Generous help for difficult mission

I would like to thank the Mission Fund and all the Maltese benefactors who generously help us in our mission.

Here in Jerusalem we are in a multicultural, national, religious social gathering of people. The pandemic has touched every family and people didn’t know where to turn to for help.

The year 2020 has been exceptionally hard and difficult here in the Holy Land from all points of view.

It has been marked by pain and fatigue, insecurity and instability for all. We had to live not knowing what we would be allowed to do the next day. On top of that,  we were continually threatened with the coronavirus.

Many people lost their jobs. The Christian Palestinians and the foreign workers were badly hit. The repeated lockdown of schools, shops, etc. had its effect on everybody, psychologically, morally, socially and physically, making life unbearable all through 2020.

Caring for the sick, sharing our food with the hungry, uplifting discouraged parents who lost their job and some dear ones… Such has been our pastoral ministry during this pandemic.

For Christmas, we made hampers of foodstuffs and donations to some families,  especially the elderly and those with children. The donation from the Mission Fund is to pay school fees, even though most of the time the children were studying from home, paying accumulating bills of electricity, water, gas, etc.

Now that the vaccine has arrived, we hope and pray that, in a few months’ time, life can return to relative normality.

The Mission Fund’s donation has somehow brightened the lives of these poor people. The few Maltese missionaries still in the Holy Land are doing their best to keep our missionary activities going. And it is all thanks to your generosity.

Therefore, I kindly ask the Maltese people for donations, which can be made online or by direct bank transfer to a number of bank accounts. More information may be accessed from the website www.missionfund.org.mt.

I assure readers as well as the deceased benefactors of our prayers.

Sr Rose Theresa Sant NDS, Congregation of Our Lady of Sion – Jerusalem

Pride is taboo for Bernard Grech

Opposition leader Bernard Grech

Opposition leader Bernard Grech, the man who used to say that he “was from Greece because he was ashamed to call himself Maltese” whenever he spoke to foreigners, has again confirmed that he is still ashamed of our country.

Just days ago, Grech publicly stated that “saying that one is proud of our country is empty rhetoric”.

Grech should realise that when the prime minister often says that he is proud of our country  he also means that he is proud of the Maltese people. Totally different from Grech who is not only “ashamed to call himself Maltese” but is also not willing to say that he is proud of our country and the Maltese people.

How, then, can this man ever expect the vast majority of the Maltese people to trust the administration of our country into the hands of someone like him  who has also admitted to have failed to pay his VAT and income tax dues for quite a good number of years? And, yet, when the latest public opinion survey by MaltaToday showed a five per cent increase in his trust rating, although still languishing far behind Abela’s performance, he interpreted that as proof that “the people want honest politicians”.

Eddy Privitera – Mosta

Hapless PM

So as Britain, an island nation, shuts its borders to isolate against COVID, what does the clown of Castille do? Encourage the Maltese to invade Gozo at New Year and for a non-existent carnival.

Where is the Minister for Gozo who should be saying no? Probably prancing round the woods in Manikata dressed in camp camouflage pretending to be a ‘hunter’.

Pathetic doesn’t cover it...

Kevin Hodkin – Xagħra

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