On Sunday afternoon, the Ghajnsielem parish celebrated the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, better known in Maltese as 'San Guzepp Haddiem'.

A mass led by the St Joseph Band spiritual director Fr. Joe Cardona started at 5.00pm and several bandsmen and committee members took an active part in this celebration. Afterwards, the band accompanied its patron St Joseph with a procession around the main streets of Ghajnsielem. This year, three new members joined the band and played for the first time.

The feast of St. Joseph the Worker was established by Pope Pius XII in 1955 in order to Christianize the concept of labour and give to all workmen a model and a protector. By the daily labour in his shop, offered to God with patience and joy, St. Joseph provided for the necessities of his holy spouse and of the Incarnate Son of God, and thus became an example to all labourers.