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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
- 16 June 2026
Lord Jesus, your Church needs love, because it comes from you.
It is not, first and foremost, an institution.
It is a transmission, a transmission of love, a transmission of the Spirit.
Without it, what would we know of you today?
Beyond its grave sin and its worldliness,
grant us the grace to love it and to help others love it in its depth,
to bear witness to it in such a way that You may be recognised in it
and that the multitude of those
whose daily lives radiate an undeniable love—Yours—may be recognised in it… - 14 June 2026
We pray to you, Father of Jesus Christ and our Father:
may the joyful news of the Resurrection burn brightly within us.
May it accompany us like a persistent word and melody,
so that, as it renews our lives,
it may reach all our brothers and sisters on the journey
and encourage them in their patient pilgrimage
through each day.
We pray this through Jesus Christ,
who, by his passage through death, directs our human paths
towards the life that is eternal.
towards the Life that is eternal. - 10 June 2026
We praise you, Lord Jesus, you are the Way!
The way by which God came to us,
the way that leads us to the Father.
You are the Way through your life given,
through your love never withdrawn,
through the hope that your Spirit places within us.
You do not leave us to walk in darkness,
you accompany us even in our wanderings
and you set our paths afresh towards the Light. - 7 June 2026
God, who is so generous in love and grace,
do not abandon us as we slowly come to embrace our freedom. So many forms of bondage keep us
on our knees. We ask you to walk with us, that we may come to cherish the freedom of heart
and speech, following the example of the free Man of Nazareth, your Son Jesus. - 2 June 2026
Where, then, are you, God of our faith?
Where, then, must we stand so that your Word may be spoken to us
and so that we may live in your Presence?
And here it is:
in the hand that comforts, in the gaze of tenderness, in the welcoming smile,
God, we recognise your Face.
And here it is:
in the words of love, in the words of forgiveness, in the words of kindness,
God, we recognise your Word.
And behold:
in the silence of prayer, in the music and the songs, in the gathered community,
God, we sense your Presence.
And behold:
You stand where the living stan