Category: Updates

Since the beginning, the Sisters of the Generalate of the Holy Cross Sisters have been a part of our community. As the generalate is moving to Menzingen, the Sister’s will unfortunately no longer be able to celebrate with us – and we will be holding a farewell Mass on Saturday 24th April. All are invited!

Please note the following times for Holy Week.

• Palm Saturday (28th March): 5:30pm.
• Holy Thursday (1st April): 5:30pm.
• Good Friday (2nd April): 3:00pm.
• Easter Vigil (Saturday 3rd April): 6:30pm.

Update: no registration will be required.

During Lent we will again be meeting online for stations of the cross – see details in the flyer. We will be reflecting on 2-3 stations every week.

On Ash Wednesday (17th February), we will have a service at 5:30pm, in the Peterskapelle.

Ashes will be scattered over the head/hair, without personal contact.

Note also: during Lent we will be meeting online for the Way of the Cross every Friday at 5:30pm, further details to follow.

We are also preparing plans for Holy Week, details likewise will follow in due course!

During Advent, we will be meeting online for Advent prayers and singing – every Friday at 5pm. (Beginning Friday 4th December.)

Connection details will be posted on the Whatsapp group.

We will be celebrating the following additional Masses this year:

• Christmas Eve – 24th December – 7pm. (Registration will be required.)
• New Year’s Eve – 31st December – 7pm. (Registration will be required.)

Registration details will be posted later via our WhatsApp group.

(These Masses will take place in the Peterskapelle as per usual.)

There will be no English Mass on Saturday 5th December. Instead, we will celebrate Mass at 9:30am on Sunday 6th December.

We are fortunate to welcome back Fr. Herbert Mudzumi as celebrant for this Mass.

Yesterday we celebrated the formal installation of Bro. George as Chaplain of the English community. He was installed by Dr. Brigitte Glur-Schüpfer on behalf of the episcopal vicariate St. Viktor (Diocese Basel).

Brother George first joined our community as chaplain last month, we are very happy to be able to continue with our celebrations in English under his direction in future.

We were also glad to welcome Josef Haselbach – Provincial of the Capuchins in Switzerland, Willi Anderau – Guardian of the Capuchin Monastery in Luzern, and Sr. Dorina Zanoni – congregational leader of the Generelate of the Sisters of the Holy Cross.

On Saturday 19th September we celebrated Fr. Thomson’s farewell (along with our first Saturday Evening Mass). We are fortunate to welcome Brother George as the new Chaplain of our community.

Fr. Thomson graciously offered to lead our celebrations from the beginning of the English community – back in March 2019, when he was doing his doctoral studies in Luzern – but has since then been called back to his ministry with the Carmelites in Kerala (India). He has strongly shaped our community both through his actions and his preachings. He will be sorely missed, and we wish him all the best in his future ministries!

As previously announced, our Mass time is changing to Saturdays, 5:30pm – replacing our old time of Sunday Morning at 9:30am. However, our first Saturday evening Mass will be on Saturday 19th September – 5:30pm (and not on Saturday 12th September as originally announced). Our last Sunday Morning Mass will therefore be on Sunday 13th Septmber – 9:30am.

All Masses will be in the Peterskapelle, as per usual.

We apologise for the late change, and any confusion this may have caused.