The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Reflections for the Feastday Christopher O’Donnell, O.Carm. 2003 In the Church before Vatican II (1962-1965) it was very difficult to have a chalice blessed. It required a bishop who consecrated the chalice and the paten by use of the most sacred of the holy oils, chrism – […]

Waħda mid-devozzjonijiet marjani mxerrda sew f’pajjiżna hija dik lejn il-Madonna tal-Karmnu fil-Jum tal-Erbgħa, magħrufa bħala d-devozzjoni tal-Erbgħat tal-Karmnu. Magħha wkoll marbuta t-tradizzjoni ta’ missirijietna u ommijietna tas-sawm u l-astinenza tal-Karmnu flimkien mal-ilbies iswed jew skur u s-sehem fil-prietki jew katekeżi tal-Udjenzi fis-sebgħa ġimgħat tal-Għid li jfakkru ġeneralment il-ferħat ta’ Marija. Din id-devozzjoni tal-Erbgħat tal-Karmnu bdiet […]

  Waħda mid-devozzjonijiet marjani mxerrda sew f’pajjiżna hija dik lejn il-Madonna tal-Karmnu fil-Jum tal-Erbgħa, magħrufa bħala d-devozzjoni tal-Erbgħat tal-Karmnu. Magħha wkoll marbuta t-tradizzjoni ta’ missirijietna u ommijietna tas-sawm u l-astinenza tal-Karmnu flimkien mal-ilbies iswed jew skur u s-sehem fil-prietki jew katekeżi tal-Udjenzi fis-sebgħa ġimgħat tal-Għid li jfakkru ġeneralment il-ferħat ta’ Marija. Din id-devozzjoni tal-Erbgħat tal-Karmnu […]

Din il-Ġimgħa bdejna nimxu ma’ Ġesù fil-vjaġġ tiegħu lejn Ġerusalemm. San Ġwann fil-kapitlu 7, jagħtina b’dettall mhux biss il-mixja fiżika ta’ Ġesù minn post għal ieħor imma wkoll il-mixja interjuri tiegħu. Quddiem il-prospettiva tal-mewt, Ġesù l-ewwel jaħrab u jinħeba. Mil-Lhudija jitla’ l-Galilija. Imma mbagħad f’daqqa waħda jerġa’ lura proprju fil-qalba u jidħol Ġerusalemm fit-tempju. Hemmhekk […]

Whether Christ is journeying along beside us or whether he is at the end of time (eschaton) attracting us towards him, he still remains at the heart of our Christian faith. To become more Christ-like is to imitate him even more concretely in the love – i.e. that fundamental choice to be faithful come what […]

The Birth of Jesus In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while[a] Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register. So Joseph also went up from the town of […]

Gospel As Jesus went along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, for him to have been born blind?’ ‘Neither he nor his parents sinned,’ Jesus answered ‘he was born blind so that the works of God might be displayed […]

Ir-Raġel ta’ Marija Dejjem Verġni, Missier Putattiv ta’ Sidna Ġesu’ Kristu Patrun tal-Knisja Universali Protettur tal-Ordni Karmelitan “Għaliex għamiltilna hekk?! Ara Missierek u jiena konna qegħdin infittxuk b’qalbna maqsuma” Eċċ Tiegħek Mons. Arċisqof Pawlu Cremona, Missier il-Knisja f’Malta, Rev.du Kapitlu, ħuti reliġjużi u nsara, għeżież devoti ta’ dan ir-raġel ġust, Ġużeppi, intom ukoll li qed […]