Community project – Yarn installation – We are planning to make a yarn installation to decorate the church for Easter.  If you can crochet or would like to learn to crochet you can get involved.  Either come for coffee and crochet time to the Couvent on Wednesdays starting 2 February at 11am (call the office on 661 127 962 beforehand) or get started at home. 

More information is available on the flyer below and a video tutorial will be posted on the website next week.

You can collect materials from Donatella after the 11.30am Mass this weekend, or from the parish office, or on a Wednesday morning. Alternatively you can use your own number 4 hook and wool.

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.

In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus reads from the Bible, just like we read from the Bible every Sunday in the Children’s Liturgy.

How can you be like Jesus?

How can you share the message of the Gospel?

This Sunday’s worksheet:

The Children’s Liturgy today will take place at 10:30 on Zoom. 

Due to the ongoing pandemic restrictions, there will be no Children’s Liturgy at 11:30 Mass at St Alphonse.

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.

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.