• The feast of St Lucy will be celebrated today at Santa Lucija. The church will be open all day. Mass will be said at 7 and 11am and 7pm. Gozo Bishop Mario Grech will leads a Pontifical Mass at 9am. The procession with the statue of St Lucy starts at 5pm with the participation of Leone Band.

• The installation of Mgr Joseph Curmi as Archpriest of St George’s parish, Victoria, takes place today. A cortège will accompany the new archpriest from Republic Street to St George’s Square at 10am, with the participation of La Stella Band and Victoria Scout Group. At St George’s Square, Francesco Pio Attard, on behalf of the parish community, will deliver an address of welcome. At 10.30am Bishop Mario Grech will preside pontifical high Mass to install the new archpriest. The new archpriest will welcome guests at the parish house from tomorrow to December 14, from 5 to 8pm.

• A charity fair in aid of Friends of the Sick and Elderly Gozo is taking place today from 7.30am to 1pm in the football ground adjacent to Victoria’s main car park.

• The eighth edition of the live Christmas nativity village Betleħem f’Għajnsielem will be inaugurated today at 3.30pm by the Prime Minister.

•  The Legend of Tarzan (12A) will be screened at Don Bosco Oratory, Victoria, today at 5.30pm.

• An exhibition of scale models of aircraft, cars, ships, figures, dioramas, paper models and science fiction figures will be held by Gozo Scale Modellers Club at The Duke shopping mall, Victoria, on Saturday and next Sunday from 9am to 8pm.

• The Christmas carol service of the Legion of Mary’s ecumenical committee will be held at Kerċem parish church on Wednesday at 7pm. Foreign residents of all denominations are welcome to attend.

• An open day will be held today at the Sacred Heart Seminary, Victoria, from 9am to 12pm and from 4 to 8pm to commemorate the 150th anniversary of its foundation. There will be an exhibition on the Seminary’s history on display.

• Gozo Visual and Performing Arts School is producing a Christmas panto with live music on Wednesday at 7pm at Don Bosco Oratory, Victoria. Tickets at €3.50 may be purchased from the VPA School offices, Soil Street, Xewkija.

• Il-Fergħa Ewkaristika (Għawdex) will hold an hour of adoration on Thursday from 9 to 10am at Our Lady of Pompeii church, Victoria. The rosary will be recited at 8.45am. Everyone is invited.

• Victoria Scout Group will hold its grand buffet Christmas dinner at Calypso Hotel, Marsalforn, on Saturday at 8pm. For tickets call the scouts’ headquarters on 2155 6497 or group scout leader Lorrie Saliba on 7955 5844 till Thursday.

• Leone Philharmonic Society’s Aurora Youth Movement will hold its first car treasure hunt on Tuesday from 9.30am to  3pm. On Saturday from 10am onwards, the movement will hold a Fifa tournament in aid of L-Istrina.

charles.spiteri@timesofmalta.com

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