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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
- 7 November 2025
You have made known to us, O our God, what you expect of us,nothing other than to do justice, love kindness, and walk faithfully with you.
We pray, give us a whole heart!
Where concern for appearances prevents any true encounterfree us from our pride.
We pray, give us a whole heart!
Where the power of weapons takes precedence over human life,free us from our tyrannies.
We pray, give us a whole heart!
Where poverty dehumanises and erodes the hope of entire populations,free us from our indifference.
We pray, give us a whole heart!
- 4 November 2025
Jesus Lord,
perhaps it would have been simpler to be servants…
servants have set hours, they have ‘limited responsibility’
whether they are useful or not is up to their employer.
But you did not call us servants
you dared to call us your friends
and that changed everything.
A friend is a full-time job.
We share our wildest hopes with our friends,
our deepest sorrows, our doubts, and our plans.
Friendship has nothing to do with usefulness.
Friendship can only exist freely.
It is a pure gift.
And that is why we come to praise you tonight,
freely, for the joy of a friend’s presence to a friend…
Blessed be you, Jesus, for daring to do this crazy thing: taking us as your friends… - 31 October 2025
God our Father, in Jesus your Son, you have revealed your heart to us. Through him you give us drink from the fountain
of living water, and through him you also tell us of your thirst to draw water from our well. In him we recognise
your Envoy, your Beloved Son, who is also the First among the multitude of brothers and sisters.
May your Spirit give us the courage to follow Jesus and continue his work of
peace, to embody in the most concrete way a little of that mercy that would revolutionise the world…. - 27 October 2027
To your question, ‘Who am I to you?’ How can I answer you except with a song of praise, Jesus Lord!
Jesus, You are the One who speaks of God as a Father who is full of tenderness for all.
Praise be to You!
You are the One who weeps at the death of your friend and brings him back to life.
Praise be to you!
You are the One who prefers the company of sinners to that of the self-righteous,
because you want us to be merciful. Praise be to you!
You are the One who frees the law from its burden and speaks to us of the freedom and joy of the children of God.
Praise be to you!
You are the One who allows himself to be nailed to a cross, among criminals, living to the end the logic of God’s weakness. Praise be to you!
You are the One who gathers us together in prayer and leads us into the freedom of the Spirit.
Praise be to you! - 24 October 2025
Lord our God,
you who in Jesus became our companion and friend,
you know how dependent,
vulnerable and fragile we are.
We come to you with the weight of the past, that you may purify it,
with our present, that it may be filled with promise,
and our future, that it may be exposed to the breath of life.
May our whole life be the field of your grace,
for harvests of justice and peace.