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News Archive
Religious Education registration CLOSED
Registration is now closed for all our children's religious education classes, including First Holy Communion and Confirmation. Due to high demand, the classes are all full for this school year. Children aged 12-18 are welcome to participate in the Youth Group....
A Great Start to the New Pastoral Year 2023-2024!
Saturday 9 September COS welcomed Prof. Rik Torfs who delivered an excellent lecture on ‘’The Church is Fantastic” followed by an interactive and interesting question and answer session. Sunday 10 September Huge thanks to our Parish BBQ Team for the fabulous work they...
Socktober 2023 reaches goal!
Thanks to the generosity of our parish community, the third annual COS Socktober Fest raised enough money to reach their target of 500 pairs of socks. During the month of October, the children from the First Communion classes will fill these warm socks with food and...
Feast of St. Teresa of Calcutta
Tuesday, 5 September is the feast of St. Teresa of Calcutta. The sisters in Rotterdam kindly invite those who are interested to attend a remembrance for Mother Teresa at the Cathedral in Rotterdam located at Mathenesserlaan 305. The Rosary will be prayed at 09:30,...
Open Monument Day
This weekend, most of the listed monuments in The Netherlands will be open to the public to visit. Some of the monuments will also have activities. The theme for 2023 is, "Living Heritage." Our beautiful church is a listed monument, and we are participating in this...
COS Parish Family BBQ
Meet the Parish 2023
Summer holidays are almost over- soon the schools will be back in session and everything will be busy again in our parish! On Sunday, 10 September, our parish will celebrate the opening of the new pastoral year with our annual "Meet the Parish" event. It is a way for...
COS at World Youth Day 2023 – with testimony
From 1- 6 August, four young adults from our parish - Antonio, Hannia, Iván & Lupita - travelled to the World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal. They joined over 1.5 million youth from around the world and very ably represented our parish, bringing our church banner...
Housing in The Netherlands
As many of you are aware, housing in The Netherlands is in very short supply. This makes it especially difficult for students to find affordable places to rent whilst they are here studying. From time to time, the Parish Office receives phone calls or emails from...