Gozo Bishop's Christmas diary

Gozo Bishop Nikol Cauchi's Christmas engagements are as follows:

On Christmas Eve, he will lead solemn hymns at the Gozo Cathedral at 5.30 p.m. He will also celebrate Midnight Mass with other priests.

On Christmas morning, the bishop will celebrate Mass at the Cathedral at 9 a.m. and at St George's Basilica at 11 a.m.

On Tuesday, he will preside over a choir festival at the Sannat parish church.

On New Year's Eve, Mgr Cauchi will lead a Mass at St George's Basilica at 5 p.m. and another Mass at the Cathedral at 6 p.m.

On New Year's Day, he will say Mass at the Cathedral at 8.45 a.m., at St George's Basilica at 11 a.m. and again at the Nadur parish church at 3.30 p.m.

On January 2, the Epiphany, the bishop will lead a concelebrated Mass at the Cathedral at 8.45 a.m.