Panic gripped the congregation at the church of Our Lady of Jesus in Valletta yesterday, when an intruder slipped up the steps behind the main altar and toppled an antique crucifix which slammed against the altar steps. (more…)
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April 01, 2006
April 01, 2006
Members of the Franciscan Youth (GIFRA) of Hamrun are engaged in the organization of a 60-hour football Marathon. They are practically taking care of every detail that the marathon entails. The day begins with a Mass in the main area where the NGO stands are. March 28, 2006
Fr. George Aquilina OFM, historian and archivist of the Maltese Franciscan Province, has just returned from Rome, where he attended the official launching of the Italian edition of his monumental history of the Nunnery of Saint Ursola in Valletta. March 23, 2006
On 18 April, Mgr. Mario Grech, the newly consecrated Bishop of Gozo, is to conduct a second fraternal visit to the community which gathers in the Franciscan church of Saint Anthony in Ghajnsielem, March 22, 2006
Francis of Assisi wanted his friars to show respect and reverence "to priests who live according to the rite of the holy Roman Church" (Test 6). His Order was originally made up mostly of lay brothers, but by 1240 it had developed into a clerical Order, in which many of the brothers were preachers, missionaries, (more…)