WE REGRET TO INFORM OUR ESTEEMED PATRONS THAT IN VIEW OF THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT DIRECTIVES DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED. PLEASE BE ALSO INFORMED THAT HOLY WEEK LITURGICAL SERVICES ANIMATED BY CHORUS URBANUS AT FONTANA ARE ALSO CANCELLED. Chorus Urbanus have just announced a concert of Read more…
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the miraculous painting of Ta’ Pinu, the Diocese of Gozo made special arrangements for the painting to visit all the Gozo parishes for the veneration of the parishioners around Gozo. On Wednesday 23rd January 2019, it was the turn of Fontana Parsh to Read more…
Chorus Urbanus has once again been invited to animate the Christmas Midnight Mass at Fontana Parish as has become customary, now, for these last years. The Mass was led by the Parish Priest of Fontana Canon John Muscat.
Chorus Urbanus is indeed honoured with its excellent rendition of Dr John Galea’s ‘Missa Fons Vitae’ during Sacred Heart Feast Solemn High Mass on Sunday morning, a mass commissioned and premiered five years ago to celebrate the first centenary of Fontana Parish.
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One of the events in Gozo commemorating the ordination of Archbishop Alfred Xuereb by Pope Francis, was a Solemn Mass celebrated in Fontana Parish by Mgr Xuereb to commemorate the official opening of the festivities culminating in the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Christ in mid-June. This mass was held on Friday 6th April 2018.
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Sofia, in Bulgaria, has once again been the venue for the recording of two CDs by the Chorus Urbanus as part of its 30th Anniversary Celebrations. The Chorus Urbanus visited Sofia between 28 March 2005 and 4 April 2005 to record, together with the Sofia Collegium Symphony Orchestra the Oratorio “Il-Qalb ta’ Kristu” composed by John Galea and lyrics by H.L. Mgr Nicholas Cauchi, Bishop of Gozo. This Oratorio was premiered in June 2005 during the centenary festivities organised at the Fontana Parish. (more…)