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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
- 10 July 2026
God our Father,
how can we give thanks to you for Jesus of Nazareth, that man after your own heart
in whom you reveal your face?
He is your Beloved Son, your very Word.
But where can we find Him in our present day, how can we discern the mystery of His Presence?
When He says to us, as He did to the rich young man: ‘One thing you lack’
Would we be prepared to leave everything behind, to give not from our surplus, but from what is essential?
When he says to us, as he did to his disciples: ‘Come and see’,
are we ready to take off our sandals before the poor man,
to recognise that blessing comes to us not from the temple built by human hands,
but through the outstretched arms of the Crucified One…?
God our Father, you who are our Future, we welcome you! - 6 July 2026
Jesus, our Lord,
who walked amongst us doing good, your path never ceases to inspire new beginnings:
we pray to you, awaken us to our humanity.
Through your welcome at the table of sinners and tax collectors, through your presence to all who drew near to you,
we pray to you, awaken us to our humanity.
Through your silence of truth and forgiveness towards those who have been unable to resist evil and who
suffer because of it, and towards those who condemn,
we pray to you, awaken us to our humanity.
Through your freedom in the face of the law, and your constant choice in favour of the life and dignity of everyone,
we pray to you, awaken us to our humanity.
Through your willingness to receive everything from the Father and to pursue the work of the Spirit to the very end along
unknown and unpredictable paths,
we pray to you, awaken us to our humanity.
- 29 June 2026
We give thanks to you, God our Father, for Jesus, the prophet after your own heart,
who has established your Kingdom amongst us,
where love permeates our relationships,
where the joy of living overcomes gloom,
where friendship becomes the foundation of our life together
Like the widow in the Gospel, we too cast ourselves into trust,
leaning on one another.
May your Spirit set us on the path of Christ, in his freedom and trust,
He who leads the dance of the liberated peoples… - 27 June 2026
It is for a new world that you came amongst us, Jesus, our Lord!
This new world that you wish to build with us.
Grant us the flame of the Gospel!
It is for a new justice that you came!
So that the marginalised may be invited to the banquet table.
Grant us the flame of the Gospel!
It is for peace that you gave your life!
So that there may be no more room for hatred amongst brothers.
Give us the flame of the Gospel!
You came for a revolution in values!
So that the least may be first, all loved freely, madly.
Give us the flame of the Gospel! - 24 June 2026
God our Father,
when enemies reach out to one another, when they recognise that they belong to the same race,
to the same land, it is your Spirit at work.
When mistrust is healed by the warmth of tenderness, when harshness gives way to gentleness
and mercy fills the heart of the violent, it is your Spirit at work.
We give you thanks for this, Father.
And we join our voices with those of all the victims, all the torn families,
all the peoples at war, to cry out to you:
Save the humanity within us; put an end to fear and to the spiral of hatred.
Disarm them, disarm us through Jesus, the Crucified and Risen One, the Living One,
with us for all time and beyond.