All adults involved in parish programmes are invited: FHC, confirmation, children’s liturgy, marriage preparation, baptism and adult catechesis, and anyone interested in taking a role in these programmes. Please email parish@catholic.lu to confirm your attendance.
First Holy Communion registration for 2019 will take place Sunday 21 October after the 11.15 Mass. If your child will be aged 8 years or over by January 2019 and you would like to enrol him / her in the First Holy Communion programme, please attend this meeting where more information will be provided.
The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius consist in a journey of prayer and meditation with the aim of heightening and deepening our relationship with Christ and our joy in our creator God, who is in love with each one of us. Although the ‘programme’ is rather formally set out, the experience is always unique and personal, and frequently becomes a life-changing event. The Exercises are particularly appropriate when our lives seem to have become rather meaningless and empty, or when we feel ourselves at a turning-point.
Traditionally they are ‘given’ over the course of a thirty day silent retreat. But they can also be followed as a scheme of regular prayer in ‘daily life’ over, typically, an eight month period.
Over the last few years I have directed several people from the Anglophone community in Luxembourg in the Exercises in ‘daily life’. I would be happy to do so again during this coming academic year, starting in the autumn, for anyone who is interested and prepared to ‘take the risk’, and to make the necessary commitment of time.
If you want to find out more, or think you might be interested, please contact me either on 621 31 91 10 or by email here. All contact and discussion is confidential.
Steve McCarthy
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UMODZI is a project founded and supported among others by Judith Golooba, a member of the English-speaking Catholic community in Luxembourg, to support the education of orphans in her home country of Malawi.
The organisers are now busy making sure that all their students get funding to enable them to start college or university this coming September.
They have three students who have done well in their exams and have places in local universities in Malawi but do not yet have sponsors.
This is not about requesting money for a charity, but an appeal for individuals who can take care of a student and see them through their college or university programme, which lasts about 3 years (depending on the course).
The college/university fees amount to about €2300 per year – less than €200 per month. UMODZI would put you in direct contact with the student concerned.
To find out more, please contact Judith at judith.golooba@gmail.com.
International English-Speaking Community of the Parish of Luxembourg Notre Dame 