• The feast of the Assumption of Our Lady will be celebrated today in Żebbuġ. Gozo Bishop Mario Grech will concelebrate Pontifical Mass with the parish clergy at 9am in the parish church. Mgr Lawrenz Sciberras will deliver the panegyric. At 11.30am there will be marches in the village’s main streets. A procession with the statue of Our Lady, led by Għasri parish priest Edward Xuereb, accompanied by Santa Marija Band, starts at 7.30pm. Meanwhile the Leone Band will give a concert in the main square. The procession ends at 10.15 with a fireworks display and the sacramental blessing. On Tuesday at 7pm archpriest Reuben Micallef will lead a thanksgiving Mass, after which the statue will be placed in its niche.

• In preparation for the episcopal ordination of George Bugeja as coadjutor bishop of the apostolic vicariate of Tripoli, a prayer vigil led by Archbishop Charles Scicluna will take place on Thursday at 8pm at Nativity of Our Lady basilica, Xagħra.

• The diocesan Eucharistic Movement will hold a prayer evening at Good Shepherd church, Victoria, on Saturday at 8.30pm, followed by Mass at midnight.

• MUSEUM superior Joe Fenech will hold a prayer and catechesis meeting at Our Lady of Pompeii church, Victoria, on Thursday from 10 to 11am.

• A blood donation session will be held at Gozo General Hospital today from 8am to 1pm.

• A diocesan Marian manifestation will be held in Valley Road, Marsalforn, on Tuesday. After an animated rosary at 7.30pm Bishop Mario Grech will lead a concelebrated Mass.

• Funkoustic, a live music concert by local artists, will be held at Xlendi Bay on Saturday at 7.30pm.

• A concert entitled Stage and Proms on the Sea will be held by the Gozo Youth Wind Band and foreign and Maltese musicians on August 31 at 8.30pm at the Mġarr marina. For details and to reserve tickets in the seated area call 7942 1611, 9942 1611. Admission is free.

charles.spiteri@timesofmalta.com

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