On Saturday 29th June 2019, Fr Elija Mifsud ocd celebrated his first Mass in the Basilica at Gharb, Gozo.
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First Mass of Fr Elija Mifsud
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Cultural Tour Visiting Fort St Elmo
Monday 26th February
08:45am Departure from Ta’ Xbiex
Mass at St Mary Magdalene’s Church
Refreshments at St Elmo Cafe
Organised by Diaconia Commission
Booking in the Sacristy
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Fundraising Event – Carnival Pasta Buffet – Saturday 10 February
Fundraising Event – Carnival Pasta Buffet – Saturday 10 February – Uncle Matt’s Kitchen Msida – Price € 20.00
Please book in the sacristy.
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The 10th Annual All Inclusive Christmas Buffet Dinner – Booking is now open
The Ta’ Xbiex Parish warmly invites you, family and friends
to the 10th Annual Christmas Buffet Dinner
Saturday 16th December @ 8.00pm
Venue – Gueliz Restaurant
San Antonio Hotel & Spa Qawra
Adults – € 25.00
Children Under 12 – € 15.00
Prices include free flow of house wine, house beer, soft drinks, water & coffee
Transport is not included in price
Organized Transport will depart from near Ta’ Xbiex Terrace @ 7.15pm – Price € 3.00
For more information please contact
Lawrence Zahra on 9945 2859
Maria Zahra on 7949 4323
Publius Cassar on 9926 2181
Email: parroccataxbiexmalta@gmail.com
Booking for this event will close on Wednesday 13 December
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VIDEO: Alive 2017 Praise & Worship – Talk by Steve Portelli
View Steve Portelli’s talk during Alive 2017 Praise & Worship in our parish last Saturday.
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Irtir Għas-Sekulari Tereżjani
IRTIR GĦAS-SEKULARI TEREŻJANI 
Imexxi l-irtir il-Pirjol P. Mario Borg O.C.D.
il-Ħamis 29 ta’ Ġunju 2017.
Ninġabru fis-Santwarju ta’ Santa Tereża tal-Bambin Ġesù
għall-Quddiesa tat-8.30 a.m. u
wara nkomplu l-irtir
fis-sala “Madonna tal-Karmnu” sal-11.30 a.m.
b’waqfa għall- kafè.
l-Irtir hu organizzat mis-Sekulari ta’ B’Kara
imma kull min hu interessat jista’ jattendi.
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Weekly Evening Lenten Series: The Voyage of the Cross
Everyone is invited to our parish for these talks on the subject of “The Voyage of the Cross”. They will be given by Prof. Edward J. Clemmer, Ph.D., M.A. in Spirituality (Melit.).
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The Start of the Lenten Season: Ash Wednesday
On Tuesday 25th February, there are no catechism lessons for children.
Wednesday 26th February is Ash Wednesday. This marks the start of the Lenten season. This is a day of fasting and abstinence. during all masses of the day, the faithful will receive ashes on their head as a sign of repentance. The 6 pm mass will be concelebrated with short thoughts and reflections on Holy Lent. The way of the cross will be recited on Wednesdays and Fridays during lent starting at 5.25pm.
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Coronavirus Update and Masses on TV
Sunday Masses on Maltese tv:
8am: Super One
9.30am: Tvm2
5.30pm: Net
6.30pm: Xejk
10.30am: NET fm
Daily Mass: 9.30am, 5.30pm (+Rosary) on Tvm2
Saturday Mass: 6.30pm on Tvm2
Parroċċa Ta Xbiex
Mit-12 ta’ Marzu ma hemmx Quddies u Katekiżmu sa kemm jinħareġ avviż ieħor. (From the 12th March there will be no Masses or Catechism until a new notice is issued)
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5th Sunday of Lent
First reading
Ezekiel 37:12-14
I shall put my spirit in you, and you will live
The Lord says this: I am now going to open your graves; I mean to raise you from your graves, my people, and lead you back to the soil of Israel. And you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people. And I shall put my spirit in you, and you will live, and I shall resettle you on your own soil; and you will know that I, the Lord, have said and done this – it is the Lord who speaks.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 129
With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord,
Lord, hear my voice!
O let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleading.
With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.
If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt,
Lord, who would survive?
But with you is found forgiveness:
for this we revere you.
With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.
My soul is waiting for the Lord.
I count on his word.
My soul is longing for the Lord
more than watchman for daybreak.
(Let the watchman count on daybreak
and Israel on the Lord.)
With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.
Because with the Lord there is mercy
and fullness of redemption,
Israel indeed he will redeem
from all its iniquity.
With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.
Second reading
Romans 8:8-11
The Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you
People who are interested only in unspiritual things can never be pleasing to God. Your interests, however, are not in the unspiritual, but in the spiritual, since the Spirit of God has made his home in you. In fact, unless you possessed the Spirit of Christ you would not belong to him. Though your body may be dead it is because of sin, but if Christ is in you then your spirit is life itself because you have been justified; and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then he who raised Jesus from the dead will give life to your own mortal bodies through his Spirit living in you.
Gospel Acclamation
Glory and praise to you, O Christ!
I am the resurrection and the life, says the Lord;
whoever believes in me will never die.
Glory and praise to you, O Christ!
Gospel John 11:1-45
There was a man named Lazarus who lived in the village of Bethany 
with the two sisters, Mary and Martha, and he was ill. It was the same Mary, the sister of the sick man Lazarus, who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair. The sisters sent this message to Jesus, ‘Lord, the man you love is ill.’ On receiving the message, Jesus said, ‘This sickness will end not in death but in God’s glory, and through it the Son of God will be glorified.’
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, yet when he heard that Lazarus was ill he stayed where he was for two more days before saying to the disciples, ‘Let us go to Judaea.’ The disciples said, ‘Rabbi, it is not long since the Jews wanted to stone you; are you going back again?’ Jesus replied:
‘Are there not twelve hours in the day?
A man can walk in the daytime without stumbling
because he has the light of this world to see by;
but if he walks at night he stumbles,
because there is no light to guide him.’
He said that and then added, ‘Our friend Lazarus is resting, I am going to wake him.’ The disciples said to him, ‘Lord, if he is able to rest he is sure to get better.’ The phrase Jesus used referred to the death of Lazarus, but they thought that by ‘rest’ he meant ‘sleep’, so Jesus put it plainly, ‘Lazarus is dead; and for your sake I am glad I was not there because now you will believe. But let us go to him.’ Then Thomas – known as the Twin – said to the other disciples, ‘Let us go too, and die with him.’
On arriving, Jesus found that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days already. Bethany is only about two miles from Jerusalem, and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to sympathise with them over their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus had come she went to meet him. Mary remained sitting in the house. Martha said to Jesus, ‘If you had been here, my brother would not have died, but I know that, even now, whatever you ask of God, he will grant you.’ ‘Your brother’ said Jesus to her ‘will rise again.’ Martha said, ‘I know he will rise again at the resurrection on the last day.’ Jesus said:
‘I am the resurrection and the life.
If anyone believes in me, even though he dies he will live,
and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.
Do you believe this?’
‘Yes, Lord,’ she said ‘I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who was to come into this world.’
When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in a low voice, ‘The Master is here and wants to see you.’ Hearing this, Mary got up quickly and went to him. Jesus had not yet come into the village; he was still at the place where Martha had met him. When the Jews who were in the house sympathising with Mary saw her get up so quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
Mary went to Jesus, and as soon as she saw him she threw herself at his feet, saying, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.’ At the sight of her tears, and those of the Jews who followed her, Jesus said in great distress, with a sigh that came straight from the heart, ‘Where have you put him?’ They said, ‘Lord, come and see.’ Jesus wept; and the Jews said, ‘See how much he loved him!’ But there were some who remarked, ‘He opened the eyes of the blind man, could he not have prevented this man’s death?’ Still sighing, Jesus reached the tomb: it was a cave with a stone to close the opening. Jesus said, ‘Take the stone away.’ Martha said to him, ‘Lord, by now he will smell; this is the fourth day.’ Jesus replied, ‘Have I not told you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?’ So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and said:
‘Father, I thank you for hearing my prayer.
I knew indeed that you always hear me,
but I speak for the sake of all these who stand round me,
so that they may believe it was you who sent me.’
When he had said this, he cried in a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, here! Come out!’ The dead man came out, his feet and hands bound with bands of stuff and a cloth round his face. Jesus said to them, ‘Unbind him, let him go free.’
Many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and had seen what he did believed in him.
Prayers of the Faithful:
Celebrant: Puzzled and depressed by the disintegration of life which we see in our world, We turn in prayer to him in whom we live.
1. For those who face death by war, by hunger, or by disease, and for those whose lives are rendered hopeless through injustice without redress, that they may live indeed, Lord hear us.
2. For those whose life is paralyzed by fear, who are unable to laugh or to be angry, to venture any risk, or to love, that they may experience the freedom which God’s spirit brings, Lord hear us.
3. For those who are lost in the death of sin, whose lives are choked by their cruelty or callousness or greed or lust or apathy, that they may come to recognize a brother or a sister in every human being, Lord hear us.
4. For who have departed from us in death, whether they died strong in faith or in confusion and fear, that they may rise in glory with Jesus on the last day, Lord hear us.
5. That we who have been sealed with the Holy Spirit might strive to develop a profoundly Christian life for the service of mankind. Lord hear us.
6. For those who are isolated due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Lord hear us.
Celebrant: God our Father, you created your world by your word, and by your breath you gave life to humankind. Speak your word again, and breathe out your Spirit that we may have life. We ask this through Christ our Lord.
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Live Our Lady of Sorrows Mass today at 4.30pm
Today at 4.30pm Parish Priest Fr Salv Spagnol ocd will celebrate Mass live on Facebook at our Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/stjoh…
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Palm Sunday Mass Live Stream
Sunday Mass will be live streamed this Palm Sunday at 8.30am on our Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/stjohnofthecrossparish/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/moonwhiskers/33091508244
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Maundy Thursday Mass and 7 Visits in Maltese
Live on our Parish Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/stjohnofthecrossparish
The Mass will be streamed at 4.30pm and will be followed by the Seven Church Visits online.
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VIDEO: Good Friday Function in Maltese
Jekk ma rajtux il-funzjoni tal-Gimgha l-Kbira Hamis mill-parrocca taghna, jew mghandekx Facebook, tistghu tarawha hawn:
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VIDJO: Quddiesa ta’ Sibt il-Ghid
Ghal min mghandux Facebook jew irid jerga jaraha..
Ghada l-Quddiesa minn Ta’ Xbiex se tixxandar live fuq Facebook fit-8.30am.
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VIDJO: Quddiesa tal-Ghid
Jekk mghandkomx Facebook tistghu taraw il-Quddiesa li kienet streamed dalghodu hawnhekk:
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VIDJO: Quddiesa tal-Erbghat tal-Madonna #1
Jekk mghandkomx Facebook tistghu taraw il-Quddiesa li kienet streamed ilbierah hawnhekk. Iqaddes Fr Anthony Fitzpatrick l-ewwel quddiesa tal-Erbghat tal-Madonna.
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NOTICE: Sunday Mass and the Feast of Divine Mercy
Next Sunday Mass in Maltese will be streamed at 9am, followed by a Eucharistic Adoration of the Feast of Divine Mercy, on our Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/stjohnofthecrossparish/
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VIDJO: Quddiesa tat-Tieni Hadd tal-Ghid u Festa tal-Hniena Divina
Ghal min mghandux Facebook jew jixtieq jerga jara l-Quddiesa ta’ dalghodu li kienet streamed fuq Facebook:
Peress li kien hemm problemi bl-awdjo tal-adorazzjoni li kien hemm dalghodu, l-Appostolat tal-Hniena Divina tal-parrocca kellu johrog dan il-vidjo bil-kurunella tal-Festa:
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VIDEO: Third Sunday of Easter Mass
You can watch the Mass for the third Sunday of Easter again, or if you don’t have Facegook where it was live streamed this morning at 9am:
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