For your diary

• The feast of St Michael is being celebrated at the chapel near St Michael fireworks factory, Lija, today with Mass at 5.30 p.m. This will be followed by a fair, marches by the St Pio X Band and a fireworks display.

• Heritage Malta is organising a book fair at the agency's head office in Merchant's Street, Valletta, today from 9 a.m. till 1 p.m.

• The Secular Franciscan Order (SFO) is celebrating SFO day in every local Franciscan church today. The activity is being organised to create awareness about the order. For more information call Godwin Vella Clark on 2780 8172, 7980 8172 or visit http://ofsinfo.blogspot.com .

• The Malta Aquarist Society is organising its annual fish show at De Porres hall, Sliema (near Nazzarenu church) today. The show will include over 100 different species of fish. For more information visit www.maltaaquarist.com, e-mail jtheuma@maltaaquarist.com or call Jonathan on 7906 3449.

• A card party in aid of the Little Sisters of the Poor will be held at the Preluna Hotel, on Wednesday from 10 a.m. For bookings and information call 2133 0387.

• The Richmond Foundation is organising its next self-help group at No. 16 Antonio Agius Street, Floriana, on Wednesday at 5.30 p.m. For more information call 2148 2336, 2144 0324 or e-mail info@richmond.org.mt.

• To mark Opus Dei's 80th anniversary, Apostolic Nuncio Tommaso Caputo will concelebrate Mass at the Church of Our Lady of Victories in Castille Square, Valletta, on Thursday at 7 p.m.

• The Physically Handicapped Rehabilitation Fund, Corradino, Paola is re-commencing its activities at the centre's chapel on Friday with First Friday Mass. Sports activities will be organised on Saturday under the guidance of sports instructor Michael Pace. For more information call Rita Bezzina on 2169 3863 or e-mail admin@phrfmalta.com.

• The Teresian Spirituality Centre is organising two conferences in Maltese on 'Praying with the Psalms' by Fr Alexander Vella O.Carm. at the Madonna Tal-Karmnu hall, Valley Road, Birkirkara on October 9 and 23 respectively at 7 p.m. For more information call Fr Alfred Grech on 2144 2858, 2182 2343, or 9945 0895.