Archive for month: May 2018

OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL PARISH – BALLUTA

PARISH NOTICES – SUNDAY 27th May 2018

1. ON MONDAY, at 7.15pm at the Parish Centre there will be a meeting for parents whose children will be receiving the First Holy Communion.

2. ON TUESDAY at 5.15pm, at the Parish Church there will be confessions for children who will be receiving the First Holy Communion.

     At 6.30pm there will be a Pastoral Council meeting.

3. ON WEDNESDAY there will be a pilgrimage to the Ta’ Pinu Sanctuary in Gozo, following by an outing. Departure will be at 7.30am from Imrabat Street and Balluta Square. Tickets from the parish office or from Doris Mallia. 

4. ON THURSDAY at 7.00pm, Lectio Divina (Divine Reading) will be held at the Parish Centre. Meditations will be on the coming Sunday Gospel.

5. FRIDAY is the First Friday of the month. At 5.45pm there will be        

     adoration led by the Divine Mercy Group.

      On that day children who will be receiving the First Holy Communion will be  

      meeting in church at 7.00pm for a rehearsal.

6. On SUNDAY, during the 9.00am Mass twelve children will bereceiving the First Holy Communion. For this reason, on that day, the 10.00am Mass will start at 10.15am.

7. On 7th June, we will be organising a pilgrimage to places linked to Fr. Avertans’s life. The localities will be: Mosta, Valletta, Balluta, Rabat and Mdina. The pilgrimage includes information, prayers and Mass, and also a packed lunch.  The pilgrimage starts at 9.00am from Floriana and at the end of the pilgrimage at 5.00pm there will be transport to Valletta.   Those interested in joining can register at the sacristy by not later than 4th June.

8. There are still some places available for the Pilgrimage to Lourdes from the 20th to 24th of August. More information from the Parish Office.

9. Another issue of the FLIMKIEN Magazine with the Balluta Parish’s insert is out. Helpers are kindly asked to collect their copies from the sacristy.

OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL PARISH – BALLUTA

PARISH NOTICES – SUNDAY 20th May 2018

1. ON THURSDAY at 7.00pm, Lectio Divina (Divine Reading) will be held at the Parish Centre. Meditations will be on the coming Sunday Gospel.

2. ON THURSDAY and FRIDAY, the Legion of Mary will finish their visits to some of the families of the parish.

3. On SUNDAY, during the 9.00am Mass there will be the presentation of those youths who yesterday received the Sacrament of Confirmation.

4. On the 30th of May there will be a pilgrimage to the Ta’ Pinu Sanctuary in Gozo, following by an outing. This activity is being organised together with all the parishes of Sliema.  Tickets from the parish office or from Doris Mallia.

5. There are still some places available for the Pilgrimage to Lourdes from the 20th to 24th of August. More information from the Parish Office.

OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL PARISH – BALLUTA

PARISH NOTICES – SUNDAY 13th May 2018

1. On TUESDAY 15th May there will be a Mother’s Day Activity. There will be Mass at St. Mary of the Angels Church in Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq and we will continue this activity in a hotel. Tickets are available from Maria Bianco or from the Parish Office.

Also on TUESDAY, on the 100th Anniversary of Padre Pio’s death and the 50th Anniversary from his death, at 6.00pm at the Stella Maris Parish  Church,  there will be prayers, Mass and Kissing of the Relic, with the glove of this Saint.

2. THIS WEDNESDAY is the Seventh and Last Wednesday of Our Lady of Mt.

     Carmel.  During the 9.30am. there will be with a sermon on Our Lady.   

     followed by the Chaplet of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

3. ON THURSDAY at 7.00pm, Lectio Divina (Divine Reading) will be held at the Parish Centre. Meditations will be on the coming Sunday Gospel.

4. ON FRIDAY, rehearsals for the ceremony of Confirmation will be held at the parish church, at 7.00pm.

5. ON SATURDAY, at 4.30pm, 23 adoloscents will be confirmed int hte Catholic faith. We pray to the Lord to fill them with the Holy Spirit.

6. Next SUNDAY, the 10.00am Mass with be wth the participation of children and families.

7. On the 29th MAY, there will be a NATIONAL RETREAT for Members of the Third Order of Carmelite. Those who wish to attend can contact Fr. Guido or Mario Attard.

8. On the 30th of May there will be a pilgrimage to the Ta’ Pinu Sanctuary in Gozo, following by an outing. This activity is being organised together with all the parishes of Sliema.  Tickets from the parish office or from Doris Mallia.

9. There are still some places available for the Pilgrimage to Lourdes from the 20th to 24th of August. More information from the Parish Office.

OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL PARISH – BALLUTA

PARISH NOTICES – SUNDAY 6th May 2018

1. ON MONDAY at 7.00pm, the Diaconia Commission will be a meeting at the Parish Centre.

2. ON TUESDAY, Feast of Our Lady of Pompei, after the 9.30 a.m. Mass the prayer of Our Lady of Pompei will be recited. On the same day, there will be a pilgrimage to Marsaxlokk.  Departure at 8.45am from Imrabat Street.  Bookings at the Parish Office or with Doris Mallia.

3. THIS WEDNESDAY is the Sixth Wednesday of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. During  the 9.30am. there will be with a sermon on Our Lady, followed by the Chaplet of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

4. SUNDAY is Mother’s Day. The 10.00am Mass will be with the participation of children and families.

     The Saturday evening Mass, and all Masses on Sunday, will be offered for all mothers, and for the souls of the departed ones. Who wishes to list his mother’s name can do so by filling in a form and hand it over to any one of the priests, or to the sacristan.  Envelopes with these forms are by the church’s entrance.

5. On TUESDAY 15th May there will be a Mother’s Day Activity. Tickets are available from Maria Bianco or from the Parish Office.

6. On the 30th of May there will be a pilgrimage to the Ta’ Pinu Sanctuary in Gozo, following by an outing. This activity is being organised together with all the parishes of Sliema.  Tickets from the parish office or from Doris Mallia.

7. We have now ended the Family Blessings and we wish to thank all those families who have welcomed us to their homes. If anyone who wasn’t at home on the day we visited, and would like us to bless his family, please contact the parish priest for an appointment.

St. Paul writes in his First Letter to the Corinthians, “Now you are Christ’s body, and individually parts of it. Some people God has designated in the church to be, first, apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then, mighty deeds; then, gifts of healing, assistance, administration, and varieties of tongues.” (vv. 27-28)

Consider the first people Jesus called to follow Him: fishermen, a tax collector, a zealot…all ordinary laymen. Consider how many of the saints were, essentially, ordinary people! You are baptized into the Body of Christ for a purpose, and countless saints have gone before you in faithful service to Jesus, living out His call to be “the salt of the earth…the light of the world…a city on a mountain” which “cannot be hidden.” (Matthew 5:13-16)

Every member of the Body—from the newly baptized infant to the shut-in who can only pray and watch Mass on television—has a part to play in Christ’s work to redeem the world. Much of this work is the day-to-day, unseen, little tasks done with great love and fidelity: the raising of children, the honest day’s labor, showing kindness to a stranger, making a hidden sacrifice for the sake of another, and so on. We are the living stones (1 Peter 2:5) which build up the Church, not only in the sense of bricks in the wall, but also as laborers adding on to it. As a little salt flavors a great deal of food, as a little light dispels a room full of darkness, as a city on a hill is seen from miles around, so each of us is to follow and serve Christ in the way only we can, living our Catholic faith in the world as an ambassador for Our Lord.

Reflection Questions
How am I living out my baptismal call to serve Jesus in the world? Is this enough, or is Jesus calling me to more? How do I desire to serve Him? What gifts do I bring to the Body of Christ

Scripture
1 Peter 2:9 – “But you are ‘a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises’ of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”