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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

  • 13 October 2026

    Eternal God, our Father,
    we bless you for Mary, who welcomed the light of your grace.
    We bless you for her who kept nothing for herself;
    thus she became a mother, a sister who leads the way
    for all pilgrims of the faith.
    May we, like her, pass on the sparks of life
    to those who cross our path,
    and may we together be a light for our world, sources of blessing.
    We pray this through Jesus, who is with us, wherever we

  • 9 October 2026

    Receive, Lord Jesus, our trust that you hear every prayer,
    that you hear even the questions hidden in our silences…
    May your Spirit open our hearts to your answers,
    even – and especially – if they challenge us,
    and receive our thanksgiving,
    certain that you are the mediator of every prayer,
    you, our Brother, the Son of the Living God.

  • 7 October 2026

    Praise be to you, Jesus, so very human, who asks your friends, ‘Who am I to you?’
    Praise be to you for recognising that you, too,
    need a relationship with others to find your own identity.
    We too come to you this evening, with a question on our lips, an endless question:
    ‘Who are you, Lord? Who are we to you?
    We live by this question, by answers that are never final,
    which renew our quest.
    Praise be to you, Lord, for gathering us together once again this evening in this quest, in this listening,
    and already in gratitude for your Encounter.

  • 4 October 2026

    Lord our God,
    praise be to you for your creative Spirit, present in our lives today.
    This evening we wish to offer you the abundant fruits that the Spirit has brought to maturity within us and in so many others:
    acts of kindness and trust; the peace regained after overcoming resentment; hope and its
    contagious energy that has lifted us up…
    And we also wish to offer you that which cries out within us and asks to be healed: the experience of humiliation
    suffered by so many victims of violence, the suffering of those living with the trauma of broken relationships,
    the imbalances in our ecosystems, the pollution of water, air and farmland…
    May your breath of Love give us new life, a new dawn,
    through Jesus the Risen One, the Firstborn of your new creation.

  • 3 October 2026

    Thank you, Lord, for the gifts we receive freely – the very things that give life its depth and its flavour:
    a smile, flowers in a myriad of colours and scents.
    Thank you for love that is always ready to spring forth, for the joy of forgiveness, and for the possibility of reconciliation.
    We pray to you: raise the rainbow of your Tenderness above our darkness, that it may bind us to You and
    to one another in an unbreakable brotherhood. We ask this through Jesus, our Brother and Friend.