March 2000, saw the Holy Family Cathedral moving into the technological era with the purchase of a new semi-automatic Host-Making machine.

This new Host-Making machine and the electric multiple cutter are products of

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Right until the purchase of this machine, the hosts for the daily needs of the faithful were made manually by Rosy (a lady of our Parish), in a slow process that used to take her several hours of non-stop baking and cutting to make hundreds of hosts. Our Bishop along with the clergy and parishioners thank Rosy for her love and dedication in preparing the hosts for many years. From the photograph below, you can have an idea of how the hosts were prepared by Rosy (picture alongside).

With the new machine, the entire process is easier and faster from the mixing of the dough to the baking and cutting of the hosts. Every operation is regulated by a set of push buttons.

In the first picture our Bishop, Msgr. Francis Micallef and Fr. Gabriel Dias are seen operating the new machines.