Franciscan Province – MALTA

(Video added) The St John’s Co-Cathedral Foundation and the Coro Bel Canto in collaboration with the Metropolitan Cathedral Chapter, including our Franciscan Province, are reproducing the Oratorio ‘Demm Fuq il-Verna’.

The Oratorio was penned by the late Marjanu Vella and translated into music by Joseph Vella. The drama is going to be held at St. John’s Co-Cathedral on Friday the 17^th of September, feast of the Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi at 8.00pm.  This event will be held in aid of the Franciscan Mission in Honduras.

May the Lord give you Peace !

On  the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven our thoughts are filled with joy. This is the joy that at times the world is seeking in vain because it gives much importance on material things that, in fact, have got an ending, that pass and leave quite an emptiness.

Joy is a gift of Divine origin. If the world wants to meet true joy in its demands, then the feast of Our Lady’s Assumption into Heaven can help for a relevant answer.

The feast of Saint Clare of Assisi was celebrated on the 11^th of August. The feast was celebrated with a Mass which took place at the Poor Clare’s Monastery at St. Julian’s.  A very good number of people, together with friars from the three Franciscan Orders attended the celebration of the Eucharist which was conducted by the Provincial Minister Fr Sandro Overend OFM.

Sr. Rose Therese Ellis OSC has been re-elected Mother Abbess of the Poor Clares Community in San Giljan, Malta. The Election was presided by the Archbishop of Malta, Mgr Pawl Cremona OP and assisted by the Minister Provincial Fr. Sandro Overend OFM and by the Vicar Provincial, Fr. Richard Stanley Grech, OFM. We are united in prayers for the newly elected administration, the Mother Abbess, the Vicar and the Councillors of the  ” Holy Child Jesus King” Monastery, we wish our Poor Clares every blessing, peace and joy in St. Clare and St. Francis.