News from the Church in Malta
Message by Archbishop Charles Jude Scicluna
It is a great pleasure to offer you my sincere greetings on this holy Christmas night. It is truly wonderful if we understand what we are telling each other when, throughout these holy days, we greet one another with ‘Happy Christmas’. We are recalling the birth of a baby; we are recalling the birth of God made man for you and me… Read more »
Urging responsibility and care amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and encouraging vaccination together with necessary sanitary measures, H.Em. Card. Jean-Claude Hollerich SJ, President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), and Rev. Christian Krieger, President of the Conference of European Churches (CEC), have issued the following joint appeal.
In this time of Advent, let us manifest Christ’s love by demonstrating responsibility and care for all… Read more »
The celebration starts at 10:45 pm with Christmas readings and singing. At midnight, Archbishop Charles Scicluna celebrates mass on the Solemnity of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in St Paul’s Cathedral, Mdina.
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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… Read more »
Photo by Fiona Alihosi (Sea-Eye)
The Church in Malta through the Migrants Commission, Justice and Peace Commission and JRS, strongly urge the national authorities to take immediate action and ensure that the asylum seekers currently stranded at sea are rescued and disembarked at a safe port.
Over 220 children, women and men rescued by the Sea Eye a week ago in Malta’s search and rescue area are still stranded at sea, in worsening weather conditions, after Malta refused to provide them with a port of safety… Read more »
Pope Francis’ appeal to European leaders to take action to safeguard the dignity and human rights of migrants and refugees is unanimously upheld and welcomed by Churches, religious congregations and Catholic organizations.
Speaking during this last General Audience before Christmas, Pope Francis appealed to European leaders to take joint action and find solutions to protect and promote migrants and refugees arriving on the continent… Read more »
Għada, l-24 ta’ Diċembru, fil-10:45pm jibda l-uffiċċju tal-qari li matulu ssir il-prietka tat-tifel, kif ukoll programm ta’ għanjiet tal-Milied. F’nofsillejl l-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna jiċċelebra Quddiesa Pontifikali fis-Solennità tat-Twelid ta’ Sidna Ġesù Kristu, fil-Katidral ta’ San Pawl, l-Imdina. Iċ-ċelebrazzjoni tixxandar live fuq TVM, knisja.mt u Newsbook.mt.
Fil-25 ta’ Diċembru, l-Arċisqof jiċċelebra Quddiesa Pontifikali fis-Solennità tat-Twelid ta’ Sidna Ġesù Kristu, fil-Katidral ta’ San Pawl, l-Imdina… Read more »
“Fi żmien il-Milied, aħsbu f’min hu bla saqaf fuq rasu jew jorqod f’karozza jew garaxx. F’dawk li m’għandhomx biex jixtru l-ikel jew iħallsu l-kera”.
Dan intqal mill-ħaddiema ta’ Dar Osanna Pia li tinsab f’Tas-Sliema u toffri programm ħolistiku għall-21 żgħażugħ li jinsabu bla saqaf fuq rashom.
Il-ħaddiema qalu wissew li, għalkemm ma narawx nies bla saqaf fit-tined bħal barra minn Malta, jekk tfittex sewwa tinnota li din il-problema qed tikber f’Malta, kemm fost il-Maltin u l-barranin… Read more »
From Friday 24th December till Monday 3rd January 2021 (both days included), the Archbishop’s Curia in Floriana and the Ecclesiastical Tribunal in Valletta will be closed. They will be open to the public on Tuesday 4th January 2022. Read more »
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Baby Jesus Procession in Żejtun on the 24th of December 1959
In the early days of December 1921, when Fr Ġorġ Preca shared his inspiration to organise a ‘demonstration’ with the statue of Baby Jesus on Christmas Eve, he may not have imagined that such a manifestation would continue to become a cherished tradition, as it has been for the past 100 years.
Fr Ġorġ presented his idea to the members of the Ħamrun centres of the Society of Christian Doctrine, which he himself had founded in 1907 and later became popularly known as the M.U.S.E.U.M… Read more »
L-Arċisqof Charles Scicluna flimkien mal-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi laqgħu lill‑awtoritajiet tal‑pajjiż għall-iskambju tal-awgurji tal-Milied fil-Palazz tal-Arċisqof, il-Belt Valletta nhar is-Sibt 18 ta’ Diċembru 2021. L-Isqfijiet iltaqgħu mal-Prim Ministru Robert Abela u l-Kabinett, il-Kap tal-Oppożizzjoni Bernard Grech, l-Ispeaker Anġlu Farrugia, il-Prim Imħallef Mark Chetcuti u l-President George Vella.
Messaġġ lill-Prim Ministru Dr Robert Abela u membri tal-Kabinett
Onor. Prim Ministru, grazzi ħafna taż-żjara u l-preżenza tagħkom… Read more »
