Updates

Don’t forget to register by 14th August.

Please join us on our annual Ascension day pilgrimage on 14th May 2026.

The Franciscan church and monastery was established in Faido, north of Bellinzona, in the 16th century.

• 1.1 km walk to Church.
• Mass celebrated by our Chaplain.
• Tour of Museum.
• Lunch sponsored by CECLU.
• Rosary walk to chapel of Madonna delle Rive on a hill OR walk back to station with visit to St Andreas church.

Train: 8.18 am from Luzern Bahnhof (changing at Arth-Goldau). Please buy your own return ticket, group seats shall be reserved.

Please register before 8th May by clicking here.

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We invite you to our pilgrimage to Assisi on October 6th to 10th 2025:

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On March 1st, Saturday we shall be visiting the 1st Capuchin friary in Switzerland, founded in the 15th century. We shall start with a Lentan Kreuzweg, followed by lunch at the convent and Holy Mass.

• Departure from Luzern by train at 8:18.
  Arrival in Lugano and transfer to Bus, arriving at 10:25
• Kreuzweg, Stations of the Cross
• Lunch at the convent
• English Mass
• Departure from Lugano by train at 18:02, arr Luzern at 19:41

Group tickets: Fr 49 (Halbtax), Fr 98 (full price).
Spartageskarte: Fr 39 (with Halbtax) and 52 (full price) from your Gemeinde website or counter, if booked 12 days before travel date.

Please register by 25 Feb 2025 through WhatsApp (link now removed) and indicate if you have a ticket or would like us to buy a group ticket for you. For more information, please speak with Aileen or Ela.

We are commemorating All Souls’ on Saturday 2nd November. (Please share the names of those whom you would wish to have remembered via our form.) Mass will be held as usual at 5:30pm at Peterskapelle.

Please join us for a Potluck after Mass (don’t forget to register here), which will take place at the Portugese Mission (Weystrasse 8, Luzern).

Please join us for our 2024 Summer BBQ on Friday 23rdth August, 5pm – 9pm, at the Capuchin Monastery Wesemlin. All members, family, and friends are welcome!

Join us for an aperitif, BBQ, and games. Please >>RSVP here<<.

Note: For those who would like to volunteer to bring salad, sides, desert, or anything else, please indicate this on the registration form.

Directions by bus: take the number 7 towards Unterlöchli, and get off at the stop “Kloster”. Walk around the monastery and enter via the main gate to the gardens.

Car: follow directions to Wesemlinstrasse 42. There is plenty of blue-zone parking in the surrounding area, see map (Zone H).