As Cardinal Mercier said : "When prudence is everywhere, courage is nowhere."                                                                                  From Cardinal Sarah : "In order to avoid hearing God's music, we have chosen to use all the devices of this world. But heaven's instruments will not stop playing just because some people are deaf."                                                                                              Saint John-Paul II wrote: "The fact that one can die for the faith shows that other demands of the faith can also be met."                                                 Cardinal Müller says, “For the real danger to today’s humanity is the greenhouse gases of sin and the global warming of unbelief and the decay of morality when no one knows and teaches the difference between good and evil.”                                                  St Catherine of Siena said, “We've had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues - I see the world is rotten because of silence.”                                                  Chesterton said, “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”                                                Brethren, Wake up!

SATURDAY 20th - DEDICATION OF OUR MOTHER CHURCH

Today is the Feast of the Dedication of the Conventual Church of Saint John the Baptist in Valetta, built as the principal church of the Order by Grand Master Jean de la Cassière, and now known as St John's Co-Cathedral, the seat of the Archbishop of Malta.
Caravaggio's glorious painting of the beheading of St John the Baptist in the Knight's Oratory.

Further information may be gained from the Cathedral's website, which contains much excellent historical information.   This page allows you to look at detailed photographs of the magnificent inlaid tombs in the pavement of the nave.
The nave showing the pavement and High Altar

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.
Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2010
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