Diakonia (social justice) would like to recommend Steve McCarthy’s book God, who on Earth are you? It is a thoughtful reflection on faith, prayer, Church and society. It touches on the social justice issues of concern to us all. It reflects in a creative way on renewal of the church and could be a useful guide in our Synodal discussions. It is an easy read, yet profound, interesting and personal.

It will be officially published towards the end of June, and is already available for pre-order on Amazon and other bookseller websites. But if any parish members would like to have a copy before June, Steve has a number of pre-publication copies available for €9 each. Contact him here.

Steve has been involved in our parish for many years and is well known to most of you. He is an Ignatian Spiritual Director and has been active in environmental and climate justice issues within the parish including promoting Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ encyclical on care for our common home Planet Earth. 

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Good morning and welcome to our celebration on the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time!

The 11.30am Mass will be live-streamed via Facebook – please click on the link below. You do not need a Facebook account to access this.

http://www.facebook.com/stalphonseluxembourg/live

You can join in with the liturgy by downloading the hymns and readings below.

Appeal for volunteers

The Jesuit Refugee Service-Luxembourg, in collaboration with Caritas Luxembourg and Reech eng Hand, is looking for volunteers.

As part of the new UBUNTU Reborn project, aimed at refugees in Dublin procedures and people in an irregular situation, who are detained at the pre-removal detention centre, the Jesuit Refugee Service-Luxembourg, in collaboration with Caritas Luxembourg and Reech eng Hand, is looking for volunteers willing to become regular visitors to that centre. As a visitor, you would be a benevolent and attentive presence with detainees, while offering creative and sports activities such as painting, board games, relaxation exercises, story telling, table tennis etc.

Requirements: have a good ability to listen, be interested in people in an irregular administrative situation and/or applicants for international protection, be comfortable in a closed environment, be available at least one afternoon a month (Saturday included), be able to speak French and/or English.

We offer: personalized training and psychosocial support throughout the mission; a volunteer contract including volunteer insurance, a certificate of volunteering after a year or more. If you would like more information or are interested, please contact: Andrew Ndzebir, Tel. 691 690 365, andrew.ndzebir@jrs.net, Mila Gallego, Tel. 691 270 260, milagros.gallego@jrs.net or Agnes Rausch, tel 621 358 168, agnes.rausch@jrs.net.

Our Meditation group has updated its webpage! Check it out!

https://catholic.lu/christian-meditation-group/

You will find information about the speaker series: Unified Consciousness – One Mind One Heart which begins this week.

As announced at Mass the our Synod steering group and the Pastoral Council are looking for volunteers with the skills below to assist with the launch of the Synod questionnaire to as wide an audience as possible.

If you think you can help at all please contact the parish office by Monday 24 January: parish@catholic.lu

• Communication expertise (e.g. to produce a flyer, organise an outreach campaign to non-churchgoers)
• Experience of conceptual design of consultation processes (i.e. how to frame questions and answer options)
• Knowledge of online software to conduct the consultation process and availability to compile the results
• Translation from English to French