Eucharistic Adoration online

We are wondering how best we can respond to our present ‘shutdown’ situation, maintaining our Catholic community identity, whilst at the same time observing necessary health and safety guidance.

We have started (via FaceBook) broadcasting moments of prayer, where we can participate live online in prayer, or look at the recordings later. Our first attempt (Sunday 15 March) seems to have been well received.

Are you interested in Eucharistic Adoration online… that is to say, a live-streamed video of the Blessed Sacrament exposed from the couvent of St Alphonse (the church building has no internet connection). We could do this for, maybe, one hour each day. Acknowledged, it would not be the same as being in the direct presence of the Blessed Sacrament, but the Lord would be with you just as much.

If sufficient members of our community are interested in this, we can make it happen.

What are your thoughts? Let us know

Thank you,

Fr Ed

It’s a poor compensation for our cancelled celebrations, but I will offer a Moment of Reflection tomorrow, St Patrick’s Day. It will be broadcast live via FaceBook (you don’t need to have a FB ID) and will be recorded for later viewing. Join me at 11:00 online tomorrow, 17th March, and we can continue to be united in prayer, even though we can’t meet together in person. You can find our FaceBook page here.

Hopefully see you tomorrow (or at least you can see me!)

Fr Ed

We cannot come together as a community to celebrate Mass due to the COVID-19 pandemic but every step we take to stop the virus is a contribution to public health and the common good.

Instead of the regular Sunday morning Mass, Fr Ed and the pastoral team invited the community to gather online for a liturgical celebration that was streamed on Facebook Live at 11:15 on Sunday 15 March 2020. You can view the recording of the stream here:

• Part 1
• Part 2

The community’s Facebook page is: www.facebook.com/stalphonseluxembourg/ 

You can download the Mass sheet for this Sunday and every Sunday here.

You can access the homilies delivered most weekends here.

Masses in the Cathedral of Luxembourg Notre-Dame are live-streamed here.

You can join Pope Francis for Mass live at 7am every morning in the Casa Santa Marta in Rome here.

You can also follow Mass – and other acts of worship – regularly online at the following communities of the Redemptorist family (to which Fr Ed belongs) and which a group from our community visited in 2018:

• Clonard Monastery, Belfast
• Redemptoristine Nuns, Dublin

You can view the recording of the stream here:

• Part 1
• Part 2

Click here for more online resources for worship in times of COVID-19.

Please share this information with your friends and acquaintances who may not be aware of the online updates on the website and Facebook.

In view of the decision of the Pastoral Council to cancel all church activities for the time being, the Week of Guided Prayer, which was due to start on Sunday evening, has also been cancelled.

(If you know of people who were intending to come, but who may not see this message, then please pass it on.)