Missio’s Meeting With Missionary Priests And Nuns

On Saturday 17th June, Missio organised a meeting for all foreign missionary priests and nuns residing in Malta in the neoclassic Saint Ursula Monastery in Valletta. After the introductory talk by the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Savio Hon Tai‑Fai, Missio’s director Father Victor Agius, addressed the missionary priests and nuns, emphasising the missionary message of Pope Francis which was delivered to the 120 Missio directors in the Pontifical Mission Societies’ General Assembly in Rome in June 2023. In this assembly Pope Francis described the charism of Missio which is to instil the missionary spirit in the hearts of all the faithful, thus continuing the work of Jesus to bring God’s infinite love and mercy to all, and to disseminate the needs of the Church in mission lands to all people of good will for an opportunity to pray and support in projects. The meeting with missionaries from Africa and Asia in the convent, was part of Missio’s mission for evangelisation and to take care of new and young churches from where the missionaries come from.

The abbess, Sister Christine Borg, also gave a heart‑warming welcome and introductory talk to Missio and to the missionaries. Sister Christine went through the history of their convent which spans back from the times of the Sovereign Military Hospitalier Order of Saint John in Malta in the 16th century. The monastery of Saint Ursula was founded by Grand Master de Loubenx Verdalle in 1582 in Vittoriosa, and then moved to Valletta in 1595. When the Order of Saint John was expelled from Malta in 1798 the cloistered nuns stayed on the island and the monastery was then transferred under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Malta. Even if officially the monastery does not belong to the Order of Saint John, the cloistered nuns still feel linked to the order for historical reasons with the Grand Master, the Knights and Dames, and their historic active life as part of the order during its stay in Malta in the 16th century. In fact, the 9 cloistered nuns, until today, wear a black dress with white touches and a white enamelled Maltese Cross on their habit. They also wear the embroidered stole of profession of the Sovereign Order’s Knights of Justice which is given to them during the ceremony of their profession of vows.

After explaining the history of the monastery, Sister Christine together with other nuns gave a tour around the monastery to the missionaries and to Missio team, explaining the various historical items, such as paintings, embroidery, the skull of the founder of the order, the Blessed Gerard and the different rooms, such as the prayer room with the little iron barred window from where the nuns followed mass; which give a glimpse of the life of the cloistered nuns in the past. After the tour, the nuns invited the group for fellowship and a lunch inside the monastery’s dining room. Next meeting will be held in three months’ time, during September.

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GRAZZI MILL‑ QALB

Dtwieled nhar is‑7 ta’ Novembru 2003 f’familja fqira. Meta kellu

12‑il sena, tilef lil missieru wara marda terminali tal‑kanċer. Sanil jgħix flimkien m’ommu Sunitha, iż‑żewġ ħutu bniet, ħuh,