https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28401 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:25:18 GMT 2026-04-04T11:25:18Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28721 Title: Hamman, Adalbert G. : La vie est un long jour de fete : memoires [Book review] Abstract: A review of a theological book "La vie est un long jour de fete. Memoires", written by Adalbert G. Hamman. Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28721 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28720 Title: Family values and priorities in conflict Abstract: Within the context of a reflection whose main goal would be the preparation for one more celebration of work, this time in the year dedicated by the United Nations and the Catholic Church to the family, I deem it useful to take some time to consider what the Church offers as the foundations of society in the midst of a rapidly changing world whose impact on society and more particularly on the family are quite evident. Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28720 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28719 Title: Monks in the city Abstract: Monasticism has always been one of the essential elements of Christianity. The urban explosion has become one of the major realities of contemporary society. How is it that a monastic presence remains so scattered and tenuous in the heart of our great cities - where evangelization is so clearly a priority for Christians? These are the sorts of questions that arise for those called to become "monks in the city." What are the reasons for this absence? What arguments could justify such a presence? And how could one live this presence in such an absence, when the monastic ideal is defined as much by a need for distance as by a desire for communion? Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28719 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28594 Title: Insularity and communion Abstract: The great comic classic of middle-English literature is the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, written in the last part of the fourteenth century. A party of men and women set out together on horse-back from an inn in London to make the pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket. By a happy coincidence their route will bring them past the very spot where we are gathered today. They are a mixed group: some of them are presented to us as virtuous characters, like the Clerk of Oxford and the Poor Parson; some are figures offun, like the drunken Miller; some are despicable hypocrites, like the Friar and the Summoner; and some are just ordinary lovable sinners, like the Wife of Bath. They agree to the suggestion of the Innkeeper that they should entertain each other on the way with stories, and that he should act as a chairman. In between the stories there are some interesting conversations; and it is with one of these, the Prologue to the Tale of the Wife of Bath, that I should like to begin. Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28594 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z