News from the Church in Malta
Programm taż-Żjara Pastorali fil-Parroċċa taż-Żurrieq
Is-Sibt 12 ta’ Ottubru
6.00 p.m. L-Arċisqof jiċċelebra Quddiesa fil-ftuħ taż-Żjara Pastorali.
Is-Ħadd 13 ta’ Ottubru
8.00 a.m. L-Arċisqof jiċċelebra Quddiesa fil-Kappella ta’ S…
In a meeting today with the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, COMECE President, expressed his deep concern for the situation of refugees and asylum seekers, especially after the tragedy off Lampedusa, where an estimated 280 people died whilst attempting to reach the shores of Europe. In the light of this tragedy, Cardinal Marx has urged the Europeans to act:
“The EU is not an abstract international body…
Nhar l-Erbgħa 9 ta’ Ottubru 2013 saret laqgħa fis-Seminarju ta’ l-Arċisqof f’Tal-Virtu’, bejn il-Kappillani tad-Djoċesi ta’ Għawdex u ta’ l-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta. Għal din il-laqgħa kienu preżenti ukoll l-Arċisqof Pawlu Cremona O.P. u l-Isqof Mario Grech. Wara mument ta’ talb flimkien, is-Sur Joe Farrugia, delegat ta’ l-Arċisqof għal-Lajċi tkellem fuq il-bżonn li l-Knisja tkun iktar akkoljenti, tema li hi ħafna għal qalb il-Qdusija tiegħu il-Papa Franġisku…
SIBTILFIDI and WAQTIET
CAM Productions will be producing two TV programmes as from this October.
SIBTILFIDI on NET TV on Saturday 5th October between 6.10pm and 7.10pm
During this new TV Schedule, Massimiliana De Martino will be presenting a socio-religious programme – SIBTILFIDI, wherein together with her guests in the studio, she will focus on the Holy Gospel of the next day – Sunday. This programme intends to help us live the teachings of the Holy Gospel in our daily lives, even though we might be rushing from one thing to the next or are facing problems…
The Holy See Press Office today announced that Holy Father Francis has convened the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, to be held in the Vatican from 5 to 19 October 2014, on the theme “The pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelisation”.
In the Chapter of the Code of Canon Law relating to synodal assemblies, the Synod of Bishops meets in an extraordinary general assembly when the matter under consideration, while related to the good of the universal Church, requires rapid definition…
Public Lecture – “Personal exercise to perceive our own growth”
L-Istitut Malti tal-Karmelitani, flimkien mal-Fakultà tat-Teoloġija u l-Konferenza tas-Superjuri Maġġuri Reliġjużi, qed jorganizza taħdita pubblika nhar l-Erbgħa 16 ta’ Ottubru 2013 fis-7.00, fis-Sala Madonna tal-Karmnu B’Kara…
Quddiesa iċċelebrata mill-Arċisqof fil-bidu tal-ħidma pastorali ta’ P. Emmanuel Abela OFMCap
Nhar it-13 t’Ottubru, fis-6 pm, L-Arċisqof ta’ Malta Pawlu Cremona O.P. imexxi ċelebrazzjoni Ewkaristika li fiha il-kappillan il-ġdid Patri Emmanuel Abela OFMCap jagħti bidu għall-ħidma pastorali tiegħu fil-Parroċċa ta’ San Ġwann.
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Għalkemm mhuwiex nisrani, il-filosofu Jürgen Habermas isostni li d-demokraziji Ewropej ma jistax ikollhom fundament etiku jekk ma jkollhomx l-esperjenza reliġjuża! Sentenza oħra li timbuttana biex nirriflettu hija dik li jgħid wieħed espert fil-liġi kostituzzjonali, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, li l-Istat liberali sekularizzat ma jistax jassigura li l-istess prinċipji li jmexxuh ser jiġu rispettati! …
“We have a hope the world seeks” – Messaġġ fl-għeluq tal-Assembla CCEE 2013
Statement at the end of the CCEE 2013 Plenary Assembly Bratislava, Slovakia, 3-6 October 2013
The annual Plenary Assembly of the Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe took place in Bratislava (Slovakia), on the occasion of the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Slovakian lands, and upon the invitation of H.E…
In his homily at Monday morning’s mass in Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis spoke about the Samaritan “who saw and was moved with compassion”, keeping his heart open to humanity and thus bringing himself closer to God.
The importance of truly “seeing” human tragedy, remaining compassionate and rejecting the “globalisation of indifference”, is a theme which Pope Francis has often picked up in relation to the plight of migrants across the world…
