1 00 G een oo . | .aol a i h.o PA ISH ICE ~ ai ay ., LaPla e, LA 006 | 5-65 - 615 SCH L ~ 5-65 -45 | P eK th o h th G a e | .aol ae .o MA TIME aturday. (Vigil) 4:00 m unday................. : 0am, 10: 0am, 7:00 m ............................................. ( ani h) :00 m DAILY MA Mo, Tu, Th, Fri .. : 0am Wedne day .6:00 m C NE I N One half hour efore each Ma daily and unday . PERPETUAL AD RATI N CHAPEL—O en 4 hour daily. Ma he le VERY REV. WALTER AU TIN, V.F. P tr l t r@ il. 5-60- 7 REV. MR. TH MA T. PIERRE D cn tj t i rr @y h . REV. MR. DAVID FARINELLI, LP , LMFT D cn dk @y h . O Cle gy February , 00 The re entati n f the L r rld f r nse r ted Life
Monday, Feb 3 • St. Blaise • St. Ansgar 8:30 am Ted Deakin, Doug Deakin, Special Intention
Tuesday, Feb 4 8:30 am John Rauch, Jr., Special Intention
Wednesday, Feb 5 • St. Agatha 6:00 pm Special Intention
Thursday, Feb 6 • St. Paul Miki and Companions 8:30 am John Rauch, Jr.
Friday, Feb 7 • First Friday 8:30 am Zulma Williams
Saturday, Feb 8 • St. Jerome Emiliani • St. Josephine Bakhita • International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Tra.cking 4:00 pm John Rauch, Jr., Stuart Torres, Louis & Georgina Andry, Barbara Mondello, Angelina & Frank Purpera, Sr., Cody Lucia, Hazel M. Ory, Rosalie Lucia Sander & Jerry Sander, Cynthia Naquin, Nilton Larousse, E.J. & Edna Guidry, Conrad & Betty Hymel, Merlene St. Pierre, Glen Keating, Randy Reed, Joe Heier, All Souls in Purgatory, Special Intentions
Sunday, Feb 9 • Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time • World Marriage Day 8:30 am Verlie & Joseph Marks, Gwen Booth, Kimberly Clement, Steve Navarre, Tom & Teresa Bautsch, Harold Strehle, Connie Thornton, Annette Poche, Mary & Maurice St. Pierre, Anthony St. Pierre, Claudia Mauberret, Mr. & Mrs. Lance Poche, Merlene St. Pierre, Fe Laygo, Florencio Lainez, All Souls 10:30 am Dolores Fajardo 3:00 pm (en espanol) Our Parishioners 7:00 pm Newton Scofield
VIGIL LIGHT FOR FEBRUARY�
In memory of Bruce & Evan Simoneaux
CHAPEL CANDLES BURN FOR: In memory of Clarence “Peto” Berthelot
Our upcoming special collection will benefit Catholic Charities Archdiocese
of New Orleans. Last year, our parish's participation helped raise over
$200,000 and helped more than 70,000 individuals and families. Your
generosity provided pre-school education for children in need, food
deliveries for the elderly, care for the physically and developmentally
disabled, and so much more! Please read on the next page one way
that CCANO has helped in St. John
the Baptist Parish.
CCANO is grateful for your support
and looks forward to expanding their
capacity to reach more people in the
name of Jesus Christ this year.
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Around Our church & Our Community
Is God calling you
to serve as an
Extraordinary Minister
of Holy Communion?
The Archdiocese has released the
Spring 2020 Liturgical Ministry Workshop schedule.
There will be a EMHC workshop held here at
Ascension of Our Lord on
Saturday February 29th
9:00am - 1:00pm in the Church
If you are interested in this ministry or interested in
becoming a reader or commentator at Mass,
please call the Parish Office.
Attendance at a Liturgical Ministry Workshop is
required to be part of our Parish Liturgical Ministries.
The Altar Society Needs Your Help!
The Altar Society has begun their annual Italian cookie
making in Piovan Parish Hall and will continue every
day Monday-Friday from 9am-12noon. All are invited to
help out. No experience needed!
Anyone wishing to donate flour, sugar,
margarine, eggs, cocoa, and pecans,
your donations are greatly appreciated.
Donations may be brought to Piovan
Parish Hall.
CCANO in Action in �
St. John the Baptist Parish�
Financial education courses offered in St. John the
Baptist Parish assist low income individuals in
improving their financial literacy and navigating local
resources, as well as connect them to emergency
support and case management if necessary. The
program, which is supported through St. John United
Way, works closely with other community agencies
to ensure residents meet their goals and achieve
self-sufficiency. Case managers work with low-income
populations to increase
financial literacy, improve
stability and obtain living
wage employment.
Please take a few moments to update your church
census information. (e.g. address, phone, email, marital
status, family additions). We also would like to know of
your interest in any of the ministries we offer. Up-to-
date information helps us to serve you better. Visit
aolparish.org and click on the link to access the online
form. You may also print a paper copy and return it to
the Parish Office or in the collection basket if you wish.
If you would like to register as a Parishioner, you
may use this same form. Thank you for keeping our
information current and meaningful.
The 2019 Charitable Contribution statements have
been mailed out. If you do not receive yours by
February 15th, please contact the Parish Office.
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Saturday, February 8th, the Feast
of St. Josephine Bakhita, is an
International Day of Prayer
and Fasting to Stop Human
Trafficking, and locally, the
Catholic Church is sponsoring
a “Social Media Fast” in solidarity with silenced victims
of human trafficking.
On February 9th, the Archdiocese of New Orleans
invites everyone to participate in a novena to pray for
an end to human trafficking. Sign-up to receive the
daily reminder at nolacatholic.org/novena-to-end-
human-trafficking.
You can make a difference and bring awareness to this
issue. Go silent with us on February 8 and pray with us
February 9-17 to stop human trafficking.
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Parish Calendar
Monday, February 3 New Student Registration Begins Jr. Beta Club State Convention (Feb 3-5) 6:00pm Divine Mercy Chaplet - Adoration Chapel 6:00-7:30pm PSR
Thursday, February 6 8:30am School Mass 12:30pm Hearty Meal 7:00pm Spanish Bible Study - Church cry room
Friday, February 7 12:00pm School Early Dismissal 7:00pm Spanish Healing Mass - Church
Saturday, February 8 • Team 2 Find Your Greatness Ticket Sales at all Masses Olive Wood Religious Items on sale by Bethlehem Nativity Group at all Masses 5:00pm KC Fraternal Benefits Night - DBH
Sunday, February 9 • Team 2 Find Your Greatness Ticket Sales at all Masses Olive Wood Religious Items on sale by Bethlehem Nativity Group at all Masses 7:00pm Youth Mass
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Sacraments
BAPTISMSBAPTISMSBAPTISMSBAPTISMS: Baptismal seminars are held on the first Tuesday of each month in the Parish OEce at 7:00pm. Please call the Parish OEce to pre-register.
WEDDINGSWEDDINGSWEDDINGSWEDDINGS: Couples must contact the priest at least six months prior to the preferred date of the wedding.
ANOINTING OF THE SICKANOINTING OF THE SICKANOINTING OF THE SICKANOINTING OF THE SICK: Please call the Parish OEce or 985-630-2837 (evenings).
HOLY COMMUNION TO THE HOLY COMMUNION TO THE HOLY COMMUNION TO THE HOLY COMMUNION TO THE HOMEBOUND: HOMEBOUND: HOMEBOUND: HOMEBOUND: To be added to the list, please call the Parish OEce.
FUNERALSFUNERALSFUNERALSFUNERALS: Family must make arrangements with the priest prior to making final arrange-ments with the funeral home.
Through baptism, we are all called to a
life of holiness. Each of us has a
vocation. Each year the Church
celebrates and honors men and
women in religious communities with
the World Day for Consecrated Life.
On this day, we give thanks for the
women and men who have committed their lives to living and working in
and through a religious community. They do so much good in the world.
As the Holy Father has said, "the consecrated life appears to us just as
it really is: a gift of God!" Let us pray for all those who have made
commitments in the consecrated life, and be sure to thank them. May they
continue to be inspired by Jesus Christ and respond generously to God’s
gift of their vocation.
Good and gracious God
who calls every man and woman to live a life of holiness,
we give you praise for those men and women we call brothers or sisters.
Grant them the wisdom to know and love you
and to share that love with others.
Grant more vocations to the Church through consecration to religious life.
We ask all this in the name of Christ, your Son and our Lord.
Amen.
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February 2, 2020
The Presentation of the Lord
“Behold, this child is destined for the
fall and rise of many in Israel.”
Luke 2:34A
Forty days after Christmas, we celebrate the Lord who
enters the Temple and comes to encounter his people. In the
Christian East, this feast is called the “Feast of Encounter”: it is
the encounter between God, who became a child to bring
newness to our world, and an expectant humanity,
represented by the elderly man and woman in the Temple.
In the Temple, there is also an encounter between two
couples: the young Mary and Joseph, and the elderly Simeon
and Anna. The old receive from the young, while the young
draw upon the old. In the Temple, Mary and Joseph find
the roots of their people. This is important because God’s
promise does not come to fulfillment merely in individuals,
once for all, but within a community and throughout history.
There too, Mary and Joseph find the roots of their faith, for
faith is not something learned from a book, but the art of
living with God learned from the experience of those who
have gone before us. The two young people, in meeting the
two older people, thus find themselves. And the two older
people, nearing the end of their days, receive Jesus, the
meaning of their lives. This event fulfills the prophecy of Joel:
“Your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall
see visions” (2:28). In this encounter, the young see their
mission and the elderly realize their dreams. All because, at
the center of the encounter, is Jesus.
Today’s frantic pace leads us to close many doors to
encounter, often for fear of others. Only shopping malls and
internet connections are always open. May we never look at
the screen of our cellphone more than the eyes of our
brothers or sisters or focus more on our software than on the
Lord. For whenever we put our own projects, methods and
organization at the center, Catholic life stops being attractive;
it no longer speaks to others; it no longer flourishes because
it forgets its very foundations, its very roots.
I ask you to renew this very day your encounter with
Jesus, to walk together towards him. For this will give light to
your eyes and strength to your steps.
(excerpts of homily by Pope Francis on the Feast of the
Presentation)
Fr. Walter Austin�
Readings for the Week
Sunday: Mal 3:1-4/Ps 24:7, 8, 9, 10 [10b]/Heb 2:14-18/Lk
2:22-40 or 2:22-32
Monday: 2 Sm 15:13-14, 30; 16:5-13/Ps 3:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
[8a]/Mk 5:1-20
Tuesday: 2 Sm 18:9-10, 14b, 24-25a, 30—19:3/Ps 86:1-2,
