• Gozo Padre Pio Prayer groups are holding an Advent retreat today at Our Lady of Graces Sanctuary, Victoria. National director Fr Alfred Scerri will celebrate Mass at 9am. Gozo Seminary spiritual director Fr Alex Refalo will deliver a talk on St Pio. Lunch will be held at Down Town Hotel, Victoria. All members and other devotees are invited to attend.

• Masses at Ta’ Pinu sanctuary will be said today at 6.15, 8.30, 10 and 11.15am and 5pm, followed by the recital of the rosary and eucharistic benediction.

• Masses at Our Lady of Mount Carmel church, Ta’ Ħamet, will be said today at 9.30am and at 7.30pm.

• Nativity 3: Dude Where’s My Donkey will be screened today at 5.30pm at Don Bosco Oratory, Victoria. The House of Magic will be screened on Christmas Day at 5.30pm. Into the Storm will be screened on Friday at 5.30pm and Dolphin Tale 2 will be screened on Saturday at 8.30pm.

• The Tramps will be playing Christmas melodies in the streets of Victoria tomorrow at 4.30pm and collecting donations in aid of Arka Foundation.

• The diocesan Eucharistic Movement will hold a prayer evening on Wednesday from 8 to 10pm at Savina church, Victoria, and on Saturday at 8pm at Fontana parish church, followed by Mass at midnight.

• A new Christmas childrens’ musical in Maltese entitled Għal Fuq Betlem will be performed at Don Bosco Oratory chapel on Wednesday at 11.30pm.

Admission is free. It will be followed by midnight Mass animated by the Strait Ahead Band. It will include the traditional boy’s sermon. After Mass, a Christmas breakfast will be held at the oratory on Thursday at 1am. To reserve places call David Galea on 7934 8529.

• MUSEUM superior Joe Fenech will hold a prayer and catechesis meeting at Our Lady of Pompeii church, Victoria, on Friday from 10 to 11am. All are invited. He also presents a weekly Saturday programme from 1 to 3pm on Radju Maria.

• Gozitan violinist Pierre Louis Attard, an Ian Tomlin scholar at Edinburgh Napier University, where he is reading for an undergraduate degree in music majoring in violin performance, will give a lunchtime concert on Saturday at 11.30am at the Gozo Ministry, Victoria. He will perform works by Vivaldi, Albinoni, Dvorak, Bloch and that he himself composed. He will be accompanied on the piano by his father Colin. Admission is free. He will also participate in a concert by the Gaulitanus choir on January 1 at 7.45pm at Kempinski Hotel, San Lawrenz.

• Nadur MUSEUM males’ section is staging a musical play entitled L-Anġlu Mqareb b’Missjoni Speċjali (The Mischievous Angel on a Special Mission) at the MBC Theatre, Nadur, on Saturday at 7.30pm. Entrance is free.

• Visitation Band of Għarb will hold its end of year concert Dreams of Vienna next Sunday at 8pm at Grand Hotel, Għajnsielem. The concert, featuring Viennese waltzes, polkas, and popular marches, is directed by Mro George Apap. Admission is free but seating on a first-come, first-served basis. For details call 7949 2667.

cspiteri@timesofmalta.com

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