The Maltese Augustinian Province together with the secretariat for the Augustinian Missions will celebrate a thanksgiving Eucharist on the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the secretariat in 1994. This mass will be held on Saturday 6 April at the Church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentine, Lampuka Street, Tarxien at 6.30pm.

For the last 30 years AMIGOS has offered several young people a missionary experience, in Brazil, Mozambique and Kenya. This year a group of 7 young people together with Fr Mario Abela osa (director of the secretariat) are preparing themselves to do some missionary work in Mozambique. We continue to pray for them and help them in this work that they will do this summer thanks to our donations.

 



On Tuesday 19th March, the Augustinian friars met at The Santa Rita Priory in St. Julian's for a moment of prayer during Lent as a preparation for the Resurrection of Jesus. Fr Ivan Scicluna ofm Cap led a reflection on the different inner voices found in us. After a short break, the brothers gathered for adoration in silence before the Sacrament.

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The Maltese Augustinian Province with great sadness announces the death of Fr. Noe Schiavone OSA who on Saturday 13th January 2024 went to meet the Risen Lord whom he loved and served so much during his life. Fr. Noe these last few weeks was living in the Dar tal-Kleru (Clergy House) after several years in our Augustinian community in Valletta.

As an Augustinian religious and priest, Fr. Noe lived and served in several communities and for many years he was a teacher at Saint Augustine College. A long part of his life was then spent in Sicily, Italy where he also worked in the Italian Augustinian Province. Back in Malta, in the Community of Valletta, he served as Chaplain of the Monastery of the Augustinian Sisters of St. Catherine.

His funeral will be celebrated on Monday 15th January at Saint Augustine Parish Church in Valletta at 9.30am. Before the mass the body of our brother Fr. Noe will be laid in the Oratory of Our Lady of the Good Counsel for the last respects of the public. A private burial will then take place in the tombs of the Augustinian Province in the cemetery of Santa Maria Addolorata.

The Augustinian brothers recommend him in prayer so that the Lord may receive him in his mercy and give him the payment of all that he has worked for during his life.

 


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Mill-24 ta' Lulju sal-31 ta' Lulju, 2024

Inżuru postijiet b’rabta ma' Santu Wistin f'Milan u f'Pavia.

Filwaqt li nżuru wkoll Padova, Venezia, Treviso, Verona, Lake Como, Bergamo u aktar!

L-Erbgħa 24 ta’ Lulju 2024

Niltaqgħu l-Ajruport Internazzjonali ta’ Malta fl-10:15am biex naqbdu l-ajruplan tal-KM Malta Airlines KM624 li jitlaq lejn Milan fis-12:45pm. Mal-wasla tagħna nsibu l-coach tistenniena biex immorru lejn il-lukanda B&B Hotel Treviso ***, (jew simili) Treviso. Fi triqtna nieqfu għaċ-ċena (extra). Mal-wasla tagħna fil-lukanda, ikollna s-sistemazzjoni tal-kmamar u ħin liberu.

(Ċena mhux inkluża.)

 

Il-Ħamis 25 ta’ Lulju 2024

Wara l-breakfast, ikollna Full Day excursion għal Venezia, immorru flimkien bit-train (inkluż). Mal- wasla tagħna, nisimgħu l-Quddiesa u nżuru l-knisja ta’ Santa Marija ta’ Nazaret (magħrufa bħala Chiesa degli Scalzi). Wara, fost postijiet oħra naraw Pjazza San Marco u l-Palazzo Ducale, il-Ponte dei Sospiri, La Torre dell’Orologio, il-Ponte Rialto u aktar. Wara jkollna ħin liberu għal souvenir shopping. Ritorn lejn il-lukanda. (Pranzu u ċena mhux inklużi.)

 

Il-Ġimgħa 26 ta’ Lulju 2024

Wara l-breakfast, immorru full day excursion għal Padova, fejn inżuru l-Bażilka ta’ Sant’Antnin u l- qabar tiegħu, u nisimgħu l-Quddiesa. Ħin liberu għall-pranzu (extra). Wara l-pranzu nżuru ċ-ċentru tal-belt u jkollna ftit ħin liberu. Ritorn lejn il-lukanda fi Treviso. Qabel ma naslu l-lukanda nagħmlu waqfa għaċ-ċena, f’restaurant Agriturismo għal ikel tipiku Padovan. (Inkluż.)

 

Is-Sibt 27 ta’ Lulju 2024

Wara l-breakfast, nagħmlu check-out mil-lukanda u nibdew triqtna lejn Milan. Matul it-triq ikollna excursion għal Verona, fejn naraw, Anfiteatru ta’ Verona u d-dar ta’ Giulietta. Ħin liberu għal shopping/pranzu (extra). Wara l-pranzu nkomplu triqtna lejn Milan għal-lukanda B&B Hotel Aosta ***, jew simili. Sistemazzjoni tal-kmamar u ħin liberu. (Pranzu u ċena mhux inklużi.)

 

Il-Ħadd 28 ta’ Lulju 2024

Breakfast u full day excursion għal Pavia fejn inżuru l-Bażilika ta’ San Pietro in Ciel D’Oro fejn hemm il-fdalijiet ta’ Santu Wistin. Wara jkollna ftit free time għall-pranzu (extra). Wara immorru Certosa di Pavia – Monasteru sabiħ ħafna.  Ritorn lejn il-lukanda. (Pranzu u ċena mhux inklużi.)

 

It-Tnejn 29 ta’ Lulju 2024

Wara l-breakfast, għandna excursion għal Lake Como, fejn naraw il-Katidral ta’ Como, nagħmlu passiġġata ħdejn il-lake u nitilgħu bil-funikular għall-veduta meraviljuża tal-Lake Comou free time għall-pranzu (extra) u min irid jista’ jmur boat ride fuq il-lake (extra). Ritorn lejn il-lukanda u wara  ftit ħin ta’ mistrieħ immorru nduru Milan, fejn naraw id-Duomo, Gallerija Emmanuele, u t-Teatru  La Scala. Ħin liberu. (Pranzu u ċena mhux inklużi.)

 

It-Tlieta 30 ta’ Lulju 2024

Wara l-breakfast u l-Quddiesa, immorru full day excursion għal Sotto il Monte fejn inżuru d-dar tal-Papa Ġwanni XXIII. Wara mmorru Bergamo fejn nitilgħu bil-funicular Citta Alta u fejn naraw, fost postijiet oħra, l-famużi Piazza Vecchia, Cappella Colleoni u l-Battistero. Ritorn lejn il-lukanda u ħin liberu. (Pranzu u ċena mhux inklużi).

 

L-Erbgha 31 ta’ Lulju 2024

Breakfast u check-out mil-lukanda u mmorru half day excursion għal Museo del Cenacolo Vinciano, fejn naraw il-Mużew tal-Aħħar Ċena ta’ Leonardo Da Vinci, u nżuru wkoll il-Bażilika ta’ Sant Ambrogio. Wara nibqgħu sejrin lejn l-ajruport biex naqbdu l-ajruplan għal Malta li jitlaq fil-15:35 (3:35pm).

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L-organizzaturi ma jieħdux responsabbiltà, ta’ kwalunkwe ċirkustanza li tista’ tinqala’ minħabba l-Covid-19  jew diżastri oħra nazzjonali, kemm f’Malta jew fil-pajjiżi li nkunu qed inżuru, li ma jkollhomx kontroll fuqhom.

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On December 22nd, in the Church of the Holy Family located in Tas-Sliema, a simple but significant ceremony took place in which the Decree of Aggregation was delivered to the Congregation of the Ursuline Sisters of Saint Angela Merici, which bears the signature of the Augustinian Order. This decree, which bears the date of August 28, 2023, was delivered after a mass of thanksgiving to the Superior General Mother Magdalene Cauchi USAM by Fr. Javier Perez Barba OSA, Assistant General, on behalf of the Prior General of the Order, Fr. Alejandro Morál Antón OSA. Many nuns from the congregation were present and also the Prior Provincial of the Augustinians in Malta, Fr. Leslie Gatt OSA, the provincial treasurer, Fr. Pierre Desira OSA and the postulator general of the Order, Fr. Josef Sciberras OSA.

The Ursuline nuns in Malta were founded by the Servant of God Isidoro dei Conti Formosa Montalto (Valletta, 1851- Valletta, 1931) in 1887.

During his life, the founder had close knowledge of the Augustinian religious of the convent of Saint Augustine in Valletta, having been born and lived for many years not far from the mentioned convent. Furthermore, at the beginning of his priestly ministry, he was appointed chaplain and confessor of the Augustinian nuns of contemplative life of the monastery of Saint Catherine of Alexandria in the same hometown. These were elements which, among other things, familiarized him both with the Augustinian Rule and with the lifestyle of the Order based on the search for God in common life and in the service to the Church. He wanted these elements included in his religious foundation, wanting the nuns to profess the Rule of St Augustine.

A few months after the foundation, Msgr. Formosa asked the prior general of the Order, Fr. Sebastiano Martinelli OSA, to grant the grace of affiliation to him personally and to the first nucleus of nuns, who had already professed the Rule of the Holy Father Augustine. Martinelli granted this grace in December 1889, extending the privileges and graces to future generations of sisters. In 1935 this affiliation was renewed by Prior General Eustasio Esteban OSA.

Considering the post-conciliar reform of the Constitutions of the Order, in which the distinction was made between the affiliation of individual people and the aggregation of religious congregations that want to spiritually unite with the Order, the superior general of the Ursulines of Saint Angela Merici, with the consent of his council, he asked the prior general of the Order for the decree of aggregation, thus renewing the spiritual bond that was born with the founder of the congregation himself way back in 1889. This bond, over the decades, has expressed itself in various ways and forms of collaboration with the Augustinian friars in Malta.

The cause of beatification and canonization of the Servant of God Isidoro dei Conti Formosa Montalto, diocesan priest and son of the Order, also falls under the responsibility of the general postulation of the Order.

Currently the Congregation is of diocesan right, has more than 60 nuns and is present in 8 communities on the island of Malta. Previously they had presences in Italy and England. The foundational charism of the institute - based on the principles of the Augustinian Rule, on the example of Saint Angela Merici and on the guidelines given by the founder, a great apostle of charity towards the most needy - is to spread and implant charity among children and adolescents who cannot live in their natural families for various reasons, and to support families who have difficulties in supporting and educating their children.

Fr Josef Sciberras osa

Postulator General of the Augustinian Order


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