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The ESRCCB Welcomes You

The English-Speaking Roman Catholic Community of Basel is a diverse mixture of people from around the world coming together to celebrate Mass and share in the sacraments. Mass is every Sunday evening, at 5:30 PM, in the Bruder Klaus church in Bruderholz, Basel, Switzerland. If you live in Basel or are visiting Switzerland, please come and celebrate with us. Map is below.

Annual General Meeting, April 20

Our next community AGM will be held in the hall of Bruder Klaus after Mass on Sunday, April 20th. The community will provide a light cheese and wine supper, and it is hoped that as many people as possible will attend.

Joint Mass on April 27

Our next joint mass with our Swiss hosts will be held on April 27th at 5:30pm at Bruder Klaus. As usual we will be providing snacks for both communities. The social committee will provide the drinks, but it would be greatly appreciated if as many of our community as possible could bring a plate of eats so that we can offer a tasty selection of snacks from many countries.

Joan Stockitt Workshop - Listening - The essence of caring May 3 at Mariastein Abbey

We would like to invite you for a special workshop with Joan Stockitt: "Becoming a more effective listener"

• Learn by “doing”
• Opportunities to listen and be listened to
• What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?
• Listening to understand rather than to solve
• The qualities of an effective listener
• Listening can be fun!
• Listening can be learned

Some information about Joan Stockitt: Joan's interest in counseling developed when her children were still quite young and she had a serious illness. She did her first counseling course 17 years ago and has done many courses since, gaining a diploma in clinical and pastoral counseling and accreditation with a professional association in UK.

She moved with her family to Germany in 2001. Joan has gradually taken on more clients and her most recent training has been in life-coaching and in EFT (Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy). She currently has clients in Basel as well as in the Freiburg area. More information about Joan can be found on www.englishcounsellor.net

The workshop will take place at Mariastein Abbey on May 3, 2008 from 10 am to 4 pm and will cost CHF 52.00 including lunch in the guest refectory of the monastery.

If you are interested in joining us for an interesting day in a nice environment, please feel free to sign up at the back of the church by April 14, 2008 at the latest. Thank you. If you need any further information please contact our Adult Faith Development Coordinator Petra Ramskogler on info@esrccb.org

The Confirmation Candidates Service Projects

February 23rd: Making decorations and selling baked goods

We started to make the decorations for the Children's Hospital in the church...

... and we sold baked goods from 10:00am - 5:00pm. It was such a beautiful day!

March 1st: Finishing up the decorations and helping the daycare center

We had to come to the church in the morning to finish the decorations for the hospital. But everyone had fun listening to music while we worked.

And some of us helped in a daycare center in the afternoon from 2:00pm - 5:00pm cleaning out a storage room and some book shelves. We had lots of fun going through the bookshelf, and found many books we used to have.

March 4th: Bringing the decorations to the hospital

We brought all the decorations to the hospital. We were all proud of ourselves, that we had made over 100 decorations.

We were even given the opportunity to hang up the first of the decorations in the hallway of the hospital.

We also gave the hospital 900Fr. as a donation.

This is the picture of all of us who were able to come to the hospital that day.

Please click on the map below for more detailed directions.

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