Chapel for Europe

Adoration
2025-03-24 12:00 - 14:00, 2025-03-17 12:00 - 14:00, 2025-03-10 12:00 - 14:00, 2025-03-03 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Brussels)
Mondays during lunchtime (12:00 to 14.00) we invite you to the Eucharistic adoration in the crypt. In the presence of Christ, the exposed blessed Sacrament, we watch and pray and remain silent to open ourselves to His graces…

Morning Prayer (fr)
2025-03-24 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-03-21 08:30 - 09:00, 2025-03-17 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-03-14 08:30 - 09:00, 2025-03-10 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-03-07 08:30 - 09:00 | Chapel for Europe, Rue Van Maerlantstraat 22-24, Brussels, Belgium
Come and discover our Morning Prayer with psalms, the Gospel of the day and intercession prayer, following mainly the prayer of the Laudes. The prayer are mostly in French, but can also be partly in English, depending on the attending persons.
30 minutes of prayer are followed by a coffee or tea together in the foyer of the Chapel. An excellent way to start the working day!
When:

Mondays, 8:00-9:00 at the Chapel
Wednesday, 8:00-9:00 via Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82240793358#success , ID: 822 4079 3358 – There is no code, there is a waiting room. For more information, please contact: ALCARAZ Fabienne at Fabienne.ALCARAZ@ec.europa.eu
Fridays, 8:30-9:00 in the Crypt of the Chapel

Contact: Fabienne Alcaraz at Fabienne.ALCARAZ@ec.europa.eu

Mass for young professionals (En)
2025-03-23 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-03-16 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-03-09 19:00 - 20:00
We invite everybody, especially the young professionals from the European and International milieu, to come together to celebrate every Sunday with this (Catholic) mass, singing Taizé songs, sharing the Gospel, and praying together.
The service is usually in English. After the mass, we have a traditional drink and chat.
Contact: welcome@chapelforeurope.eu

Ignatian Prayer Group
2025-03-21 18:45 - 20:00, 2025-03-14 18:45 - 20:00, 2025-03-07 18:45 - 20:00 | Chapel for Europe, Rue Van Maerlantstraat 22-24, Brussels, Belgium
The Ignatian Meditation Group meets every Friday in the crypt of the Chapel for Europeat 18:45 with an adoration and at 19:00 the guided meditation beginns.
Ignatian spirituality can show you the way to a joyful and meaningful life. It will give you the tools to learn to focus, in a very concrete way, on the importance of joy in the life of Christians who wants to live according to the Gospel.
For more information, please contact:
Fr. Bernd Guenther sj: bernd.guenther@chapelforeurope.eu.

Retreat in Daily Life during Lent
2025-03-20 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-03-13 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-03-06 19:30 - 21:00 | Chapel for Europe, Rue Van Maerlantstraat 22-24, Brussels, Belgium
Lent is a time for reflection, prayer, and spiritual growth—an opportunity to reorient our lives and strengthen our relationship with God. The Chapel invites you to a Retreat in Daily Life that will help you deepen your spirituality and grow in the experience of God’s closeness.
This retreat is based on Ignatian spirituality and will focus on the Credo—formulated at the Council of Nicaea (325 ad), 1,700 years ago. The Credo is still the basic summary of the Christian faith in all churches today, it will guide us as we reflect on our daily lives during Lent. The retreat will include a personal daily prayer, for which instructions will be given, a prayerful review of the day and weekly sharing in the group.

Start Date: 6 March at 19:30 in the crypt
Weekly Meetings on Thursdays at 19:30 until 10 April in the crypt

To register or for more information, please contact Fr. Bernd Günther SJ at bernd.guenther@chapelforeurope.eu

Messe (fr.)
2025-03-19 13:15 - 13:50, 2025-03-18 13:15 - 13:50, 2025-03-12 13:15 - 13:50, 2025-03-11 13:15 - 13:50, 2025-03-04 13:15 - 13:50 | Chapel for Europe, Rue Van Maerlantstraat 22-24, Brussels, Belgium
At the Chapel for Europe weekly masses are celebrated on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 13:15.
The mass is celebrated according to the roman catholic liturgy including the Eucharist. Usually the celebration will be in French, on occasions also in English, depending the attendees.
The Chapel opens its doors and welcomes you from Monday to Thursday from 12:00 to 14:00 for a silent prayer, a moment of reflection or just some minutes of spiritual pause during the busy week days. Come as you are, you are always welcome!

Morning prayer online (fr)
2025-03-19 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-03-12 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-03-05 08:00 - 09:00 | Chapel for Europe, Rue Van Maerlantstraat 22-24, Brussels, Belgium

"Hear My Cry" awareness campaign
2025-03-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Chapel for Europe, Rue Van Maerlantstraat 22-24, Brussels, Belgium
The Chapel for Europe invites you to a special presentation and discussion on the urgent issue of child sexual exploitation—a grave violation of human rights affecting millions of children worldwide.
This crisis, often overlooked in public discourse, continues to grow at an alarming rate, particularly in developing countries. It includes trafficking, online sexual abuse, child prostitution, and child pornography: fueled by poverty, weak legal systems, corruption, and the increasing reach of the internet. The rising number of children trapped in exploitation has devastating and lasting consequences on their lives. Victims/ survivors of sexual abuse are often deeply traumatized, and their capacity to thrive severely impacted.
The Chapel for Europe wants to support as we raise awareness and explore ways to take action in protecting the most vulnerable. Join us as we talk to Sheila Guico Mally and René Mally about this hidden crisis of child sexual exploitation specifically in the Philippines. Although the Philippines are the world´s epicenter for online sexual exploitation of minors, hardly any facilities for trauma healing exist.
Responding to this dramatic situation, Attorney Sheila quit her job as prosecutor, re-trained as a therapist and established the Balik Kaanyag Trauma Healing Center (Blossom of Life). Together with her team, she now offers hope and healing to sexually abused children in Mindanao, Philippines.
The Balik Kaanyag Trauma Healing Center (Blossom of Life) is a Christian non-profit organization that aims to care for, heal, and empower children victims of abuse, especially survivors of sexual abuse.
Child sexual exploitation is a global emergency that demands urgent action. By speaking up, supporting survivors, and holding perpetrators accountable, we can help create a world where every child is safe, protected, and free to live without fear.
Our special guests:
Sheila Guico Mally: lawyer, prosecutor of perpetrators of online sexual exploitation of children, trauma therapist, founder and head of Balik Kaanyag Trauma Healing Center in Villanueva (Misamis Oriental), Philippines.
René Mally: economist with 30 years of experience in international relations and poverty reduction in Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific, and a longtime friend of the Chapel of Europe.
For more information: http://balikkaanyag.org/ and on their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/BalikKaanyagBlossomofLife

Painting with light
2025-03-10 18:30 - 21:00
ICONS WRITING WORKSHOP
CALENDAR AND FEES
Classes will be held once a week at 18h30 till 21h on Mondays. The meeting will consist of 15 minutes of preparation, 2h of work, 15 minutes of cleaning. We start on February the 10th till April the 14th (except March 17th).
The cost of the 9 classes per 2,5hours is 230 euros paid once at the beginning of the workshop. The price of the classes includes the participation fee, one-on-one consultations, room rental fee and materials. The minimum group is 6 persons, the maximum – 12.
Work materials:
By coming to the workshop you’re getting all needed materials to make one icon: a set of 4 brushes: in different sizes made of squirrel hair plus one plastic one, a palette, a wooden board prepared with white layer of glue-chalk “levkas” and 11 pigments and tools for work in the class – sponges, spatulas, sandpaper, paper towels, wine, eggs, candles, paper, tracing paper, rubber bands and others.
REQUIREMENTS:
No experience or art education is necessary to start writing icons !   Learning begins with mastering the basics of icon-writing and is conducted at a pace that suits the participants’ abilities and needs. We work with the historical method.
During the class you will learn:
– hold the brush correctly
– precision and diligence
– making emulsion from eggs and wine and mixing tempera from pigments and emulsion,
– the basics of observation and composition, making a sketch and transferring it to the wooden board,
– painting
A few words from the presenter:
“My name is Katarzyna Martynuska and I am an art historian by education at the University of Warsaw. I acquired my painting skills at the Study of the Christian East in Warsaw and at the Christian Association of Creators of Sacred Art “Ecclesia” in Cracow.
In Warsaw, for four years, I led icon painting workshops at the “Way to Beauty” studio, with which I still cooperate. I am currently a student of the master class at the Brussels Academy of Icon Painting.  I am also a founder of “TEKLA” association – promoting women and girls in the Catholic church.  My second profession is music – I’m playing baroque music violone, now I’m also a student in Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles.”
REGISTRATION and any questions:   icons@martynuska.com
My website:
https://martynuskaicons.weebly.com/about-me.html
https://martynuskaicons.weebly.com/gallery.html

Messe (fr.) avec la croix des cendres
2025-03-05 13:15 - 13:50 | Chapel for Europe, Rue Van Maerlantstraat 22-24, Brussels, Belgium
