Augustinian Cloistered Nuns, Valletta | S3 EP: 25, part 1 | The Local Traveller with Clare Agius
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- For the past 400 years, St Catherine's Monastery in Valletta has housed cloistered nuns of the Second Order of Saint Augustine.
In this conversation with Mother Superior, Sister Michelina, Clare learns all about the Order, and the dedication of these cloistered nuns, who do so much important work for the community even from within. the monastery's walls.
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Credits:
Presenter: Clare Agius
Guests:
Sr. Michelina Mifsud
Albert Dimech
Photography:
Fabian Mizzi
Noel Pace
Videography: Creative Corner
Drone footage: Salvu Vella
Research:
Heritage Malta
Clare Agius
Fabian Mizzi
Script & Production: Clare Agius
Director: Fabian Mizzi
Opening Song: Semplicità by The Travellers
Special Thanks:
Sorijiet Agostinjani Tal-Klawsura - Valletta
English Translation and Subtitles are funded by Malta Arts Council.
Translators:
Warren Taliana, Martina Caruana, Martina Cremona, Amina Baldacchino, Nathlin Johnson, Alessia Sciberras from the Department of Translation, Terminology and Interpreting Studies.
Faculty of Arts, University of Malta
All Rights Reserved 2023 - Clare Agius - One Group
O my what a serine and wonderful place so beautiful 😊
A truly wonderful story. Just loved Sister and such a sense of humour. God BLess
WHAT A SERENE, BEAUTIFUL & HOLY PLACE 😇. What a gem 💎 right in the centre of Valletta! 😲. All those Augustine Cloistered nuns are beautiful kind human beings - bless them ALL 🙏. "Museum" worth a visit.
THANKS CLARE, "LT", Sr Michelina and Albert Dimech 👏 👏 👏 👏.
Cheers 👍 🇲🇹 ♥ 🇪🇺 ™
Heart-moving, inspiring!
We are truly a gifted nation to have such dedicated religious order and thank you for sharing. Love to visit on my next visit to Malta.
Commending you, Clare, for this touching presentation. Great insight behind monastery walls. Thank you.
wonderful Clare and thank you for these informative interviews. I only just returned to Australia from Valletta but would have loved to have visited Mysterium Fidei.
Their contacts please
Christ was an average Jewish man. He would be horrified by the ostentatious grandiosity of monasteries, cathedrals, churches, vatican city; Priceless artwork, gold, silver, gems. Himself hung naked bleeding on a cross. A religious man would never expose himself disrespect others. God's Will is generosity for the poor, suffering, not self righteousness to endow oneself, take parishioners money, many who are poor, and spend lavishly. God's Will is simple spread hope, faith, joy, love. Somewhere, someone, got it twisted bastardized his words and intentions. That is unholy, selfish, sacri-religious.
I totally agree with you.
Why are you assuming that works of mercy/charity weren't/aren't performed _in addition to_ the building of grand houses of worship & related buildings throughout the Church? Did Jesus Christ ever rebuke the opulence of the Jewish Temple's structure, built *according to His very specific commands* & with people's donations - gold, silver, bronze, acacia, jewelry, fine linen and choicest wood - in Exodus chapter 25 and beyond?
Or, did Jesus instead rebuke the Pharisees & others in authority, such as Matthew the tax collector, for abusing their positions to oppress the poor, financially and spiritually? It's clearly highlighted that less than 60 years ago, life inside this cloister was quite simple in most ways regardless of the building's structural grandeur. Did we watch the same video? Didn't the nuns' prayer for others, counsel to those in need & lodging for marginalized women spread "hope, faith, joy and love"? Even if there are examples of impropriety & self-righteousness among the clergy & religious, it is wrong to paint swathes of people with a broad brush in this context, as if you're well aware that the Church always and everywhere ignores or intentionally sidelines those in need for self-endowment. That is uncharitable and unholy, even if your opinion seems trendy.
"A religious man would *never* expose himself disrespect others" If you were trying to imply that a truly religious figure would absolutely never disrespect others, then that absolutism is false too. No man is inherently perfect and even along the path of holiness, devout people can still have shortcomings, sinful or otherwise.