Solemnity of Our Mother Mary Assumed into Heaven on Saturday 15 August (or Santa Marija as we know it in Maltese). It is a day of obligation for Mass, and therefore Masses will follow the Sunday schedule. There will be a Vigil Mass at the Parish Church on Friday evening, 14 August, at 6.30pm. On Saturday, 15 August, morning Masses at the Parish Church will be at 8.30am and 10.30am, and there will be an evening Mass at the Patroċinju Church at 6.00pm instead of the Parish Chur

Għasri Parish Youths, under the Kura Association, have acquired two air conditioning units through the "BOOST" scheme from Aġenzija Żgħażagħ to further improve the facilities where youths meet and hold their activities in Għasri. We sincerely thank Aġenzija Żgħażagħ for its ongoing support and backing of youth organisations.

In our time, few of us remember a scene which in the past was very common; I am referring to a shepherd tending his flock. In the time of Jesus, the countryside was filled with sheep and shepherds took care of them. At that time there were two types of shepherds: there was the shepherd who owned a small flock and went out to tend it himself, and there was the hired shepherd. The former was most likely a family man, living in a certain poverty from what the land and his flock

Figurative painting of the Good Samaritan with Għasri scenery in the background. To live joyfully, it is important that we neither dwell...

Għasri Parish's notices for this week are as follows: - The Importance of Silence in Church, Especially During Mass: We wish to again...

Għasri Parish's notices for this week are as follows: - Wednesday, 9th July — Mass at the Cathedral of the Assumption: In this special...

Who among us does not wish to be happy? Everything we do in life, in one way or another, is a search for happiness. But we all know that...

The book The Days of the Martyrs , written by C. Bernard Ruffin, recounts the bloody history of the early Church—from the moment the...

Għasri Parish's notices for this week are as follows: - This Saturday, 28th June — Discussion on the Book of Ruth. At the previous...

Photo: Daniel Cilia, “The Last Supper” by Lazzaro Pisani, titular painting of the Parish Church of Għasri. In June of the year 1997, I...