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Festa Familja Agostinjana organized by the Provincial Commission for the Laity

15/06/2023 / News

On Wednesday 7 June the Provincial Commission for the Laity organized the Festa Familja Agostinjana which has now become a long awaited annual activity by several lay people close to the Augustinian communities. In fact, around one hundred and twenty people took part in the activity, coming from the communities of Saint Nicholas in Tarxien, Saint Mark in Rabat, Santa Rita and Our Lady of Good Counsel in Saint Julians, […]

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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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Emmaus Experience

31/05/2023 / News, Youth Ministry

During the month of May several young people, in twos on the example of the disciples of Emmaus, had the opportunity to live a week with the Augustinian community in Tal Pietà. During this week the young people continued with their work and study while they were able to taste a little of the Augustinian life through moments of prayer, food and other moments. This is part of our work

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5 youths will be doing a missionary experience during summer

31/05/2023 / Missionary, News, Youth Ministry

This summer 5 young people together with Fr Mario Abela osa will go to Kenya to do missionary work together with the Augustinian Friars. We asked them how they found out about this experience. Thank you for this choice to spend part of the summer for others in poor countries like Kenya. Mireille Gauci: For me this is the first experience of voluntary work that I will do. I have

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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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Initiatives by the Augustinian Missions – AMIGOS

04/05/2023 / Missionary, News

Over two weekends, the ‘Amigos’ missionary group organizes a fundraiser event for their mission by selling Maltese Traditional Figolli during the Lent period. The Figolli were sold by volunteers, including a group of five young individuals who will be embarking on a missionary experience in Kenya next summer. This activity took place on the parvis of various churches, which warmly welcomed the group and collaborated in this initiative. Despite the

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A new publication with a translation of the first three books of the Confessions in Maltese

28/04/2023 / News, Publications

A new publication with the text of the first three books of the Confessions of Saint Augustins was launched during an enjoyable evening held at The Santa Rita Priory Saint Julians on April 21. The Publication brings to light once again a wonderful Maltese translation of the first three books of the Confessions of Saint Augustine by fr. Ugolin Gatt O.S.A. and Karmenu Vassallo. These translations had actually appeared for

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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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Augustinian Bishop to head Dicastery for Bishops

25/04/2023 / News

In a short ceremony held in the Office of the Decastery of Bishops in the Vatican City, on Wednesday 12 April, Mons. Robert Prevost made the profession of faith and began his work as the new prefect of the Decastery of Bishops. Bishop Prevost, who is an Augustinian missionary and who was was serving as Bishop of Chiclayo in Peru, is replacing Cardinal Marc Ouellet, both as prefect and as

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Easter reflection from our Prior Provincial

08/04/2023 / News

THE RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD FROM THE DEAD STRENGTHENS OUR FAITH WITH GREAT HOPE We are celebrating Easter in which the journey of Lent and the celebrations of the Easter tridum that we are living these days reach their climax. It is the most powerful moment in the liturgical journey of the Church, through which we celebrate our faith. Our Spiritual Father Saint Augustine writes in the Treatise, On Christian

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