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POPE’s CHRISTMAS LITURGY SCHEDULE

24/12/2010

The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff published the list of Christmas ceremonies over which Benedict XVI will preside. As is traditional, the Holy Father will celebrate the principal Masses of the four solemnities: the Nativity, Holy Mary Mother of God, Epiphany and the Lord’s Baptism — in total four Eucharistic celebrations and solemn vespers on Dec. 31. In general, the official language of the celebrations will be Latin… Read more »

EXCHANGE OF GREETINGS AT THE ARCHBISHOP’S CURIA

23/12/2010

On Wednesday, 22nd December 2010, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. exchanged Christmas greetings with all Curia employees and collaborators. In his message, Mgr. Cremona spoke about the importance of keeping mankind at the centre of all pastoral and administrative work carried out by all those who work in Church entities.

During the Christmas and New Year feasts, the Curia offices in Floriana, including the marriages office and the Administration section, as well as the offices of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal in Valletta will be closed as from Friday, 24th December, and will reopen on Monday 3rd January, 2011… Read more »

CARITAS MALTA LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE

22/12/2010

Caritas Malta has launched a new website giving easier access to information about the organisation and the services it provides, and the activities it organises. The website is sponsored by Abakus Solutions, the software company who have supported Caritas Malta with their website since its inception. The site is available at www.caritasmalta.org.

Making use of latest technology, the site lists Caritas Malta services, which are offered free of charge to persons in need… Read more »

PONTIFF URGES STATE TO SUPPORT FAMILIES

22/12/2010

Pope blesses families

Benedict XVI is urging the state support of families so that they can better fulfill their mission to pass on values to children and young people.

The Pope made this appeal Thursday upon receiving in audience Miquel Àngel Canturri Montanya, the new ambassador from Andorra to the Holy See.

“Harmony is possible within countries and between peoples,” the Pontiff affirmed… Read more »

PONTIFF DENOUNCES CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, PEDOPHILIA

21/12/2010

Benedict XVI is speaking out against the crimes of child pornography and pedophilia, and is underlining the need to fight these evils through a solid formation of conscience. 

The Pope stated this today during his traditional meeting with the cardinals, archbishops, bishops, and members of the Roman Curia and of the Governorate of Vatican City State, for the exchange of Christmas greetings. 

“For all its new hopes and possibilities, our world is at the same time troubled by the sense that moral consensus is collapsing, consensus without which juridical and political structures cannot function,” he observed.  … Read more »

SEASON’S GREETINGS TO THE BISHOPS

21/12/2010

Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. along with Bishop Annetto Depasquale shall be exchanging Season’s Greetings on  Sunday, 26th December, 2010 from 9.00 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. The event will be taking place at the Archbishop’s Curia in Floriana.

To enter the Curia access the rear door in Vincenzo Bugeja Street.  At 10.00a.m. the Archbishop will deliver a speech to all those present… Read more »

PRAYER AND CHRISTIAN MEDITATION

20/12/2010

Today, by God’s grace, there are several groups of a spiritual nature that meet regularly for prayer meetings, retreats and spiritual seminars. For this reason, the Episcopal Conference wishes to bring to light the valuable insights contained in the Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on Some Aspects of Christian Meditation ‘Orationis Formas’, issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on 15th October 1989… Read more »

EVANGELIZATION NEEDS SENSE OF SACRED, SAYS PREACHER

20/12/2010

Vatican Christmas Tree

The re-evangelization of the secularized world requires a recovery of the sense of the sacred, says the preacher of the Pontifical Household.

Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa offered this suggestion today during the last in his series of Advent sermons that he has given in the presence of the Pope and the Roman Curia.

Father Cantalamessa proposed at the beginning of the series to offer “a small contribution to the need of the Church” for a New Evangelization, concretely by examining three obstacles to the Gospel message: scientism, secularism and rationalism… Read more »