Today is the 5th Sunday of Lent. The time of preparing for Easter is nearly over.

In today’s Gospel, Jesus is worried about what is going to happen to him.

But he knows that it will lead to new life for him and for all of us.

And this will be a great reason to celebrate!

Let’s look for signs of new life around us…

This Sunday’s worksheet:

The Children’s Liturgy currently takes place every Sunday – including today – at 10:30am on Zoom.

To take part in the Children’s Liturgy by Zoom, children must be registered using this form. Parents will then receive a link to each session by email.

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

If you were unable to attend or follow Mass on 17 March for St Patrick, the feast will be celebrated again at the Vigil Mass tomorrow, Saturday 20 March at 7.30pm.

We are grateful to Hanna and Tom for recording this Mass for us. The live-stream can be followed at home by clicking 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 St Patrick’s Day hymns and follow the readings by downloading the leaflets below:

Diakonia our Social Justice subcommittee invite us on Thursday 25 March at 7.30pm to attend together a Zoom discussion on: 

                       A Post Covid World: What are the changes you would like to see?

In his book ‘Let us Dream,’ Pope Francis tells us to dream big, and to rethink our priorities. If we have the courage to change we can emerge from the challenge better than before.

‘God asks us to create something new.  We cannot return to the false securities of the political and economic systems we had before the crisis.  We need economies that give to all access to the fruits of creation…We need a politics that can integrate and dialogue with the poor…. We need to slow down, take stock, and design better ways of living together on this earth’

Pope Francis ‘ Let us Dream’ 2020, p.6

Contact the parish office for the link to join the meeting: parish@catholic.lu

Happy St Patrick’s Day to everyone!

We will celebrate the Feast of St Patrick at the 6.15pm Mass this evening which will be live-streamed via Facebook. Please click on the link below. You do not need a Facebook account in order to be able to access this:

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

You can join in with the hymns by downloading the Mass leaflet below.

If your child is enrolled in this year’s First Holy Communion programme, or was enrolled in the 2020 programme and did not make his/ her First Holy Communion in November, you should have received an email from Robert, the lead catechist, about dates for this year. The Saturdays of 5 and 12 June 2021 have been reserved for the celebration.

Please contact the parish office in the first instance if you have not received Robert’s email.