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Tuesday, 16 June 2026

We can fix the world

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When TV was in its infancy, a technician was working on a transmitter on top of the Empire State Building. When he had finished and descende...
Monday, 15 June 2026

The nuns and the lambs

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A nun feeds a lamb from a bottle, just like a baby Fo r months, two newborn lambs become part of the daily rhythm of life inside a Benedicti...
Sunday, 14 June 2026

Thank you Felipe

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Bishops wave at Pope Leo as he takes off in the King's jet P ope Leo XIV finished his seven-day trip to Spain in extremely atypical fash...
Saturday, 13 June 2026

The Heart of Mary

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Following the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, today we celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Similar to yesterday's f...
Friday, 12 June 2026

Heart full of Love

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The feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus gained much popularity after the visions that St Margaret Mary Alacoque had from Jesus around the y...
Thursday, 11 June 2026

Gaudi’s Barcelona

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Yesterday Barcelona belonged to Antoni Gaudi as his image shined and sparkled over the dark sky after the devout and historic Mass celebrate...
Wednesday, 10 June 2026

Gaudi masterpiece

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The Cathedral - Outside and Inside Today Pope Leo will be celebrating Mass at the Sagrada Familia and blessing it in the process after the f...
Tuesday, 9 June 2026

Time for conversion

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The kiss of Judas Iscariot led to Calvary and our salvation. The denial of Peter led to his sincere conversion and a profound transformation...
Monday, 8 June 2026

The Pope in Madrid

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Pope Leo leading the Corpus Christi procession Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called on Spain to renew its historic Eucharistic faith, warning tha...
Sunday, 7 June 2026

Corpus Christi

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Eucharist from St Elizabeth hospital chapel, Baker City, OR Without any doubt, the greatest gift Jesus could have left us was in the Euchari...
Saturday, 6 June 2026

Handbell recital

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I share with you a selection from an incredible concert that was held in my Cathedral parish of St Francis de Sales in Baker City, Oregon in...
Friday, 5 June 2026

Corpus Christi in Toledo

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Click and enlarge Enjoy today a few clips from the traditional Corpus Christi procession held every year on the Thursday following the feast...
Thursday, 4 June 2026

From Cosmetics to Priesthood

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Scott Borba, co-founder of E.l.f. Beauty, Inc, a well-known Cosmetics company in the USA, spent 20 years working in this industry relating t...
Wednesday, 3 June 2026

St. Charles Lwanga and companions

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We commemorate today the Ugandan martyrs, even though St Charles is the one often mentioned. One of 22 Ugandan martyrs, Charles Lwanga is th...
Tuesday, 2 June 2026

Sagrada Familia

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On June 9, as part of his apostolic journey to Spain, Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to visit Barcelona. There, he will inaugurate the Tower of J...
Monday, 1 June 2026

Andrea Mifsud, cyclist

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A Maltese cyclist, Andrea Mifsud just finished 69th out of 184 cyclists in the Giro d’Italia which ended yesterday. He was part of the Polti...
Sunday, 31 May 2026

Holy Trinity

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On this feast of the Holy Trinity, may I suggest a practical prayer that we can all do every night so that the Holy Trinity may become an im...
Saturday, 30 May 2026

Pope Leo’s prayer life

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Pope Leo with his secretary Fr Edgard Rimaycuna ‘ Pope Leo XIV goes through his day centered on prayer, silence, and seeking God amid his re...
Friday, 29 May 2026

Pope St Paul VI

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The banner used at his canonization on October  14, 2018 The church honors today one of the recently-canonized saints, Pope Paul VI. Born as...
Thursday, 28 May 2026

Christ the Eternal High Priest

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The Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest, is a Roman Catholic liturgical celebration observed annually on the first Thurs...
Wednesday, 27 May 2026

Twins top two in class

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Adriana and Alyssa Lyons Twins Adriana and Alyssa Lyons graduated together from the Academy of the Holy Names, a prestigious Catholic school...
Tuesday, 26 May 2026

St Philip Neri

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If one had to choose one saint who showed the humorous side of holiness that would be St. Philip Neri. Born in 1515 in Florence, he showed t...
Monday, 25 May 2026

Mary, Mother of the church

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I’ve said it many times that the Blessed Mother has more feasts than Jesus himself, and yet another celebration was introduced in 2018 by P...
Sunday, 24 May 2026

Pentecost

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Prayer for the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit:   Christ Jesus, before ascending into heaven, You promised to send the Holy Spirit to Your ap...
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Fr. Julian Cassar
Born in St Julian's Malta on August 27, 1952, I grew up within a loving family with two parents John and Mary Cassar, both deceased, and two older sisters Josephine (deceased) and Rosemarie (husband Carmelo Garzia, deceased,) and two younger brothers, Paul, married to Kay (both deceased), and Marcel, married to Maria with two sons, Julian Jr, married to Caroline with baby Emilia, and Peter, married to Anastasia. I was ordained a priest on June 19, 1977 and served for 4 years in my hometown St Julian's. In 1981, I started my pastoral ministry in New York, both on Long Island (New Hyde Park, Rocky Point and Hicksville) and upstate New York (Pleasant Valley). In 2003, I moved to the west coast serving in the Diocese of Baker in John Day, Baker City and Bend. Presently I am living while serving as chaplain at Hilltop Gardens, a retirement community in Naxxar, Malta. After writing from the USA for 30 years in a Maltese Catholic newspaper 'Lehen is-Sewwa,' in October 2016 I started again as a regular contributor profiling some well-known and lesser known people every two weeks, so far sharing over 280 profiles
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