Children’s Liturgy – 23 January 2022

In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus reads from the Bible, just like we read from the Bible every Sunday in the Children’s Liturgy.

How can you be like Jesus?

How can you share the message of the Gospel?

This Sunday’s worksheet:

The Children’s Liturgy today will take place at 10:30 on Zoom. 

Due to the ongoing pandemic restrictions, there will be no Children’s Liturgy at 11:30 Mass at St Alphonse.

To take part in the Children’s Liturgy, children must be registered using this form

Click here for more information about the Children’s Liturgy.

Appeal from Jesuit Refugee Service

Appeal for volunteers

The Jesuit Refugee Service-Luxembourg, in collaboration with Caritas Luxembourg and Reech eng Hand, is looking for volunteers.

As part of the new UBUNTU Reborn project, aimed at refugees in Dublin procedures and people in an irregular situation, who are detained at the pre-removal detention centre, the Jesuit Refugee Service-Luxembourg, in collaboration with Caritas Luxembourg and Reech eng Hand, is looking for volunteers willing to become regular visitors to that centre. As a visitor, you would be a benevolent and attentive presence with detainees, while offering creative and sports activities such as painting, board games, relaxation exercises, story telling, table tennis etc.

Requirements: have a good ability to listen, be interested in people in an irregular administrative situation and/or applicants for international protection, be comfortable in a closed environment, be available at least one afternoon a month (Saturday included), be able to speak French and/or English.

We offer: personalized training and psychosocial support throughout the mission; a volunteer contract including volunteer insurance, a certificate of volunteering after a year or more. If you would like more information or are interested, please contact: Andrew Ndzebir, Tel. 691 690 365, andrew.ndzebir@jrs.net, Mila Gallego, Tel. 691 270 260, milagros.gallego@jrs.net or Agnes Rausch, tel 621 358 168, agnes.rausch@jrs.net.

Synod 2021-23 – your chance to get involved

As announced at Mass the our Synod steering group and the Pastoral Council are looking for volunteers with the skills below to assist with the launch of the Synod questionnaire to as wide an audience as possible.

If you think you can help at all please contact the parish office by Monday 24 January: parish@catholic.lu

  • Communication expertise (e.g. to produce a flyer, organise an outreach campaign to non-churchgoers)
  • Experience of conceptual design of consultation processes (i.e. how to frame questions and answer options)
  • Knowledge of online software to conduct the consultation process and availability to compile the results
  • Translation from English to French

Sunday Mass livestream 16 January at 11.30am

Good morning and welcome to our celebration on the 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time!

The 11.30am Mass will be live-streamed via Facebook – please click on the link below. You do not need a Facebook account to access this.

http://www.facebook.com/stalphonseluxembourg/live

You can join in with the liturgy by downloading the hymns and readings below.