Three-minute reflections
Advent time last year gave birth to the idea of presenting a three-minute reflection on the Sunday Gospel on the Franciscan Friars’ Facebook page by Fr Guardian Marcello Ghirlando, OFM. Fr Ghirlando said Covid-19 necessarily made it more difficult for the faithful to attend Sunday Mass in small churches. “Social distancing measures limited greatly the number of people who could attend. So, I decided to deliver a three-minute reflection on the Sunday Gospel,” Fr Marcello said. The slot has popularly become known as Tlett Minuti mal-Patri. “I try to present it as short and sweet as po...