Lent

In the Holy See Press Office, a press conference was held to present the Holy Father’s 2012 Lenten Message. Participating in the conference were Cardinal Robert Sarah, president of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”; Msgr. Giampietro Dal Toso and Msgr. Segundo Tejado Munoz, respectively secretary and under secretary of the same council.

“We know that the Lenten Message contributes to maintaining the faithful’s sense of concern for others, communion, compassion and fraternal sharing of the sufferings of those in need”, said Cardinal Sarah… Read more »

On Thursday 9th February 2012, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P.  addressed His Eminence Cardinal Agostino Vallini, Vicar of Rome, and a group of bishops and priests, at Mosta Parish Church, prior to praying Lauds. Cardinal Vallini arrived in Malta on Tuesday 7th February leading four bishops and 150 priests from the diocese of Rome on a Pauline Pilgrimage.

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On Wednesday 8th February 2012, Mgr Prospero Grech O.S.A., Cardinal Elect, was ordained Archbishop at St John’s Cocathedral in Valletta. Mgr Grech was consecrated by Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. and was given the title of Titular Archbishop of St Leone (Italy). The co-concelebrant bishops of the episcopal ordination were Mgr Giuseppe Versaldi, Archbishop and President of the Prefecture of Economical Affairs of the Vatican, and Mgr Mario Grech, Bishop of Gozo… Read more »

On Tuesday 7th February 2012, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P., presented Mgr Prospero Grech O.S.A. the episcopal ring as a gift from the the Archdiocese of Malta. The ring will be used during Mgr Grech’s episcopal ordination on Wednesday 8th February. The ring was designed by Joseph Galea and the gold work was entrusted to Vanni Bartolo. The ring shows St Paul holding a cross, with a viper leaping from a bonfire after the saint was shipwrecked in Malta… Read more »

Photo (above) by Jonathan Borg (The Malta Independent)

On Tuesday 7th February 2012, Cardinal Elect, Mgr Prospero Grech O.S.A., Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. and Fr Emanuel Borg Bonello O.S.A., Augustinian Provincial in Malta, addressed a press conference at the Archbishop’s Curia. A presentation was also given by Fr Jesmond Manicaro, Archbishop’s Delegate for the Liturgy, about the Episcopal Ordination Mass of Mgr Grech… Read more »

World day of the Sick

The Pope commented on the Gospel reading which narrates Jesus’ healing of St. Peter’s mother-in-law and of many other sick people of Capernaum. “The four Evangelists”, he said, “all agree that, along with preaching, healing from sickness and infirmity of all kinds constituted the main activity of Jesus during His public life. … Jesus Christ came to defeat evil at the very root, and the healings were an anticipation of the victory He achieved through death and resurrection… Read more »

Mgr Prospero Grech O.S.A. arrived in Malta today, 6th February 2012, at 1.25 p.m. He was welcomed at the Airport by Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P., the Apostolic Nuncio, Mgr Tommaso Caputo and by Archbishop Emeritus Joseph Mercieca.

Get to know Fr Prospero Grech. Watch the special edition of Qalbinnies from Rome on YouTube through the following links:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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Cardinal-designates praying with Pope Benedict XVI

The College of Cardinals and those who will join its number Feb. 18 will gather for a day of prayer and reflection prior to the consistory, by invitation of Benedict XVI.

The Vatican announced today that the Feb. 17 prayer day (the consistory is Feb. 18) will focus on “the announcement of the Gospel today, between ‘missio ad gentes’ and new evangelization,” a theme that will be introduced by one of the cardinals-designate, Timothy Dolan of New York… Read more »