https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/31902 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:41:34 GMT 2026-04-06T05:41:34Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32224 Title: The solicitude of the Church for priestly vocations, formation and education Abstract: A rediscovered ecc1esiology of the Church as the People of God has given the Church today a new pastoral way to help the members of the community to accept the call of God to serve the Christian community. In the Synod Bishops of 1990 about The Formation of priests in the circumstances of today and in the Apostolic Exhortation Pastores dabo vobis (25 March 1992) of John Paul II, the Church proposed the evangelisation of the environment where Christians live as the basis of the pastoral work for vocations. Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32224 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32223 Title: The English soul and God : a reflection Abstract: In what follows I shall argue that the English soul is characterised by a set of deeply rooted attitudes. The most publicly visible attitude consists of confident cheerfulness. This is the attitude in which government and business are conducted in England. The attitude of official optimism has a religious foundation; it is the attitude required by a belief in Providence. Anyone who has this belief should expect the good to prevail. That seems to be a descendant of the Calvinist concept of faith. Thus Calvin wrote in The Institutes a/the Christian Religion: "we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence towards us. There can be no doubt of the value of this in the ordinary course of life. Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32223 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32222 Title: Word Order in the clauses of the narrative sections in P. P. Saydon's Bible translation in Maltese (2) Abstract: This is the second part of the Dissertation that the author has written for an MA in Linguistics from the Department of Linguistic Science of the University of Reading in England during the academic year 1996-1997. The first part of the dissertation was published in Melita Theologica LIII/I(2002)3-26. The second part of the dissertation consists mainly of the data from the sources mentioned in paragraphs 1.4.4.1 and 1.4.4.2 and of an evaluation of these data. As the amount of the data(2000 clauses, one thousand from the writings of Prof Saydon and one thousand from the expressions of contemporary Maltese) is by far too great to reproduce within the framework of a review, and as the sources are available for the readers to consult, the author of this abridged version of the dissertation decided to reproduce only a small part of this data, the first entries from the Saydon data, gathered from Genesis 1-30. He is reproducing them only by way of example of how he analysed the data gleaned from the sources. Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32222 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32221 Title: Holy places in Campania Abstract: Review of the book Holy places in Campania by Ugo Dovere Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32221 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z