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Pope to Synod Fathers: Don’t allow past mistakes crush your dreams and hopes

03/10/2018

  • 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”…

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A new Commission for Doctrine within the Maltese Episcopal Conference

03/10/2018

  • 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…

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Various social activities organised for all residents at Church homes

03/10/2018

  • Holy Family Home residents attending the Green Festival in Valletta

     

  • An event was held at Dar tal-Kleru for all the residents residing within the five Church Homes for the Elderly within the Archdiocese of Malta, namely Casa Leone (St Julian’s), Holy Family Home (in-Naxxar), Dar Saura (ir-Rabat), Dar Sant’Anna (Senglea) and Dar tal-Kleru (B’Kara)…

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Archbishop Scicluna attends the Bishops’ Synod on youth

02/10/2018

  • L‑Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna llum ħalla Malta għal Ruma biex jieħu sehem fil‑15‑il Assemblea Ġenerali Ordinarja tas‑Sinodu tal‑Isqfijiet fil‑Vatikan, bit‑tema ‘Iż‑Żgħażagħ, il‑Fidi u d‑Dixxerniment Vokazzjonali’. Is‑Sinodu ser jibda għada l‑Erbgħa, 3 ta’ Ottubru u jintemm il‑Ħadd, 28 ta’ Ottubru 2018.

    Għal dan is‑Sinodu li sejjaħ il‑Papa Franġisku ser jattendu 165 isqof, kif ukoll numru ta’ żgħażagħ minn madwar id‑dinja li flimkien ser jiddiskutu kif il‑Knisja twassal il‑messaġġ tagħha lill‑ġenerazzjoni żagħżugħa, u kif iż‑żgħażagħ stess jistgħu jwasslu l‑Bxara t‑Tajba tal‑Evanġelju…

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Networks, not division: The theme for Communications Day 2019

02/10/2018

  • Christians must do more to make sure the media, especially social networks, are places of dialogue and respect for others, rather than instruments for highlighting differences and increasing divisions, said the prefect of the Vatican communications office.

    “The risk in our time is that of forming tribes instead of communities – tribes based on the exclusion of the other,” said Paolo Ruffini, the new prefect of the Dicastery for Communication…

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Dokumentarju ġdid biex jgħin lill-Kattoliċi jifhmu l-Quddiesa

01/10/2018

  • “The Mass” is a new documentary that offers a step-by-step guide, through video format, on the meaning and purpose of the Catholic Mass, featuring Bishop Robert Barron, an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles who uses media to educate people about the Catholic faith.

    According to Bishop Barron, in a time where people are more geared to watching videos, video format has the potential of reaching out to more people than possibly a book…

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Live: Mass on the opening of the Forensic Year

01/10/2018

  • It-Tnejn, l-1 ta’ Ottubru 2018, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna jiċċelebra Quddiesa għall-membri tal-ġudikatura fil-ftuħ tas-Sena Forensi 2018-2019. Il-Quddiesa ser issir fl-Oratorju tal-Konkatidral ta’ San Ġwann, il-Belt Valletta, fid-9am. 

     

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Pope Francis invites the faithful to pray the Rosary in October

30/09/2018

  • The following is the full text of a comuniqué released on Saturday by the Holy See’s Press Office regarding an invitation extended by Pope Francis to all the faithful to join in praying the Rosary during the month of October:

    Pope Francis’ invitation

    The Holy Father has decided to invite all the faithful, of all the world, to pray the Holy Rosary every day, during the entire Marian month of October, and thus to join in communion and in penitence, as the people of God, in asking the Holy Mother of God and Saint Michael  Archangel to protect the Church from the devil, who always seeks to separate us from God and from each other…

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Courses for catechists and parents by the Secretariat for Catechesis

30/09/2018

  • Is-Segretarjat għall-Katekeżi tal-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta qed jorganizza għadd ta’ korsijiet għal dawk kollha involuti fil-formazzjoni tat-tagħlim Nisrani. Il-korsijiet huma miftuħa kemm għall-katekisti u kif ukoll għall-ġenituri tat-tfal li qed jirċievu dan it-tagħlim Nisrani.

     

  • Irtiri għall-katekisti

    L-għan tal-irtir huwa li jagħti opportunità lill-katekisti biex  jirriflettu fuq temi relevanti fil-ministeru tagħhom li jgħinuhom isaħħu u jkabbru r-relazzjoni tagħhom ma’ Ġesù…

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