Coming up

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be screened at the Don Bosco Oratory, Victoria, today at 6pm.

• The blood bank centre at the Gozo General Hospital will be open today from 8am to 1pm for those people who would like to donate blood.

• Neocatechumenal Way community is conducting a series of evangelisation meetings. Today they meet on the Ta’ Pinu church parvis at 5.45pm. The celebration will include vespers, singing, experiences by youths and a catechesis on important fundamental matters.

•The feast of Our Lady of Pompeii will be celebrated at the church of Our Lady of Pompeii, Victoria, on Wednesday. The Supplication will be said by Bishop Mario Grech at noon, followed by the blessing of children at 4.15pm. The church’s rector Mgr Joseph Cauchi will lead a concelebrated Mass at 5.30pm.

• Europa Donna Malta (Breast Care Support Group) will be organising a seminar for health professionals entitled Updates on Breast Cancer at Hotel Ta’ Ċenċ on Saturday. For more information, e-mail Europa Donna Malta at info@europadonnamalta.org.mt or call 2148 2602/9999 4666.

• The Diocesan Eucharistic Movement will hold a prayer evening at Our Lady of Mount Carmel church, Ta’ Ħamet, on Saturday at 8.30pm,followed by Mass at midnight.

• The Dorthese Ellis Foundation, which supports sick patients in their homes and at hospital, will be holding a four-course Sunday buffet lunch at the Xlendi Bay Hotel and Spa next Sunday, Mother’s Day. The price is €15, including a glass of wine. For tickets, call Maria on 2156 5746/9988 6331 or Mike on 2156 2921/7990 3727.

• The Oasi Foundation is holding a Mother’s Day lunch at the Downtown Hotel, Victoria, next Sunday at 12.30pm. For more information call 2156 3333.

• The seventh edition of Notte Gozitana Lejlet Lapsi will be held between Friday and next Sunday. Among the events planned for the weekend are four cultural tours that will take place on Saturday, all starting at 9.30am.

• The Richmond Foundation (Gozo) is holding a self-help group meet-ing at the NGO centre in Xewkija on Tuesday at 5.30 p.m. Everyone is invited. For more information call 2210 6151, 2122 4580, 2148 2336 or 2144 0324 or e-mail info@richmond.org.mt.

• A pilgrimage to the MUSEUM chapel in Blata l-Bajda where St Ġorġ Preca is buried, will be held on Wednesday, leaving at 4.30pm and returning back at 9.30pm. Tickets are obtainable for MUSEUM members and centres.

• The Social Action Movement (Gozo), the Centesimus Annus Foundation and the Mgr Nicholas Cauchi Foundation will be holding a conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Blessed Pope John XXIII’s Encyclical Pacem in Terris. The conference will be held at the Curia in Victoria on Saturday at 10am. The public is invited.

cspiteri@timesofmalta.com