May 18, 2014 - Fifth Sunday of Easter Baptisms Parents are encouraged to call the Church during pregnancy to avoid de- lays of the sacrament 406 East Pinhook Road Lafayette, LA 70501-8727 Phone: (337) 237-0988 Fax: (337) 233-8868 Rev. M. Keith LaBove, Pastor Parish Website: www.stpat.org Weddings Arrangements must be made at least six months in advance to allow time for preparation 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
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May 18, 2014 - Fifth Sunday of Easter
Baptisms
Parents are encouraged to call the Church during pregnancy to avoid de-
lays of the sacrament
406 East Pinhook Road Lafayette, LA 70501-8727
Phone: (337) 237-0988 Fax: (337) 233-8868 Rev. M. Keith LaBove, Pastor
Parish Website: www.stpat.org
Weddings
Arrangements must be made at least six months in advance to allow time
for preparation
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
Welcome to St. Patrick Church
Fifth Sunday of Easter
May 18, 2014
MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK
Saturday, May 17--Vigil of the Fifth Sunday of
Easter
4:00 PM: Mike Guilbeau; Jules, Isola & Bart
LeJeune; Mabel George Eisemann;
Irving Domingue; Albert John Boudreaux
Sunday, May 18--Fifth Sunday of Easter
8:30 AM: Roberta John; Beverly Welch;
E. Begnaud Family & H. Bourdier Family
Rita B. Keller; Lionel Pitre; Bella Hernandez;
Agnes Duplechain; Gussie Hernandez
10:00 AM: Parishioners of St. Patrick’s
Monday, May 19--Easter Weekday(Msgr. Mallet)
7:30 AM: Lionel Pitre
Tuesday, May 20--St. Bernadine of Siena,
Priest (Msgr. Charles Mallet)
7:30 AM: Charles Ray, Sr.
Wednesday, May 21--St. Christopher Magallanes,
Priest and Companions, Martyrs (Msgr. Charles Mallet)
7:30 AM: Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne;
Col. Clark Comeaux & Catherine (living);
Col. Kimberly Fedele (living)
Thursday, May 22--St. Rita of Cascia, Religious (Msgr. Charles Mallet)
7:30 AM: Sick List
Friday, May 23--Easter Weekday (Msgr. Charles Mallet)
7:30 AM: Dr. Charles Stewart
Altar Flowers
In loving memory of:
Sidney & Elvina Bourdier Begnaud Family
Non-Liturgical Devotions
Daily Rosary: Monday - Friday 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, May 23: No cleaning.
Pizza at St. Pat’s
Our Youth Team will hold its next Pizza at St. Pat’s
this Sunday, May 18th, from 4:00—5:30 p.m. at the
Parish Hall. Young people 10 to 16 are invited to
attend an afternoon of fun, food and faith-building.
Congratulations
Altar Server Jacob Hamsher will be
graduating from High School. Congrats
to him and all who attend St. Patrick
and are graduating this year!.
“I am the way and the truth and life.
No one comes to the Father
Except through me.”
—John 14:6
Pastor Away Fr. Keith will be taking some time away for vacation, and
will be out of the parish from Sunday, May 11th. through
Friday, May 23rd. Please keep him in your prayers for a
safe arrival and return.
Outdoor Memorial Day Service
On Monday, May 26, 2014 at 9 a.m. Fountain Memorial Home & Cemetery in Lafayette, located at 1010 Pandora
St., Lafayette, 70506, will host their Annual Memorial Day
Program in the Veteran’s Section, featuring Knights of Co-lumbus color guard assemblies in full regale, gun salute
and Taps performance by VFW Post 9822 as well as patri-
otic musical selections. Reception in the funeral home
lounge following the service.
For African-American Men
A day of recollection for African-American Men will be offered on Saturday, June 7, from 8:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. in
St. Charles Chapel at St. Charles Borromeo Parish, 174
Church St., Grand Coteau, LA, 70584. Registration cost $20 for adults, $10 for youth. For more information con-
tact: Elroy Broussard, 337-354-6941; Joseph Cotton, 337–
356-7304; St. Charles Church Rectory, 337-662-3298
Registration forms are available on the table at the entrance of church.
Quo Vadis Camp 2014 Attention all Catholic young men ages 14-25: do you know
where your life is going? The Lord Jesus has a specific
plan for your life, a particular path to be and to do some-
thing great for his kingdom! Come discover what it is at the Third Annual Quo Vadis Days Camp. At QVD you will
spend time with other young men your age serious about
hearing the Lord's voice in their lives and following him. These are blessed days of prayer, fun, and fraternity. You
will learn to pray better and make great friends. QVD is led
by priests and seminarians of the Diocese of Lafayette and is sponsored by the Diocesan Office of Vocations. QVD
will be held from Tuesday, June 24th to Thursday, June
26th at Our Lady of Sorrows Retreat Center in St. Martin-
ville. There is no cost to attend the camp. Ask your parish priest for registration information or contact Father Kevin
We continue our 3 part series with this second excerpt from Pope Francis’ Lumen Fidei on the impossibility of
an ‘individual faith’:
38. The transmission of the faith not only brings light to men and women in every place; it travels through time, passing from one generation to another. Because faith is born of an encounter which takes place in history and lights up
our journey through time, it must be passed on in every age. It is through an unbroken chain of witnesses that we come
to see the face of Jesus. But how is this possible? How can we be certain, after all these centuries, that we have encoun-tered the ‘Real Jesus’? Were we merely isolated individuals, were our starting point simply our own individual ego
seeking in itself the basis of absolutely sure knowledge, a certainty of this sort would be impossible. I cannot possibly
verify for myself something which happened so long ago. But this is not the only way we attain knowledge. Persons al-
ways live in relationship. We come from others, we belong to others, and our lives are enlarged by our encounter with others. Even our own knowledge and self-awareness are relational; they are linked to others who have gone before us:
in the first place, our parents, who gave us our life and our name. Language itself, the words by which we make sense of
our lives and the world around us, comes to us from others, preserved in the living memory of others. Self-knowledge is only possible when we share in a greater memory. The same thing holds true for faith, which brings human understand-
ing to its fullness. Faith’s past, that act of Jesus’ love which brought new life to the world, comes down to us through the
memory of others — witnesses — and is kept alive in that one remembering subject which is the Church. The Church is
a Mother who teaches us to speak the language of faith. Saint John brings this out in his Gospel by closely uniting faith and memory and associating both with the working of the Holy Spirit, who, as Jesus says, ‘will remind you of all that I
told you’ (Jn 14:26). . . .
39. It is impossible to believe on our own. Faith is not simply an individual decision which takes place in the depths of the believer’s heart, nor a completely private relationship between the ‘I’ of the believer and the divine
‘Thou’, between an autonomous subject and God. By its very nature, faith is open to the ‘We’ of the Church; it always
takes place within her communion. . . . Here we see why those who believe are never alone, and why faith tends to spread, as it invites others to share in its joy. Those who receive faith discover that their horizons expand as new and
enriching relationships come to life. Tertullian puts this well when he describes the catechumens who ‘after the cleans-
ing which gives new birth’, are welcomed into the house of their mother and, as part of a new family, pray the Our Fa-
