Easter traditions in Malta include Lent, Holy Week, and celebrating Easter Sunday. Lent is a 40 day period of sacrifice leading up to Easter. Holy Week includes Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday commemorating the Last Supper, Good Friday marking Jesus' crucifixion, and Holy Saturday. On Easter Sunday, Maltese celebrate Jesus' resurrection with special foods like lamb, figolli, and kwarezimal sweets. Children enjoy collecting eggs and other Easter treats.
“I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.” (Song of Solomon 2:1)
In the days of great faith during the Middle Ages, the Christian faithful honored the Blessed Virgin Mary in many ways, especially as the mother of nature and all living things. Closely connected with what grows from the earth as their livelihood, they saw Mary's attributes in the plants and flowers of their fields and gardens and named many of them after her - thousands of them. Legends about the flowers developed as people sought to connect them with Mary's virtues or events from her life. People also planted "Mary Gardens" and filled them with these plants named for Our Lady. These gardens were designed to be places of beauty, prayer, and contemplation that raises the heart and mind to heaven.
Featured in this slideshow are just 12 among the many plants named for the Blessed Mother.
You can find more information on Mary Gardens here: http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/resources/flowers.html and here: https://fisheaters.com/marygardens.html. You can find a great selection of religious garden gifts to plant your own MaryGarden at The Catholic Company here: http://www.catholiccompany.com/catholic-garden-c2794/
What a wonderful tradition the Catholic Church has from its history, liturgy and faith. Praise be to you God the Holy Spirit for your continued guidance and inspiration to the Holy Catholic Church. :-)
“I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.” (Song of Solomon 2:1)
In the days of great faith during the Middle Ages, the Christian faithful honored the Blessed Virgin Mary in many ways, especially as the mother of nature and all living things. Closely connected with what grows from the earth as their livelihood, they saw Mary's attributes in the plants and flowers of their fields and gardens and named many of them after her - thousands of them. Legends about the flowers developed as people sought to connect them with Mary's virtues or events from her life. People also planted "Mary Gardens" and filled them with these plants named for Our Lady. These gardens were designed to be places of beauty, prayer, and contemplation that raises the heart and mind to heaven.
Featured in this slideshow are just 12 among the many plants named for the Blessed Mother.
You can find more information on Mary Gardens here: http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/resources/flowers.html and here: https://fisheaters.com/marygardens.html. You can find a great selection of religious garden gifts to plant your own MaryGarden at The Catholic Company here: http://www.catholiccompany.com/catholic-garden-c2794/
What a wonderful tradition the Catholic Church has from its history, liturgy and faith. Praise be to you God the Holy Spirit for your continued guidance and inspiration to the Holy Catholic Church. :-)
Palm Sunday sermon - 4 Essentials to worshiping God. Understand that God deserves to be worshiped. We were created to worship. We must worship Jesus as both Savior and Lord. We must worship God with our whole lives.
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Palm Sunday was a home-run for Jesus...but not the kind the cheering crowds were thinking about. Palm Sunday was the unveiling, the apocalypse of the real Jesus who now was about to finish what His Father started when He sent Him to earth...for us.
Click here to hear the audio of this message: http://www.john10-10.org/john10-10/Sermon_Audios/Entries/2015/3/29_The_First_Apocalypse_of_Jesus__Palm_Sunday.html
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In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
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The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
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The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
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2. Lent Lent is the time of sacrifice that leads us to Easter and it lasts for 40 days. Last Supper is celebrated before Good Friday. The cross is the symbol of Lent. After Lent we celebrate Easter. Maya Galea
3. Our lady of Sorrows Our lady of sorrows is also our mother. She is also the mother of God. Our lady of Sorrows also saw Jesus die on the cross. Jesus died on the cross to save us. In every town and village a procession is held. Kieron Spiteri
4. Palm Sunday The Sunday before Easter is known as Palm Sunday. It celebrates Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. Crowds of people waved with palm branches to welcome him. Owen Cassar
5. Liam Hudson Holy Thursday Holy Thursday was Jesus’ last supper. After supper Jesus washed the disciples’ feet. He, then went to pray in the Olive Garden. It was there where he was arrested.
6. Good Friday Jesus was sentenced to death. He was crucified on the cross. Under the cross there was his Mother. Many Maltese people go to church to pray on this day. Yan Theuma
7. Good Friday Procession Good Friday is the day that Jesus died for us. Every year I visit a lot of churches with my family and go the Good Friday Procession. I love Jesus very much. Zachary Zammit
8. Holy Saturday is the day when Jesus’ body lay in the tomb. No masses are held until the Easter vigil at night. The Easter vigil is celebrated by the use of the wax candle. Holy Saturday is a time of joy because of the beautiful liturgy of the vigil. Liam Bugeja Douglas Holy Saturday
9. Easter Sunday Easter is a big feast. Jesus rose from death on this day. We celebrate Easter Sunday two days after Jesus died for us. Bernice Borg
10. Celebrating Easter Sunday In some villages a procession of the risen lord is held which is a very colourful one. The kids enjoy carrying the figolla with them. There are moments in this procession when the statue of the risen Christ is given a really good run by the bearers. Emerson Camilleri
11. About Easter .... Luke Duddy My mum gives me an Easter egg. Everyone likes Easter. On Easter Sunday I hear the church bells. Easter is coming in April this year.
12. More about Easter .... I like to open the Easter eggs to see what is the surprise. At Easter I like to hear the church bells. My mum likes to do Easter cakes. In Malta lots of people have the tradition of putting up a flag on their roof. Kylie Baldacchino
14. Hot Cross Buns The Hot Cross bun is a type of sweet. It is made with currants or raisins. It has a cross marked on top. Ryan Farrugia
15. Kwareżimal In Easter we celebrate a special feast. In this feast we have some special sweets. Some of these are eggs, figolli and kware żimal. I prefer kwareżimal. The kwareżimal is brown and it has peanuts on top. Kyle Cassar
16. Karamelli tal-Ħarrub These type of sweets are made from carob and honey. These are traditionally Maltese sweets. These are very popular during lent and Easter. Matthias Falzon
17. Roast Lamb On Easter Sunday we eat roast lamb for lunch. My grandma puts rosemary on the roast lamb before she cooks it. The rosemary makes the roast lamb taste very good. I look forward to Easter because I eat roast lamb. Maya Rachel Borg
18. Figolli I like the figolla very much. The figolla is filled with marzipan. It can be covered with chocolate or white icing. They can be made in different shapes. We eat the figolla on Easter Sunday. Charnice Baker
19. Easter Eggs The Easter eggs are big. I like to eat Easter Eggs. I like chocolate Easter eggs. My mother bought me three Easter Eggs. I found some sweets in the Easter egg. Andy Agius
21. Some of the images were taken from the following sites: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Easter-Eggs.jpg http://www.geocities.com/gimghakbira01/DSCN2143.jpg http://www.timesofmalta.com/lifestyle/view/20080322/feature/spring-an-easter-lamb-surprise http://www.di-ve.com/?ID=71&Action=1&NewsId=58765 http://gozodiocese.org/wp-content/biguploads/tridu_paskwali_2.ppt . http://www.radjuprekursur.com/
