Pastoral Ministry

50 years since the building of Our Lady of Good Council Church in Paceville

22/08/2023 / News, Paceville & St Julians

On Sunday 20th August, His Excellency Archbishop Charles Scicluna visited for the first time and celebrated mass in the church of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Paceville, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the completion of the Church building. On that same day, that is on 18 August 1973, the new Church was blessed by the Augustinian Assistant General, who at that time was Fr. Egidio Galea […]

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The Love Kitchen at the Millennium Chapel

23/07/2023 / Justice and Peace, News, Paceville & St Julians

The Love Kitchen was inaugurated on Thursday 20th July with a sumptuous dinner generously provided by The Avenue Restaurant and organised by Tony Mejlaq and Prof Victor Grech. The event was attended by 40 special benefactors of the Millennium Chapel who contributed generously for the financing of the Love Kitchen. Special guest of the evening was Prof Richard England who had designed the Millennium Chapel. Prof England donated one of

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2 days with the Augustinian Friars in Gozo

15/07/2023 / News, Victoria (Gozo), Youth Ministry

During the summer various activities are held with the young people such as live-ins, BBQs, moments of prayer and other experiences that continue to help the young people in their journey of life. Daniel Bajada one of the youths would like to share his experience of the live-in that was organized at the beginning of July: On Sunday 2 July, together with my friends, Fr Terence, Fr Leslie and Fr

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A renovation project of the Adoration Chapel in the Augustinian Priory in Gozo

15/06/2023 / News, Victoria (Gozo)

On Sunday 21st May, the eve of the feast of Saint Rita, the Rev. Provincial Fr. Leslie Gatt O.S.A. blessed and inaugurated the renovation works done on the adoration chapel annexed to the Church and Priory of Saint Augustine in Victoria Gozo. In the same celebration, the Holy Sacrament was brought by procession into the new chapel where it was placed for adoration. The project was led by artist Rev.

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Devotional feast in honour of Saint Rita

22/05/2023 / News, Paceville & St Julians

The month of May, for us Augustinians and for so many devotees around the world, is linked to the figure of the great Augustinian nun, Saint Rita of Cascia. Saint Rita lived in Umbria in Italy, more than 600 years ago, but the different experiences that life has brought together, have made her a figure that appeals so much even to our times. She lived the challanges of married life,

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A meeting for Maltese Lay Augustinians

27/04/2023 / Laity, News, Tarxien

On April 26th, lay people who are part of the Augustinian community celebrated the Conversion of Saint Augustine, Saint Mark (the Protector of the Maltese Augustinian Province), and the Virgin Mary (Mother of Good Counsel) at the Church of Saint Nicholas in Tarxien. The celebration began with a mass led by the Provincial P. Leslie Gatt osa, after which those present were invited to join together in the Augustinian Oratory,

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Traditional Blessing of the Animals in Rabat

18/01/2023 / News, Rabat & Baħrija

On Sunday January 15, the traditional Feast of St. Anthony the Abbot was celebrated in the Conventual Church of St. Mark in Rabat, with the rite of the blessing of the animals. A lot of people with their animals took part in the mass, the procession, and later the much awaited ceremony of the blessing of the animals in St Augustine Square in front of the church. The celebration started

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Feast of St Martin in Baħrija

01/11/2022 / News, Rabat & Baħrija

At the beginning of the year 2014, the Maltese Augustinian Province in compliance with what had been unanimously agreed in the Ordinary Provincial chapter 2014, had held discussions with Mons Archbishop (at that time Mons Paul Cremona) and with the Curia of the Archdiocese in which the Province showed the desire to start serving pastorally in some new reality of the Diocese. Eventually, the agreement was in fact made quite

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Academic Year Augustinian Institute: January – June 2023

22/10/2022 / Formation, News, Paceville & St Julians

Academic Year 2023 1st Semester (January – March 2023) Augustinian Catechism De catechizandis rudibus Friday, 13th January 2023 (6.00 – 7.30pm) Searching and Confessing.Augustine of Hippo’s Quench for Wisdom and Truth (Prof. Salvino Caruana OSA) VENUE: MILLENNIUM HALL (Augustinians, Millennium Chapel, Church Street, Paceville, St Julian’s) PANEL: Rev. Dr Stefan Attard SThD (Greg.) Dean Faculty of Theology, University of Malta Rev. Canon Dr. Jonathan Farrugia HOD, Dept of

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Augustinian Family Meeting in Gozo

27/05/2022 / News, Victoria (Gozo)

The Provincial Commission of the Augustinian Laity will be organizing an Augustinian Family Feast in Gozo. It will be on Tuesday, June 7, 2022. We will leave with the ship at 9.00 am and return at 5.15 p.m. The program will be as follows: – Visit to the Augustinian Sisters in Għajnsielem. There, we will have two short talks about the Servants of God, Fra Grazzja Gauci OSA and the

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