charles Jude Scicluna visited the works at the Adelaide Cini Institute in St Venera, which was transferred by the Church to Hospice Malta to establish St Michael Hospice – the first complex in Malta which will provide comprehensive palliative care. Structural works on this Church-owned land that spreads over 11,600 square metres were completed in recent days and the project will now enter its next phase… Read more »