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Live-In for New Parish Priests

04/10/2014
  • Bejn nhar it-Tlieta 23 u l-Ħamis 25 ta’ Settembru 2014, sar live-in għall-kappillani ġodda (dawk li ġew maħtura għal dan il-ministeru għall-ewwel darba), fid-Dar tal-Irtiri Porziuncola, Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq.

    Għal dan il-kors attendew seba’ kappillani, li xi uħud minnhom ħadu l-pussess din is-sena, minn total ta’ disa’.

    It-temi prinċipali li ġew indirizzati kienu jinkludu l-Viżjoni Pastorali, kemm dik tal-Papa Franġisku kif ukoll tas-Sinodu (Fr Joe Galea Curmi), Self Awareness (Fr Frankie Cini MSSP), Temi Prattiċi u l-Ispiritwalità tal-Kappillan (Fr Ray Toledo) u qsim ta’ esperjenzi (Fr Gordon Refalo, Kappillan ta’ Ħal Luqa u President tal-Kulleġġ tal-Kappillani u Joe Farrugia, Delegat tal-Arċisqof għal-Lajċi…

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Bishop Mario Grech meets Pope Francis during the CCEE plenary assembly

04/10/2014

  • ‘Family and future of Europe’ is the theme of the plenary assembly taking place in these days at the Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE). On Friday morning Pope Francis received seventy of its members, including the President of the Maltese Episcopal Conference, Bishop Mario Grech, to whom he delivered an off-the-cuff address. He subsequently handed them a written discourse underlining how, as pastors close to their flock, they well know the complexity of the panorama and the challenges the mission of the Church faces, even in Europe…

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Auxiliary Bishop Mgr Charles J. Scicluna’s Homily on the occasion of the opening of the Forensic Year

02/10/2014
  • Oratorju tal-Konkatidral ta’ San Ġwann, il-Belt Valletta
    1 ta’ Ottubru 2014

    Insellem lilek Eċċellenza Aġent President, u nirringrazzja lilkom ilkoll tal-preżenza tagħkom.

    Jiena nixtieq nislet ftit ħsibijiet ispirati mill-kelma ta’ Alla li għadna kemm smajna. Il-kelma hija dik assenjata mill-Knisja għal din il-ġurnata, it-tlieta fis-26 ġimgħa ta’ matul is-sena. Illum infakkru wkoll il-festa ta’ Santa Tereżina tal-Bambin Ġesù, Tereża ta’ Lisieux…

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Homily by Bishop Charles J. Scicluna during a Mass on the occasion of the opening of a new Forensic Year

02/10/2014

  • 1 t’Ottubru 2014
    Oratorju tal-Konkatidral ta’ San Ġwann

    Insellem lilek Eċċellenza Aġent President, u nirringrazzja lilkom ilkoll tal-preżenza tagħkom.

    Jiena nixtieq nislet ftit ħsibijiet ispirati mill-kelma ta’ Alla li għadna kemm smajna. Il-kelma hija dik assenjata mill-Knisja għal din il-ġurnata, it-tlieta fis-26 ġimgħa ta’ matul is-sena. Illum infakkru wkoll il-festa ta’ Santa Tereżina tal-Bambin Ġesù, Tereża ta’ Lisieux…

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Pope to Europe: Open the Doors of your Heart

02/10/2014
  • On the eve of the one year anniversary of a devastating shipwreck, Pope Francis has called on the men and women of Europe to ‘open the doors of their hearts’ and welcome migrants who risk their lives at sea to flee war and poverty.

    Around 370 people, most of them Eritrean and Syrian asylum-seekers, drowned on Oct. 3, 2013 when their smugglers’ boat capsized off the island of Lampedusa…

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Bishop Mario Grech addresses a press conference before leaving to attend the Synod of Bishops

01/10/2014

  • On Wednesday 1st October 2014, Bishop Mario Grech, President of the Maltese Episcopal Conference, addressed a press conference, before leaving Malta to attend an Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. The Synod, which starts on Sunday 5th October and ends on Sunday 19th October, will be discussing the theme ‘Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the context of Evangelisation’…

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Pope Francis asks for prayers for the Synod on the family

01/10/2014
  • Pope Francis asked the faithful to pray for the extraordinary general session of the Synod of Bishops on the Family due to open on Sunday. Around 150 Synod fathers from across the globe will take place in the meeting to discuss the pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelization. The Synod will last two weeks, ending with a conclusive Mass on Oct 19…

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Archbishop Celli: family is where we learn to communicate

01/10/2014

  • With the Synod of Bishops on the family about to open on Sunday, the Vatican has revealed that the message for next year’s World Communications Day is also focused on the theme of the family as ‘a privileged place of encounter with the gift of love’.

    ‘Communicating the Family’ is the title of the message which is traditionally published in full on January 24th, feast day of St Francis de Sales, the patron saint of writers and journalists…

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Walk in aid of Missions

30/09/2014

  • Ħafna katekisti, qassisin u missjunarji jkollhom jimxu kilometri twal fix-xemx u fix-xita biex imorru jaqdu l-ministeru tagħhom fil-vilaġġ li tiegħu jkunu reponsabli biex b’hekk iwasslu lil Ġesù għand dawn in-nies.

    L-Uffiċċju Missjunarju qed jorganiżża mixja b’risq il-missjoni biex permezz tal-fondi miġbura jkompli jgħin diversi pajjiżi jkollhom ħajja aħjar, ikompli jgħin diversi katekisti u qasisin ikollhom mezz biex dawn jivjaġġaw minn post għall ieħor…

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