In view of the positive response received regarding interest in Adoration online, this service will begin this evening. It is foreseen that Adoration will be twice a day, from 11:00-12:00 midday, and from 21:00-22:00. The evening session will finish with Compline, Night Prayer of the Church at 21:50. Leaflets with the order of Compline will be posted at catholic.lu each day, until the whole week is covered: you can print and join in.

Adoration online is not ideal; when we adore the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, he is hidden in the form of bread. When we see the Sacrament online, it is with another layer of hiddenness — a sign within a sign, as it were; but he is present with us in our devotion and prayer — he can negotiate the theological complexities of the situation!

Online Adoration will be for the duration of the present closure of St Alphonse.

Please give feedback, indicating if you find this devotion online useful/helpful or not.

Thank you, Fr Ed

I have to add here that Fr HP is totally opposed to this initiative, and has asked me to make clear he dissociates himself from it completely. I respect his views and his decision in this regard.

Unfortunately due to the current restrictions with the Coronavirus, the card workshop is postponed.

Eucharistic Adoration online

We are wondering how best we can respond to our present ‘shutdown’ situation, maintaining our Catholic community identity, whilst at the same time observing necessary health and safety guidance.

We have started (via FaceBook) broadcasting moments of prayer, where we can participate live online in prayer, or look at the recordings later. Our first attempt (Sunday 15 March) seems to have been well received.

Are you interested in Eucharistic Adoration online… that is to say, a live-streamed video of the Blessed Sacrament exposed from the couvent of St Alphonse (the church building has no internet connection). We could do this for, maybe, one hour each day. Acknowledged, it would not be the same as being in the direct presence of the Blessed Sacrament, but the Lord would be with you just as much.

If sufficient members of our community are interested in this, we can make it happen.

What are your thoughts? Let us know

Thank you,

Fr Ed

It’s a poor compensation for our cancelled celebrations, but I will offer a Moment of Reflection tomorrow, St Patrick’s Day. It will be broadcast live via FaceBook (you don’t need to have a FB ID) and will be recorded for later viewing. Join me at 11:00 online tomorrow, 17th March, and we can continue to be united in prayer, even though we can’t meet together in person. You can find our FaceBook page here.

Hopefully see you tomorrow (or at least you can see me!)

Fr Ed

We cannot come together as a community to celebrate Mass due to the COVID-19 pandemic but every step we take to stop the virus is a contribution to public health and the common good.

Instead of the regular Sunday morning Mass, Fr Ed and the pastoral team invited the community to gather online for a liturgical celebration that was streamed on Facebook Live at 11:15 on Sunday 15 March 2020. You can view the recording of the stream here:

• Part 1
• Part 2

The community’s Facebook page is: www.facebook.com/stalphonseluxembourg/ 

You can download the Mass sheet for this Sunday and every Sunday here.

You can access the homilies delivered most weekends here.

Masses in the Cathedral of Luxembourg Notre-Dame are live-streamed here.

You can join Pope Francis for Mass live at 7am every morning in the Casa Santa Marta in Rome here.

You can also follow Mass – and other acts of worship – regularly online at the following communities of the Redemptorist family (to which Fr Ed belongs) and which a group from our community visited in 2018:

• Clonard Monastery, Belfast
• Redemptoristine Nuns, Dublin