Order of Malta Moment

In the week before Thanksgiving, President Ernie Bono and Secretary General Chuck Cornelio went to the San Giovanni Battista Rehabilitation Hospital to support for the Order’s works on behalf of the sick and the ...

The Atlanta Region spent time living together in community at their annual Lenten retreat over the weekend of February 27-March 1, spending three days and two nights at the Heritage Retreat Center in Crawfordville, Georgia ...

From January 9 to 11, the Jacksonville Region hosted a retreat at Marywood Retreat and Conference Center and San Juan del Rio Catholic Church in Jacksonville, Florida. Retreatants included members from across the Federal Association ...

On Sunday, February 8th, members of the Columbus Region gathered for Mass at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in downtown Columbus, Ohio, celebrated by Bishop Earl Fernandes, Bishop of Columbus and Conventual Chaplain ad honorem ...

On February 7, the Jacksonville Region, joined by members of the American Association, hosted a Votive Mass of Our Lady of Lourdes with the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick at San Jose Catholic ...

On the occasion of the Jubilee Year, and through the generosity of Dr. Tim Laird, KM, the Federal Association donated medical instruments to the first aid post of the Order of Malta in St. Peter ...

On Sunday, February 8^th, the Diocese of Richmond celebrated a special Mass for the World Day of the Sick.  The Richmond Region of the Order of Malta collaborated with Bishop Barry Knestout (Conventual Chaplain ...

A Northern Virginia Region's Candidate for the Class of 2026 had a trip to Rome in January. Northern Virginia's Ryan Haynie was able to visit the Order of Malta's Magistral Villa and ...

The 2026 Annual Day of Recollection for the Chicago Region was well attended on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord on January 10 at the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii. The Very ...

The Lancaster Region sponsored its 16th annual Sanctity of Life Mass this past October as part of its work defending the faith and promoting spirituality in the greater community.

We were honored to have two ...

On December 18, members of the Columbus Region gathered at the Order of Malta Center of Care in Columbus to write Christmas cards for the incarcerated as part of the Prison Ministry greeting card program.

Last month the Chicago Region celebrated the Annual Mass of Remembrance for deceased members and malades at the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii in Chicago, attended by more than 35 members, and family and ...

On a Saturday in late October, knights and dames at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, DC, hosted a Day of Healing and Reflection after a six-year hiatus caused by the pandemic. The project is intended ...

Last month the Charleston, South Carolina Developing Region held its first retreat at Camp St. Christopher on Seabrook Island, with the theme “An Introduction to the Spirituality of the Order of Malta."

The retreat was ...

Knights, dames, candidates and applicants, along with their spouses, children and grandchildren, gathered at the St. Mary Mother of the Church parish hall in Lafayette, Louisiana on December 13 for an Advent Morning of Reflection ...

As winter engulfed Chicago in December 2021, members of the Chicago Region began an annual tradition of traveling to the encampments of the city’s homeless community to place Malta winter coats and socks into ...

The Lancaster Region held its annual retreat with Bishop Ronald Gainer, retired from the Diocese of Harrisburg, in early November at the Mariawald Retreat Center in Reading, Pennsylvania. Our lives were enriched by discussion of ...

The Beatitudes serve as the compass for the spirituality of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Malta. Fittingly, they served as the theme of the Texas Tri-Region Retreat in mid-November.

Eighty people from Texas, Louisiana ...

Knights and Dames of the Order strive to live out our charisms of “defense of the faith” and “care of the sick and the poor” which are sometimes manifested in ways not readily thought of ...

On November 1, 2025, the Subpriory of Our Lady of Lourdes, Federal Association members gathered to welcome the Subpriory Regent, Ambassador Peter McGuire to Washington, DC. Celebrating Mass was the Subpriory’s Chief Chaplain and ...