AUGUSTINIAN
INSTITUTE
Centre For Augustinian
& Patristic Studies
& The City of God Seminar
Courses on
Augustinian Theology,
Philosophy & Spirituality
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Academic Year
2016-2017
Director:
Revd Professor Salvino CARUANA OSA STHD
Senior Lecturer University of Malta
PO BOX 61 MSIDA PO MSD 1000 - MALTA
T 2124 9407 (Office + Fax Valletta)
2124 5934 (Valletta – St. Augustine’s)
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M 9940 2102 - 7708 7711
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History of the Augustinan Institute
In 1998, The Provincial Chapter nominated the Rev.
Professor Salvino Caruana OSA as successor to the Rev.
Professor Edward Fenech OSA to direct the Augustinian
Institute. In that same year, the Institute was transferred
from the Augustinian Monastery of Valletta, to Pietà, where
the Institute was now housed in a larger premises consisting
of several rooms, offices, lecture halls, chapel, and prayer
room. The premises include now two spacious halls
furnished with all the necessary modern didactic
instruments, the secretary's office, as well as a library
specializing in works on the life, thought and writings of the
great Father and Doctor of the Church, Augustine of Hippo,
and the Fathers of the Church.
Fr Caruana considered a priority the publicizing of the new
academic study-units that would be given at the Augustinian
Institute. The academic year would now consist of four
events. The first and major study-unit would be the
Augustine For All series of lectures from September to
December. The second study-unit would comprise the two
lectures in the Annual Saint Augustine Lecture, one held
at the University of Malta, and the other at the Institute. A
scholar of international repute in Augustinian studies and
research would be invited to deliver the Annual Lecture. The
third aspect of the annual curriculum would be the Lectio
Augustini. The Lectio consists of 8 sessions of two hours
each, from January to March of the academic year, during
which a specific text of Augustine related to the over-arching
topic of the current academic year would be read and
analyzed. The fourth and final aspect of the curriculum
would be the two-year course in the Philosophy For All
series of lectures. The four semesters of the study-unit
consist in 10 lectures for each semester on Neoplatonism, Christian Neoplatonism, and
the philosophy of Augustine of Hippo. During a session of the board of the Augustinian
Institute, a fifth aspect of the academic year was proposed by the Preside, Revd Dr Ray
Francalanza OSA SThD, namely, the holding two venues bound with the idea of the
Courtyard of the Gentiles. Fr Salvino contacted His Eminence Cardinal Gianfranco
Ravasi, President for the Pontifical Institute for Dialogue with Religions, who accepted
to deliver the inaugural lecture in January 2017.
Fr Salvino also recognized the great importance, as well as a great priority running
parallel to the recognition and resumption of academic activity at the Institute, the task
of healing past grievances with the academic institutions and others on the Island. The
more urgent ones being those created with the State University of Malta, especially with
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the Faculty of Theology, as
well as those with the local
ecclesiastical
hierarchy.
The results of these efforts
were reaped very quickly
when
the
highest
representatives from both
institutions, three Rectors
of the University, and two
Archbishops, subsequently
accepted invitations to
preside academic events,
or to address topics on
specific aspects of politics
and church life; distributed
certificates of attendance,
or else were often present
for the Annual Augustine
Lecture at the University
of Malta. Besides setting
many minds at rest, this
situation also resulted in
an
opportunity
for
enhancing the influence,
operation and recognition,
of the sterling work being
done, as well as the
success being reaped at
the Institute. Several
Reception area Augustinian Institute
deans, heads of departments from various faculties at the State University of Malta,
accepted to deliver lectures at the Institute.
Besides, quite a number of students from various faculties were also encouraged
to follow study-units in theology and philosophy offered at the Institute. At the end of
each academic year, a Certificate of Attendance is awarded to participants.
"Naturally a politician will seek success, without which he would have no opportunity for effective political
action at all. Yet success is subordinated to the criterion of justice, to the will to do what is right., and to the
understanding of what is right. Success can also be seductive and thus can open up the path towards the
falsification of what is right, towards the destruction of justice. "Without justice - what else is the State but
a great band of robbers?," as Saint Augustine once said. (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Address to Federal
Parliament in Berlin's Reichstag Building: Politics at the Service of Rights and Justice, September 24, 2011 (AAS 103 (2011),
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663-669).
Kors Għal Kulħadd (Augustine For All)
Matristika u patristika sekli 1 sa 5
Il-Ġimgħa, 7 t'Ottubru 2016 (6.15pm - 7.15pm)
Ċelebrazzjoni tal-ftuħ tasSena Akkademika 2016-2017
Quddiesa tal-Ispirtu s-Santu
u ċ-Ċerimonja talFtuħ tas-Sena Akkademika 2016-2017
Ċelebrant:
WRP Raymond Francalanza OSA SThD (Melit.)
Preside/Pirjol Provinċjal
Taħdita 1
Il-Ġimgħa 14 t’Ottubru 2016 (6.15pm -7.15pm)
Il-patroloġija u l-patristika
Revd Prof. Salvinu Caruana OSA SThD (Melit.)
Direttur Istitut Agostinjan
Taħdita 2
Il-Ġimgħa 21 t’Ottubru 2016 (6.15pm -7.15pm)
Xi aspetti tal-ispiritwalità ta' xi Missirijiet tal-Knisja
tal-Lvant Nisrani
Prof. Martin R. Zammit, Dip. Studji Orjentali, Fak. talArti, Univ. ta' Malta
Taħdita 3
Il-Ġimgħa 28 t’Ottubru 2016 (6.15pm -7.15pm)
Il-martirju tad-demm u l-martirju ta' kuljum
Revd Mario Attard ofm.cap. SThB BA
Taħdita 4
Il-Ġimgħa 4 ta’ Novembru 2016 (6.15pm -7.15pm)
L-ekoloġija u l-ekonomija f'xi kitbiet ta' Missirijiet il-Knisja
Dr Nadia Delicata
Fak. tat-Teoloġija, Univ. ta' Malta
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The 20th ANNUAL SAINT AUGUSTINE LECTURE - 2016
Professor Dr Michael J. Bruno STD (Lat.) St. Joseph's Seminary NY USA
It-Tnejn 21 ta' Novembru 2016
Istitut Agostinjan - Pietà fis-6.15pm
u t-Tlieta, 22 ta' Novembru 2016
fl-Univ. ta' Malta fis-7.00pm
Seeking Augustinian I nsights on the Christian in Public Life Today
Taħdita 5
Il-Ġimgħa 11 ta' Novembru 2016 (6.15pm -7.15pm)
Xi ħjiel dwar il-filosofija tal-Missirijiet tal-Knisja
Revd Dr Mark Sultana PhD
Fak. tat-Teoloġija, Univ. ta' Malta
Taħdita 6
Il-Ġimgħa 18 ta' Novembru 2016 (6.15pm -7.15pm)
Il-Missirijiet tal-Knisja Kappadoċi
Revd Dr Jonathan Farrugia SThD (Aug.)
Taħdita 7
Il-Ġimgħa 25 ta' Novembru 2016 (6.15pm -7.15pm)
Oriġene u l-mistiċiżmu
Dott.sa Ritienne Debono MD
Taħdita 8
Il-Ġimgħa 2 ta' Diċembru 2016 (6.15pm -7.15pm)
}jiel dwar il-ħajja Nisranija fil-kitbiet tal-Missirijiet tal-Knisja
Revd Prof. Hector Scerri
Dep. Dekan
Kap tad-Dip. tad-Dommatka
Fak. tat-Teoloġija, Univ. ta' Malta
Taħdita 9
Il-Ġimgħa 9 ta' Diċembru 2016 (6.15pm -7.15pm)
Il-matristika
Dr Pauline Dimech PhD
Fak. tat-Teoloġija, Univ. ta' Malta
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20th Annual Saint Augustine Lecture - 2016
The Lecture was instituted at the Faculty of
Theology, State University of Malta, by Prof.
Salvino Caruana OSA, in 1996, at the behest
of the late Revd Prof. Peter Serracino Inglott
(+2012), then Rector of the same University.
The lecture was intended to invite, and attract
towards the Island’s only distinguished
Academic Institution, the State University of
Malta, some of the best interpreters of the life,
works and thought of the great North African
Saint, Father, and Doctor of the Church,
Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430).
The Inaugural Lecture of the series was
delivered by Revd Prof. Robert Dodaro OSA,
Praeside of the Augustinian Patristic Institute,
the Augustinianum, in Rome. Prof. Dodaro
was again invited to deliver the The Annual St.
Augustine Lecture 2000. Other invited
speakers for the Lecture were the Revd Prof.
Hubertus Drobner (Paderborn University,
Germany), Prof. Gerald Bonner (University of Durham, UK), Prof. Lewis Ayres (Dublin
University, Ireland), Prof. Kari Elizabeth Børresen (University of Oslo), Prof. Carol
Harrison (Durham University, UK), Prof. Dr Pier Franco Beatrice (University of Padua,
Italy), Prof. Dr Paul van Geest (UNiversity of Utrecht), Prof. Dr Johannes van Oort
(University of Neimegen, Holland), Prof. Dr Mathijs Lamberigts (Dean KU Leuven,
Belgium), Prof. John Rist (Cambridge University, UK), Prof. Karla Pollman (St. Andrew’s
University, Scotland), Abbot Prof. Dom Donatus Ogliari OSB (Monte Cassino) Italy, HE
Prof. Alberto Bochatey OSA, Auxiliary Bishop of La Plata, Argentina (Catholic University
of Buenos Aires, Argentina), HE Mgr Prof. Enrico dal Covolo SDB (Rector Magnificus of
the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome) (2012); His Eminence Prospero Cardinal Grech
OSA (2013); Prof Dr Dr Johannes Brachtendorf (Tübingen) (2014); His Excellency Mgr
Prof Henri Teissier, Archbishop Emeritus of Algiers was the distinguished Lecturer
invited last year. The Annual St. Augustine Lecture is co-sponsored by the Maltese
Augustinian Province, the University of Malta, and the Archdiocesan Foundation for
Theological Studies.
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THE 20th ANNUAL
SAINT AUGUSTINE
LECTURE - 2016
Professor Dr Michael E.J. Bruno STD (Lat.)
St Joseph's Seminary NY USA
The Augustinian Institute Lecture
St Augustine Lecture Hall - Pietà
Monday
21st November 2016
18.15hrs
Seek ing Augustinian I nsights on
the Christian in P ublic Life Today
Chairperson:
Prof. Albert Fenech
POLITICAL AUGUSTINIANISM
The University Of Malta Lecture
GateWay Hall E
Tuesday
22nd November 2016
19.00hrs
R ediscovering Augustine's Saeculum
and the State of Contem porary
Augustinian Herm eneutics
Chairperson:
Prof. Joe Friggieri, UOM
THE 20th ANNUAL
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SAINT AUGUSTINE LECTURE - 2016
Michael J. S. Bruno STD,
is a Roman Catholic
Priest serving in the
diocese of Brooklyn. He
holds the Chair of the
Church History Dept and
is Professor of Theology
at St Joseph's Seminary,
graduated Bachelor of
Dunwoodie, NY. Fr Bruno
Arts (summa cum laude) from Stonehill College, Easton, MA; a Baccalaureate in
Sacred Theology (summa cum laude) from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome,
with a thesis on The Eschatological Nature of the Assumption of Mary: A Survey of 20th
Century Developments (May 2009). He also holds a Licentiate in Sacred Theology
(summa cum laude) from the Pontifical Lateran University, Vatican City, Italy, with a
thesis on The Influence of the Concept of History in Scholasticism and Its Contemporary
Impact (2011). In 2014 he obtained a Doctorate in Sacred Theology (summa cum
laude) from the Pontifical Lateran University, Vatican City, with a thesis on “Political
Augustinianism”: A Study of the Interpretations of Augustine’s Political Thought from
1900 to the Present, under the direction of Prof. Dr Robert Dodaro, OSA, Preside of the
Augustinianum, Rome. Fr Bruno has been teaching courses on the History of the
Catholic Church in the United States, Introduction to Church History, Introduction to
Theology, The Church in the Modern World (Trent to Vatican II), Holy Orders and
Ministry, and the Theology of the Eucharist. Besides a number of articles in major
American journals of theology and philosophy, Fr Bruno published his thesis under the
title of Political Augustinianism. Modern Interpretations on Augustine's Political Thought,
Fortress Press.
Lectio Augustini
Ea rthly Cities and the City of God
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Friday, 20th January 2017 (6.00 - 8.00pm)
Introductory lecture on The City of God
Revd Prof. Salvino Caruana OSA
Associate Professor, Faculty of Theology, UOM
Director Augustinian Institute.
Friday, 27th January 2017 (6.00 - 8.00pm)
The Greek polis
Prof. Martin R. Zammit
Dept. for Oriental Studies, Faculty of Arts, UOM.
Friday, 3rd February 2017 (6.00 - 8.00pm)
The City in the Christian Scriptures
Prof. Anthony Frendo
Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology & the Hebrew Bible, Dept of
Oriental Studies/Member of the Dept of Classics and Archaeology,
UOM.
Friday, 17th February 2017 (6.00 - 8.00pm)
The Formation of Two Cities (books 11-14)
Revd Pierre Desira OSA
Ass.Dir. Aug.Inst.
Friday, 24th February 2017 (6.00 - 8.00pm)
'To return to and ascend with the heart'
Augustine on the heart as the core essence of man
Prof. Dr Dr Anthony Dupont (KU Leuven)
Friday, 3rd March 2017 (6.00 - 8.00pm)
Augustine and Stephen, testimonies of faith:
Late antique reflections on Christian martyrdom as lesson for today?
Prof. Dr Dr Anthony Dupont (KU Leuven)
Friday, 10th March 2017 (6.00 - 8.00pm)
The theory of Church and State in the political pessimism of
Augustine's De Civitate Dei
Revd Dr Christopher Caruana OP
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Friday, 17th March 2017 (6.00 - 8.00pm)
Peace in The City of God (book 19)
Revd Prof. Salvino Caruana OSA
Associate Professor, Faculty of Theology, UOM
Director Augustinian Institute.
'To return to and ascend with the heart'
Augustine on the heart as the core essence of man
The metaphor of the heart plays a central role in Augustine’s account of his
conversion in the Confessions, which should be read as the autobiography of his
quest for God in the intimate centre of himself. In the Confessions, Augustine vividly
describes how God’s love "enflamed" his heart (see conf. 10, 4; 10, 38; 13, 10), that
God’s words ‘pierced’ it (conf. 9,3; 10,8). The concept of the human heart also plays
a central role in his thinking as such. He uses the word "cor" more than 8000 times
in his works. Augustine understands the heart as the holistic centre of the person, as
interiority in general. He sees the heart as the seat both of human thinking and
feeling. In this paper, Augustine’s spiritual interpretation of the heart as the source of
self-knowledge and knowledge of God is explored. Four interrelated contexts of
Augustine’s "spirituality of the heart" are discussed: the necessity of returning to the
heart, the appeal to rise up with the heart, the ideal of a society "one of heart", and
the invitation to pray with the heart.
Augustine and Stephen, testimonies of faith
Late antique reflections on Christian martyrdom as lesson for today?
Martyrdom is, after all, intertwined with the history of Christianity and its beginning,
namely Christ’s death on the cross. The theme of religious martyrdom leads to much
debate. Also, for the early Christians this was not just a simple matter or an obvious
choice. They thought very carefully and long about it. As in any religion or ideology,
there was also a tendency to fanaticism in Christianity. Precisely to avoid this
fundamentalism, Christian thinkers came after a thorough thought process to a very
specific interpretation of martyrdom. By going back to the experiences and
reflections of early Christians, it is easy to discover the unique character of the
Christian concept of martyrdom – in the past, present and in the future. Augustine of
Hippo has played a key role in the formulation of the Christian understanding of
martyrdom. By exploring Augustine’s discussion of this theme, especially in The City
of God and in his Sermons dedicated to the first Christian martyr, the deacon
Stephen, several aspects of the Christian meaning of martyrdom will unravel its
relevance for us Christians living in the world of today.
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It-Tlieta, 24 ta' Jannar 2017 fis6.30pm
Ftuħ Uffiċjali tal-inizjattiva ġdida fi ħdan
l-Istitut Agostinjan
THE CITY OF GOD SEMINAR
mill-Eminenza Tiegħu il-Kardinal
Gianfranco Ravasi
Membru tal-Kunsill Pontifiċju għallPromozzjoni ta' Evanġeliżżazzjoni
Ġdida u President tal-Kunsill Pontifiċju
għad-Djalogu Interreliġjuż.
Is-serata tkun taħt il-patroċinju tal-WRP
Ray Francalanza OSA SThD Pirjol
Provinċjal
Imexxi s-serat il-Prof. P. Salvinu
Caruana OSA
Fis-Sala tal-Iskola tasSorijiet Agostinjani fi Triq
Tereża Spinelli Gżira
In a December 2009 address to the Curia, Pope Benedict "called for an itinerant 'Courtyard of the
Gentiles'", an international forum which would foster dialogue between Christian believers and
agnostics or atheists. In his Discourse of Foundation to the Pontifical Council for Culture, on December
21, 2009, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI declared "Here I think naturally of the words which Jesus quoted
from the Prophet Isaiah, namely that the Temple must be a house of prayer for all the nations (see Is 56:
7; Mk 11:17). Jesus was thinking of the so-called 'Court of the Gentiles' which he cleared of extraneous
affairs so that it could be a free space for the Gentiles who wished to pray there... He was thinking of
people who know God, so to speak, only from afar; who are dissatisfied with their own gods, rites and
myths; who desire the Pure and the Great, even if God remains for them the 'unknown God'" (see Acts
17:23). Today, in addition to interreligious dialogue, there should be a dialogue with those to whom
religion is something foreign, to whom God is unknown and who nevertheless do not want to be left
merely Godless, but rather to draw near to him, albeit as the Unknown. The biblical Court of the Gentiles
was a large outer court in the ancient Temple of Jerusalem that was not reserved for the Jews, but
rather was open to any person independent of his culture or religion. Cardinal Ravasi developed the
Pope's vision of large, open discussions "between faith and reason, secular culture and the Church."
Thanks to which initiative, Cardinal Ravasi "wanted to reintroduce the ancient tradition of the 'disputed
questions' – as they were called then – while at that time they had to do with different opinions and
theses, in this case they will be between believers and nonbelievers." He added "I am trying to see to it
that this danger is avoided". He stated that "I want really fundamental questions to be asked – questions
of anthropology, then good and evil, life and afterlife, love, suffering, the meaning of evil – questions
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that are substantially at the basis of human existence." The leading intellectual questions to be
discussed and highlighted are always in the form of whether “one choose a ‘World without God?’ How
far can the human person go in the field of creation? Are there limits, and if so, what are they?"
Filosofija għal Kulħadd
In-Neoplatuniżmu u l-filosofija ta' Stu Wistin
Kors ta’ sentejn (2016-2018)
2016-2017 - Sena Akkademika 1
Il-Bidu u l-Għejjun tal-Filosofija Qadima u
dik tal-Kristjaneżmu Bikri
“Matul il-kors ordinarju ta’ l-istudju wasalt fil-ktieb ta’ wieħed awtur
jismu Ċiċerun, li kważi kulħadd jistagħġeb bih għall-qawwa ta’ lsienu
għad li mhux kulħadd jaqbel mal-fehma tiegħu. F’dan il-ktieb jismu
“Ortensju”, huwa jħeġġiġna għall-istudju tal-filosofija. Il-ktieb ġieb
bidla sħiħa fija...bidla fit-talb li kont nagħmillek, Mulej, bidla filwegħdiet u x-xewqat tiegħi”
(S. Wistin, l-Istqarrijiet 3,4,7).
L-ewwel semestru tal-ewwel sena
(Ottubru 2016 – Diċembru 2016)
Lezzjoni 1
il-}amis 13 t’Ottubru 2016 (6.00–8.00pm)
Xi filosfi u xejriet filosofiċi tal-Qedem pagan (1)
Kelliem Dr Max Cassar PhD
Lezzjoni 2
il-Ħamis 20 t’Ottubru 2016 (6.00–8.00pm)
Xi filosfi u xejriet filosofiċi tal-Qedem pagan (2)
Kelliem Dr Max Cassar PhD
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Lezzjoni 3
il-Ħamis 27 t’Ottubru 2016 (6.00–8.00pm)
Xi filosfi u xejriet filosofiċi tal-Qedem pagan (3)
Kelliem Dr Max Cassar PhD
Lezzjoni 4
il-}amis 3 ta’ Novembru 2016 (6.00–8.00pm)
Il-Platuniżmu (4)
Kelliem Dr Max Cassar PhD
Lezzjoni 5
il-}amis 10 ta' Novembru 2016 (6.00-8.00pm)
Il-Platuniżmu (5)
Kelliem Dr Max Cassar PhD
Lezzjoni 6
il-Ħamis 17 ta' Novembru 2016 (6.00– 8.00pm)
Eastern Orthodox Monasticism. Philosophical trends
Kelliem Prof Dr Andreas Andreopoulos
Reader in Orthodox Christianity
Dept. of Theology & Religious Studies
University of Winchester, Hampshire UK
Lezzjoni 7
il-}amis 24 ta' Novembru 2016 (6.00-8.00pm)
In-Neoplatuniżmu (6)
Kelliem Dr Max Cassar PhD
Lezzjoni 8
il-}amis 1 ta' Diċembru 2016 (6.00-8.00pm)
In-Neoplatuniżmu (7)
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Kelliem Dr Max Cassar PhD
It-tieni semestru tal-ewwel sena
(Jannar 2017 – Marzu 2017)
Lezzjoni 1
il-}amis 19 ta' Jannar 2017 (6.00-8.00pm)
Il-filosofija Nisranija fil-Lvant Nisrani (sekli 1 u 2)
Prof. Salvinu Caruana OSA
Lezzjoni 2
il-}amis 2 ta' Frar 2017 (6.00-8.00pm)
Il-filosofija Nisranija fil-Punent Nisrani (sekli 3 u 4)
Prof. Salvinu Caruana OSA
Lezzjoni 3
il-}amis 9 ta' Frar 2017 (6.00-8.00pm)
Il-filosofija Nisranija fil-Punent Nisrani (seklu 5) (1)
Prof. Salvinu Caruana OSA
Lezzjoni 4
il-}amis 16 ta' Frar 2017 (6.00-8.00pm)
Il-filosofija Nisranija fil-Punent Nisrani (seklu 5) (2)
Prof. Salvinu Caruana OSA
Lezzjoni 5
il-}amis 23 ta' Frar 2017 (6.00-8.00pm)
Il-filosofija tad-dritt (1)
Onor. Imħallef Dott. Silvio Meli
Lezzjoni 6
il-}amis 2 ta' Marzu 2017 (6.00-8.00pm)
Augustine and Stephen, testimonies of faith:
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Late antique reflections on Christian martyrdom as lesson for today?
Prof. Dr Dr Anthony Dupont (KU Leuven)
Lezzjoni 7
il-}amis 9 ta' Marzu 2017 (6.00-8.00pm)
Il-filosofija tad-dritt (2)
Onor. Imħallef Dott. Silvio Meli
"Only God is the absolute owner of all things and thus can say with full right: gold and silver
are mine" (Sermon 50,2). "God gives this to the human person for his correct use (S. 21,10).
"For that reason, the rich do not give of their very own possessions when they give something,
but of that which God has given to them to administer, and thus they have the right to possess
something only insofar as they administer it justly (S. 50,2; and S. 50,4). "That which is
superfluous to you is necessary to another (S. 39,6); "that which is superfluous to you is
necessary to the poor" (S. 61,12); "you possess the belongings of another when you hold on to
that which is more than you need" (S. on Ps 147,12); "it is a type of robbery not to give to one
in need what you have left over" (S. 206,2)."Christ is at once rich and poor: as God, rich; as a
human person, poor. Truly, that Man rose to heaven already rich, and now sits at the right
hand of the Father, but here, among us, he still suffers hunger, thirst and nakedness": "here he
is poor and is in the poor" (S. 123,4). "When human persons are in want, it is Christ who is in
want" (S. 236,3). "Perhaps you tell yourself: How blessed are those who merited to receive
Christ! O if only I had been there! O if only I had been one of the two disciples he met on the
road to Emmaus! Go out on the road. Christ the stranger is not absent. Do you think that you
are not permitted to welcome Christ? How can this be? you ask. Once having risen from the
dead,...Christ ascended into heaven, did He not?...and will He not come again until the end of
time to judge the living and the dead?...When He bestows his kingdom, will His words then
pertain to you: "What you did to one of the least of mine, you did it to me'? He who is rich is in
need until the end of time. He is truly in need, not in His Head, but in His members. Where is He
in need? He suffered in His members when He said: 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me'?"
(S. 239,6,7, and S. 25,8,8). Christ is present in the poor; when we give to the poor, it is Christ's
hand which accepts (S. 86,3,3).
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Live-In ...
Meta: Is-Sibt, 29 t'April, il-}add, 30 t'April, u tTnejn, l-1 ta' Mejju 2017
Fejn: La Salle Retreat Centre S. Maria
Estate, il-Mellieħa
Titlifx dan iċ-ċans ewlieni ta' 3 ijiem li matulhom
ssir taf kif taqra, tifhem u tixtarr dan il-ktieb ta'
Stu Wistin dwar kif tgħallem it-Twemmin Nisrani
(de doctrina christiana). Huwa meqjus bħala
wieħed mill-kotba ewlenin ta' Stu Wistin.
Hu ktieb mitqlu deheb għall-katekisti, għallgħalliema tad-dutrina Nisranija, u l-iktar imma
għall-dawk li qegħdin iħejju ruħħom għallministeru Saċerdotali sabiex jitgħallmu rregolamenti tal-predikazzjoni Nisranija
tabilħaqq.
Dan kollu nagħmluh f'atmosfera ta' ħbiberija
Nisranija kif fehemha Stu Wistin, bis-saħħa ta'
talb, qsim ta' esperjenzi, u diskussjonijiet.
Minbarra fotokopja tat-test ta' S.Wistin bl-Ingliż,
tingħata ukoll noti b'tagħrif siewi u ta' għajnuna.
Dwar ħlas u rqaqat oħrajn, jingħata iktar tagħrif 'il
quddiem...
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Il-Ġimgħa, 31 ta’ Marzu 2017 fis-6.30pm
Quddiesa Konċelebrata ta’ Radd il-Ħajr
Tqassim ta’ Ċertifikat ta’ Attendenza
lil partiċipanti filKors Għal Kulħadd
u l-Lectio Augustini
Iqassam iċ-ċertifikati
Professur Dott. Joseph Cacciottolo
M.D.(Melit.),D.Sc.(Kuopio),M.R.C.S.(Eng.),F.R.C.P.(Lond.)
F.R.C.P.(Edin.),F.C.C.P.
Pro-Rettur tal-Università ta' Malta
fil-Knisja ta' Santa Kjara tas-Salib
Klarissi - Triq Reġjunali, S.Ġiljan
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