KEEPING OURCOMMITMENTS

In the musicalFiddler on the Roof, thehusband, Tevye, whosemarriage was arrangedyears and years before,wants to know if hiswife really loves him.Was their marriage justan arrangement, a deal?Did his wife, after allthese years, ever lovehim? Does she still?

We need toknow if our loving

commitments stick. We need to be reminded and reaffirmed.In the first reading, Joshua, Moses’ successor, needed toknow if the people would remain faithful to their covenantwith the Lord. Joshua was going to lead them to a newlife—a settled life. Would they be faithful?

Jesus, who identified himself as the very life of hisdisciples’ life, needed to know: Will you also go away or willyou stay? We do not often see Jesus this vulnerable. Peterand the apostles chose to stay. What will we do?

READINGS FOR THE WEEKMonday: Rv 21:9b-14; Ps 145:10-13, 17-18;

Jn 1:45-51Tuesday: 1 Thes 2:1-8; Ps 139:1-6; Mt 23:23-26Wednesday: 1 Thes 2:9-13; Ps 139:7-12ab; Mt 23:27-32Thursday: 1 Thes 3:7-13; Ps 90:3-5a, 12-14, 17;

Mt 24:42-51Friday: 1 Thes 4:1-8; Ps 97:1, 2b, 5-6, 10-12;

Mt 25:1-13Saturday: 1 Thes 4:9-11; Ps 98:1, 7-9; Mk 6:17-29Sunday: Dt 4:1-2, 6-8; Ps 15:2-5; Jas 1:17-18,

21b-22, 27; Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCESMonday: St. BartholomewTuesday: St. Louis; St. Joseph CalasanzThursday: St. MonicaFriday: St. AugustineSaturday: The Passion of St. John the Baptist

St. John the Baptist Altar Society

resumes monthly meetings on

Thursday, September 3rd at 10:00 a.m.

All ladies of the parish

are invited to attend and join us.

The Healing Rosary in September

has been moved from September 7 toSeptember 14 due to Labor Day holiday.

WEEKLY COLLECTION 08/16/2015St. John the BaptistIdentified Contributions (164 Families) $ 6,767.00Unidentified Contributions $ 618.12Assumption of Mary (28) $ 525.00Building Maintenance Fund (8) $ 210.00Youth Ministry (3) $ 45.00Legacy of Faith / Capital Camp (29) $ 29,330.00Legacy of Faith / Capital Camp TOTAL $ 5,219,146.98ONLINE GIVINGRegular Contributions (31) $ 1,995.00Building Maintenance Fund (2) $ 15.00Legacy of Faith Capital Camp. (30) $ 2,782.50Legacy of Faith from OLA (1) $ 50.00CAMPAIGN TOTAL $ 5,221,979.48

Our Lady of AssumptionIdentified Contributions (38 Families) $ 22,381.20Unidentified Contributions $ 502.00Assumption of Mary (5) $ 180.00ONLINE GIVINGRegular Contributions (4) $ 175.00

SANCTUARY LIGHTAUGUST 22ND - AUGUST 28TH

The Sanctuary Light at St. John will burn

in memory of Mark Rioux.

The Sanctuary Light at Our Lady will burn

in memory of the Cazedessus and Caldwell Families.

WE NEED YOU To Make Our Pictorial Complete!

This is OUR CHURCH FAMILY DIRECTORY!

Please register your sitting

in one of two ways:

1. Visit our website and look for the logo on the top right of the home pageand click on your parish

2. Call or visit the Parish Office.

Are You Looking ...

to purchase up to four (4) cemetery plots in Greenoaks

and help our Capital Campaign Drive at the same time?

Call the parish office for details!

Are you a current or incoming student at LSU?

Christ the King Church and Catholic Student Center invites you to their first “ARISE” Retreat for students

that are new to Christ the King and looking to getplugged in with them.

Saturday, August 29th 10AM - 6PM

Marvin Ashford, Jr., Army James A. Benning, USMCMatthew Boyd, Army Eugene Cazedessus, USMCLeLand Crochet, III, USM Matthew Charlet Dart, USN Patrick Deslatte, USN Jacqueline Deslatte, USNStephen DiLorenzo, Army Adam Foster, USNBrad Gautreaux, USMC J. Michael Head, USMCJoseph N. Jones, Jr., Army Sabrina Jones, LaNGMarkus Kippers, USN Dustin Knight, USNJoseph L. LeBlanc Jr., Army Stanley Mays, USAFBen Gordon Morseth, USCG Gordon Newman, ArmyRobert Brett Parker, LaNG Brian Plauche, USAFAndrea Byrd Prosser, USCG Mike Prosser, USCGJesse B. Richard, Army Nicholas Richards, USNMichael Roberts, USCG James Rouchon, USMCDavid Welch, LaNG Gordon M. White, USAF Tyler Wigger, USN Christopher Williston USAF

Reminder

Jr. High Retreat

in Rosaryville

September 11th - 13th

For more information please contact Katie Myrick

in the Youth Ministry Office.

PARENTS - If available, we need chaperones !!!

Begins September 3rd

at 7:00 p.m.

and continues

every Thursday.

Call Joey Hebert at 301-1737.

Faith is the foundation of your life.

Make that foundation solid!

Children and Youth Choirs resume practice

next Tuesday, August 25th:

Children (K-5th): 5:00 p.m.

Youth (6th-12th): 5:30 p.m.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel

is having a Catholic Pilgrimage to the Holy Land:

November 9 -18, 2015

Daily Mass at the Holy Sights. Visit Jerusalem,Nazareth, Galilee, Bethlehem, the Dead Sea and more!

Three daily meals and air from Baton Rouge: $3,694.00

Call Cathie or Mike Milano at 1-800-773-2660.

✞ ~ ✞ NEXT WEEK AT A GLANCE ✞ ~ ✞ Sunday, August 23rd Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time-7 a.m. Mass / Coffee & Pastries-10 a.m. Chaplet of Divine Mercy / Rosary-11a.m. Mass -OLA -8:30 a.m. Rosary / Choir -9 a.m. Mass-10 a.m. K-11th Religious Ed Class #1Monday, August 24th -6:30 p.m. Intercessory Prayer Group-6:30 p.m. Scouts-7 p.m. N.A. MeetingTuesday, August 25th -5 p.m. Children Choir-5:30 p.m. Youth Choir-6 p.m. Adult Choir-6:30 p.m. Armada Prayer Group-OLA-6 p.m. Rosary -6:15 p.m. Confessions -6:30 p.m. Mass Wednesday, August 26th -7 a.m. Mass-6 p.m. St. Vincent de Paul Society -SJBThursday, August 27th -7:30 a.m. MassFriday, August 28th -7:30 a.m. Mass/Divine Mercy/Coffee & BiscuitsSaturday, August 29th -4 p.m. Confessions -5 p.m. Vigil MassSunday, August 30th Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time-7 a.m. Mass / Coffee & Pastries-10 a.m. Chaplet of Divine Mercy / Rosary-11 a.m. Mass-OLA-8:30 a.m. Rosary / Choir -9 a.m. Mass-10 a.m. K-11th Religious Ed Class #2

We are in the process of organizingour group to help the less fortunate

in both our parish areas.

We still NEED more two-personteams to handle calls and make

home visits. Our plan is to have enough members sothat each team is “on call” to give aid only one week

every two months. We ask parishioners from bothparishes to please prayerfully consider joining us.

Our next monthly meeting will be on

Wednesday, August 26th at 6:00 p.m. in classroom #1.

Contact Mima Matthews at 933-8440 for more info.

“Nothing is far from God”~ St. Monica

Saint of the Week

St. Monica

As soon as Monica had reached marriageable age, her parents found a husband for her, the pagan Patricius. He was a man ofviolent temper and their home could scarcely have been a happy one. His mother lived with them and was equally difficult,

which proved a constant challenge to Monica. Monica endured her husband’s outbursts with the utmost patience, although hewas critical of Christians and their practices. The daily example of her gentleness and kindness finally had its rewards, and a

year before his death, Patricius accepted his wife's faith.

Monica and Patricius had three children, Navigius, who seems to have been an exemplary son, Augustine, and Perpetua, adaughter, who became a religious. Augustine, the more brilliant of the sons, was sent to Carthage, so that he might develop his

talents and become a man of culture. He took to learning naturally but he also spent time in youthful carousing. This causedhis mother great anguish, and when he returned to Tagaste, she disapproved so strongly both of his loose living and of his

espousal of the popular heresy of Manichaeism that she refused at first to allow him to live at home. She relented only afterhaving seen a vision. She visited a certain(unnamed) holy bishop who consoled her with the now famous words, "the child of

those tears shall never perish." This thought, coupled with the vision that she had received strengthened her.

Monica prayed and sacrificed for her son unceasingly. She followed her wayward son to Rome, where he had gone secretly;when she arrived he had already gone to Milan, but she followed him. Here she found St. Ambrose and through him she

ultimately had the joy of seeing Augustine convert to Christianity after 17 years of his resistance and her prayers. St. Augustine was baptized by St. Ambrose in 387.

Augustine and his family now set out for their return to Tagaste. At the port of Ostia, Monica fell ill. She knew that her workhad been accomplished and that life would soon be over. As Monica's strength failed, she said to Augustine: "I do not know

what there is left for me to do or why I am still here, all my hopes in this world being now fulfilled. All I wished for was that Imight see you a Catholic and a child of Heaven. God granted me even more than this in making you despise earthly felicityand consecrate yourself to His service." Shortly afterwards they asked her if she did not fear to die so far from home, for she

had earlier expressed a desire to be buried beside her husband in Tagaste. Now, with beautiful simplicity, she replied,"Nothing is far from God," and indicated that she was content to be buried where she died.

St. Monica died that same year as her son’s baptism.

Motto for this week: Never give up!Resolution: I will endure difficulties with patience, gentleness and kindness.

Patroness of: married women, mothers and alcoholicsFeast Day: August 27th

sources: catholic.org/saints and ewtn.com