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Bosco is the patron of children and youths

Joe Zammit Ciantar reminisces about his experiences at the Oratory of Don Bosco

Today's letters by Times of Malta readers

Sometime in the first months of 1951, when I was in Primary Standard II, music teacher George Theuma, a tall, spectacled man, entered our classroom and, after t

Ix-Xirka Ħamis ix-Xirka’ – ‘Community Thursday’, inferring the Thursday when the apostles and Jesus Christ met for the Last Supper.  It is ‘holy’ – ‘ santo’ – because, on this day, Jesus established the Holy Eucharist: he blessed the bread and wine and asked his friends to eat and drink with him. Moreover, he invited them to keep repeating the occasion in memory of him. The altar of repose at St George’s Basilica, Victoria. Photo: Joe Zammit Ciantar In English, this spe...

Muzzling the experts The news of Kenneth Grech’s reinstatement with the COVID team “in three or four weeks” seems positive. The subtext that “government is reluctant to provide details on timelines” is where the real message lies. Read: maybe never. If the government was serious about undoing yet another faux pas, it would be ‘three or four minutes’. This has all the air of a voice of dissent being summarily swept aside by an increasingly dictatorial attitude. This, at a time when...