Feast of St John Bosco in Victoria
Bosco is the patron of children and youths
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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 special Thursday in the middle of the Holy Week is also referred to as ‘Maundy Thursday’, which may...