• Il-Ħamis 23 t’April 2015, sar servizz funebri inter-reliġjuż għall-24 immigrant li ddaħħlu Malta bla ħajja nhar it-Tnejn li għadda. L-Isqof ta’ Għawdex, Mons. Mario Grech u l-Imam Mohammed El Sadi mexxew it-talb waqt dan is-servizz funebri li għalih kienu preżenti l-ogħla awtoritajiet tal-pajjiż. Preżenti wkoll Mons. Joe Galea Curmi, Vigarju Ġenerali. Il-Funeral sar barra l-kamra mortwarja tal-Isptar Mater Dei. 

  ​Il-Messaġġ tal-Isqof Mario Grech

• Għandna quddiemna erbgħa u għoxrin katavru ta’ bnedmin mhux identifikati imma nafu li ħafna oħrajn, mijiet, qed jistrieħu fiċ-ċimiterju kbir li sar il-Mare Nostrum illum il-ġurnata.  Ma nafux ismijiethom, ħajjithom – nafu biss li kienu qed jaħarbu minn sitwazzjoni ta’ disperazzjoni biex ifittxu l-ħelsien u ħajja aħjar…

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• At his general audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis continued his catechesis on the family, focussing again on the complementarity of men and women.

  Pope Francis commented on the second account of the creation of man in Genesis (following his commentary at the previous audience on the first account of man’s creation. The first man, Adam, is created “alone” – and God determines to make for him “a helper suited to him.” When the first woman is presented to the man, he recognizes in her “bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh.” Finally there is a mirroring, a reciprocity,” the Pope said…

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• “Today the Church is the Church of martyrs”. And among these martyrs are “our brothers whose throats were cut on the beach of Libya; that young man burned alive by companions for being a Christian; those immigrants on the high seas thrown overboard for being Christians; those Ethiopians assassinated for being Christians”. In the chapel of Casa Santa Marta on Friday morning, 21 April, recounting the story of the first martyr, St Stephen, Pope Francis recalled the many present-day martyrs: including those whose names we do not know, who are suffering in prisons or who are defamed and persecuted “by so many modern Sanhedrins”, or for living “the faith within their own family”…

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•  Press statement of the President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), Reinhard Cardinal Marx, on the tragedy in the Mediterranean.

  “We cannot allow the Mediterranean to become a vast cemetery!” This was the call of Pope Francis to the European States, in his address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 25 November 2014, in which he encouraged “mutual support” and warned for the risk of “particularistic solutions”…

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• Il-Kurja tixtieq tavża li l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna jinsab Ruma biex mil-lum, it-Tlieta 21 ta’ April 2015, jagħti kors dwar il-Proċeduri Penali skont il-Liġi tal-Knisja, fil-Pontificia Università Gregoriana. L-Arċisqof ser jattendi wkoll għal-laqgħa regolari tal-Kongregazzjoni għad-Duttrina tal-Fidi, fil-Vatikan. Mons. Scicluna mistenni lura Malta nhar il-Ħadd 26 ta’ April 2015.

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• May the witness of the martyrs help us to avoid the temptation of transforming our faith into power. Those were Pope Francis’ words during his homily at the morning Mass in the Casa Santa Marta on Monday, as he reflected on the Gospel story of the crowds who come searching for Jesus following the multiplication of the loaves and the fishes…

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• Nhar it-12 t’April 2015, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna iċċelebra quddiesa għall-Professjoni Solenni ta’ Sr Lilian Borg u l-25 Sena mill-Professjoni ta’ Sr Christine Borg fil-Festa tal-Ħniena Divina, fil-Monasteru ta’ Sant’Ursola l-Belt Valletta.

  L-Omelija tal-Arċisqof

• Il-Madre Prijura Sr Celina Sultana OSJ u Sr Christine Borg jakkumpanjaw lil Sr Lilian Borg fl-okkażjoni tal-investitura tagħha fil-15 ta’ Novembru 2009 (Ritratt: www.orderofmalta-malta.org.mt).

  Monasteru ta’ Sant’ Ursola, Valletta

  12 ta’ April 2015

  Sr Lilian, ippermettili nindirizzalek ħsieb qasir mibni fuq frażi ċkjejkna mill-Vanġelu (Ġw 20,19-31) li għadna kemm smajna…

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