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Pope’s Evangelization prayer intention for June: Vocations

05/06/2015

The Pope’s Evangelization prayer intention for the month of June is Vocations: That the personal encounter with Jesus may arouse in many young people the desire to offer their own lives in priesthood or consecrated life.

Just as marriage is not a career but a vocation, so too is the priesthood and the consecrated life. And just as marriage begins with an encounter that leads to a total gift of oneself to the other, so it is the same for those called to be priests, sisters, and brothers…

05/06/2015

On Thursday 4th June 2015, Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna celebrated a Pontificial Mass and led a Procession with the Blessed Sacrament on the feast of Corpus Christi, at St Sebastian Parish Church, Ħal Qormi.
Photos: Photocity, Valletta.

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04/06/2015

Nhar l-Erbgħa 3 ta’ Ġunju 2015, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ndirizza Seminar tal-Fondazzjoni Centesimus Pro Pontifice, fis-Seminarju tal-Virtù, ir-Rabat.

Il-Messaġġ tal-Arċisqof
Is-Seminarju, tal-Virtù, ir-Rabat

3 ta’ Ġunju 2015

Waqt li qed nismagħkom, napprezza ħafna l-kontributi ta’ kwalità kbira, u nistqarr li dan huwa lingwaġġ li jiena irrid nidra, u li jgħini ħafna biex nirriflettu fuq ir-realtajiet tagħna…

04/06/2015

Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed his closeness to the Chinese people following the capsizing of a cruise ship on the Yangtze River. Speaking to the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the General Audience, the Pope turned his thoughts to the victims and their families as hopes of finding any more survivors from the disaster fade. “The Eastern Star”, with 456 mostly elderly people on board, overturned in bad weather on Monday night…

03/06/2015

Pope Francis on Monday said that after rejection and death comes the glory of resurrection. Reflecting on the Gospel reading of the day during morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta, the Pope said the stone that the builders rejected became the cornerstone; the scandalous executioner’s block that appeared to put an end to the story of hope, marked the beginning of man’s salvation…

02/06/2015

It-Tlieta 2 ta’ Ġunju 2015, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna żar iċ-Ċentru tal-Hospice Movement li jinsab f’Ħal Balzan. Huwa ltaqa’ mal-pazjenti u l-voluntiera li jaħdmu f’dan il-post u bierek vann ġdid li se jintuża għall-pazjenti bil-marda tal-kanċer.

Il-Messaġġ tal-Arċisqof
2 ta’ Ġunju 2015
Ħal Balzan
Nirringrazzjakom tal-preżenza tagħkom. Impressjonajt ruħi minn kemm ilkom tagħmlu dan ix-xogħol, jiġifieri għal diversi snin, snin twal ta’ volontarjat.

Il-preżenza tagħkom u ankè x-xhieda tagħkom hija xhieda għad-dinjità tal-bniedem f’kull ċirkostanza tiegħu…

02/06/2015

On 30th May 2015, in the Chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the Pope received in audience a group of twenty seriously ill children, accompanied by their parents, along with volunteers and leaders from the UNITALSI association, which organises pilgrimages to Lourdes and Loreto. The majority of the children were aged between seven and 14 years, although there were also some as young as two and three…

01/06/2015

Nhar l-Erbgħa, 4 ta’ Ġunju 2015, fis-6.00 p.m., l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna jiċċelebra Quddiesa u jmexxi purċissjoni fl-okkażjoni tal-festa tal-Ġisem u d-Demm Imqaddes ta’ Ġesù (Corpus Christi), fil-parroċċa ta’ San Sebastjan, Ħal Qormi. Il-Ħadd 7 ta’ Ġunju, fid-9.00 a.m., l-Arċisqof jiċċelebra Quddiesa tal-Ġisem u d-Demm Imqaddes ta’ Ġesù (Corpus Christi) fil-Konkatidral ta’ San Ġwann, il-Belt Valletta, u wara jmexxi purċissjoni qasira bl-Ewkaristija, mat-toroq tal-Belt Valletta…

01/06/2015

Pope Francis says that Holy Trinity Sunday exhorts us to live “one with the other”, to “welcome the beauty of the Gospel message” and to learn to ask forgiveness. Speaking on Sunday morning during the Angelus to some 50,000 pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope also spoke of the need of ecclesial communities to become ever more “family”…

31/05/2015

Il-Ħadd 31 ta’ Mejju 2015, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna bierek plakka kommemorattiva fl-okkażjoni tal-25 sena tal-istatwa ‘Kristu tal-Baħħara’ matul attività li saret fuq il-baħar, ’il barra minn San Pawl il-Baħar. Din l-istatwa tinsab f’qiegħ il-baħar, u tbierket mill-Papa Ġwanni Pawlu II fl-ewwel żjara tiegħu fil-gżejjer Maltin, fl-1990. L-Arċisqof talab għal dawk kollha li jżuru dan is-sit, biex huma wkoll japprezzaw is-sbuħija tal-ħolqien…