Order of Malta Moment

The Dallas Region sponsored a three-day symposium last month on Blessed Karl of Austria, the last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and a Bailiff Grand Cross of Honor and Devotion in the Order of Malta ...

This weekend the Austin/San Antonio Region hosted what we hope will become an annual retreat for the three Texas regions—Austin/San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston.  The Very Rev. R. Lucian Millette, judicial vicar ...

Order of Malta members served dinner to 45 residents and guests at the four Fisher Houses on the campus of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The meal consisted of chicken pot pie (by Selma ...

Lafayette Region members processed in the Fête-Dieu du Vermilion (Feast of God on the Bayou Vermilion) in honor of the Feast of the Assumption in August. This has been an annual event of the ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago and Msgr. Michael Boland, president of Catholic Charities of Chicago, were scheduled to award the members of the Chicago Region with the Bishop M. Conway Caritas Christi ...

Each year, we as the Lourdes Committee Nursing Leadership Team look forward to fall and the malade selection process. Although the plane will not depart for six months, the Lourdes pilgrimage begins for us in ...

The Atlanta Region prison ministry was invited to Queen of Angels Catholic School during the Lenten season to discuss Corporal Works of Mercy with the middle school students. While preparing for the event I spent ...

We had a wonderful time last month when Federal Association President Margaret Melady and Executive Deacon Director Michael Stankewicz visited and toured our service projects in the Syracuse Region. This visit is part of a ...

At the end of June, chaplains of the Federal Association met for two days at the Dominican House of Studies, in Washington, D.C. for the second formal convocation of chaplains. This recent meeting brought ...

“I don’t encounter Jesus in the poor and the sick because I am doing good works. I encounter Jesus in the poor and the sick because that’s where Jesus lives.”

This connection between ...

We have an exciting progress report on Hospital Sacre Coeur from a recent visit by Dr. Joe Giere, KM.  First, a bit of history. The Hospital in Milot, Haiti has been connected to the Order ...

On May 24 the Lancaster Region held the spring installment of its Defense of the Faith series. The program, titled, Angels and Demons: Who They are and Why They Matter, featured Adam Blai, a peritus ...

In April, 26 volunteers gathered to dedicate their Saturday to participating in the Washington area regions' fourth annual renovation project. The volunteers included Order of Malta members, a grandson and a few sons of members ...

The Austin-San Antonio Region had its first post-Lourdes Mass and Dinner on May 18. Mass was celebrated by the Rev. Tim Nolt, rector of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Austin. The evening was hosted by ...

Members of the Order in the Washington, DC, area gathered on April 14, at Our Lady of Mercy Church in Potomac, MD, for their Annual Day of Reflection, this year focusing on the Eucharist.  Keynote ...

On March 17 the Northern Virginia Region hosted a Mass for the Anointing of the Sick for the faithful of the Diocese of Arlington at Saint Ambrose Catholic Church in Annandale, VA. More than 500 ...

The Federal Association's effort to help the "forgotten people" of Louisiana continued this past March. Some 20 members, family, and friends of the Order, representing all three U.S. associations, worked to repair the ...

The annual Malta Medical Mission to Nicaragua spent late February and early March treating more than 1,000 patients there. The team of seven physicians included three from the Federal Association—Drs. Robert Cangelosi, Theodore ...

The DC and Montgomery County regions of the Order held their 12^th Annual Lourdes Anointing Mass March 17^th at Our Lady of Mercy Church in Potomac, MD.  Over 300 malades and companions attended ...