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- Invitation
The question of God is important to you.
You’d like to know a little about monastic life.
You believe that prayer is a force that can change people’s hearts – your own – and thereby influence the course of the world.
You don’t separate your spiritual quest from a simple, fraternal life, divided between worship and
work.
Come and spend 1 month with us at the Carmel de la Paix, in Mazille, Burgundy? - Easter Triduum in Carmel
Holy Thursday: Celebration of the Lord’s Supper 8pm
Good Friday: Celebration of the Passion 5.30pm
Holy Saturday: Office of Holy Saturday 5.30pm, Easter Vigil 22 pm
Easter Sunday: 9am Office of the Resurrection, 6pm Eucharist
Schedule
◊ Lauds at 7.30 a.m.
◊ Eucharist at 11 a.m.
◊ VespScheduleers at 5.30 p.m.
◊ Compline at 9 p.m. (except on Sunday)
Except for “Desert Day” Mondays: Eucharist at 6 p.m. and Vespers at 6 p.m. if there is no priest.
You can check the times of the Eucharist on www.messes.info
That this mask
of the passer-by,
the caiman
crossing the river
from one bank to the other,
accompanies
your passage
towards interiority
and Encounter,
and that the basin,
evoking
of baptismal waters,
extends the intuition
of this work of art
Sudano-Sahelian work of art.
Prayer
- 8 October 2024
Jesus Lord,
two thousand years ago you stood up
and nothing has been able to stop the freedom of your Word.
For the life you awakened,
for the energies you inspired,
for the hope that has shattered destiny,
may your Church be a proud heir in word and deed
to continue what your Spirit awakens in her
for the great glory of your Father and our Father. - 4 October 2024
Praise and glory to the Creator,
praise to you, Lord, for all that lives and breathes!
Blessed are you for this autumn, which remembers its fragile growth in spring
and now shines with the summer sun that nourished its fruit.
Blessed are you for the air we breathe, for the firm ground beneath our feet.
Blessed are you for the rising and setting sun
and the knots that sometimes hide them from our eyes.
Blessed are you for Jesus Christ and all those who put respect for creatures before efficiency,
love before the law.
Blessed are you for Hope, unshakeable as our surrounding mountains.
Blessed are you for the day that passes and gives us joy like the flower of the field
and the bird that flies and sings and flies away.
And bless you for your Spirit who hovers over this world in the making
and reconciles all life with Jesus Christ, at all times and into eternity. - 2 October 2024
Lord, you provoke our voice, your word frees our prayer,
you draw us to the spring waters where your path leads,
in your most intimate footsteps, towards the waters of life.
Just as a tree bears witness in the sky to the light invested in the earth,
our human voice bears witness to the weight of the great secret of creation,
your Word awakens our memory and inspires our praise.
It crosses our possessions to our poor calling,
the call of our birth… - 30 September 2024
Every morning, to repeat your Name,
Unique and yet inscribed in the heart of every being.
To repeat your Name as a seed placed in our humanity,
so that it may grow and bear fruit of justice and peace.
To repeat your Name as a breath of hope for those who are bending under the burden of their broken dreams.
To repeat your Name as a living fountain from which to draw sustenance, even in precarious times.
To repeat your Name in the breath of the Spirit that never ceases to whisper in us: Our Father… - 26 September 2024
Lord God of the universe, God of life,
how we long for you to pour out your Spirit on all flesh,
old and young,
free men and slaves,
that we may all be able to welcome your Spirit into our lives
and in the depths of our fears,
so that our hearts, renewed by your grace, may begin to hope and sing.
This world to build, this world to console, awaits us.
Send us, Lord, to follow Christ today…