A deserved sense of pride: Mgr Alfred Xuereb made Conventual Chaplain of the Order of Malta
Last Friday, 13 February 2009, Mgr Alfred Xuereb, a distinguished priest from our parish who is currently serving the Church as one of Pope Benedict XVI’s private assistants, has been welcomed as member of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta. Mgr Xuereb was granted the honour of Conventual Chaplain ad honorem, by decree of the Prince and Grand Master of the Order, H.M.E.H. Frà Matthew Festing, during a concelebration in Latin presided by H.L. Mgr Angelo Acerbi, Bailiff Grand Cross, prelate of the Sovereign Order.
I can imagine Friday the 13th being a popular day for these sort of things.