The feast of St Joseph the Worker in Birkirkara is this year being celebrated inside the parish dedicated to him due to the current situation.
Celebrations will take place over three days - Thursday to Saturday.
On Thursday, Fr Mark Spiteri will celebrate mass at 5pm, with the participation of the children of the parish.
This will be followed by another mass at 6.30pm, celebrated by Fr Mark Mallia Pawley, with the participation of the parish’s youth.
On Friday at 5pm, parish priest Fr Charlon Muscat will celebrate mass.
This will be followed at 6.30pm by the mass with the prayers of the first vespers of the eve of the feast, celebrated by Fr Antoine Borg.
A man living next to a Siġġiewi plasterworks factory operating without a permit has claimed dust from the works is killing his 50-year-old trees and causing a skin irritation.
Antoine Borg says he has “had enough” after two years living next to the operation in a disused quarry known as Ta’ Matti & Sons and is “desperate” to be heard by the authorities.
Complaints have also been shared on social media by other residents in the area about the factory, which operates without any air filtering systems in place.
However, the owner of the quarry and the factory’s operator insist they are not doing anything illegal.