Many members of our community already follow Bishop Robert Barron through his website ‘Word on Fire’ or by reading his Lenten Gospel Reflections.

Bishop Barron invites us to join him or Fr Steve Grunow (Word on Fire CEO) online for daily Mass, available by clicking here, while we are not able to attend Mass.

If you are isolated at home and need assistance with shopping for food or collecting prescriptions or carrying out other tasks, or you know of someone who would appreciate some help, please contact the parish office by email, parish@catholic.lu, or by phone: 661 127 962.

We will try to arrange  support from a volunteer in our community.

As previously announced, each evening we will have online Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. During this time, you are invited to watch and to pray. Your prayers, of course, are not to the screen on which you are watching, but to the Lord, who is equally present to you in your own home as he is on the altar.

Each evening, Adoration will conclude at 21:50 with Night Prayer (Compline). It would be wonderful if we could pray this together — here is the text of the Night Prayer (Compline) for Tuesdays. The text for each subsequent day will be published here daily. See you later!

Fr Ed

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.