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Mass Time
Weekday Mass
Weekday Mass will resume 13 September
Reconciliation
By appointment
Weekends in church
Sunday 10AM and 5:30PM
Mass Time
Weekday Mass
Weekday Mass will resume 13 September
Reconciliation
By appointment
Weekends in church
Sunday 10AM and 5:30PM
Watch Mass
Every Sunday morning we stream our Mass live for you to follow from the comfort and safety of your own home. It is also available for replay.
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RE Registration for 2024/2025 is now open!
You can now register your child(ren) for our Religious Education classes for the 2024/2025 school year. This includes children who will participate in the First Holy Communion preparation program. More information about our children’s religious education classes can be found here.
Registration is also now open for our Confirmation preparation program
Our Mission Statement
We, The International English Speaking Roman Catholic Parish “Church of Our Saviour” in The Hague aim to share our assets, talents, and opportunities as a continuation of Christ’s mission. Through the wide variety of cultures and international networks, our inclusive parish offers a unique opportunity to translate the values of the Gospel in concrete initiatives to promote justice and peace. We promote a spirituality that is geared to respect people, planet, and sustainability. The inclusion of all people of good will is a constant guideline for our religious formation programs, personal witness, and community initiatives.
With parishioners from over 70 different countries, we are a large International English speaking Roman Catholic Parish based in The Hague, the Netherlands. You are very welcome to join us!
Inspirational Thoughts
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 broadcasting from home made my neighbors wonder what was going on in our apartment building. Back then, we never thought that for Holy Week 2021, we would still find ourselves in lockdown and that the vast majority of people in Europe would still not be vaccinated against COVID. The good news for this Easter, however, is that various vaccines have been approved and we can celebrate in church again, albeit with very restricted numbers. The good times in which 5000 people would gather for the Holy Week ceremonies at COS as in previous years before the pandemic, feel like a long time ago. But at least, with the improved video streaming facilities from our church, we can continue to reach out to people with the comforting messages from the Holy Week liturgies. Besides all the prayers and worship, other signs of new life continued to happen during this challenging year. Our groups and volunteers reached out to each other and to people outside the church with many activities and personal initiatives to maintain and strengthen bonds. Even though the community is less visible in a physical way, it certainly is very tangible on many other different levels. I’d like to illustrate this with a few examples. The freezer in our cellar under the kitchen continued to be filled throughout the entire year with food for the homeless. Thousands of meals were provided for them and distributed in take away containers. The coordinator of the program shared that, “All our cooks are so happy to do this, and it gives us tremendous...
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