News from the Church in Malta
As workers were getting St Peter’s Square ready for this year’s Nativity scene, nearby a large mobile health care facility was set up and running to serve the city’s homeless and poor.
About two dozen men and a few women were sitting or standing in a spacious area, quietly waiting their turn or filling out basic paperwork before being called for their free checkups…
The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke, announced on Tuesday that Pope Francis will visit Morocco from the 30th to the 31st of March 2019.
During this two-day Apostolic Journey, he will visit the cities of Rabat and Casablanca.
Greg Burke said that this decision comes in response to an invitation extended by King Mohammed VI and the Catholic Bishops of Morocco…
His Holiness Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna as Adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Holy See. Whilst remaining the Archbishop of Malta, Mgr Scicluna will have a greater role in the Congregation which is responsible to promote and safeguard the doctrine on faith and morals in the Church.
At present, Archbishop Scicluna is a member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and President of the Special College within the same Congregation, to hear recourses in certain canonical processes…
Il-Ħadd, 11 ta’ Ottubru 2018, madwar 110 adolexxent mill-parroċċa taż-Żurrieq u mix-Xgħajra rċevew is-Sagrament tal-Griżma. Iż-żewġ ċeleberazzjonijiet tmexxew mill-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna.
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Ir-ritratti huma aċċessibbli fuq il-websajt tar-Ritratti Uffiċjali tal-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta.
L-għoti tas-Sagrament tal-Griżma tal-Isqof fix-Xgħajra
Ir-ritratti huma aċċessibbli fuq il-websajt tar-Ritratti Uffiċjali tal-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta…
Singing elevates the soul, making it “more sensitive to the voice of the Spirit.”
Pope Francis described the musical art in this way, while speaking to 300-odd members of the “Alumni of Heaven” Choir Association on Saturday.
The Association is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its foundation by Fr. Giuseppe Arione SJ. The Alumni seek to evangelize through music and concerts, which they perform throughout Italy and Europe…
Għada l-Ħadd, 11 ta’ Novembru 2018, Jum it-Tifkira, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna se jiċċelebra Quddiesa Pontifikali fil-Konkatidral ta’ San Ġwann, il-Belt Valletta. Il-Quddiesa tibda fid-9:15 am.
F’għeluq il-100 anniversarju mit-tmiem tal-Ewwel Gwerra Dinjija, fil-knejjes kollha f’Malta, f’nofsinhar, ser tindaqq mota b’tifkira ta’ dawk li mietu fil-gwerra.
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“Promise the Lord that you will never do this, and you will not permit it to be done in your school, in your school, in your neighborhood. Is that understood?”
It was not a casual message for the Pope. The bullying problem on social networks worries him to the point that the Vatican will create an International Observatory.
In April, he hopes to present the conclusions of a triple study that will measure how the children themselves perceive the phenomenon, how the governments face this problem and how he will establish prevention plans…
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“Qed niċċelebraw 50 sena viċin in-nies. 50 sena on the side of people in need. Nixtieq nirringrazzja lil Media li attendejtu. Intom kellkom u għandkom rwol essenzjali biex twasslu l-messaġġ tagħna li nkunu l-vuċi tal-persuni fil-bżonn. Iż-żerriegħa li nitfgħu, intom tikkultivawha. Għalhekk nerġa’ ntenni l-apprezzament talli ġejtu u grazzi tal-ħidma fejjieda tagħkom.” Hekk esprima is-Sur Anthony Gatt, Direttur ta’ Caritas Malta, waqt konferenza stampa fejn tħabbar il-50 sena anniversarju mit-twaqqif ta’ din l-entità…
