As announced at Mass recently, this evening we begin our MONDAY PRAYER this evening at 19:00. MONDAY PRAYER is an opportunity for informal silent prayer before the Blessed Sacrament exposed, followed by light refreshment. It will take place each week at the same time in the parish meeting room (in the garden of St Alphonse, on the opposite side to the church). All are welcome to drop in for a few minutes, or stay for the whole time (usually around 40 minutes of prayer). This is very much a ‘testing of the water’ — if it proves useful and popular, it will be developed; if not, it will give way to something else.

We already have Venite Adoremus each Tuesday in St Alphonse from 20:15 onwards; this is well attended, but being in church is necessarily more formal, and includes reading and singing; MONDAY PRAYER is to complement Venite Adoremus.

Eucharistic Adoration (as this kind of prayer is sometimes called) is focussed on our Risen Lord present under the appearance of bread; it can be a particularly intimate form of prayer, helping us to open our mind and heart to the presence of Christ. Any questions or suggestions happily received.

Fr Ed

Tomorrow evening, Sunday 26 April, a concert is to be held in the église St Michel at 20:00. The programme, which includes a Schubert Mass, a Mendelssohn Salve Regina, and a concerto for two trumpets, is being performed by the choir Eurocantica and the orchestra Estro Armonico (which includes Lisa Zasman from our own parish community).

Fr Ed

Mass will be celebrated at St Alphonse this coming Friday, 01 May, at 10:00 in English and French. This will be the only Mass of the day.

Enjoy the holiday!

Fr Ed

A black and red child’s bicycle was taken from outside the church today during Mass, possibly by mistake. If you can help locate it, please contact me. Thanks,

Fr Ed

Actually, the headline isn’t quite accurate… The 11:15 Mass next Sunday, 26th April, is cancelled. There will be no English-language Mass at St Alphonse on that day. This is due to the annual ‘Messe du Peuple de Dieu’ at the cathedral at 10:00. The Archbishop invites all the various language communities to join him for this Mass each year to emphasise our unity in faith in the midst of our cultural and linguistic diversity.

The Saturday evening Vigil Mass at 19:00 remains unaffected.

Please do try to attend the 10:00 Mass in the cathedral, or the 19:00 Mass the evening before.

Fr Ed