August 26, 2018 - Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time 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 Holydays of Obligation: 7:30 am only 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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August 26, 2018 - Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
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
Holydays of Obligation: 7:30 am only
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
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time August 26, 2018
MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK
Saturday, August 25--Vigil of the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time 4:00 PM: Dr. Leonard & Betty Rolfes; Howard Fournet; Betty Fournet (living); Ron, Wallace & Romaine Venable; M/M J. Brown, Sr.; Dr. & Mrs. Pierre Sillan Augustine Villagomez Sunday, August 26--Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:30 AM: Gregor Lehmiller 10:00 AM: Parishioners of St. Patrick’s Monday, August 27--Saint Monica 7:30 AM: Bella & Yvonne Hernandez; Adam Hernandez
Tuesday, August 28--Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
7:30 AM: Joel Francis Bourgeois Wednesday, August 29--The Passion of St. John the Baptist 7:30 AM: Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne; Col. Clark Comeaux & Catherine (living); Col. Kimberly Fedele (living) Thursday, August 30--Weekday 7:30 AM: Sick List Friday, August 31--Weekday 7:30 AM: Dr. Charles Stewart Altar Flowers In Loving Memory of: Phil Simon, Bud & Euna Arceneaux
Non-Liturgical Devotions Daily Rosary: Monday - Thursday 6:55 am Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena: Tues-day 7:15 am Rosary for Priests: Wednesday 7:00 am Chaplet of Divine Mercy: Thursday 7:15 am Pro-Life Rosary: 1st Fri. of the month 7 am As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15b Occupancy The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occu-py that place. —St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Prayer for Hurricane Season
O God, Master of this passing world, hear the humble voices of your children. The Sea of Galilee obeyed your order
and returned to its former quietude. You are still the Master of land and sea. We live the shadow of a danger over which we have no control: the gulf, like a provoked and angry giant, can awake from its seeming lethargy, overstep its conventional boundaries, invade our land and spread chaos and disaster. Dur-ing this hurricane season we turn to you, loving Father. Spare us from past tragedies whose memories are still so vivid and whose wounds seem to refuse to heal with the passing of time. O Virgin, Star of the Sea, Our Beloved Mother, we ask you to plead with you Son in our behalf, so that spared from the calam-ities common to this area and animated with a true spirit of grat-itude, we will walk in the footsteps of your divine Son to reach heavenly Jerusalem where a stormless eternity awaits us. Amen.
Bishop Maurice Shexnayder
Gently Worn School Uniforms Needed Gently Worn Public School Uniforms are once again be-ing collected for needy children in the Lafayette Parish Schools. Please bring your children’s outgrown uniforms to church. Sizes 4-20 and all adult sizes are needed. Shirts: red, white and navy blue, black and green. Pants/Shorts: navy blue, black and khaki-traditional style. Please note, only Public School Uniforms.
Holy Hour for Vocations You are invited to the monthly “Holy Hour for Vocations and for the Spiritual Renewal of All Priests” on Monday, September 3rd., from 6:00-7:00 p.m. at St. Patrick Catho-lic 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 priest-hood and religious life sponsored by the Serra Club of Lafayette. Food for the Journey The Central Deanery of the Diocese of Lafayette presents “Food for the Journey”, a monthly lunchtime speakers se-ries designed to help Catholics live out our faith in our dai-ly lives. Our speaker for September is Sister Mildred Leonards, Sisters of the Divine Providence, Lafayette. “Food for the Journey” will be held on Tuesday, Septem-ber 11, 2018, at River Oaks Catering and Event Center Lafayette, 520 East Kaliste Saloom Road, beginning at 12:00 noon. An optional 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 re-quired. For more information, please call Danielle Huval (232-1322). Galveston Island Trip-Friday, Nov 30 to Sunday, Dec 2 Dickens on the Strand Christmas Festival. Depart from/return to St. Mary Church parking lot. Sponsored by St. Mary Mother of the Church. Call: Cat Terrebonne at Trav-el Machine 981-7870 or JoAnn LeJune 703-3041. Spiritual Direction Training The Archdiocesan Spirituality Center will hold an “Informational Meeting” Wednesday, September 19, at 7:00 pm or Thursday, September 20, 9:00 am announc-ing their next Training Program in Spiritual Direction. The meetings will be held at St. Charles College, Jesuit Spiritu-ality Center, 313 E. Martin Luther King Dr., Grand Coteau. Over the years this Internship in Spiritual Direction has certified over 200 spiritual directors now serving a number of dioceses in Louisiana. At this meeting, the program, its prerequisites and structure will be discussed. The two-year internship in Spiritual Direction Program will begin Au-gust, 2019 at Grand Coteau, meeting the third Wednesday of each month (August-May) 9am 5pm and in August, 2021 at the Archdiocesan Spirituality Center in Metaire meeting the second Saturday of each month (August-May) 9am-5pm. For information or to register for a meeting call Doris Melito (504)861-3254 or register on the web http://asc.arch-no.org. Be a Good Steward of the Environment—Stop Plastic Pollution: Reduce-Reuse-Recycle: When items like plas-tic bags break down, they readily soak up (and release) tox-ins that then contaminate soil and water, as well as harming animals that ingest plastic fragments. The increasing pres-ence of plastic in our oceans poisons and ensnares marine life.
Centennial News Josephites Come to Acadiana— In \ August 1920, through the invitation of Bishop Jeanmard, the Josephites sent Fr. Thomas Duffy S.S.J. to take resi-dence in Crowley at the newly established St. Theresa of Avila Church for ministry to African-Americans. The Josephites were founded in 1892 as a congregation of priests and brothers committed to serving the Afri-can American community. Bishop Jeanmard would rely heavily on the Josephites to staff newly created Black Parishes throughout the diocese. The first Jose-phite came to Acadiana in 1897, when Archbishop Janssens established the parish of Immaculate Concep-tion in the rural mission of Petit Prairie, later renamed “Le Beau” after the Josephite pries Fr. Pierre LeBeau. Centennial Canada Pilgrimage — please pray for the 75 pilgrims who will be on pilgrimage with Bishop Deshotel this week exploring our Acadian History and honoring our Diocesan Centennial Year. All Catholics of the Diocese are being remembered and prayed for by the pilgrims and Bishop Deshotel as they visit the homeland of the Acadians and their place of exile which led many to come to what is now the Diocese of Lafayette. In remembering our past, we pray for our present and future knowing that the story of our faith is still being written. Centennial Fest—Honoring our Diocesan Centennial with our young people throughout the Diocese of Lafa-yette, we will have a youth gathering at Parc Interna-tional Downtown Lafayette on Saturday, October 20th from 3pm to 8pm and will include Music, Guest Speakers, Mass, Food and closing with a Candlelight Eucharistic Adoration with Bishop Deshotel. Our Youth, All Youth, Groups, Families, Clergy and Reli-gious are invited. Please mark your calendars now. This will be a great opportunity to see the Life of Our Faith. Admission will be free (food purchase will be available). Survivor of Suicide Support Group The Catholic Diocese of Lafayette, Office of Marriage and Family Life along with Jacob Crouch Suicide Pre-vention Services sponsors support groups in Lafayette and Opelousas that are especially tailored for survivors of suicide. These groups provide a safe place for those who have lost a loved one to suicide to share their struggles, experiences, and pain as they struggle to re-gain hope and strength. The groups are facilitated by licensed counselors and are open to all survivors of suicide over the age of 18. Contact Kelly Chapman at 337-261-5653 for more information or to register for one of these support groups. STEWARDSHIP OF THE PAST WEEK Our Response to God’s Generosity to Us Offertory…………….……… $ 4,322.64 The Assumption of B.V.M… $ 712.00 (Needy)
Date
Saturday, September 1 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 2 8:30 a.m.
Sunday, September 2 10:00 a.m.
Lectors Edward Turner Larry Lewis Karen Begnaud
Eucharistic Ministers
George Eaton Candis Thompson Peggy Spruill
Ted Hampton Kay Hampton Geneva Phillips
Kenneth Broussard Madeline Simon Janeth Harrington
Altar Servers Oren Spruill Fred Vallot Nicholas Begnaud
Ushers Martha Thompson George Guidry
Anne Pitre Donald Vallot
Lionel Jeanmard Robin Roy
Liturgical Roles for Septmeber
From the Pastor’s Desk
This weekend, we wrap up our reading of the Bread of Life discourse in John, chapter 6, as we return next week to reading from Mark’s Gospel for the rest of Ordinary Time in this liturgical year. It’s been refreshing in a way to be able to focus on Jesus as the “Bread of Life”, and the Eucharist where we encounter that Real Pres-ence of Jesus under forms of bread and wine, shared in a common meal that is both thanksgiving and sacrifice.
Yet even as we prepare to leave John’s Gospel behind, a burning question on the lips of Peter teaches us the centrality of Christ in our lives. To grasp this, we need remember that there are at least three distinct groups of people to whom Jesus has been speaking. First, consider the crowd, a true multitude, who were the beneficiar-ies of the miracle of the loaves and fishes, eating till they were satisfied with 12 baskets left over. Scattered among that crowd are those who would have called themselves disciples of Jesus. These disciples had certainly heard him preach before, and had perhaps followed Jesus here from other towns and villages. The third group is the one formed by Jesus himself from among the disciples. Here we speak of “The Twelve”, whom we know as apostles, chosen by Jesus to share in a special way in his ministry.
Jesus had been speaking about himself as ‘true food’ and ‘true drink’, greater even than the manna God gave through Moses. He had spoken bluntly about the necessity of ‘eating his flesh’ and ‘drinking his blood’ as the path to eternal life. The crowd, and apparently even a number of the disciples, had had enough: “How can this man give us his flesh to eat”. They began to wander away, leaving Jesus behind.
We find him with the Twelve, and he asks them: "Do you also want to leave?" As is so often the case, it is Peter who replies, with a question that echoes in the life of every believer: "Master, to whom shall we go?“ Peter also affirmed their shared faith that Jesus spoke words of eternal life, and that he was truly the Holy One of God.
They had entered into a relationship with this carpenter from Nazareth, which began when they said yes to his call to follow him. Through that relationship, their own lives and even their faith had been transformed. They had discovered something unique in this Jesus, something life-giving and irreplaceable. And they at least suspected that they would find this no where else.
So they kept walking with Jesus, and with each other. Sometimes the road was hard, sometimes his words and actions were incomprehensible to them, yet they kept walking. And so do we keep on walking, with Jesus and with one another, for he is truly the “Bread of Life”. “Master, to whom shall we go?”
