• The Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees for 2016 was released on Thursday at a briefing in the Holy See Press Office.

  The theme chosen by Pope Francis for 2016 is “Migrants and Refugees Challenge Us.  The Response of the Gospel of Mercy.”

  “The tragic stories of millions of men and women daily confront the international community as a result of the outbreak of unacceptable humanitarian crises in different parts of the world,” writes Pope Francis. 

  “Indifference and silence lead to complicity whenever we stand by as people are dying of suffocation, starvation, violence and shipwreck,” he continues…

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• Nhar l-Erbgħa 13 ta’ Jannar 2016, l- Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ltaqa’ ma’ grupp ta’ żgħażagħ miż-ŻAK li għandhom aktar minn 18-il sena, fis-sala parrokkjali tal-Iklin. L-għan tal-laqgħa kien li jikber id-djalogu bejn l-Arċisqof u ż-żgħażagħ. Fil-laqgħa kien hemm mument ta’ riflessjoni u talb flimkien, u djalogu bejn iż-żgħażagħ u l-Arċisqof fuq diversi temi bħalma huma l-kontribut tal-lajċi fil-parroċċi, problemi soċjali u ambjentali u kif tista’ tikber il-kollaborazzjoni biex bħala żgħażagħ inkunu dawl fis-soċjetà Maltija….

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• Faith always wins, because it turns even defeat into victory, but it is not something “magical” – it is a personal relationship with God that cannot be learned in books, and is in fact a gift from God, a gift that is our for the asking: this was the essence of Pope Francis’ reflections following the Readings of the Day at Mass on Thursday morning in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican…

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• Nhar l-Erbgħa 13 ta’ Jannar 2016, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ċċelebra Quddiesa flimkien mal-kappillani ta’ Malta u Għawdex, fis-Seminarju tal-Arċisqof, tal-Virtù. Din il-Quddiesa ġiet iċċelebrata matul il-live-in annwali tal-kappillani, fejn flimkien mal-Isqfijiet jitolbu u jiddiskutu diversi realtajiet pastorali.

• Omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna

• Seminarju tal-Arċisqof, Tal-Virtù

  13 ta’ Jannar 2016

   

  Ippermettuli nibda din ir-riflessjoni bil-frażi li laqtitni mill-Ewwel Qari tal-lum (1 Sam 3, 1-10.19-20) li nafuh ilkoll u li nużawh ħafna, b’mod speċjali fil-pastorali vokazzjonali…

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• Agħfas hawn għall-ħinijiet tal-ftuħ tal-Uffiċċju Żwiġijiet.

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• During his weekly general audience, Pope Francis spoke on the mercy of God as spoken about in the Bible. Delivering his catechesis Wednesday in the Vatican’s Paul VI hall, the Pope said in the Old Testament, God reveals he is the God of Mercy. The Holy Father explained how the Hebrew word for Mercy evokes the sort of tenderness shown by a mother for her child…

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