• To celebrate the feast of San Blas, Gozo Bishop Mario Grech will celebrate Mass near Nadur’s boċċi pitch today at 10.30am. This will be followed by the blessing of animals and agricultural produce. Transport leaves Mnarja Band Club at 9.45am.
• The Friends of The Sick and Elderly in Gozo’s 27th annual general meeting will be held at the Gozo Ministry hall, St Francis Square, Victoria, on Friday at 7.15pm, preceded by Mass at 6.30pm at St Francis Church, Victoria.
• To mark Founder’s Day, Victoria and Xagħra scout groups will hold a parade and Bishop Mario Grech will say Mass next Sunday at 11am at Good Shepherd Church, Victoria.
• A blood donation session will be held at Gozo General Hospital’s Outpatients Department on Tuesday from 1 to 5pm.
• Paper Planes (U) will be screened at Don Bosco Oratory, Victoria, today at 5.30pm.
• To commemorate the apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes, Masses will be held at Lourdes Church, Għajnsielem, today at 5.15 and 8.30am, 1, 3.30 and 5pm and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 5.15 and 9am, and at 1, 3.30 and at 5pm. Devotees may visit the sanctuary until 8pm.
• A Eucharistic Movement prayer evening will be held at St Augustine Church, Victoria, on Saturday at 8pm, followed by Mass at midnight.
• A public lecture in Maltese entitled Id-Djaletti u l-Wirt Lingwistiku Malti will be held on Saturday at 10am by Unesco’s Education, Science and Culture Centre at its hall in Lunzjata Valley, Victoria.
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