Events

OPERATION 500 BAGS OF SHORTBREAD COOKIES / 500 THANK YOUS This was the invitation that the priests and pastoral ministry team of Trappes parish sent out to the parishioners. After lockdown comes the time to say THANK YOU. Thank you to the hospital, laboratory, nursing and pharmacy staff. Thank you to the businesses that stayed open to insure our subsistence: bakers, butchers, grocery store workers and cashiers. Thank you to those who continued to provide essential social services: postal carriers, municipal police, undertakers, garbage collectors, security guards,…

D-Duration. We want reduced lockdown measures over long duration. E- Enter.  We have entered into the first stage. C- Creation.  It is like a new creation, living like Jesus in full harmony with the wonders of creation. O- Order. Necessary so that the greatest number of persons possible do not get Coronavirus. N-Nature.  Following lockdown we really appreciate nature with its multicolored flowers and bird songs. F-Families.  May this time of relaxed lockdown bring peace and joy to families. I-Interiority. Silence and solitude have allowed us to…

  Villa des Otages, 8 PM! A whistle is heard coming from next door signaling the daily concert!  Individuals, from those who have survived Covid-19, take up their instruments and go outside…Many people are at their windows, clapping and playing percussion.  A good part of the neighbourhood participates in the concert.   A moving crescendo was heard on the evening when the majority of the sisters and novices who had been sick came out to cheer, "We are healed!" Accompanied every evening by the bells of the church,…

Within the context of Laudato si’ week, https://laudatosiweek.org/ , The Christian Catholic Movement for Climate invites everyone in the world to be part of a Global Day of Prayer on May 24th at twelve noon. A prayer for the earth might be said with our brothers and sisters of other religions to make it a more valuable experience.   Prayer suggestions are available: https://catholicclimatemovement.global/   https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/resources?ID=153339 In French, a different prayer is offered: https://www.egliseverte.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CUT_laudato_si_6mai_2020_BAT.pdf