News from the Church in Malta
This year’s Dun Mikiel Azzopardi Award went to Mgr PhIlip Calleja as Id-Dar tal-Providenza’s sign of recognition and appreciation of his work and support of the Siġġiewi Home. After the death of Dun Mikiel in May 1987, Mgr Calleja entrusted by then Archbishop Joseph Mercieca to organise the funeral and to take administer the Home until Mgr Lawrence Gatt was appointed Director…
This year’s Sand Nativity scene and the Christmas tree of Rome’s St. Peter’s Square was inaugurated Friday evening during an impressive ceremony that included Christmas carols, folk dances and band music.
Hundreds of people, including Church dignitaries applauded as curtains were pulled down revealing the 16-meter wide depiction of the birth of Jesus made entirely of sand and dubbed the “Sand Nativity.”
The bas-relief sand sculpture of the Nativity scene is a gift of the Italian seaside resort town of Jesolo, north of Venice, and the Patriarchate of Venice. Over 700 tons of sand from the beach of Jesolo was compacted to create the 16-meter wide and 5-meter tall Nativity sculpture covering 25 square meters…
It-Tnejn, 10 ta’ Diċembru 2018, fid-9:30 a.m., l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ser jiċċelebra Quddiesa għall-istudenti li jattendu skejjel tal-Istat, tal-Knisja u dawk Indipendenti fil-ftuħ tal-kampanja ‘Milied Flimkien’. Il-Quddiesa ser issir fil-Konkatidral ta’ San Ġwann, il-Belt Valletta.
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L-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi inawgura u bierek l-ewwel Via Lucis f’Malta li tinsab fil-Knisja tal-Immakulata Kunċizzjoni, il-Ħamrun.
L-Istazzjonijiet tal-Qawmien, bil-Latin magħrufa bħala Via Lucis, huma l-14-il stazzjon wara l-qawmien mill-mewt ta’ Sidna Ġesù Kristu sa Għid il-Ħamsin. Permezz tal-Via Lucis, li twaqqfet fl-Italja 30 sena ilu, in-Nisrani jfakkar il-Qawmien ta’ Gesù li permezz tiegħu għadda mid-dlamijiet tad-dnub għad-dawl tal-grazzja tal-Mulej…
70 years ago, on the 10th of December 1948 in Paris the member States of the United Nations signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Human Rights existed before this date and only several decades later did the Human Rights movement introduce them into the larger political debate. However, in 1948 Human Rights were declared universal and, thus, became a gift to all humankind…
A public lecture by Professor Judith Povilus was held on Thursday 6th December 2018 at the Archbishop’s Curia in Floriana on the theme: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: Mary, a Stumbling Block or a Door to Unity?
Professor Judith Povilus, from the U.S., is an internationally acclaimed mathematician and one of the founders of Sophia University, Loppiano, Italy…
In 2002, an ossuary inscribed “James son of Joseph brother of Jesus” surfaced in the
hands of a private collector…
If you want to share your faith through the word, you have to listen much and carefully…
In response to the invitation of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, His Holiness Pope Francis will visit Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) from the 3rd to 5th February 2019, to participate in the International Interfaith Meeting on “Human Fraternity”.
The visit will take place also in response to the invitation of the Catholic Church in the United Arab Emirates…
The “most realistic” portrait of the saint who became Santa Claus has been produced at a Liverpool university.
Many are familiar with the image of jolly old St Nick, popularized by the Coca-Cola company, but modern-day legends have obscured the reality of who Santa Claus was and what he really looked like…
