Fr Terence Spiteri

On the Road of Faith with Augustine of Hippo

27/01/2022 / News, Publications

The Augustinian treatise, de catechizandis rudibus is considered to be one of great importance for the teaching of the principles of the Catholic Faith to beginners. Prof. Salvino Caruana OSA, Director of the Augustinian Institute (Malta), has translated the text into Maltese (200p.). In the words of a Dutch scholar in Augustinian texts and theology in Utrecht, Prof. Joost van Neer, Augustine’s effort to provide the deacon Deogratias with some […]

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Formation meeting for the Augustinian friars

26/01/2022 / News

On Wednesday, January 26, the Augustinian friars gathered for a formation meeting, at which, the results of a questionnaire completed by the friars some months ago were presented. This exercise forms part of the preparation for the Ordinary Provincial Chapter to be held next March and April. The meeting, which took place at Saint Augustine College, Pietà, began with the prayers of the vespers. The Prior Provincial, Fr. Leslie Gatt

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Devotional Thursdays in Preparation for the feast of St. Rita

21/01/2022 / News

In the coming Thursdays, the Augustinian friars will be celebrating the devotional Thursdays in preparation for the feast of Saint Rita practically in all their churches around Malta. The devotion of the fifteen Thursdays is linked to the fact that Saint Rita carried the thorn of in her forehead for fifteen years, after praying the Lord Jesus to share with him in the suffering that he suffered for us. Over

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The traditional Feast of St. Anthony the Abbot in Rabat

20/01/2022 / News, Rabat & Baħrija

The traditional feast of St. Anthony the Abbot was celebrated on Sunday, January 16, at St. Mark’s Church in Rabat. Although the circumstances of the pandemic did not allow celebrations to be held outside the Church, at the end of the mass, the Prior Provincial Father Leslie Gatt O.S.A. blessed the domestic pets in the church itself. This is an ancient tradition closely associated to this feast held in the

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Your words Lord are spirit and life!

20/01/2022 / Franco Grech osa

3rd Sunday of the year – Year C Neh. 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10; Psalm 18; 1 Cor. 12:12-30; Lk. 1:1-4, 4:14-21 Read: And he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day as he usually did. He stood up to read and they handed him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it is written:

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Two new bas-reliefs for Saint Martin Church in Baħrija

18/01/2022 / News, Rabat & Baħrija

On Sunday, January 16, Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna celebrated the Eucharist at St. Martin’s Church with the Baħrija community. The Archbishop inaugurated and blessed two new bas-reliefs that were installed in the Church just a few days ago. The bas-reliefs, work of the brave artist Jennings Falzon, were placed one on each side of the altar and symbolize the Eucharist and the Deaconia. That of the Eucharist was in fact

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Give us the water of life that only you can give and, within us, this will be changed into “wine”…

13/01/2022 / Franco Grech osa

2nd Sunday of the year – Year C Is. 62:1-5; Psalm 95; 1 Cor. 12:4-11; Jn. 2:1-11 Read: There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited. As they ran out of wine, Jesus’ mother said to him: “They have no wine”. Jesus said: “Woman, what do you want from me? My hour has not yet

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Let your Son Jesus be our delight, our treasure, the wealth of our heart.

05/01/2022 / Franco Grech osa

The Baptism of the Lord Is. 40: 1-5, 9-11; Psalm 103; Tt. 2: 11-14, 3: 4-7; Lk. 3: 15- 16, 21-22 Read: A feeling of expectancy had grown among the people who were beginning to wonder whether John might be the Christ. So, John declared before all of them: “I baptise you with water, but someone is coming who is more powerful than me, and I am not fit to

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Nobody is rich enough to claim that one needs nothing more and nobody is poor to the extent that one has nothing to offer.

31/12/2021 / Franco Grech osa

The Epiphany of the Lord Is. 60: 1-6; Psalm 71; Ep. 3: 2-6; Mt. 2: 1- 12 Read: When Jesus was born in Betlehem of Judaea, during the reign of king Herod, some wise men came to Jerusalem from the East asking “Where is the infant king of the Jews? Because we saw his star as it rose, and we came to do him homage …. “. As soon as

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If you notice that you have distanced yourself from Jesus, do not lose heart!

23/12/2021 / Franco Grech osa

The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph Sam. 1: 20-22, 24-28; Psalm 83; 1 St. John 3: 11- 2. 21-24 Read: Every year Jesus’ parents used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of Easter; also, when he was twelve years old according to the custom at the Easter feast. When those days had passed, they started their journey back, but the young Jesus remained at Jerusalem without the

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Author name: Fr Terence Spiteri