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  • Easter Triduum in Carmel 2025

    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

  • 10 December 2025

    Lord,
    hear our voice as we pray that you will instil in the hearts of all people
    the wisdom of peace,
    the determination for justice,
    the demand for brotherhood.
    Hear our voice when it echoes the multitudes
    who, in every country and under every sky, do not want war
    and are ready to walk the path of peace and reconciliation.
    May we too be ready,
    and for this we ask you, with the power of the Spirit,
    for the courage to disarm our hearts.
    Hear our voices, Father, and in them, the voice of Jesus.
    Through Him, grant peace to the world,
    in this time and for eternity.

  • 8 December 2025

    Mary knew how to watch,
    as so many women know how to watch,
    keeping everything in their hearts
    and never resigning themselves to the inevitable,
    hoping against all hope.
    May Mary’s prayer help us, too,
    to refuse to put an end to things
    when everything seems wounded and hopeless.
    May we watch with her
    for the coming of the new world,
    which is the world of resurrection,
    already here and still to come.
    In the name of Jesus, our First Brother…

  • 2 December 2025

    Lord,
    with so many others we are going…
    simple pilgrims on your paths,
    rooted and yet always departing,
    torn between reality and the dream of the absolute,
    always amazed to experience the power of this faint breath
    that carries us,
    useless servants,
    happy in grace,
    carrying praise in our hearts.

  • 30 November 2025

    God our Father,
    we give you thanks for offering us this new time when everything begins,
    this new time when your Word comes to us in all its freshness and light
    to be sown in the furrows of our lands ploughed by expectation…
    May this new time be for each and every one of us,
    a time of grace in which we learn to love in deed and truth,
    through Jesus who came, who comes and who will come.

  • 26 November 2025

    Blessed be You, Lord our God, for gathering us together to listen to Your Word.
    Grant us the grace to empty ourselves, to come to You in poverty,like so many watchers before us, like Mary and the people of expectation.
    Let us hear, amid our noise and worn-out words, the Word that brings peace, that comforts the afflicted, that feeds the hungry and frees the prisoner.

    To hear your Word, open the ears of our hearts and prepare us to meet you in Jesus, your Word who comes into the world.

    Maranatha! Come, Lord!