News from the Church in Malta
Pope Francis on Sunday announced a consistory for the creation of new Cardinals. He made the announcement at the end of the Regina Caeli in St Peter’s Square.
The new Cardinals come from Mali, Spain, Sweden, Laos and El Salvador. The Consistory will take place on June 28th.
Find below the list of new Cardinal designates:
Archbishop Jean Zerbo of Bamako, Mali…
Għada s-Sibt, 20 ta’ Mejju 2017, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna se jibda l-viżta pastorali fil-Parroċċa tan-Naxxar, fejn se jiltaqa’ mat-tfal u ż-żgħażagħ tal-parroċċa, ma’ dawk involuti fil-festa, u mal-operaturi pastorali u l-katekisti fil-komunità tan-Naxxar fost l-oħrajn.
Hawn taħt tista’ taqra l-messaġġ u tara l-programm tal-Arċisqof Scicluna lill-parruċċani tan-Naxxar.
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“The Path of the Holy Family,” the route tradition says was taken when Mary and Joseph fled with Jesus to Egypt to escape Herod, is about to earn its place on the map of UNESCO’s World Heritage sites. This is what Adel Gindy, general head of the international relations of the Egyptian tourism development Authority reported to national media.
Such a designation would be seen as a boon to tourism in a country that has suffered a steep decline in visitors because of terrorism and instability in the region…
Catholic Action members, residents and friends of Id-Dar tal-Providenza attended a Eucharistic Celebration at the Home’s chapel to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Mons Mikiel Azzopardi. Dun Mikiel, as he was popularly referred to, was born in Valletta on February 10th, 1910 and died on May 13th, 1987. This Catholic Action initiative started eight years ago and has since become an annual event…
No one knows who killed Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik.
A young nun who was on a year’s leave of absence, Sister Cathy, as friends called her, was murdered sometime while running an errand on the evening of November 7, 1969. She was 26 years-old.
Her body was found in a dump two months later, though authorities have never been able to identify her killer…
Biex jitfakkru l-150 sena mit-twaqqif tal-Parroċċa tal-Imsida, nhar id-19 ta’ kull xahar, il-parroċċa qed togranizza attività marbuta mal-qaddis patrun tagħha San Ġużepp.
Filfatt, għada l-Ġimgħa, 19 ta’ Mejju 2017, se jsir pellegrinaġġ bl-inkwatru titulari ta’ San Ġużepp b’Ġesù maġenbu. Dan hu l-istess inkwatru li normalment jintrama wara l-artal maġġur fil-knisja.
Il-pellegrinaġġ se jibda b’quddiesa fis-6pm, li se tkun iċċelebrata mill-provinċjal tal-Franġiskani Minuri Patri Richard Grech, bis-sehem tal-orkestra u l-kor tat-tfal Shalom…
Pope Francis sent a telegram to the new President of France, Emmanuel Macron, offering his prayers and wishes that in his new role, he will support the rich moral and spiritual traditions of the country, including that of Christianity.
“I pray that God support you so that your country, faithful to the rich diversity of its moral traditions and its spiritual heritage marked also by the Christian tradition, may always endeavor to build a more just and fraternal society,” said Pope Francis…
A Maltese delegation made up of Fr Martin Micallef, Director of Id-Dar tal-Providenza, Mr Natalino Psaila, a deaf person, and Mrs Rita Portelli, interpreter of the Maltese Sign Language, took part in the second Catholic European meeting for Deaf persons that took place in the city of Prague in the Czech Republic.
This bi-annual meeting is meant for representatives of the Catholic Church in European countries, who are involved in pastoral work with deaf persons, to meet up and share experiences, projects as well as difficulties encountered with in their respective countries…
