The Mosta Mission Fund sent me a handsome contribution of $2,200 which will be given to a group of lay people who help drug and Aids victims.

I know these people personally because most of them come from my parish.

I would like to take this opportunity to inform readers, as the author of The Maltese Missionary Experience, that this book was greatly acclaimed by most of the missionaries who received a copy. Among the various e-mails I received was one from Bishop Alphonsus D’Souza of the Raiganj Diocese in West Bengal, India.

I quote from Bishop D’Souza’s e-mail: “Hearty congratulations for The Maltese Missionary Experience, an excellent book on Maltese missionary work. Malta is a small country, but their mission work throughout the world is excellent and magnanimous.

“I got a copy of the book from Fr Paul Aquilina from Dumka. I read it and found it excellent. Renewed congratulations and God bless you!”

The book can be obtained from the main bookshops. In any difficulty, one can contact me on caruanajohn13@gmail.com.