You can sing along with the hymns when you join in with our online celebrations in the month of May up till the Feast of the Ascension (21 May) by clicking on the leaflet below. Hymns May 2020
We will still be using some of the Eastertide hymns which can be found by clicking here
This week, we suggest you read a text written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), a German protestant pastor and theologian, who was involved in the resistance movement against the Nazi regime during the 1930s and during World War II.
He was arrested in April 1943 and executed in April 1945. During his time in prison, he wrote several letters and other personal thoughts.
You will find today’s text with a short biography of the author by clicking on the flyer below
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On Friday, tips for personal prayer and/or personal reflections inspired by this poem and taken from the Scripture will be posted on this website.
“You know me, Lord, you see me, you probe my heart, which is close to yours” (Jr 12, 3)
Fr HP
Just a reminder that the weekly tea and chat will take place online via Zoom at 11.00am tomorrow, Wednesday 28 April. If you don’t have the Zoom link please contact the parish office before the meeting.
Today we will hold our first live online Children’s Liturgy via Zoom. If you participate regularly in the Children’s Liturgy and have not received an invitation, please contact parish@catholic.lu.
Today’s Gospel reading tells a seriously surprising story of how Jesus appeared to his disciples several days after rising from the dead on Easter Sunday. This video explains what happened in the form of a poem:
You can find activities about today’s Gospel reading here: LOOK-Sunday-26th-April-2020
For more details on our Children’s Liturgy online, please click here.
Since Tuesday, 24th March 2020, we have been reading step by step The Mass on the World, written in 1923 by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), 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.
This past week we read Part V, the final Part of the essay
(See https://catholic.lu/2020/04/20/facing-unusual-times-part-x-by-fr-hp/
& https://catholic.lu/2020/04/22/facing-unusual-times-part-xi-by-fr-hp/
& https://catholic.lu/2020/04/24/facing-unusual-times-part-xii-by-fr-hp/).
Drawing from the last part of the essay, some tips for personal prayer which you may find helpful to accompany you this coming weekend are given below:
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If you wish to read the essay The Mass on the World in full you may find it by clicking on the flyer below:
This post concludes our series of posts entitled “Facing Unusual Times”.
“Our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of Heaven and Earth” (Ps 123 (124), v. 8)
Fr HP
International English-Speaking Community of the Parish of Luxembourg Notre Dame 