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The anniversary of the Pontificate, looking to the essential

13/03/2019

  • Pope Francis has lived, and about to live out, several intense months between voyages and Synods. His sixth year was characterized by the scourge of abuse and by suffering from internal attacks; the response is an invitation to turn to the heart of the faith.

     

  • The sixth anniversary of the election sees Pope Francis engaged in a year filled with important international journeys, marked at the beginning and the end by two “synodal” events: the meeting for the protection of minors, which took place last February with the participation of the presidents of the episcopal Conferences of the whole world; and the special Synod on the Amazon, which will be celebrated – also at the Vatican – this coming October…

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Closing of diocesan inquiry for beatification of French martyred Father Hamel

13/03/2019

  • The closing session of the diocesan inquiry — first stage in view of the Beatification of French priest Jacques Hamel, took place on March 9, 2019 at 10:30 am in the Chapel of Our Lady of the Annunciation of the Archbishopric of Rouen. The 11,496-page dossier will be sent to Rome under seal, to be studied by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints…

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Public Lecture: Making Patristics Pertinent

12/03/2019

  • The Faculty of Theology and the Għaqda Studenti tat-Teoloġija are inviting the public to the Aquinas Public Lecture on Thursday, 14 March 2019 at 19:00 at the Old Refectory Hall, at the Archbishop’s Curia in Floriana.

    Rev. Prof. Joseph Carola SJ will deliver a lecture on: “Making Patristics Pertinent: Theological Echoes and Anticipations from John Henry Newman’s 1833 Mediterranean Tour”.

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150km walk around Malta in aid of id-Dar tal-Providenza

11/03/2019

  • Trail Makers se jorganizzaw mixja ta’ 150 kilometru lejl u nhar b’risq id-Dar tal-Providenza, mis-Sibt 23 sal-Ħadd 24 ta’ Marzu. Il-mixja tibda mill-parkeġġ tad-Dar fis-Siġġiewi fis-7am tas-Sibt u tispiċċa għal ħabta tal-5pm tal-għada l-Ħadd.

    Fr Martin Micallef, Direttur tad-Dar tal-Providenza, qal li matul is-sena jsiru diversi attivitajiet minn għaqdiet u entitajiet differenti bil-għan li jinġabru flus għad-Dar tas-Siġġiewi u din il-mixja ta’ 150 kilometru hija waħda minnhom…

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Pope at Angelus: Jesus shows us the remedies for temptations

11/03/2019

  • In his Angelus address, Pope Francis said the three temptations Jesus faced “indicate three paths that the world always proposes, promising great success”.

    The greed of possession

    After Jesus had fasted for forty days, the devil tempted Him to turn stones to bread. This, the Pope said, is “the path of the greed of possession”…

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People’s Sunday pilgrimage in Ħaż-Żabbar

10/03/2019

  • Illum il-Ħadd, 10 ta’ Marzu 2019, f’Ħaż-Żabbar, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ser imexxi l-pellegrinaġġ penitenzjali ta’ Ħadd in-Nies, bl-istatwa devozzjonali tal-Madonna tal-Grazzja flimkien mal-kappillani, il-kleru, reliġjużi, rappreżentanti tas-soċjetajiet ċivili, għaqdiet tal-parroċċa u bosta pellegrini.

    Il-pellegrinaġġ ser jibda fl-4:15 pm u wara li tidħol l-istatwa tal-Madonna fis-Santwarju, ser tiġi ċċelebrata Quddiesa bil-parteċipazzjoni tal-kor Notre Dame.

    Snin ilu, l-aspett ta’ ringrazzjament u penitenza kien qanqal lil missirijietna biex iżuru u jassistu għad-diversi pellegrinaġġi li kienu jsiru lejn is-Santwarju tal-Madonna tal-Grazzja f’Ħaż-Żabbar…

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New parish priest for St Joseph the Worker Parish

09/03/2019

    • L‑Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ħatar lil Dun Charlon Muscat bħala kappillan tal‑parroċċa ta’ San Ġużepp Ħaddiem, Birkirkara.

      Dun Charlon Muscat twieled fil‑30 ta’ April 1985 u trabba l‑Mosta fejn irċieva l‑edukazzjoni fl‑iskola primarja fil‑Mosta. Huwa kiseb l‑edukazzjoni sekondarja fl-iskola Vincenzo Bugeja, Birkirkara, u kompla l‑istudji terzjarji fil‑Fakultà tat‑Teoloġija (Filosofija u Teoloġija) fl‑Università ta’ Malta. Ġie ordnat saċerdot fit‑3 ta’ Lulju 2013…

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Pastoral Visit by the Auxiliary Bishop at Iklin Parish

09/03/2019

  • Is-Sibt, 9 ta’ Marzu 2019, l-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi ser jagħmel l-ewwel viżta pastorali tiegħu fil-Parroċċa tal-Familja Mqaddsa fl-Iklin, fejn se jiltaqa’ mat-tfal u l-adolexxenti tal-parroċċa, mal-operaturi pastorali, mas-saċerdoti tal-komunità kif ukoll mal-membri tal-Kunsill Lokali. L-Isqof Galea-Curmi se jbierek ukoll il-Prayer Spaces tar-Randan u anke jitlob mat-tfal. Il-Viżta Pastorali tintemm il-Ħamis, 14 ta’ Marzu 2019.

    Hawn taħt tista’ taqra l-messaġġ tal-Isqof Awżiljarju lill-parruċċani tal-Iklin…

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Archbishop appoints Episcopal Delegate for Evangelization

08/03/2019

    • Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna has appointed Nadia Delicata as Episcopal Delegate for Evangelization. 

      Dr Delicata is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Malta and has been teaching in the Department of Moral and Spiritual Theology since 2012. Between 2001 and 2011 she undertook her theological studies at Regis College, the Jesuit theologate of the Toronto School of Theology at the University of Toronto…

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Pope at Ash Wednesday Mass: ‘Focus on what is essential’

07/03/2019

  • Pope Francis summoned Christians to slow down in a fast-paced and often directionless life and fast from the unnecessary things that distract us, to heed Lent that he described as “a wake-up call for the soul”.

    The Pope’s words came during the homily at Holy Mass on Ash Wednesday with the blessing and imposition of the ashes that took place, as per tradition, in the Basilica of Saint Sabina on the Aventine Hill…

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