For the tea & chat session tomorrow at 10.00 you will need a new link and also a password, as Zoom have updated the security.  If you contacted the office last week, this has already been emailed to you; otherwise don’t forget to email the parish office for the link and password.

Thank you for sharing the beautiful photos of your ‘palms’, your sacred space at home and your families.  Photos can still be sent to parish@catholic.lu

You can view the pictures by clicking here

The tea and chat group will meet again on line, tomorrow Wednesday 8 April at 10.00 am.  Please use the same Zoom link as last week. If you didn’t join us last week, you are warmly invited to join us. Please email the parish office by 9.30 tomorrow morning for the link.  Last week we chatted for about 30 minutes and the general feeling was that it was great to see some new faces when still sitting in the same 4 walls!

This week is Holy Week.

From Monday to Wednesday, we suggest you take some time (ca. 15 minutes or more), each day, to quietly and slowly read and pray with one the first three Songs of the Servants in the Book of Isaiah. They correspond to the first reading at Mass for each of these days.  Suggestions for your daily prayer are available as a written document by clicking on the flyer below:

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After Easter we will be back with the continuation of The Mass on the World by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

“Our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of Heaven and Earth” (Ps 123 (124), v. 8)

Fr HP

This Sunday is Palm Sunday and marks the beginning of the most important week in the Christian year.

We hear two stories from the Gospel of Matthew at Mass today.

The first is a joyous and happy one:

Jesus and his disciples arrived at the Mount of Olives just outside Jerusalem. He sent two of the disciples to the next village to collect a donkey and her colt.

“If anyone stops you, tell them that they are for me and will be returned”, he said.

And so it was that the prophecy was fulfilled: “Tell Zion’s daughter: see your King drawing near, humbly riding on a donkey and her colt.”

They brought the animals to Jesus, and put cloaks on their backs so that Jesus could ride on them. When the people heard that Jesus was coming, they laid their cloaks on the road and pulled branches off the palm trees to wave in the air. The crowds grew more and more excited, and shouted at the top of their voices, “Hosanna, Hosanna! Blessed is the one sent by the Lord.”

Excitement filled the whole city, and some people asked, “Who is this man?”

The people answered them, “It is Jesus the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”

“Hosanna!” means “Praise God!”

To find ways to make your own palm to wave for Jesus and praise God on Palm Sunday, click here: Palms for Palm Sunday

For a worksheet on this story from the Gospel, click here: CAFOD.

The second story is much sadder (see the extract opposite). It describes the final days of Jesus’ life before he died on the Cross. We will hear another version of it on Good Friday.

For a worksheet on this story from the Gospel, click here: LOOK-Sunday-5th-April-2020

The story of Jesus’ suffering and death is called “The Passion”. It is told in one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written: