Bishop’s Official Engagements

Bishop Malzaire’s Easter Message

My dear friends in Christ, after 40 days of prayer, reflection, and introspection, we come to the glorious experience of Easter. The Lenten journey always serves as an opportunity for each of us to smoothen some of the rough areas in our lives. All the scripture and other readings chosen for our reflection are geared [...]

Chrism Mass 2010 – Bishop Malzaire’s Homily

Dear friends in Christ, please allow me to begin my sharing this evening by first acknowledging the support of those persons who collaborate with me in the administration and pastorate of the Diocese.  First, I express my gratitude to the clergy: the Diocesan, Redemptorist and FMI Fathers. Without them I would not be able to [...]

Bishop Malzaire’s Homily – Diocesan World Youth Day Rally

My dear young people, the theme for the World Youth Day is “Good Teacher what must I do to inherit eternal life?” (Mark 10:17). This verse is a very typical one, in that, it represents the very question that most people of your age would be asking. It seems like the simplest of questions, but [...]

Bishop Malzaire’s Message to the Methodist Community

Dear Sisters and Brothers of the Methodist Community, It is with great commendation that I greet you as you celebrate the significant landmark of two hundred and fifty (250) years of Methodism in the Caribbean Region and two hundred and twenty three (223) years of Christian witness in Dominica. Such a moment was not reached [...]

Bishop’s Lenten Message 2010- Lent and The Real Fast

Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, once again we come to the holy season of Lent. In the minds of many it conjures up the negative thought of deprivation and pain with its invitation to a more somber existence, whether by limiting one’s food intake or its demands to an intensification of prayer time or [...]

A Short Biography

Bishop Malzaire was born in Mon Repos, a community in the village of Micoud on the east of St Lucia. He dreamt of serving the Lord since the age 10. Bishop Malzaire studied at the Regional Seminary of St John Vianney and Ugandan Martyrs in Trinidad and Tobago. He holds a doctorate in Systematic Theology from the Gregorian University in Rome. His doctoral thesis, published in Rome, is a study of the relationship between theology of the Eucharist and the Social Teaching of the Church, as reflected in the thoughts of the late Pope Paul VI on the world’s poor and suffering.

Bishop Malzaire’s Homily- Priestly Ordination of Deacons Conan Shillingford and Peter Wamutitu

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, we are gathered here once again, eight months, almost to the day, after we witnessed the ordination of these two young men to the diaconate. The entire people of God in the diocese of Roseau rejoice in this great moment of grace. An occasion such as this is [...]

Bishop’s 2010 New Years Day Message

My dear friends in Christ, today, the first day of the year, is the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God. It is designated as the World Day of Peace. In the past few days we have had several opportunities to reflect on the theme of Peace. In the first reading of Sunday preceding Christmas, [...]

Bishop’s Coat of Arms

Significance: The shield depicts two of the most prominent Christian symbols: the Cross and the Eucharist. On the left is the Tau Cross, of St.Francis of Assisi (the bishop’s Patron Saint), rising from the stem of the banana plant, against the yellow background of the Caribbean Sun. The Tau represents the Cross of Christ, the [...]