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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

  • 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

  • 28 May 2026

    Come, Holy Spirit, visit us!
    We are breathless, Lord.
    In the confines of our homes, amidst our barricades, let your Pentecost burst forth,
    that it may give us a new lease of life.
    Help us to discern your radiant presence in the face of the stranger,
    who comes to shake up our routines.
    Help us to welcome the other in their truth, in their language, in their darkness and in their faith
    which broadens our horizons.
    Teach us how to let this inner fire burn, which comes to us from on high,
    how to let the trust blossom that drives us to the greatest deeds.

  • 26 May 2026

    Ask in my name’
    To dare to ask
    to dare to acknowledge that we are not self-sufficient
    that there is a lack within us and things left undone
    To dare to ask, to dare to trust that we will be heard.
    Lord, if you have told us to ask, is it not because you love us
    and because love delights in giving?
    But is it not also to love that to dare to ask?
    With the whole Church, and far beyond it, we ask for the Spirit.
    He who is the Life of our life
    and in faith we repeat: Come, Lord, come!

  • 19 May 2026

    Christ,
    as you leave us, you leave us a treasure: your Gospel.
    Will we know how to receive it with empty hands, as a gift, as a promise?
    Will the revelation of the mystery of the Kingdom, of the Father’s infinite love, revealed to the little ones, cause us too to tremble with joy?
    Lead us to the simple source of trust,
    let us be reborn from above, by your Spirit.
    Christ, guide us along this path which you were the first to tread,
    so that, unburdened by ourselves, we may have no other recourse,
    no other certainty and no other risk,
    than to believe in Love and to build our lives upon it.
    Yes, grant that we may welcome the Love of God,
    your Father and our Father, with our whole lives.