Aħbarijiet mill-Knisja f'Malta
Marija Omm il-Knisja -Festa
San Ġwann 19:25-34
F’dak iż-żmien kien hemm wieqfa ħdejn is-salib ta’ Ġesù ommu, oħt ommu, Marija ta’ Kleofa, u Marija ta’ Magdala. Mela kif Ġesù lemaħ lil ommu u lid-dixxiplu li kien iħobb wieqaf ħdejha, qal lil ommu: “Mara, hawn hu ibnek.” Imbagħad qal lid-dixxiplu: “Hawn hi ommok.” U minn dak il-ħin id-dixxiplu ħadha għandu…
Pope Francis has set the date for the canonization of both Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Oscar Romero for October 14, during the synod on young people.
Pope Paul VI was the pope who closed the Second Vatican Council in 1965.
He died at the papal residence of Castel Gandolfo on August 6, 1978, after being pope for 15 years…
In his homily on Pentecost Sunday delivered before thousands of the faithful gathered in St Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis focused on the action of the Holy Spirit expressed in the Scripture readings from the Acts of the Apostles, St Paul’s letter to the Galatians, and St John’s Gospel.
The Holy Spirit changes hearts
The Spirit transforms the hearts of the timid disciples from fearful men, “huddled behind closed doors”, to bold men who “bear witness to [Jesus]” (Jn 15:27), the Pope said…
A newly married couple snaps a selfie with Pope Francis at the Wednesday general audience on Feb. 4, 2015.
Sharing the Gospel with people at the peripheries might not even require stepping outside the door, Pope Francis said Saturday, encouraging Christians to evangelize through encounters in the “digital world.”
Especially for young people, “the ends of the earth…are quite relative and always easily ‘navigable,’” he said March 19…
When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together… Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.”
—Acts 2:1, 4
Jesus had promised his Apostles that “the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you” (John 14:26)…
Għid il-Ħamsin – Solennità
San Ġwann 15:26-27; 16:12-15
F’dak iż-żmien, Ġesù qal lid-dixxipli tiegħu: “Meta jiġi d-Difensur, li se nibagħtilkom mingħand il-Missier, l-Ispirtu tal-verità, li ġej mill-Missier, huwa jixhed għalija. U intom ukoll tixhdu, għax intom kontu miegħi sa mill-bidu. Baqagħli ħafna ħwejjeġ x’ngħidilkom, imma għalissa ma tifilħux għalihom.
Meta jiġi hu, l-Ispirtu tal-verità, iwassalkom għall-verità kollha; għaliex hu ma jgħid xejn minn tiegħu, imma jgħid dak li jisma’, u jħabbrilkom il-ġejjieni…
Knisja Parrokkjali, l-Iklin
3 ta’ Mejju 2018
Filippu jidħol fi djalogu ma’ Ġesù f’kuntest emottiv ħafna għal Ġesù, li hija l-aħħar ikla tiegħu mad-dixxipli qabel il-mewt. U f’dan il-mument Ġesù jaqsam mad-dixxipli dak kollu li hemm fil-qalb tiegħu. Filippu jistaqsih dwar l-identità tiegħu, u hu jinsisti li huwa ħaġa waħda mal-Missier…
Members of Chile’s bishops conference release a statement in which they offer to resign following the clerical sex abuse scandal in their country.
Following three days of meetings with Pope Francis in the Vatican, the bishops of Chile met the press and read a statement in which they thanked the Pope for having listened to them “paternally and for having offered his fraternal correction” during these days “of reflection and prayer”…
Illum, is-Sibt, 19 ta’ Mejju 2018, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ser jiċċelebra Quddiesa ta’ ringrazzjament fl-okkażjoni tal-25 sena mit-twaqqif ta’ Richmond Foundation. Il-Quddiesa ser issir fil-Konkatidral ta’ San Ġwann u tibda fil-5:30pm.
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Is-Sibt tas-Seba’ Ġimgħa tal-Għid
San Ġwann 21:20-25
F’dak iż-żmien, Pietru dar, u ra lid-dixxiplu li kien iħobb Ġesù miexi warajhom, dak id-dixxiplu li waqt l-ikla kien imtedd fuq sider Ġesù u qallu: “Mulej, min hu li se jittradik?”. Pietru, mela, kif ra lil dan, qal lil Ġesù: “U dan, Mulej, x’se jsir minnu?”. Ġesù qallu: “Inti x’inhi affarik jekk jiena rridu jibqa’ sa ma niġi? …
