• Race to Witch Mountain will be screened at the Don Bosco Oratory, Victoria, today at 5.30 p.m.

• The feast of St Anthony the Abbot will be celebrated at St Anthony church in Tal-Qaċċa, Xagħra, today. The statue leaves the church for St Anthony Square at 9.45 a.m. where the blessing of horses takes place followed by a defilé to the Basilica of the Nativity of Our Lady. A dog show will be held at St Anthony Square at 11 a.m. At 3.30 p.m. there will be Mass at the basilica followed by a procession with the statue of St Anthony to St Anthony Square, where the blessing of pets will take place.

• Wirt Għawdex will be holding its annual general meeting at the NGO centre, Xewkija, on Friday at 6 p.m. All members and friends are urged to attend. Refreshments will be served. For more details visit www.wirtghawdex.org.

• The Non-Maltese Residents' Committee of the Legion of Mary will organise an ecumenical service at Għajnsielem parish church on Wednesday at 6 p.m. The programme will include spiritual thoughts and messages from Catholic and Anglican ministers.

• The feast of the Conversion of St Paul will be celebrated in Marsalforn between Friday and Sunday. The theme of the three-day celebration is Festi San Pawl Art, Faith and Culture. The programme will include band marches, choir singing and a pop concert.

• A collective exhibition of paintings, filigree and 3D works by Doranne Alden, Kevin Attard, Josephine Cachia and Christian Muscat will be open at the Gozo Ministry from Monday to Friday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. until January 31.

• The feast of St Francis de Sales, patron saint of journalists and writers, will be celebrated on Thursday. Gozo Bishop Mario Grech will celebrate Mass at the church of the Franciscan Sisters in Palm Street, Victoria, at 5 p.m. Journalists are urged to attend.

• Gozo Bishop Mario Grech will celebrate the fourth anniversary of his episcopate with a thanksgiving concelebrated Mass at the pastoral centre in Victoria on Friday at 6 p.m.

• A sale in aid of the Friends of the Sick and Elderly in Gozo will be held at 6 Salvatore Street, Victoria (opposite the Victoria bus terminus), on Thursday, Friday and Saturday between 8.30 a.m. and noon and from 4 until 6 p.m.

cspiteri@timesofmalta.com

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