• A prayer meeting will be held at Girgenti, Siġġiewi, today at 5.30 p.m. by the Moviment Madonna tal-Konsagrazzjoni committee. The public is invited. For details view www.ourladyofconsecration.org.
• The next meeting of the San Ġorg Preca Group is to be held at the MUSEUM headquarters in Blata l-Bajda on Friday at 6.30 p.m. Young couples and mature adults are especially invited.
• Manchester City Football Supporters Club is holding a charity race night at Cactus Bar, St Anthony Street, Buġibba, on Saturday from 9 p.m. Proceeds will go towards Puttinu Cares. Visit www.cactusbarmalta.co.uk or www.puttinucares.org.
• Fr Joe Buhagiar Bianco, SJ, a Jesuit specialist in the Desert Fathers and their legacy, will direct a residential weekend seminar on the topic at Mt St Joseph retreat house, Mosta, between October 1 at 6 p.m. and October 3 at 2.30 p.m. For enquiries call on 2141 6916 or e-mail to director@cismalta.org.
• The National Council of Women is organising a public dialogue entitled ‘Women and Mental Health’ at Dar l-Ewropa, Valletta, on October 6 from 8.30 a.m. until 1 p.m. Participation is free. For more information and booking call the NCW office on 2124 8881 or 2124 6982 or e-mail ncwmalta@camline.net.mt.
• A card party in aid of the Little Sisters of the Poor will be held at the Preluna Hotel, Sliema, on October 6 from 10 a.m. For booking, call Blanche Martin on 2133 0387.
A retreat using Marian iconography led by Fr Gerry Buhagiar, rector of Ta’ Pinu Sanctuary, will be held from October 15 to 17 at Manresa retreat house, Victoria. For details contact Fr Anthony Cilia on Tel. 2155 6635 or e-mail manresa@vol.net.mt.
• The Malta branch of the International Al Jolson Society will be holding its annual ‘Al Jolson Malta Gathering’ on October 24 at the Royal British Legion, 111 Melita Street, Valletta. This will mark 60 years since the society’s foundation and will also commemorate the 60th anniversary of Al Jolson’s demise.
• The Missions Office of Valletta requires teachers, ex-teachers and students to promote the missions in schools, a number of volunteers to animate Missionary Village activities from October 24 to 27 and participants in Mixja għall-Missjoni to be held on October 17. Call Lisa Pace on 2123 6962, 9999 1979 or e-mail lisa@missio.org.mt.
• A retreat for married couples, led by Carmen and Karm Conti and Fr Vince Magri, SJ, will be held from October 29 at 6 p.m. to October 31 at 5 p.m. at Manresa retreat house, Victoria. For details contact Fr Anthony Cilia on Tel. 2155 6635 or e-mail manresa@vol.net.mt.
• The 14th annual St Augustine lecture will be given by Dr Paul van Geest from the Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on November 12 at 7 p.m. at the University’s Gateway Building, Lecture Hall E. The topic is ‘The incomprehensibility of God as cause of concern. Augustine as a negative theologian and the merging of orthodoxy’. Prof. Joe Friggieri will chair the lecture.