News from the Church in Malta
“Jesus feels compassion” sums up the Pope’s reflection on the healing of the leper from the Gospel of Mark. Pope Francis explained the stigma of leprosy at Jesus’ time. “It was considered a serious impurity.” A leper’s “condition was particularly painful, because the mentality of the time made him feel impure before God and other people,” the Pope said…
Epilepsy affects around 1% of the world wide population with no distinction to race, social background, age etc. Epilepsy is a chronic disorder that causes unprovoked, recurrent seizures and can affect any person and at any age. A seizure is a sudden rush of electrical activity in the brain. There are around forty different types of seizures which are usually mainly classified in two main types: Generalized seizures which affect the whole brain such and Focal, or partial seizures, affect just one part of the brain…
Solemnity of Saint Paul, Patron Saint of Malta
San Mark 16:15-20
Jesus said to them, ‘Go into all the world; and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptised will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. These are the signs that will be associated with believers: in my name they will cast out devils; they will have the gift of tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands and be unharmed should they drink deadly poison; they will lay their hands on the sick, who will recover.’
And so the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven; there at the right hand of God he took his place, while they, going out, preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the signs that accompanied it…
Speaking at the recitation of the Angelus prayer last Sunday, the Pope invited all women and men of goodwill to join him in praying for an end to violence and conflict, especially in South Sudan and in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
The Secretariat for Catholic Education and the Malta Union of Teachers are meeting regularly to update the Church Schools collective agreement.
Increments and allowances indicated in the Sectoral Agreement between the Government of Malta and the Malta Union of Teachers, dated 21st December 2017, will be given to all educators employed by Church Schools and the Secretariat for Catholic Education, once the agreement has been signed and approval received from the Ministry of Education and Employment…
Two priests have been killed in an armed ambush in Mexico.
Fr Ivan Anorve Jaimes and Fr Germain Muniz Garcia were attacked on the morning of February 5, as they drove between the cities of Taxco and Iguala in Guerrero state, 100 miles south of Mexico City…
What would you compare your body to?
A temple? People would chuckle at that.
What about a roller coaster? Enjoy the ride. After all, we might all be conditioned. Maybe we have certain impulses that make us more inclined towards one gender, whoever and whatever we are, but we’re pretty flexible. The body becomes an instrument for pleasure alone, and the body is a body…
In a new letter, the Pope Emeritus speaks of his declining strength but says he is surrounded by ‘love and goodness’
Pope emeritus Benedict has sent a short letter to the editor of the Italian news daily Il Corriere della Sera.
The Pope emeritus was responding to the many inquiries from readers as to how he is spending “this last period of his life.” Noting the “slow decline” of his “physical strength,” Benedict says in the letter that “interiorly, I am on a pilgrimage towards Home.” The former Roman Pontiff admits that “this last stretch of the road” is “at times difficult,” but says, “It is a great grace for me to be surrounded by a love and goodness that I could not have imagined.”
Concluding his letter, Benedict said he considers the concern of the readers for his well-being as an “accompaniment” for the journey…
Fl-okkażjoni tal-festa ta’ San Pawl, nhar is-Sibt, 10 ta’ Frar 2018, ser isir pellegrinaġġ lejn San Pawl Milqi, li jintemm b’Quddiesa ċċelebrata mill-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna.
L-attività ser tibda fid-9:15am ħdejn il-Knisja tal-Lunzjata, is-Salina, fejn ser ikun hemm mument ta’ talb u ssir żjara lill-Katakombi li hemm fiż-żona u wara jibda l-pellegrinaġġ lejn San Pawl Milqi, il-post marbut mat-tradizzjoni tal-laqgħa ta’ San Pawl fl-oqsma ta’ Publiju…
Some 300 Catholic communicators from many countries met at the Sanctuary of Lourdes (France) from 24 to 26 January to experience the 22nd International Days of Saint Francis de Sales. It was the first time the event was open to international participation.
The meeting, organized by the Catholic Media Federation (FMC), the Secretariat for Communications of the Holy See and SIGNIS, was on the theme “Media and Truth”…
