Dun Giljan's Blog

What if...? God couldn't take the time to bless us today because we could not take the time to thank Him yesterday... What if...? God...

Seminarians in the chapel of Bigard Seminary, Nigeria. One of the most successful seminaries in the world is in Enugu, Nigeria. The Bigard M...

NASA’s X-59 - dubbed "Son of Concorde" is having final safety checks before making a historic maiden flight.  The futuristic jet i...

The liturgical feast of Our Lady of Sorrows is celebrated a day after the feast of the Cross, and even though we are far from the Lenten sea...

St Helena excavating the Cross of Jesus at Golgotha Today the church commemorates the day when St Helena found the cross on which Jesus was ...

A Sierra Leone stamp honoring Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) was terrified of dogs. Even a barking dog from a distance would scare ...

Monogram of the name of Mary It’s hard to imagine that the Blessed Mother has many more feasts than Jesus himself in the Liturgical calendar...

This date will always remain as the biggest blemish in American history. As I remember watching those Twin Towers implode and being reduced ...

Click on photo to enlarge. We’re approaching again another sad anniversary of September 11, 2001, an event which I lived through with some f...

This came as a big surprise to me. One of the most popular snacks in Malta is called T wistees , which is now widely exported to many coun...

Maria Bambina at Naxxar parish, Malta Today we celebrate the feast of the birthday of the Blessed Mother. She was conceived in St Anne’s wom...

Heaven is happier today with the addition of two beloved saints, St. Carlo Acutis and St. Pier Giorgio Frassati. They were both Italian yout...

There was a tradition in Paris whereby sweethearts inscribe their names or initials on a padlock, attach it to a public structure, usually o...

Saint Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa, 1910-1997) whose liturgical feast we celebrate today, said this prayer each day. The prayer was wri...

                Expecting and accepting are two sides of life....where expecting ends in tears, while accepting makes you cheer. So learn to...

The Monks of St Peter's Abbey, Solesmes, France St. Gregory, born at Rome about the year 540, was the son of Gordianus, a wealthy senato...

Someone asked me through this blog what kind of car I had to travel the hundreds of miles to my mission churches week after week. Actually w...

A wealthy woman, the wife of a renowned scientist bought a top-of-the-line food mixer, and was trying to put it together when she got home. ...

A truck driver was having his lunch at a truck stop, after driving for a few hundred miles. Three Hell’s Angels motorcyclists arrive at the ...

Flashback from 2003 Journals: It felt like the Indianapolis 500 : With Bishop Robert Vasa driving, even with my seat-belts securely fastene...

While more than a million young people eagerly awaited Pope Leo XIV’s arrival at Tor Vergata, close to Rome, an unexpected sign appeared i...

The Catholic school at Annunciation parish in Minneapolis. I place myself instead of that priest celebrating Mass surrounded by happy childr...

Live Mass on Malta TV in 2022 from my chapel Celebrating another milestone year, I look back at some photos that characterized my life from ...

This is the week when my childhood parish church in St. Julian’s will be dressed up in its finest outfit, thanks to some young enthusiasts w...

Venerable Bruno Lanteri Venerable Bruno Lanteri was a priest from Turin, Italy, in the early 18th century, during a time of great stress a...