Topics : God

World Youth Day – Gone But With Us Still!

Both Filip and Elizabeth attended the last World Youth Day that took place in Lisbon last year! Filip, being polish, and Elizabeth herself Italian, express the long-lasting effect that such an experience left on them. More than 6 months have passed since Lisbon 2023, but the spirit that such a journey of pilgriming together created […]Read More

Bloom Where You Are Planted! The Experience of growing in a Community of Faith – Marylene Savona Ventura

In this article, Marylene Savona-Ventura explores her journey of Faith – particularly her journey as a member of ‘Christ our Neighbour Group’. Amongst other things, she speaks about the importance of youths as being ‘revolutionary’, about the role of women in the Church, and also about the fundamental need for ‘searching’ in human life. Initially […]Read More

In Search of Beauty | A Poem by Jacob Fiott

It’s not easy to see beauty in a “crucified world”. Is there really beauty around us: despite the immanent strife, pain, and death we all face? And if there is, how can we be more open to it? How can we let it guide us? Jacob Fiott explores all this (and more) in his recently […]Read More

“The Future Has Many Faces” – A Reflection

What could the future possibly hold? In this article, Fr Gilbert Scicluna takes the task of exploring one of the many iconic “slogans” that we see on billboards (i.e. “the future has many faces). What are the implications that this phrase carries or is “intended” to carry? More pressingly, what effect does (and perhaps should) […]Read More

Why Does Modern Architecture Look So Bad?

By making recourse to John Ruskin’s book The Seven Lamps of Architecture, in this article, Alisa Arturovna Iordan reflects upon the state of architecture today. Why does modern architecture look so bad? (does it?), and if so, what can we all learn from Ruskin’s commentary?   I often wonder where we as human beings went […]Read More

Poetry | ‘Myself, Divided’ by Liam Agius

Our search for God takes on many forms! In this week’s post, the aspiring poet Liam Agius expresses his search in a poem titled, “Myself, Divided”. In a quasi-Augustinian style, the poem explores the relationship between the unity and the multiplicity of our “self”; in a way that always keeps the door open for the […]Read More

What Does it Mean to Have a Relationship with God?

In this article, Fr Gilbert Scicluna explores what it means for a person to have a relationship with God by making particular recourse to the epochal film, Les Misérables.  I have this habit or vice —call it what you like—of spending days listening to the same song over and over again. Generally, it’s because the […]Read More

A Letter To You, This Christmas!

This is a heartfelt invitation, to behold, accept, and celebrate the most authentic gift that you are, this Christmas Day. There’s a space in the beauty of Creation that only you can fill. There’s a difference in the world that only you can make. There’s a particular calling that can only be answered through your […]Read More