• A charity sale is taking place today from 7.30am to 1pm at the football ground next to Victoria’s main car park, organised by Friends of the Sick and Elderly in Gozo.

• The feast of St Rita will be celebrated today at St Augustine Church, Victoria. Mass will be celebrated at 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.15am and noon. At 5.30pm children will be blessed and presented to St Rita. Gozo Bishop Mario Grech will celebrate Mass at 6pm, which will be followed by a procession with the saint’s statue.

• A Bible study will be held tomorrow at 7.30pm at the Franciscan centre at St Anthony church, Għajnsielem. All are welcome.

• A blood donation session will be held at Gozo Hospital’s Outpatients Department on Tuesday from 1 to 5pm.

• The feast of Mary, help of Christians, will be celebrated at Don Bosco Oratory Chapel, Victoria, on Tuesday. After the reciting of the rosary at 6.30pm, Mgr George Tabone will celebrate Mass at 7pm, and a procession with the statue of Mary, help of Christians, will leave the oratory chapel at 7.45pm. Chorus Urbanus choir will perform during the celebration.

• Bishop Emeritus of Garissa Paul Darmanin, OFM Cap, will celebrate Mass at Our Lady of Graces Sanctuary, Victoria, on Wednesday at 6.30pm to mark the 129th anniversary of St Pio of Pietrelcina’s birth. Prayer group members and devotees of the saint are invited to attend.

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

• The Catholic Action Move­ment’s Human Promotion Com­mittee is holding a fundraising social activity at its headquarters on Thursday from 9am in aid of the Welcome Project for its Iraqi guests and a blood donation session at Gozo General Hospital on June 12 at 9am. Young members of the movement will hold their annual quiz on Friday at 4.30pm.

• Fr Marcello Ghirlando, OFM, will celebrate a healing Mass at St Anthony Church, Għajnsielem, on Friday at 7pm. Singer Mario Caruana will animate the celebration. There will be adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from 6 to 7pm. All are welcome to attend.

• Gozitan violinist Pierre Louis Attard and pianist Gisele Grima will perform a recital of works by Brahms, Bartok, de Falla, Ives and Patterson on Friday at 7.45pm at the Gozo Ministry hall, Victoria. Entrance is free.

• A Gozo Culture and Traditions Heritage Trail will be held on Saturday by Heritage Malta, in collaboration with Fondazzjoni Wirt Għawdex. The tour starts from Mġarr Harbour at 9am ends there at 5pm. For further information call 2395 4242, 2395 4200, 7973 4490 or e-mail mario.casha@gov.mt.

• The diocesan Eucharistic Move­ment will hold a prayer meeting at Qala parish Church, on Saturday at 8.30pm, followed by Mass at midnight.

• A wine and pizza evening will be held on June 9 at Sacred Heart Minor Seminary, Victoria. Tickets may be obtained from the school or by calling 2155 6479.

• The Don Bosco Summer Club for children aged four to 13 will be held in July and August. Volunteers are also sought. For applications visit www.donboscogozo.org.

charles.spiteri@timesofmalta.com

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