News from the Church in Malta
Oct 13. On Tuesday the Synod delegates spent the whole day working in “circuli minores,” director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr Federico Lombardi, SJ, told the daily press briefing. He also read statements from Cardinals George Pell and Wilfrid Napier.
He was joined at the briefing by three Synod Assembly delegates: Abbot Jeremias Schröder, General of the Benedictines of St…
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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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…
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”…
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? …
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…
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.
Photos: Photocity, Valletta…
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…
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…
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
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)…
