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  • Easter Prayer

    Lord Jesus,
    this evening, at the invitation of Pope Leo XIV, from East to West,
    all those who look to you, the Crucified and Risen One, have gathered together.
    To ask you to shower us all with your great Easter blessing,
    a blessing of PEACE.
    Did you not offer it one day, once and for all?
    God’s gifts know no bounds of space or time.
    We gather to place ourselves under this blessing, with our world in the grip of
    conflicts of unprecedented violence, which rob millions of innocent people of their lives.
    You are among them; you are one of them.
    And you are also praying fervently with us
    that a rainbow of reconciliation may rise once more,
    between peoples, between continents, between cultures and between religions.
    May your Peace finally prevail, Jesus, the Risen One!
    But above all, grant us the Spirit
    so that we may know how to welcome it within us,
    this unarmed and disarming peace.

  • Easter Triduum in Carmel 2026

    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.

◊ Vespers at 5.30 p.m.
◊ Compline at 9 p.m. (except on Sunday)

Except on Mondays : “Desert Day” with Eucharist at 6 p.m. and Vespers at 6 p.m. if there is no priest.

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

  • 9 May 2026

    Lord our God,
    when your Word frightens us because it demands everything of us,
    grant that it may also be the strength that sets us free from ourselves
    and enables us to do more than we ever dared to imagine.
    Grant that, moment by moment, we may grow towards true freedom,
    for which Christ has shown the way,
    He who goes before us as our universal brother,
    drawing us through his Easter towards the Life that has no end.

  • 5 May 2026

    Lord our God, who came into this world to share with us the fullness of your life,
    open our hearts to receive the signs you offer us.
    You offer us the sign of weakness: a newborn baby lying in a manger.
    Open our hearts to this presence of fragility.
    You offer us the sign of humility, by washing the feet of your friends.
    Open our hearts to service.
    You offer us the sign of bread.
    Open our hearts to sharing.
    You offer us the sign of the cross, a crucified God who dies outside the city between two criminals.
    Open our hearts to your friendship with all.
    You offer us the sign of fraternal community,
    open our hearts to gathering together without exclusion.

  • 3 May 2026

    Living God,

    we believe in the life that leads to eternal life,

    but help our lack of faith.

    May your Word, in the Scriptures, in others, and in your many signs,

    illuminate our paths, which are still so dark…

    until the day begins to dawn

    and the Morning Star rises in every heart.

    We pray this through Him, your Son, Jesus Christ,

    who lives with you in the communion of the Spirit.

    for ever and ever.

  • 29 April 2026

    Jesus, standing on our shores in the early morning,
    when the night has been long and fruitless,
    we dare not ask you,
    but we know it is You!
    Jesus, speaking suddenly from the open Book,
    when questions have remained unanswered for so long,
    we dare not ask you,
    but we know it is You!
    Jesus, present in the brotherly word and hand,
    when loneliness weighed heavily on our shoulders,
    we dare not ask you,
    but we know it is You!
    Jesus, sharing bread, aid and care,
    through so many lives given,
    when endless wars overwhelm so many peoples,
    we dare not ask you,
    but we know it is You!
    Jesus, bringing peace, standing as the architect of reconciliation,
    when the cycle of violence seemed hopeless,
    we dare not ask you,
    but we know it is You!

  • 25 April 2026

    Risen Christ,
    the tomb is empty, the stone has been rolled away,
    yet our gaze remains fixed on the past, prisoners of memory.
    We seek You among the dead, You, the Living One!
    Christ, come and roll away the stone from our hearts,
    free us from the false security of knowledge that seeks to control everything,
    unleash within us the desire to create a new world,
    in joy, in dance, in acts of brotherhood…
    Open us to the surprises of your grace, Risen Lord!