In recent weeks we have been happy to welcome Fr Valentine to our community — many have spoken with him after weekend Masses. Fr Valentine has generously agreed to be available to assist in our parish community while he is in Luxembourg (ie until November); he is available for Confession, blessings of homes, visits to the sick at home or in hospital, available for a chat, and for other pastoral duties. Normally Fr Valentine will need transport arranged as he does not know his way around Luxembourg.

Meeting rooms can be arranged at St Alphonse as required.

Equally, I’m sure Fr Valentine would enjoy simply spending time with members of our community.

Fr Valentine can be contacted by email or by mobile: (+352) 621 352 037

Fr Ed

Invitation to the Fête-Dieu
Dear colleague,

I am pleased to invite you to our celebration of Corpus Christi, which we will celebrate on Thursday, May 31, 2018.

19.00h: Mass of all communities in the church of St Michel.
then: Procession of the Blessed Sacrament to the cathedral, via the Corniche – rue du Saint-Esprit, -Place Clairefontaine – rue Notre-Dame.

Final blessing at the cathedral.

After the ceremony, you are cordially invited to stay together in the inner courtyard of the cathedral, to share a ‘verre de l’amitié’  where each community is invited to bring typical “snacks”. Drinks are offered. May I ask you to invite all the faithful of your community to join us in celebrating this great feast of our faith.
Looking forward to seeing you together with many faithful, I send you my best regards!

Tom Kerger
Curé Moderateur, Parish of Luxembourg Notre-Dame

The John Main Seminar is an annual event which is organised annually by the World Community for Christian Meditation. It has not been held in Europe for quite a while. ( the last time was in Cork (UCC) about 10 years ago).   This year it will be in Bruges, Belgium, from Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 September 2018 and the theme will be

A Contemplative Response to the Crisis of Change

The line up of speakers is interesting to say the least and there is a pre seminar retreat and tour of Bruges followed by the Seminar and afterwards a pilgrimage to Flanders Fields and Ypres.  One can choose to participate in all or just some of these trips.

For more information please click on the link below.

JM_Seminar_2018_Bruges_leaflet

The Conference Saint-Yves is hosting a Conference on the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. This event, at St Alphonse, is on Wednesday 30th May at 19:00. For further details, see here.

On 7 May 2018, Fr Ed marked the 30th anniversary of his priestly ordination. We did not celebrate it at the time as his mother was in her final hours, but we made up for it this Pentecost Sunday morning, 20 May 2018, with a presentation of gifts and crémant after Mass.

The gifts were a personal offering from our community. We wanted to keep it secret, so we did not make a public appeal, but the catechists, coffee organisers, Eucharistic ministers, musicians, pastoral council, readers and other volunteers all chipped in.

The first gift was an antique icon. According to tradition, the image of Our Lady of Iverskaja was first written by the Evangelist Luke. The version we presented to Fr Ed, which we located at the Monastery of Chevetogne in Belgium, was written in Russia between 1840 and 1850.

The second gift was a monetary one, for Fr Ed to enjoy as he pleases.

Fr Ed is at the heart of our community and we give thanks for his vocation and service both to our community and throughout his priestly ministry.