The third Dalli brother takes his vow of poverty
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January 25, 2015 at 1:45pm
I apologise for the time-lag in uploading this, but I have a bit of a backlog. This photograph shows Dun Gorg Dalli, brother to Bahamas John and Bastjan the Drug Smuggler, gorging himself at dinner on New Year’s Eve at the Oceana restaurant at Hilton Malta – price 120 euros per head.
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Mhux hekk hux. Hemm min kien mar ghal kura tas-sahha mhux Mater Dei, tafux, imma St. James. Ghax Mater Dei ma jesahomx.
Fr Dalli is not obliged to live in poverty since he is not a monk but a priest. However, he is obliged not to over eat. He is obese and I suppose that being obese goes against the 5th commandment ‘thou shall not kill’, because he’s killing himself.
I do not think he paid for the dinner. His sister is married to one of the Fenech brothers of the Tumas Group, who own the hotel. On the other hand I believe he can afford to pay.
Thanks for that seemingly insignificant detail, Peppa. But actually it is almost like having a new pair of eyes when putting things into perspective with this fundamental ‘tidbit’ in the equation.
What posture!
The food falls on his lap, where he picks it up and shoves it into his mouth. He can’t get his knees under the table. Look at that napkin.
This is an undisputable epitomized example of Christian charity.
“Charity is when you give till it hurts” (not just giving away a fragment of your surplus)
I believe it was the Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta who said “Eat until you drop.”
Or somfink or nuffink.
Dun Gorg didn t pay the 120 euros as he was a guest, and while he was there he changed the water into wine..because you know it runs in their blood. His brother changes water into whisky.
Or Tetrahydrocannabinol into Sodium Stearate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&x-yt-cl=84503534&feature=player_detailpage&v=bd_EDN7K2Kc#t=173
Tajba din – min mejjet ghal qatra, hu min mejjet fis-sakra.
Fr George has no public office and is not on the public payroll. He has a right to his privacy and like every other common citizen has a right to go to lunch whenever and wherever he wishes.
As a priest he can only be criticized if he does what is a scandal to his flock and brings his public profession into disrepute.
Eating in a restaurant, whatever the cost, is not a scandal.
Besides, the sins of the fathers (and brothers and sisters) are not passed on to every other member of the family.
I hope we are not making a hobby of spying on and mocking private citizens now.
[Daphne – He is not a private citizen, Tom. He is a priest. Priests are by definition public persons. The fact that they are public persons alone does not make them ‘people to be spied on’, but if they do something that people wish to discuss, well then. Gorg Dalli, unfortunately, put himself in the news again when he celebrated that infamous ‘thanksgiving mass’ when Police Commissioner Peter Paul Zammit decided to drop the case against his brother John.]
I fully agree that celebrating that Mass and speaking the way he did he opened himself to criticism and I did criticize him for it.
However, that error in his position as a priest does not make all his other actions targets for criticism.
Who of us can look back and not find at least one occasion which fills us with regret even as the years pass by?
[Daphne – I’m not going to bicker with you about this, Tom.]
This obese and wealthy priest is a fine example of hypocrisy like his brother John.
Certainly he is not a monk and therefore there is no such vow as far as I know. So are all priests public persons? Let him eat and enjoy. Who knows if the meal was paid by himself after all? It’s not our business.