A music-literatary evening will be held on 25 March at 1930hrs in the Parish Church of Ħal-Għaxaq. The 4th System Clarinet Quartet will be performing.

This event has been organised on the occasion of the inauguration of the wooden statue carved by Kav. Alfred Camilleri Cauchi.

The public is cordially welcome to attend.

The Parish Church of Qrendi has for the past ten years been organising repository altars in several of its restored chapels to serve as an intimate environment  for prayer during Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. For this year it is inviting all those who wish to experience moments of spiritual intimacy to visit the Chapels on the wayside of the rural surroundings of Qrendi. The Chapels opened for the occasion are those dedicated to St Catherine, Our Saviour, Sant Anne, St Matthew at tal-Maqluba and the Parish Church. For this year also, another altar will be installed at the Helen Keller School; situated just behind the Parish Church of the same village. The Helen Keller School was established in 1992 and caters for students with visual and hearing impairments. The school provides quality education sevices for children who have sensory and/or multiple disabilities in order to help them fulfill their potential and live an independent life within the community.

As this year is the European year for combating poverty and social exclusion, the school's administration felt it timely to organise an altar of reposition on its campus to raise particular awareness on the need of social inclusion of all children and adults with disability and to lend moral support to their families who are suffering in silence.

Both organised and private visits start after the Maundy Thursday Eucharist celebration until 2200hrs when an hour of Eucharistic adoration organised by the youth of Qrendi (ZAK) will take place at the St. Matthew Chapel at tal-Maqluba. On Good Friday the visits resume at 0800hrs until noon.

It is a fact that our times are frenetic and does not spare us a moment to stop and reflect on what is most essential for true living. We are often invited to experience what is most essential and change our old habits with a fresh start, however for some reason or other we somehow stagger to take the first step forward. Holy Week is the ideal time to stop, reflect and become aware of the great mystery of suffering in our lives. God became man so that he could share from this suffering in the most radical of forms. The experience of the golgota here becomes the language of both God and Man in an interplay of common experience labelled with love. Love is the ultimate word said on the cross and it should be so for all of us until the very end.  

God so loved the world that he sent his only son, that whoever believes in Him may have eternal life. (John 3:16).

For two days in the year the village of Qrendi invites you to walk along its community of faith towards the cross - the sign of faith and of distress, of comfort and contradiction, of death and life.

Click here for the cultural calendar available on the website of Malta Council for Culture and the Arts.