April 3, 2016 - Second Sunday of Easter Rev. M. Keith LaBove, Pastor Parish Website: www.stpat.org [email protected]Office Hours Monday – Thursday: 8:30 am – 3:00 pm; Friday 8:30 am – 12 noon Celebration of the Eucharist Saturday: 4:00 pm – Sunday: 8:30 & 10:00 am Monday through Friday: 7:30 am Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday: 3:00 – 3:30 pm and Weekdays: 7:15 am Baptisms Seminars are held every other month - register by calling the office. At- tendance is suggested during pregnancy. Anointing of the Sick The Church recom- mends this sacrament for those who are grave- ly ill or in danger of death. Call the priest to arrange a visit. Weddings Arrangements must be made at least six months in advance to allow time for prepara- tion and planning. 406 East Pinhook Road Lafayette, LA 70501-8727 Phone: (337) 237-0988
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April 3, 2016 - Second Sunday of Easter
Rev. M. Keith LaBove, Pastor Parish Website: www.stpat.org
Monday – Thursday: 8:30 am – 3:00 pm; Friday 8:30 am – 12 noon
Celebration of the Eucharist
Saturday: 4:00 pm – Sunday: 8:30 & 10:00 am Monday through Friday: 7:30 am
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Saturday: 3:00 – 3:30 pm and Weekdays: 7:15 am
Baptisms
Seminars are held every other month - register
by calling the office. At-tendance is suggested
during pregnancy.
Anointing of the Sick The Church recom-
mends this sacrament for those who are grave-
ly ill or in danger of death. Call the priest to
arrange a visit.
Weddings
Arrangements must be made at least six
months in advance to allow time for prepara-
tion and planning.
406 East Pinhook Road Lafayette, LA 70501-8727
Phone: (337) 237-0988
Welcome to St. Patrick Church
Second Sunday of Easter
April 3, 2016
MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK
Saturday, April 2--Vigil of the Second Sunday of Easter 4:00 PM: Cecil & Eva Mae Hebert; Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Rolfes; Pat Wendt (living); Verna & Wiley Romero; Ty Kalweit (living); M/M Tom Stutes & Family; Sue Vallot (living) Sunday, April 3--Second Sunday of Easter 8:30 AM: Robert Chastant & Evelyn; Eddie Upton; Dr. Almore (Doc) Bordelon; Nick & Earl Chiasson; Carmen Lozada; M/M Elliott Roy; Robert Cole; Joseph & Eldie Woods; Phil Simon; Bud & Euna Arceneaux; Gerald Domingue 10:00 AM: Parishioners of St. Patrick’s Monday, April 4--The Annunciation of the Lord 7:30 AM: Janell Champagne (living);
Wednesday, April 6--Easter Weekday 7:30 AM: Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne; Col. Clark Comeaux & Catherine (living); Col. Kimberly Fedele (living) Thursday, April 7--St. John Baptist de la Salle, Priest 7:30 AM: Dr. Nicholas Olivier Friday, April 8--Easter Weekday 7:30 AM: Dr. Charles Stewart Easter Flowers In Loving Memory of: Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne Pierre & “Monty” Montagnet Larry Lampo; Bannon Braun; Christopher Landry
Non-Liturgical Devotions Daily Rosary: Monday - Thursday 6:55 a.m. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena: Tuesday 7:15 a.m. Rosary for Priests: Wednesday 7:00 a.m. Chaplet of Divine Mercy: Thursday 7:15 a.m. Pro-Life Rosary: 1st Friday of the month 7 a.m. Shamrocks—Friday, April 8: No cleaning. Holy Hour for Vocations Please join us for our monthly “Holy Hour for Voca-tions and for the Spiritual Renewal of All Priests” on Monday, April 4, from 6:00-7:00 p.m. at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 406 E. Pinhook Road. Recitation of the Rosary begins at 5:30 p.m. All are welcome to join in these prayers for vocations and perseverance of vocations to the priesthood and religious life, spon-sored by the Serra Club of Lafayette.
Food for the Journey The Central Region of the Diocese of Lafayette presents “Food for the Journey”, a monthly lunchtime speaker se-ries designed to help Catholics live out our faith in our daily lives. Our speaker for April is Rev. Sebastian Myladiyil, SVD, Pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, Lafayette. “Food for the Journey” will be held on Tuesday, April 5, at Wyndham Garden Lafa-yette (formerly “Hotel Acadiana”), 1801 W. Pinhook Road, beginning at 12:00 noon. An optional lunch buffet is available for purchase beginning at 11:30 a.m. All are welcome to come “eat and be fed”- please bring a friend! Pre-registration is not required. For more infor-mation, please call Mary Bergeron (654-8682). Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. — Revelation 1:18a
Easter Gratitude A word of thanks is due to all who put extra effort into pre-paring and assisting with our Lenten and Easter wor-ship. This includes our ministers who re-arranged their schedules, our music people who sang and played so pretty, our decorators and cleaners, those who helped set up and helped take down, etc. etc. etc. And thanks to all who showed up and participated and helped us all to praise and worship our God during this glorious time for celebrating new life.
Novena to St. Peregrine With the permission of Bishop Michael Jarrell, Immaculate Heart of Mary Church (818 12th Street, Lafayette) is starting a novena to St. Peregrine. He is the Patron Saint for cancer patients. We will begin the novena on Monday, April 4th, at 6 p.m., with a Healing Mass celebrated by Fr. Anil Thomas, SVD. The novena will continue for nine con-secutive Mondays, starting from Monday, April 4th. We all know someone suffering with cancer (maybe a family mem-ber, relative, neighbor, co-worker, friend, etc.). It is a great opportunity for all of us to pray for healing through the in-tercession of St. Peregrine. All are welcome. For more in-formation, please call the Church Office (235-4618). St. Pius X hosts “The New Evangelization Summit” St. Pius X Catholic Church, Lafayette, is 1 of 30 host sites in the U.S. and Canada to host and stream “The New Evan-gelization Summit” on April 15 & 16, 2016. Live in Otta-wa, and webcast to host sites across North America, “The New Evangelization Summit” features Bishop Christian Riesbeck, Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa, Christopher West, Sherry Weddell, Dr. Peter Kreeft, Michael Dopp, and An-gele Regnier. Tickets are $30.00 and must be purchased in advance. Lunch is on your own, but coffee, drinks and snacks will be available. When registering online, please be sure to check “Lafayette, LA” (not “Lafayette, IN”) as your host site. To purchase tickets or for more information, please visit newevangelization.ca or contact Mr. Ashton Mouton at St. Pius X Catholic Church (337-296-6713; [email protected]). Local Pilgrimage Bus Trip— Jubilee Year of Mercy St. Mary Church, Lafayette, is offering a one-day Pilgr im-age Bus Trip on Thursday, April 28, to visit Pilgrimage Sites in the Diocese of Lafayette designated by Bishop Mi-chael Jarrell to reflect on the Father’s mercy and how we can emulate that mercy in our lives. For registration details, cost and more information, please contact JoAnn LeJune at St. Mary Church (981-3379) or Barbara Thibodeaux, Group (235-3240). The second collection today is for our Building Fund.
Central Region’s Annual Celebration of “Divine Mercy Sunday” in Holy Jubilee Year of Mercy The Central Region of the Diocese of Lafayette will host a special celebration of “Divine Mercy Sunday” on Sunday, April 3, at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church. This event begins at 2:00 p.m. with Exposi-tion of the Blessed Sacrament, Divine Mercy Chaplet and Prayers, Sacrament of Reconciliation, and more, followed by Holy Mass at 3:00 p.m. The main cele-brant and homilist will be Rev. Michael Russo, Pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church. Rev. Thomas James, SVD, of the Central Region will concelebrate along with other clergy. A blessing with the Relic of St. Faustina will be held at the end of the Mass. All are welcome to attend, and no pre-registration is re-quired. Please note that Confessions will be limited; you may receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation prior to Divine Mercy Sunday. Every effort will be made to accommodate those attending; however, Confessions will end promptly at 2:45 p.m. Parking is available at Our Lady of Fatima, with additional parking at Black-ham Coliseum with a uniformed police escort to assist in crossing Johnston Street to the Church. For more information, please contact Mary Bergeron (654-8682; [email protected]). Our Lady of Wisdom Spring 2016 Newman Lecture All are invited to join us for our Spring 2016 Newman Lecture on Wednesday, April 20, at 6:30 p.m. at Our Lady of Wisdom Church and Catholic Student Cen-ter’s Jeanmard Hall. Our featured guest speaker is Dr. Brant Pitre. This event is free and open to the pub-lic! For more information, please call 232-8742. Lecture and Gala Dinner Steve Bollman, founder of That Man is You!, will be the keynote speaker on Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 6 pm at the Cajundome Convention Center in Lafayette, La. Tickets for the John Paul the Great Veritas Lecture & Gala Dinner can be purchased at www.jpgacademy.org Mark Your Calendar—St. Mary Church Bus Trip St. Mary Bus Trip 5 days/4 nights, June 6-10, 2016. Visit Eureka Springs, Bentonville & Branson. Attend “The Great Passion Play” & “The Story of Moses”. For more information call JoAnn LeJune at St. Mary Church (981-3379) or Barbara Thibodeaux, Group Di-rector (235-3240). STEWARDSHIP OF THE PAST WEEK Our Response to God’s Generosity to Us Offertory………………………$ 5,834.92 Good Friday (Hoy Land)...……$ 1,118.37 Thank You!
Date
Saturday, April 9 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 10 8:30 a.m.
Sunday, April 10 10:00 a.m.
Lectors Kathy Kalweit Gerrie McGovern Phyllis Roy
Eucharistic Ministers
Candis Thompson Merrick Stelly George Eaton
Larry Lewis Susan Cain Maggie Sonnier
Lee Roy Abshire Barbara Abshire Tami Petre
Altar Servers Oren Spruill Mary Kramer Debra Carroll
Ushers Kevin & Daylan Phillips Rachelle Trahan Keith Toups
Jenny Feehan Lionel Jeanmard
Liturgical Roles for April
Readings for the Week
Monday Is 7:10-14, 8:10; Ps 40:7-11; Heb 10:4-10; Lk 1:26-38
Last Saturday evening, March 26th, a truly glorious event took place around the world. Beginning at the International Date Line, the day came to a close, and evening fell. And as the sun set, Catholics gathered in their local churches to celebrate the Easter Vigil of the Lord’s Resurrection, the most solemn celebration of the year. The Easter Vigil always begins after dark, perhaps revisiting the darkness that fell over the earth at 3 pm on that first Good Friday. As the day turned into night, Catholic gathered to rejoice in a Service of Light, a recalling of our faith story from the Scriptures, a rededication of our Baptismal promises, and of course the celebration of Eucha-rist, which had not taken place anywhere in the world since the previous Thursday night. As sunset continued its nightly journey around the world, so did the celebrations of light and life and victory over death in Catholic churches everywhere. As light shown in the darkness, celebrations of hope marched around the world.
When we gathered here at St. Patrick’s after the sun had set over our little church, we joined all those Catholics in solemnly celebrating the most glorious event in the history of the world, the Resurrection of our Cru-cified God. We gathered on the eve of the first Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of spring, the an-nual date set for Easter. We gathered in our own ‘upper rooms’, there to encounter the Risen Lord, as did the first disciples so long ago. The Risen Christ came and was present in their midst, and so was this same Risen Christ present in our midst. Christ is risen from the dead, he is risen indeed! And His Light shines in the darkness, and gives us hope. About that hope, Pope Francis had this to say on that most holy night:
“How can we strengthen our hope? The liturgy of this night offers some guidance. It teaches us to remember the works of God. The readings describe God’s faithfulness, the history of his love towards us. The living word of God is able to involve us in this history of love, nourishing our hope and renewing our joy. The Gospel also reminds us of this: in order to kindle hope in the hearts of the women, the angel tells them: “Remember what [Jesus] told you” (v. 6). Let us not forget his words and his works, otherwise we will lose hope. Let us instead remember the Lord, his goodness and his life-giving words that have touched us. Let us remember them and make them ours, to be sentinels of the morning who know how to help others see the signs of the Risen Lord.
“Dear brothers and sisters, Christ is risen! Let us open our hearts to hope and go forth. May the memory of his works and his words be the bright star which directs our steps in the ways of faith toward the Easter that will have no end.”
