Welcome!
Whether you are visiting from another parish, another city, another country or renewing your faith after an absence, we are pleased to have you visit our web site. We also hope you will be able to come and worship with us.
The English Speaking Roman Catholic Mission in Zurich has been worshipping in St Anton`s Swiss Catholic Parish, since 1962.
St Anton`s Church is a magnificent and beautiful building which in 2009 celebrated 100 years as a place of worship.
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The ESCM serves all Catholics who speak English, live in Canton Zurich, and wish to pray and receive the Sacraments in the English language.
Thank you for visiting with us – whether in the church itself or on our web site.
We hope you have enjoyed your visit and that you will join us again soon.
COLLECTIONS IN APRIL 2019
6th + 7th – Educational Project "Shuar Villages" in Ecuador. Their project aims to help indigenous children of the Ecuadorian Amazon to obtain basic school supplies (holster, backpack for school, shoes for regular classes + physical education); to organize breakfast for the children; to organize a micro campaign to fight infections and parasites affecting children. The Parish of Santa Ana de los Encuentros, is a parish covering 27 villages, of which 6 are indigenous Shuar. The parents work in the fields and sell their produce, but do not earn enough to support all family needs. Care + hygiene is difficult because of a lack of water purification, leading to the strong presence of insects and parasites, contagious diseases, infections and diarrhea.
13th + 14th (Palm Saturday + Sunday) – For the work and needs of our own Mission community. www.englishmission.ch
16th-22nd (Holy Week + Easter) – “Pro Terra Sancta” Collection. The “Collection for the Holy Land” is the main source of funds for the maintenance of life around the Holy Places. The offerings collected by the parishes and the Bishops are sent by the Commissars of the Holy Land to the Custody of the Holy Land. These offerings are used for the maintenance of the Holy Places and the Christians of the Holy Land, the living stones of the Holy Land. The Custody, thanks to these offerings, is able to sustain and continue the important mission and vocation it owns: to keep and custody the Holy Places, the stones of memory and preserve the Christian presence, the living stones of the Holy Land through many solidarity activities. https://www.custodia.org/en/pro-terra-sancta-collection
27th + 28th – This weekend’s collections are for the Camillian Sisters, Ministers of the Infirm, in Georgia. Their project is to build the "Gran Talitha Kum" Rehabilitation Centre in the city of Akhaltzikhe, in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region. The decision to build this new centre here, where there is a lack of rehabilitation services, is strategic because of the catchment area, which would include patients from Southern Georgia and Northern Armenia. http://www.camilliani.org/en/newsletter-n-26-the-world-of-the-camillians-seen-frome-rome-and-rome-seen-from-the-world/
COLLECTION TOTALS FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 2019
2 + 3 for the Work of the Mission = CHF 1'242.15
9 + 10 for the Camillian Sisters of Mercy, Georgia = CHF 1'405.85
16 + 17 for the Irtysh Valley Project = CHF 1'314.50
23 + 24 for the Missionaries of Charity, Zurich= CHF 1'369.55
!!!Thank you all for your generosity!!!
MASS SCHEDULE
05 Apr Friday 5.30pm Adoration (Church)
6:00pm Holy Mass (Church)
6:30pm Stations of the Cross (Church)
06 Apr Saturday 6:00pm Holy Mass (Crypt)
07 Apr Sunday 11:15am 5th Sunday of Lent - Holy Mass (Church)
12 Apr Friday 6:00pm Holy Mass (Church)
6:30pm Stations of the Cross, followed by
individual confessions (Church)
13 Apr Saturday 6:00pm Palm Saturday - Holy Mass +
Distribution of Palms (Crypt)
14 Apr Sunday 11:15am Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
– Holy Mass + Palm Procession (Church)
18 Apr Thursday 6:00pm Maundy Thursday –
Mass of the Lord's Supper (Church)
19 Apr Friday 6:00pm Good Friday – Celebration of
the Lord's Passion (Church)
20 Apr Saturday 6:00pm Holy Mass (Crypt) - CANCELLED
8:30pm Easter Vigil in the Holy Night –
Concelebration German/English with
St. Anton's Parish (Church)
21 Apr Sunday 11:15am Easter Sunday of the Resurrection
of the Lord - Holy Mass (Church)
22 Apr Monday 11:15am Easter Monday – Holy Mass (Church)
26 Apr Friday 6:00pm Holy Mass (Crypt) - CANCELLED
27 Apr Saturday 6:00pm Holy Mass (Crypt)
28 Apr Sunday 11:15am Holy Mass (Church)
All services are celebrated in St. Anton’s RC Church, Minervastrasse, Zurich.
Please contact Renata for any enquiries. Secretary’s office hours:
Monday-Friday – 8:30-11:30 + 13:30-16:30 (Thursday afternoon closed)