Rabat & Baħrija

The Maltese Augustinian Province with great sadness announces the death of Fr Paul Formosa OSA who on Thursday 26th December 2024 went to meet the Risen Lord whom he loved and served so much during his life. Fr Paul these last few months was living at the Dar tal-Kleru (Clergy House) after several years in our Augustinian community in Rabat. As an Augustinian religious, Fr Paul lived and served for […]

The feast of Saint Martin was celebrated in the Church of Baħrija, limits of Rabat, between Monday 3rd and Sunday 10th November. During the week, several celebrations were held, among them one can mention the joyful celebrations for the local children. On Saturday evening, the Prior Provincial Fr Leslie Gatt presided over e Solemn Eucharist, after which the procession with the statue of the saint went through the streets of

The Church and part of the Priory of Saint Mark in Rabat were among the places that one could visit during the Rabat Sacrum activity which was organized on November 2 and 3 by the Rabat Local Council. On Saturday, after the evening mass, in St. Mark’s Church, a concert with Organ and Violin pieces was performed by Justine Pearson and Christabelle Scerri. Apart from the concert one could visit

The Augustinian Community in Rabat honored Our Lady of Consolation with a festive celebration on September 14th. A solemn mass celebrated at 5pm was followed by a procession of the statue through the streets of Rabat

The traditional feast of Saint Martin was celebrated in November in Baħrija. Various liturgical celebrations have been organized in the Church reaching various sectors of this pastoral zone. The celebrations reached their climax on Saturday 11 November through a solemn mass followed by a Procession with the statue of San Martin in the streets of Baħrija. The small statue of Saint Martin was made by Giuseppe Caruana in 1945 and

On Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 September, the Augustinian Community of Rabat took part in the Rabat Sacrum initiative which was organized by the Rabat Local Council with the collaboration of several civil and religious entities. The idea of ​​such initiative was first and foremost to give the public the opportunity to see and appreciate the treasures hidden in the Rabat churches, priories and their respective museums. In addition, several

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

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

The restoration project of the Pipe Organ at St Mark Curch in Rabat was officially inaugurated on Saturday, 23rd April 2022. It is a project on which the Augustinian Community and The Augustinian Cloister Foundation have been working on for several years. It was than made possible thanks to the generous financial support of Dr. Gilles and Mrs. Claudine Gutierrez. Her Eccelency Ms Agnès von der Mühll, the French Ambassador

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