Centre for Ignatian Spirituality – Programme for the year 2015/2016
12/10/2015-
The Centre for Ignatian Spirituality (CIS) organises retreats, seminars and activities for spiritual formation, the detailed programme can be found here.
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News
Pope Francis: one cannot live the faith and be attached to wealth
12/10/2015-
Before the recitation of the Marian Prayer, Pope Francis focused his attention on Sunday’s Gospel reading from Mark, which recounts Jesus’ encounter with the “rich young man”.
The Holy Father explained that this text was built around the “three gazes of Jesus.”
The first is his “intense gaze full of tenderness and affection,” when the young man expressed that “for him observance of the precepts is not enough, since it does not meet with his desire for wholeness…
“The Church an instrument of pastoral mediation” – Message by Bishop Mario Grech during the Synod of Bishops
10/10/2015-
L-intervent li l-Isqof Mario Grech għamel nhar is-Sibt 10 ta’ Ottubru 2015, kmieni wara nofsinhar, fil-preżenza tal-Papa Franġisku u tal-Isqfijiet, waqt l-Erbatax-il Assemblea Ġenerali Ordinarja tas-Sinodu tal-Isqfijiet, li qed tiltaqa’ fl-Awla Sinodali, fil-Vatikan. It-tema ta’ dan is-Sinodu hi “Il-vokazzjoni u l-missjoni tal-familja fil-Knisja u fid-dinja tal-lum”…
Synod bishops looking for more autonomy, new insight, fresh language
10/10/2015-
At the Synod of Bishops on the Family on Friday morning, participants presented the results of their small language group work that has been going on behind closed doors for the past couple of days. Each group has been discussing the first section of the Synod’s working document, orInstrumentum Laboris, focused on the challenges facing family life today.
Who exactly are those rows of men with their red and purple hats, sitting in the Synod Hall for three whole weeks? …
Pope Francis: why do good things happen to bad people?
09/10/2015-
God does not abandon the righteous, while those who sow evil are like strangers, whose names heaven remembers not. This is the lesson Pope Francis drew from the readings of the day at Mass Thursday morning in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican.
A courageous young mother with a husband and three children – and a tumor – “one of the ugly ones” – that keeps her nailed to her bed…
The Archbishop inaugurates the new catechetical year in Naxxar
08/10/2015-
Nhar l-Erbgħa 7 t’Ottubru 2015, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna inawgura s-sena kateketika l-ġdida fis-Santwarju Ħniena Divina, fiż-żona ta’ San Pawl Tat-Tarġa, in-Naxxar. L-Arċisqof bierek lill-katekisti għas-sena kateketika l-ġdida u ltaqa’ mat-tfal fil-klassijiet tat-tagħlim Nisrani fiċ-Ċentru taż-Żona Parrokkjali.
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Photos: Photocity, Valletta…
Synod on the Family: Press Briefing
08/10/2015-
At the press briefing on 7th October 2015, the Holy See Press Office announced that the Synod Fathers had elected chairpersons and moderators for their “circuli minores” (small groups). The thirteen groups were determined by language. The groups began to work on Wednesday morning on the first part of Instrumentum Laboris which outlines the context in which contemporary family life is lived…
A meeting in preparation of World Youth Day 2016
07/10/2015-
The youth organisations who are interested to go to the World Youth Day in Poland in July 2016, are invited to a meeting organised on Wednesday 14th October at 7pm in ZAK house, 213 Brared street, Birkirkara.
ZAK was entrusted by Mgr. Charles J. Scicluna the Archbishop of Malta, to coordinate the organisation of a group of young people from Malta to the World Youth Day…
“In order to bring our children to Jesus we need to let them live” – The Archbishop during a Mass on the occasion of a fundraising campaign by Angela House
07/10/2015-
Nhar is-Sibt 4 t’Ottubru 2015, l-Arcisqof Charles J. Scicluna ċċelebra Quddiesa waqt il-kampanja ta’ ġbir ta’ fondi għal Angela House, fil-knisja ta’ Ġieżu, ir-Rabat.
Homily by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna
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Knisja ta’ Ġieżu, ir-Rabat
4 ta’ Ottubru 2015
Nixtieq naqsam magħkom riflessjoni bbażata fuq żewġ kelmiet importanti ta’ Ġesù: il-kelma fuq l-istabbilità fiż-żwieġ, u t-tieni kelma dwar il-bżonn kbir li nilqgħu lit-tfal u nieħdu ħsiebhom (Mk 10, 2-16)…
‘Jimpurtani’ Training Seminar
07/10/2015-
On the 23rd and 24th October at the Seminary in Rabat, the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice will hold a non-residential training seminar called ‘Jimpurtani’ to equip youth leaders with the basic knowledge and skills to use a newly published manual of activities in Maltese called ‘X’Jimpurtani’. This manual contains 10 sessions about the impact of the media, fair trade, poverty, immigration, politics, the environment, work and war…