A group from the International English-speaking Community of Luxembourg is currently on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Nicola Hammond, Annette Power, Anne and Joe Schmidt, and Madeleine Vermeulen have joined the trip organised by the community’s former pastor, Fr Ed Hone CSsR, from St Edmund’s College Cambridge.

They started the day today in Nazareth. Here are some photos:

• The Luxembourg group at the Church of the Annunciation in front of a mural of Our Lady of Luxembourg
• The whole group on a boat on the Sea of Galilee
• Fr Pablo de Lima (guide) and Fr Ed Hone
• The group with their toes in the Sea of Galilee

Today 10 December is Human Rights Day. Between 25 November and 11 December, a UN-initiated campaign, supported inter alia by the Catholic Women’s Council and the World Council of Churches has been raising awareness of gender-based violence against women and girls. The WCC has launched a number of initiatives that include the wearing of black on Thursdays. Members and friends of our Diakonia group have chosen to express solidarity by appearing in black – and we would like to propose practical ways of helping women in distress in Luxembourg.

A recent RTL interview with representatives of Femmes en Détresse, the association directly involved with women and girls at risk of violence, shows that their shelters in Luxembourg are currently full. There are 65 women on a waiting list to go into these shelters – women in danger of violence in their homes or from their partners – and it will be at least a year before they can be accommodated in these shelters… if at all, given the housing crisis.

We can help Femmes en Détresse by making donations to FED ASBL (IBAN : LU87 0019 1106 6556 2000; BIC : BCEELULL). For more information on the ASBL, and on how to become involved, see here.

There is no Children’s Liturgy at 11:30 Mass during the school summer holidays. The Children’s Liturgy returns on Sunday 4 September 2022.

To keep in touch with the Gospel message of the day, you can download this Sunday’s Look worksheet here:

To take part in the Children’s Liturgy, children must be registered using this form. 

Click here for more information about the Children’s Liturgy.

There is no Children’s Liturgy at 11:30 Mass during the school summer holidays. The Children’s Liturgy returns on Sunday 4 September 2022.

To keep in touch with the Gospel message of the day, you can download this Sunday’s Look worksheet here:

To take part in the Children’s Liturgy, children must be registered using this form. 

Click here for more information about the Children’s Liturgy.

There is no Children’s Liturgy at 11:30 Mass during the school summer holidays. The Children’s Liturgy returns on Sunday 4 September 2022.

To keep in touch with the Gospel message of the day, you can download this Sunday’s Look worksheet here:

To take part in the Children’s Liturgy, children must be registered using this form. 

Click here for more information about the Children’s Liturgy.