Masses near you
Where is Mass tonight? The map shows celebrations in the next few hours around you. Each listing gives the weekly schedule, confessions, adoration, the parish office and directions.
- Filters: now, tonight, Sunday, language
- Listings verified by the parishes, with the update date
- Favourites available offline
Retreat centres and reviews
Africa’s first directory of Catholic retreat centres: monasteries, foyers of charity, spiritual centres. Upcoming sessions, remaining places and checked reviews from people who stayed there.
- Sign up directly with the centre, by WhatsApp or phone
- Reviews verified by email and checked under a charter
- Filter by type of retreat, audience, length and language
Liturgical calendar
The app takes on the liturgical colour of the day. Feasts, memorials, key seasons and your country’s proper feasts, month by month.
- Feast of the day and liturgical colour
- Month view and key dates of the year
- Proper calendar of Côte d’Ivoire
News of the Church in Africa
The latest news from Catholic media across the continent, in a single feed you can filter by country.
- Updated every fifteen minutes
- Each article opens on its outlet’s website
- French, English and Portuguese
Parishes and retreat centres keep their own listings up to date.
Reliable information comes from the people who know it. Parish priests, secretaries, catechists and guest managers run their own listing from the app, with no password to remember.
1Request access
From the parish or centre listing, in a few fields.
2The team checks
It calls the official number back before granting access. The lead contact can then add up to two contributors.
3Update, even offline
Times, events, sessions: published straight away, or sent as soon as the network is back.
A parish’s name, location or closure only changes after the team approves it. Every change is recorded under its author’s name.
Marie-Lucienne N’Guessan
Founder of Marée de Lumière, initiator of Lucerna App
My background
Ivorian and based in Montreal since 2025, I hold a Higher Technician Certificate (BTS) in computing, specialising in application development, from Groupe EDHEG in Bouaké, and a degree in software engineering from the Institut Ivoirien de Technologie in Grand-Bassam. I am now studying for an MBA in information technology management at Université Laval. Since 2019 I have been designing websites and digital tools, and I have supported the digital communication of organisations such as the UNAIDS country office in Côte d’Ivoire. In 2021 I founded the Centre Marée de Lumière, an association that has already trained more than 1,500 young women and teenagers in digital skills.
Why Lucerna?
Finding a Mass time in an unfamiliar city, or a retreat centre to rest for a few days, still too often depends on word of mouth. As a Catholic Christian, I wanted to put digital tools at the service of the Church in Africa: simple, reliable information, kept up to date by the parishes themselves, available to everyone, even on a basic phone with a weak signal. Lucerna, Latin for lamp, aims to be a small light on everyone’s way.
A volunteer initiative run by Marée de Lumière.
Lucerna is free and runs on your donations.
No ads.
A question, an idea, a partnership?
Parishes, retreat centres, dioceses, media or users: write to us and we will get back to you quickly.