https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32279 2026-04-15T03:56:21Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32457 Title: Seven pastoral principles for a hospital chaplain Abstract: Hospital chaplaincy is both a challenging and an exciting experience of ministry. In this paper I shall be presenting and explaining seven pastoral principles which my pastoral experience helped me understand formulate, and integrate to consolidate my pastoral identity as a hospital chaplain. I shall support my explanation of these principles with pastoral encounters I had both locally and abroad. In referring to specific pastoral encounters, I have changed the patients and their family names so as to maintain their confidentiality. 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32342 Title: A historical sketch of the Catholic tradition of spiritual direction by means of letters : a representative selection Abstract: Throughout the years many Christians while looking at their Christian lives as the way in which they were following Jesus Christ (the "sequela Christi"), understood that this was only possible because of the help of the Holy Spirit within them. They let him be active within them by cooperating with his grace in many ways. One of the most prominent and important among these ways was and still is, spiritual direction. Here, I shall trace spiritual direction by means of letters in the Catholic Tradition. I can say from the outset that this way of imparting spiritual direction was widely spread throughout all the years, throughout all the times of the history of the Catholic Church. Here, I intend to present just a bird's eye view ofthe most prominent people of the Catholic Church who imparted spiritual direction by the means of letters. 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32340 Title: Melita Theologica : volume 58 : issue 2 Abstract: 1/ATTARD, M. - Seven Pastoral Principles for a Hospital Chaplain -- 2/SWETNAM, J. - Liturgical Approach to Scripture and Tradition -- 3/BONELLO, K. - A Historical Sketch of the Catholic Tradition of Spiritual Directions by Means of Letters - A Representative Selection -- 4/ABELA, A. - Saydon Translation Studies 1: Ruth 1,1 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32334 Title: Saydon translation studies, 1 : Ruth 1,1 Abstract: In this series of studies we shall concentrate on Mgr Prof Peter Paul Saydon' s efforts at translating the text of the Hebrew Bible as found in the Standard Edition of the time, and especially the text of the Book of Ruth which Saydon finished translating on the 7th of April 1931 and published for the first time in 1932. Each study in this series will include an in depth reading of the Hebrew text, a redactional history of Saydon's translation an analysis of Saydon's rendering of the Hebrew text, and the insertion of Saydon's text within the Bible Translation Tradition in Maltese. An alternative translation will be finally proposed. 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z