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Develop your spiritual life
Here are some helpful app suggestions for deepening your spiritual life, especially during Advent:
- Hallow – Offers guided prayer, meditation, and peaceful reflections to help you build a consistent daily prayer routine.
- Amen – Provides short Scripture-based meditations, music, and daily devotionals that support quiet, reflective moments with God.
- Ascension – Features Bible studies, catechetical resources, and podcasts that help you grow in understanding the faith throughout the liturgical year.
- iBreviary – Gives you access to the Liturgy of the Hours, daily readings, and liturgical texts, making it easy to pray with the universal Church each day.
Year of Grace 2026
At the Threshold of a New Liturgical Year
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Advent is a gentle reminder that God works in the hidden and the humble. As we light each candle, we awaken to a hope that grows quietly within us. This season invites us to make room-through patience, prayer, and small acts of kindness-for Christ who comes as light in our darkness. May these days of waiting deepen our longing for God’s presence and renew our joy in welcoming Jesus into our homes, our parish, and our hearts.
In Christ,
Sibi
The Advent wreath symbolising the everlasting life promised to us will be blessed. Each Sunday during Advent the candles representing hope, peace, joy and love will be lit progressively. A family from our Community will be invited to the altar for the Lighting of the Candles.
Praying with the Psalms: Take a few moments to pause and breathe, setting aside the chaos of the season. This years Advent booklet by Deacon Jason Bulman offers daily 3-Minute devotions from Advent all the way to Christmas. We will be handing out the booklets at the back of church after Mass on the first Sunday of Advent (one per family). Let this Advent season be a time of spiritual renewal as you journey through the psalms and draw closer to the heart of Christ.
Light One Candle for Hope
30.11.2025 The First Sunday of Advent
This Sunday the Travelling Crib receives a blessing in church. Family Eisenbarth will have the honour of first hosting its exciting journey around our community, spreading joy and connection. It’s a wonderful opportunity to strengthen bonds over shared meals or coffee during the handover.
The Travelling Crib brings to life Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem, emphasizing the beauty of hospitality and giving you a delightful chance to connect with fellow community members during Advent.
Ready to offer a bed for the night to the Holy Family? Swing by after Mass this Sunday to sign up. Check out the Reservations List on the Church Noticeboard or simply reach out to info@esrccb.org to get your name on the online Google sheet.
Light One Candle for Peace
07.12.2025 The Second Sunday of Advent
“A Heart for the Children of Bethlehem” is a Switzerland-wide Chocolate Heart campaign that has been
supporting the children’s hospital in Bethlehem/Palestine for over 50 years. As the only children’s hospital in the West Bank it offers support to sick children and their families. Amid violence and increasing poverty due to the ongoing Gaza war, it remains a place of security for numerous Palestinian families. After Mass on Sunday 7th December our RE Classes will
be selling Chocolate Hearts for CHF 5.- in support of the hospital. Thank you for your support in this campaign.
Light One Candle for Joy
14.12.2025 The Third Sunday of Advent
Be inspired by the Light of Peace from the Grotto of the Nativity in Bethlehem as we unite in a heartfelt journey towards dialogue and peace during the Christmas and New Year season. ‘Peace on earth to men of good will’ the angels declared to the shepherds at Jesus’ birth, Today, the Light of Peace embodies this timeless message, crossing every social, religious, and political boundary. This LIGHT, a symbol of PEACE, is one of the things that when given, grows and remains the same shining beacon. Illuminating over 30 countries at Christmas time, and for the 33nd year in Switzerland in 2025, the Peace Light connects us all. Join us at our Mass on the 3rd Sunday in Advent, under the inspiring motto ‘Giving hope.’ Bring a Lantern to Mass and be part of spreading the Light of Peace far and wide.
Light One Candle for Love
21.12.2025 The Fourth Sunday of Advent
“Gracious God, thank You for the gift of Your love in Jesus Christ. As we celebrate His birth, may the reality of Your love fill our hearts. Help us to share Your love with others through our actions. Let the garlands, tinsel, lights and ornaments that we use be a reflection of Your generosity and abundance.”
Volunteer to coordinate the Nativity
“She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger.”
For years, our younger community members have performed the Nativity during the Gospel reading at Christmas Mass. To help keep this cherished tradition alive, we’re seeking an Adult coordinator to lead the project this year. If you’re interested, please reach out to a Council member at Mass or contact us at info@esrccb.org
The Advent Giving Tree
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
Our community, together with the Spanish community will once again put up the traditional Advent Giving Tree Project through which you can give a simple gift to refugees housed in Basel. You will find a small Christmas tree beside the altar decorated with tags indicating the types of gifts refugees require (e.g. gloves, socks, hat etc.). Please take a tag hanging from the Advent tree, purchase the gift and return it to the box adjacent to the tree wrapped and with the tag on the outside by Sunday 14th December. Through the generosity of our communities, OeSA (Ecumenical Pastoral Ministry for Asylum seekers) will distribute the gifts at a Christmas Party at the OeSA support centre on the 18th of December.
For unto us a Child is Born
English Mass Times during the Festive Season at 17:30
Christmas Mass 25.12.2025
Coffee and Christmas cookies will be served.
Feast of the Holy Family Mass 28.12.2025
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God 01.01.2026
After Mass Glühwein and Stollen will be served.
Epiphany 04.01.2026
The traditional 3-Kings bread will be served after Mass, … with the crown.
Fr. Sibi is available for the sacrement of reconciliation on the 2nd and 3rd Advent Sunday at 16:30 in the chapel downstairs.
Looking Back
“I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”
Heartfelt gratitude and an enormous THANK YOU to everyone who brought a meal and joined our Potluck dinner after Mass two weeks ago. The hall was filled with warmth and joy.
The Jubilee Year 2025 comes to an end. The English word jubilee comes from the Hebrew word yōḇel, which refers to the ram’ horn (the shofar) that was sounded once every 50 years to herald a special time of renewal and grace. As a community we celebrated this Jubilee year by allowing different groups from the community to serve at Mass on the third Sunday of every month.Thank you for having been part of the Jubilee Journey where we came together as a pilgrim community, to deepen our faith and unity.
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