News from the Church in Malta
The MSSP Oratory in Birkirkara, a catechetical and liturgical centre for adults, youths and children, has launched its pastoral program for the coming pastoral year:
The MSSP Oratory identity is the building of Christian communities through the power of the Word of God and its celebration in Liturgy. While the very ethos remains constant, the, themes change from year to year with the aim of teaching and forming adult Christians…
Pope Francis on Saturday expressed confidence that young people will provide the missionary dynamism for the Church’s evangelizing thrust in today’s fast changing, globalized and greatly interconnected world, saying they are not just the future but also the Church’s present.
His remarks came in a prepared address to a festive rally in the Vatican that brought together some 7,000 young people from various parts of the world and the Synod Fathers who are participating in the October 3-28 Synod of Bishops on the theme , “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment.”
The Church goes out with the young
“The Church, therefore, does not go out ‘to’ the new generations, but goes out ‘with’ the new generations, and the Synod is the fruit of a work in which you have been and are protagonists,” the Pope said…
L‑Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ħatar lil Patri Renald Lofreda O.Carm bħala kappillan tal‑parroċċa tal‑Madonna tal‑Karmnu, il‑Balluta.
Patri Renald Lofreda twieled fid‑9 ta’ Settembru 1978 u għadda ħafna mit‑tfulija tiegħu fil‑parroċċa ta’ Santa Venera fejn sar jaf lill‑patrijiet tal‑Ordni Karmelitan. Huwa daħal mal‑Karmelitani fl‑1996 u għamel in‑novizzjat f’Pisa, l‑Italja, bejn Awwissu tal‑1998 u Settembru tal‑1999…
The Archdiocese of Malta and the Malta Food Bank Foundation signed an official agreement for the setting up of a food bank, the first of its kind in Malta. This service that is going to be administrated by the Malta Food Bank Foundation (MFBF) is aimed at recovering surplus food to distribute to NGOs that help the poor and those at risk of poverty…
“Today, there are many people who speak about the young, but few who speak to them.” These words of Paul VI were echoed during the fourth general congregation of the Synod of Bishops, which took place Wednesday morning.
The theme of listening was an important part of the morning assembly. The Synod Fathers heard of the need to listen to young people in the digital world, where an overabundance of information corresponds to a dearth of dreams, with the risk of creating “info-obese” children…
Following a request by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna, the Kummissjoni Interdjoċesana Ambjent (KA) has formed an opinion on development application PA10598/17 for a development on St Rita Priory site, Paceville. The proposed development is for a 12-storey four-star accommodation building and office complex, with a language school and offices at basement level, and a further five basement levels for 246 underground parking spaces…
Wara proġett ta’ restawr u konservazzjoni, il‑pittura tal‑Isqof Pawlu Alpheran de Bussan tal‑artist Francesco Zahra tinsab lura fil‑Palazz tal‑Arċisqof, il‑Belt Valletta. Il‑kwadru, li reġa’ sab postu fis‑Sala tat‑Tron, jista’ jiġi apprezzat mill‑pubbliku nhar is‑Sibt li ġej, 6 ta’ Ottubru, waqt is‑serata tan‑Notte Bianca.
L‑istudji u x‑xogħol ta’ restawr u konservazzjoni saru bejn Awwissu u Diċembru 2017 mid‑ditta Atelier del Restauro, taħt it‑tmexxija ta’ Valentina Lupo u Maria Grazia Zenzani…
The Conference of European Justice and Peace Commissions is promoting care for creation as part of its international workshop and general assembly meeting. The topic of the meeting is “Water: Source of Life Human right and Responsibility for Europe.” This marks the first time that European Justice and Peace leadership has dedicated its meeting to the topic of water.
Top Catholic leaders from around the continent were present together with public authorities and experts…
Speaking during his homily at an open-air Mass in St. Peter’s Square that inaugurated the 3-week Synod on “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment”, Pope Francis called on his brother bishops to heed the voices of young people in the effort to build a better world than that of their elders.
He expressed his confidence in the new generations that, he said, “are capable of prophesy and vision” and prayed that the Holy Spirit may grant synodal Fathers the grace of being anointed with the youthful “gift of dreaming and of hoping.”
Bishops from across the world, including China
It is with an attitude of docile listening to the voice of the Spirit, he said, that “we have gathered from all parts of the world”…
L‑Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna waqqaf il‑Kummissjoni Dottrinali fi ħdan il‑Konferenza Episkopali Maltija, u ħatar lil Mons. Hector Scerri bħala president ta’ din il‑kummissjoni għal perjodu ta’ tliet snin.
Il‑Kummissjoni Dottrinali ser tagħti l‑kontribut tagħha f’dak li għandu x’jaqsam ma’ kwistjonijiet marbuta mal‑fidi u l‑moralità Nisranija, u twassal ir‑riflessjoni tagħha lill‑Isqfijiet. Bil‑pariri tagħha, il‑Kummissjoni Dottrinali ser tgħin ukoll lill‑Konferenza Episkopali fit‑tħejjija ta’ dokumenti li jgħinu lill‑poplu f’Malta u Għawdex fuq diversi aspetti tal‑fidi Nisranija…
