Bir Miftuh - Din l-Art Helwa

Bir Miftuħ International Music Festival, organizzat minn Din l-Art Ħelwa, jagħlaq is-27 edizzjoni tiegħu nhar is-Sibt 30 ta’ Mejju b’kunċert speċjali ġewwa l-Knisja Medjevali ta’ Bir Miftuħ fil-Gudja. 🎶✨

Is-serata “An Evening of Song & Strings” tibda fis-7:30pm u se tinkludi prestazzjonijiet mis-soprano Miriam Cauchi, akkumpanjata minn Maria Elena Farrugia fuq il-pjanu u Simon Abdilla Joslin fuq il-vjoloncello. 🎻🎹

Il-programm se jinkludi xogħlijiet ta’ Gounod, Massenet, Brahms u kompożituri oħra, kif ukoll premiere ta’ kompożizzjoni ġdida bl-isem Melita Rose ta’ Mark Pullicino. 🌙

Memories of the lovely 3rd Concert at the Chapel of Birmiftuh.

The 3rd Concert in the Birmiftuh International Music Festival, was a huge success. The string and clarinet quartet gave a huge and impeccable performance. The audience was truly entertained. Thank you Ester, thank you Inmaculada, thank you Isabel, and thank you Javier - for a lovely and unforgetable evening.

BLESSED SAINTS ON FRESCOES AT BIRMIFTUH

Saint Lawrence was born in December of 225 in Huesca, Spain. Huesca is the town from which his parents, Orentius and Patientia came from, and they were both martyrs of the faith.

Lawrence encountered the future Pope Sixtus II, a famous teacher from Zaragoza, and they travelled together from Spain to Rome. When Sixtus became Pope in 257, he ordained the young Lawrence, who was only 32, as a deacon of Rome. This was a position of great trust that included the care of the treasury and riches of the Church.

It has to be noted, that at the time, the norm was that Christians who were denounced, were executed, and all their goods confiscated by the Imperial treasury. In August 258 the Emperor Valerian issued an edict that all bishops, priests and deacons should immediately be put to death. Pope Sixtus II was captured at the cemetery of St. Callixtus while celebrating the liturgy and was executed immediately. After his death, the Prefect of Rome demanded Lawrence to turn over the riches of the Church.

Lawrence asked for three days to gather the wealth, but instead he worked swiftly to distribute as much Church property to the indigent as possible. When on the third day, he presented himself to the Prefect of Rome, he was ordered to deliver his treasures. Instead he presented the city’s indigent, crippled, widows, blind, and the suffering, and declared that these were the true treasures of the church.

The Prefect was so angry, that he had a gridiron prepared with hot coals beneath it, and had Lawrence placed on it. After a long time suffering on the gridiron, the legend concludes, that Lawrence cheerfully declared : “I’m well done on this side. Turn me over” !! From this St. Lawrence derives the patronage of cooks, chefs and comedians, He died, aged 32, and was buried in San Lorenzo fuori le mura, and the gridiron is in the Minor Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina.

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BLESSED SAINTS ON FRESCOES AT BIRMIFTUH. St. Benedict was an Italian Christian monk, writer and theologian. He was the son of a Roman nobel from Nursia, in Umbria. He was born in March 480, and died of a fever in March 547 - aged 67 years.
When he was still young, Benedict was sent to study in Rome - but was disappointed by the life he found in this great city. He did not leave Rome, with the intent of becoming a hermit, but he went to live in a cave in Subiaco, some 65 kilometers away. There he met Romanus of Subiaco, whose monastery was on the mountain above the cliff overhanging the cave. Romanus discussed with Benedict the purpose which had brought him to Subiaco, and gave him the monk’s habit. By his advice, Benedict became a hermit, and for 3 years lived in this cave above the lake.
Benedict matured both in mind and character, in knowledge of himself and of his fellow-man. He secured the respect of all those about him; so much so, that on the death of the abbot of a monastery in the neighbourhood, the community came to him and begged him to become its abbot.
He was used to living in discipline, and knew that life in the monastery would be diverse for him, but still, he gave his consent. The experiment failed, and the monks poisoned his drink, only for the cup to shatter when Benedict prayed a blessing over it. Thus he left the monastery and went back to his cave in Subiaco.
There lived in the neighbourhood a priest called Florentius who, moved by envy, tried to ruin him. After unsuccessfully trying to poison his bread, Florentius tried to seduce his monks with some prostitutes. And to avoid further temptations, in about 530 Benedict left Subiaco.
And then, he not only founded twelve monasteries in the vicinity, but also founded the great Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino, which lies on a hilltop between Rome and Naples. In the frescoes, he is seen holding a church model.