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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

  • 17 August 2026

    Jesus,
    the Spirit you promised is like the wind; we cannot see it.
    But we can see the traces of its passage whenever there is peace, faith, love, patience and kindness.
    Grant us a share in this life-giving Spirit, we pray, so that we may become sons and daughters
    of peace, men and women of the Good News intended for all: the Father loves us all infinitely and
    eternally!

  • 14 August 2026

    Lord,
    in the face of the immense challenges of our time, do not let us retreat into a bygone past that is
    illusory and supposedly better, but inspire us with the wisdom to create a world in harmony with your
    creative plan: that humankind may live in harmony with one another, that the earth may yield its fruit, each according to its kind, and
    that animals and creatures may thrive in all their diversity. We want to dream alongside the Bible so that
    this time may come, and to help you bring it about!
    In the name of Jesus Christ, who desires a good and abundant life for all!

  • 10 August 2026

    At a time when thousands of hectares of forest and arable land are going up in smoke,
    we know we can pray to you, Jesus, the man of agricultural parables…
    Pray for the firefighters and all the volunteers battling the blaze.
    May they know that you stand with them in their fight to save their fellow citizens and the land that sustains them.
    To pray to you for our farmer friends who, throughout the year, through their expertise and hard work,
    prevent the land from returning to wasteland and desertification.
    To pray to you for all those living in parts of the world where climate change has already
    wreaked havoc and is causing the displacement of starving populations.
    To pray to you for the dreamers, the utopians, the courageous, who are fighting against the degradation of
    the environment, and come up against conflicting financial interests.

  • 8 August 2026

    When we run towards nowhere,
    when we search in the distance for illusory treasures that will leave us unsatisfied,
    bring us back to our field.
    So often we squander these hours, these days, these daily treasures that are given to us.
    So often we are consumers of the fleeting.
    In the frantic race for ever more, which speeds up our world,
    stop us for your sake, stop us for our own sake,
    stop us now for this moment of prayer,
    in its truth,
    in its selflessness.

  • 4 August 2026

    Jesus, Yeshua, every morning I repeat your Name, and bless you.
    I repeat your Name like the light that dispels the night, and bless you.
    I repeat your Name like living water in our deserts, and bless you.
    I repeat your Name like a seed promising all growth, and bless you.
    To repeat your Name like a gentle breath, more enduring than our weariness, and to bless you.
    To repeat your Name as the One who will open to us the heart of God, your Father and our Father.