David Coughlan, one of our altar servers, has recently had an article published in Luxembourg City Magazine, on how to survive lockdown successfully.

In today’s Gospel we hear about how Jesus knows each of us by name, like a shepherd knows his sheep.

Today’s Children’s Liturgy will again take place live online via Zoom. It’s fun, it’s social and it’s all focused on today’s Gospel story.

Please bring along a stuffed sheep toy, a mini-figure sheep, your own drawing of a sheep, a cut-out of a sheep, a picture of a sheep from a storybook you have – or any other way you can think of to suggest a sheep. Today we are all Jesus’ sheep!

If you would like to register for the Children’s Liturgy, please follow these instructions.

Today’s worksheet: LOOK-Sunday-3rd-May-2020

More resources: Children’s Liturgy online

Beginning this evening at 18:00, we will have 30 minutes of devotion to Our Lady every day during May — May being the traditional month (along with October) for honouring the Mother of Our Lord.

We begin with Compline (Night Prayer) — the daily texts can be found at universalis.com and we will sing well-known hymns to Our Lady.

Apologies to those who were ‘at’ Mass today — I made a mistake in announcing the time. Saturdays and Thursdays, I celebrate Mass in the evening with the Redemptorist community, so our online devotions to Our Lady on those days will be at 19:00.

If you have particular hymns, prayers or stories which we might include in these liturgies, please send them to the parish office. I look forward to seeing you there!

Fr Ed

As was announced last week, following consultations with the diocesan authorities, Fr HP has resumed individual spiritual conversation and has been available to dispense the sacrament of reconciliation since last Monday.

In order to remain in full compliance with the diocesan and governmental guidelines, some conditions must be observed:

–       A mask must be worn.

–       A 2-metre distance must be respected.

Meetings take place in a dedicated room next to the Jesuit Church (23, Avenue Gaston Diderich – Belair)

Fr HP is available by appointment at herve-pierre.guillot@cathol.lu

Please do not forget to bring your own mask!

This week we suggested you read a poem written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), a German protestant pastor and theologian, who was involved in the resistance movement against the Nazi regime in the 1930s and during World War II.

This weekend, inspired by this poem, we suggest several ways to relate with Scripture.

Some tips for personal prayer which you may find helpful to accompany you this coming weekend are given below:

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There will be no new post next week and the week after next. You may therefore spread these various tips far beyond this weekend.

You may also wish to go back to previous proposals, relating to an essay, The Mass on the World, written by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit priest, a theologian and a palaeontologist, whilst he was working as part of a team in palaeontological fieldwork in the Ordos desert, a barren landscape, west of Peking, near the border with Inner Mongolia:

Facing Unusual Times – Part IV – by Fr HP

Facing Unusual Times – Tips for Prayer – Week II – by Fr HP

Facing Unusual Times – Tips for Prayer – Week III – by Fr HP

Facing Unusual Times – Tips for Prayer – Week IV – by Fr HP

“You know me, Lord, you see me, you probe my heart, which is close to yours” (Jr 12, 3)

Fr HP