Chaplaincy of the European Schools (04/2022)

After the Easter Vigil Mass 2021 in Mamer’s Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church

Dear Parents,

A Blessed Holy Week and Happy Easter !

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself. Lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely. – St. Catherine of Siena

April activity

Guided visit to the Basilica in Echternach
Saturday, April 30th, from 11 a.m until 12 p.m.

You and your children are cordially invited to register for a guided walking tour which will take place on Saturday, 30 April, beginning at at the entrance of the St. Willibrord Basilica in Echternach. This basilica has become a popular tourist attraction, due partly to the dancing, or hopping, procession held there on the Tuesday after Pentecost, or Whit Tuesday : https://vimeo.com/131869415 . This procession has been inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. (The estimated end time of this visit is noon, which will leave you time to enjoy lunch in one of the wonderful restaurants there.) This tour will be given in English. Group size is limited to twenty-five participants on a first-come, first-served basis. A fee of 3 Euros per person is requested to cover the cost of the guide. To register, please respond to this invitation by email and include your full name, the number of participants and the age of your children at : cheryl.kouba@cathol.lu by Monday, 25 April at 16:30.

Other Church activities

Synod 2021-2023

As many of you are aware, the diocesan phase of Synod 2021-2023 began with a Mass in October. Questions can now be found in nine languages at : https://cathol.lu/article9601. Students have had the opportunity to participate in this process in their RCA classes, using an adapted version of the questions. If parents are not taking-part in this process through their parish or another group, they are invited to complete an individual response form.

Diocesan Youth Ministry event : WYD Lisboa 2023

Plans are underway for the WYD Lisbon 2023 !

The official dates of the WYD Lisbon 2023 have been announced by the Archdiocese of Lisbon : August 1st to 6th. For more information, as well as to register, please go to : https://www.luxyouth.lu/jmj2023 (all upcoming events of the Diocesan Youth Ministry are found on the LuxYouth site : https://www.luxyouth.lu/) or contact Ms. Carolina Medrano at carolina.medrano@cathol.lu.

The organizing committee of WYD 2023 is in need of student ambassadors.Therefore, if your child is actively involved in your parish and willing to share news of the upcoming WYD with their peers, please contact me !

General Information

Mass times

All regularly scheduled Mass hours may be found on the site of the Archdiocese of Luxembourg : https://www.cathol.lu/ under the heading « Gottesdéngschter, Célébrations ». You may search Mass hours by parish, location, language and type of celebration. In addition to the regularly scheduled weekly Masses, Mass will also be celebrated in English at Eglise Sainte-Vierge-Marie in Capellen (49, route d’Arlon) on Sunday, April 3rd and Easter Sunday, April 17th at 5 p.m.

Best wishes,
Cheryl

Cheryl Kouba
School Chaplaincy Animator for the European Schools