Inspirational Message for January 2022

January 2022. Let me start by wishing you all a very blessed 2022. Hopefully, this year brings us closer to the end of the pandemic, or at least a less interrupting way to live with COVID.  Pope Francis started the year with the 55th World Day of Peace message on...

Monthly Inspirational Message

Last Advent we never thought that for this year, Corona numbers would hit record highs. It has become an art therefore to look at life from a perspective of what is possible, rather than what is not. Advent rings in a new Liturgical year. The year 2022 looks promising...

On the Threshold of the Summer of 2021

A very challenging pastoral year 2020-2021 comes to an end. Many of our parishioners are tired and long for summer with renewed family contacts, travel options, and less restricted life. We have all spent lots of energy trying to survive and getting through the Corona...

Monthly Inspirational- May 2021

The month of May is usually a month of many festivities. Weddings, First Communions, and Confirmations are all planned long in advance. Even though the terraces and shops in The Hague are slowly starting to re-open again and more people are getting vaccinated, Corona...

Monthly Inspirational- April 2021

On the Threshold of April 2021 Last Easter, the first lockdown in The Netherlands was so strict and severe that Holy Week could not be celebrated in church. Everything was literally closed. All the ceremonies were video streamed from my living room. The singing and...