Our community’s music group will be performing with the children’s choir at the Luxembourg Christmas Market in the Place d’Armes after the 11.15 Mass on Sunday 15 December from 13.00 – 14.00. Alizeti, the band formed to raise funds for the Ilula Orphanage Program, will also be performing.
Please come along and give them your support.
On Christmas Eve there will be carols from 9.30 pm followed by Mass at 10.00 pm.
On Christmas Day there is Mass at 11.15 am and 5 pm.
The Christmas Eve Mass and the 11.15 am Mass will be followed by refreshments.
The Holy Father Pope Francis has written an apostolic letter on the meaning and importance of the nativity scene for Christian people. It is available in English by clicking the link below:
Our little meditation group is affiliated to the WCCM (World Community for Christian Meditation). Fr. Laurence Freeman, the WCCM spiritual guide, has sent us a thoughtful Reflection on the Second Week of Advent which you can download here.
Our group meets every Wednesday evening at 18.30 in the Garden Room at St Alphonse for half an hour of silent meditation. Feel free just to come along whenever you want. Further details on the Prayer Page of this website. There you will also find a link to Sarah Bachelard’s five inspired talks on Contemplation and Christianity in our Time. Highly recommended!
The recent Amazonian Synod will be seen as one of the defining events of the Francis Papacy – not least because it brought together his concerns about ecology and about global social injustice in Laudato Si.
Next Saturday, at 9.30, our Cardinal Hollerich and Cardinal Barreto from Peru will lead a conference (in English) about this Synod at the Jean XXIII Centre. Download full details here.
Straight after the conference we’ll have a meeting of anyone interested in our own tree-planting initiative as a way of making a small practical contribution against climate change. Contact Steve McCarthy.
International English-Speaking Community of the Parish of Luxembourg Notre Dame 