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SAINT JAMES CHURCH 6613 Highway 18St. James, LA 70086225.265.4210 : phone225.265.4225 : faxOffice Hours: Mon, & Wed.7:30am - 2pmTue, Thur -8am - 3pmFri. - 8am -11am
OUR LADY OF PEACE CHURCH 13281 Hwy 644Vacherie, LA 70090225-265-3953:: phone 225-265-2507: fax Office Hours Mon-Fri - 8:00am - 4pm
SAINT PHILIP CHURCH 1175 Highway 18Vacherie, LA 70090225.265.9348 : phone225.265.9348 : fax.Office Hours: Mon-Fri - 9:00am - 12pm
CLERGYRev. Matthew [email protected]
Rev. Brad DoyleParochial [email protected]
Deacon Ricky Oubre
STAFF: Mr.Stephen CastilleDirector of [email protected]
Ms. Stephenie AubertCoordinator of Religious [email protected]
Ms. Claire Amedee [email protected]
Ms. Julie Chiasson [email protected]
Mrs. Carol Ann Hymel [email protected]
Ms Jeanie Hymelstjameschurch @canecatholics.com
Mrs. Gretchen Ketchensstjameschurch @canecatholics.com
FOR EMERGENCIES CALL:225-267-7210
GOD'S PROMISE The lengthy passage from Samuel is a wonderful exposition of God's promise to the house of David: that his throne would forever be gloriously occupied by his descendants. Hidden in the mystery of the prophecy is the promise of the Savior, the Messiah, Son of God and Son of David. The prophet Nathan, speaking in God's name, poetically turns around David's plan to build a house for God, and announces God's plan to build a "house," that is, a dynasty for David. From this house of David will come the Messiah, the Christ, not in kingly splendor as David ruled, but as a humble man, destined to rule forever and over all. When God gives a gift, it's amazing what we are given--so different from what we ever could have imagined.Copyright (c) J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.
All in God’s Time One day this week I was late for daily Mass. It was a very foggy morning and there was a car accident on my way to daily Mass, but it was more my fault than the fog’s. What struck me was the Bible verse I read before Mass which said, “He who is to come will come and will not delay.” (Hebrews 10:37) I was reminded again that the Lord has a sense of humor. I can be late sometimes, but the Lord will not delay.
Have you ever thought about God’s timing in the Christmas story? Surely God could have coordinated the timing of two events, the worldwide census and the birth of the Savior. We know that the time had come for Jesus to be born. As St Paul writes, “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to ransom those under the law, so that we might receive adoption.” (Galatian 4:4-5) If Jesus was to be born according to the plan of salvation millennia in the making, why wasn’t the meaningless census delayed so that Jesus could have been born in more agreeable circumstances?
Perhaps the Lord wants to remind us that the perfect Christmas was actually imperfect and, well, messy. There’s a theological term of God coming down to our level called divine condescension. Jesus chose to fully enter into our human condition without losing His divinity. This means he had a human body and also human problems (but without sin, of course). He got hungry. He was tired. In the desert, he was tempted.
This divine condescension is on full display in the Christmas story. Jesus was rejected throughout his public ministry, but this rejection actually began at his birth as Mary and Joseph were turned away from every inn in Bethlehem. Jesus lived a simple life in poverty which began at his birth when he was laid in a feeding trough as a newborn. At a time when most parents want to stay put – at the birth of a child – Jesus’ parents are always on the move. You can bet that the Holy Family didn’t travel first class.
Our nativity scenes are often very beautiful and peaceful. If you look closely at the figures in the nativity scene maybe one of them has a smile. If your holiday season is less than perfect – perhaps you can’t celebrate in the way you want or with a person you wish were with you – I believe that smile from the nativity scene is for you. God chooses to enter our imperfect world. He wants to be close to you when nothing is going right. There’s a reason the title we use most often in this season is Emmanuel, “God with us.” I pray that you may know the gift of His presence this Christmas season, however imperfect you feel it is.
Peace,Fr. Matthew
THE HOLY MASS -WEEKDAYS MON 8am Our Lady Of PeaceTUE 8am St. Philip WED 8am Our Lady of Peace THU 8am Our Lady of Peace, 6pm St. Philip FRI 8am St. James
THE HOLY MASS -WEEKENDS SAT 4pm OLOP
6pm St. PhilipSUN 8am St. James 10am OLOPSACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION SUN 7:15-7:45am St. JamesSAT 3:00 – 3:45pm OLOPSAT 5:30 - 5:50pm St.PhilipIf you need to go to Confession outside one of these times, please call the office
Sacrament of Baptism - Call Office to schedule
Sacrament of Marriage - call the parish at least six months in advance before setting date or making preparations
Baptismal Seminar - 2nd Thursday of the month at St. Philip rectory immediately following Mass (6:30pm) Call the office to register at least one day prior to the class. Or you can register on the website - www.canecatholics.com
PRAYER LINE St. JamesEnola Matherne 225.265.3820Myrna Schexnayder 225.405.1590
St. PhilipCecile Hymel 225.265.7705
Our Lady of PeaceMarlene Webre 225-265-4528
Flowers and Sanctuary Candles Our Lady of Peace: Sanctuary Candle - In memory of Joseph Marcel
Becnel by Marion Becnel and Family Adoration Chapel - In memory of Diane & Dano
Becnel by Margaret Rome and Family
St.PhilipSanctuary Candle - Stanley, Bryon, Charles, Anne &
James Becnel by Geralyn BecnelSt. Philip Candle - Alwin Rodrigue - Glenn & Carol Ann
Hymel and family
St. James Sanctuary - In memory of Steven Hymel by Jeanie
Hymel
In Memoriam Missy Granier
Funeral and burial at Our Lady of Peace on December 15, 2017
Jeanette F. BecnelFuneral and burial at Our Lady of Peace
December 18, 2017
Dec. 24/25 Christmas Eve 4:00 p.m. OLOP and SP 11:00 p.m. OLOP Christmas Day 8:00 a.m., SJ 10:00 a.m., OLOP
Jan. 1, 2018 New Year’s Day (Not a Holy Day) 8:00 a.m. OLOP Please note: The Mass on New Year’s Day is at 8:00am and not at 10:00am as noted on the OLOP Calendar.
FAITH FORMATION St. James
Sunday, Jan. 7, 21 & 28Grades 7-9 at 9:20am Tuesday, Jan. 9, 23, 30
Grades 1-6 at 5:00p.m.
St. Philip Monday, Jan. 8, 22 & 29Grades 1-6- 5:00 - 6:15
Grades 7-9- 6:30-8:00pm
Our Lady of PeaceMonday, Jan. 8, 22 & 29Grades K-4- 5:30-6:45 Grades 5-10 - 7-8:15pm
No classes on January 14, 15 or 16 in the cluster.
Confirmation Classes The next class for Confirmation and
10th grade students from St. James and St. Philip will be at St.James at 9:20am
on January 7.
Confirmation Session #6 for Our Lady of Peace students will be on January 27.
The next morning at St. Vincent de Paul for Confirmation students is
January 13. Please check your schedule to see when you signed up.
RCIAat Our Lady of Peace on
Sundays at 6:30pm
BAPTISMSBaptisms will be held at Our Lady of Peace on January 14th at 10am Mass.
Call the office to schedule.
At St James and St. Philip Baptisms will be held on an as need basis. Please call
the office to schedule.
♢ EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA!
December in the Cluster
What’s Coming Up
Prayer Groups/Bible StudyBible Study @ OLOP - 9am - January 8
Under the Mantle of Our Lady Women’s Prayer Group - 7:30am in Holy Cross Hall at OLOP
Men’s Prayer Group OLOP- 7:00am on Saturday, Dec. 30, 2017Charismatic Prayer Meeting - Tuesdays at 7pm at OLOP
Choir PracticesSt. Philip Choir - 4:00 on Tuesdays
Spirit of Praise - OLOP - 6:00pm on TuesdaysGospel Choir - OLOP - 6:00pm - Thursdays
St. James - 6:30pm - Thursdays
Confirmation UpdateConfirmation will be held on February 7, 2018 at St. James Catholic Church. Students from all three parishes will be receive the sacrament on that day. Please pray for our confirmands as they continue their journey to the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Readings for the Week Monday: Christmas -Vigil: Is 62:1-5; Ps 89:4-5, 16-17, 27-29; Acts 13:16-17, 22-25;
Mt 1:1-25[18-25] During the Night: Is 9:1-6; Ps 96:1-3, 11-13; Ti 2:11-14; Lk 2:1-14 Dawn: Is 62:11-12; Ps 97:1, 6, 11-12; Ti 3:4-7; Lk 2:15-20Day: Is 52:7-10; Ps 98:1-6; Heb 1:1-6; Jn 1:1-18 [1-5, 9-14]
Tuesday: St. Stephen - Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59; Ps 31:3cd-4, 6, 8ab, 16bc, 17; Mt 10:17-22
Wednesday: St. John - 1 Jn 1:1-4; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12; Jn 20:1a, 2-8Thursday: The Holy Innocents -1 Jn 1:5 -- 2:2; Ps 124:2-5, 7cd-8; Mt 2:13-18Friday: St. Thomas Becket - 1 Jn 2:3-11; Ps 96:1-3, 5b-6; Lk 2:22-35Saturday: 1 Jn 2:12-17; Ps 96:7-10; Lk 2:36-40Sunday: Feast of the Holy Family - Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 or Gn 15:1-6; 21:1-3; Ps 128:1-5
or Ps 105:1-6, 8-9; Col 3:12-21 [12-17] or Hb 11:8, 11-12, 17-19; Lk 2:22-40 [22, 39-40]
Offices will be closed December 25, 2017 - January 1, 2018.
Bulletin Memorials The bulletin memorials on the last page of the bulletin will now be available to parishioners from St. James and St.Philip. You can begin sending in your requests for inclusion in the January 7 bulletin. The procedure will be as follows: On a white envelope put your name, address and phone number, the name of the person to be remembered and your payment in the amount of $50.00. Make checks to your church and write “Bulletin Memorials” on the envelope. Put the envelope in the collection. Memorials can be a single name or for a family. If you have any questions, you can call Carol Ann at 225-265-4085 or 265-3953. If you already have a name on the list, you will be contacted when your account is due.
The Traveling Chalice Ministry of Prayer for Vocations The chalice is a symbol of priesthood. The Traveling Chalice is designed to bring about a family focus to vocation prayer. The members of the CDA # 2316 want to offer our priest our support and prayers. Each week a family or individual will accept the responsibility of praying
for vocations. The chalice can be obtained in the foyer of the adoration chapel after 12 noon on a given Saturday and returned the following Sat. before noon. In order to receive the chalice for vocations one must call Helen Gravois 985-209-3157 to schedule a week ahead of time. Anyone is welcome to pray with the chalice for vocations. Our hope is that our prayers are answered and that more people will answer the call to the priesthood and religious life.
Treasures From Our Tradition
Children of the parish are somewhat focused on Santa Claus these days, who is keeping an eye on who's naughty and who's nice. Santa Claus, with his heavenly patron Saint Nicholas, has been more or less in charge of gift-giving to American children for a hundred years or so. In other places, perhaps more attentive to our Christian tradition, there are different gift-bearers. In Greece, Saint Basil delivers the presents on his feast day, December 31, and makes sure everyone is sprinkled with holy water. The Baby Jesus is in charge elsewhere, called the Christkind in Austria and Belgium, El Niño Jesús in Columbia, and Le Petit Jesus in France,
where he shares his duties with Père Noël. In the Czech Republic almost everyone is atheist, but Jeíek, the infant Jesus, brings gifts to one and all. In Poland the "Star Man" is said to bring the gifts, although often he turns out to be the village priest in disguise. Saint Nicholas, not his Americanized cousin, is the giver in Holland, where he wears a bishop's miter, and in Russia, where he wears a bishop's crown. Soviet Russia tried to dethrone Saint Nicholas and promote Grandfather Frost, but no one was much fooled by this attempt to squeeze religion out of Christ's birth. One country has a saintly woman in charge of the gifts, Saint Lucy, honored in Sweden on December 13, when children serve their parents breakfast in bed, and others awake to news that they have been nominated for a Nobel Prize. Some children have a second round of gifts on Epiphany, when the magi assume the gift-giving duties. In general, the gifts of Christmas are simple pleasures, not great heaps of treasures. Once upon a time, a new pair of socks or an orange was enough for us. No matter what gifts we receive, all of them are to point us to the true gift, and the true giver.
--Rev. James Field, Copyright (c) J. S. Paluch Co.
For more information on what is going on in the cluster, and to register for upcoming events such as Baptismal Seminar, Youth group functions, please go to our cluster website:
www.canecatholics.com
For today in the city of David ˝
a savior has been born for you who is Christ and Lord. Luke 2:11˝
Have a Blessed and Joyous Christmas
Donald Sr. & Genevieve Abadie Norman AllenBetty BecnelBluebeck, Irene & Jamin Becnel Bryon Becnel Christopher David Becnel Daniel BecnelDano & Diane R. BecnelJ. G. & Marietta Becnel Joseph Lloyd BecnelJoseph Marcel Becnel Maurice Sr. & Daisy K. Becnel Mr. & Mrs. Jules E. Becnel Olga Becnel Roland & Honorine Becnel Emilca & Hazel Bourgeois Gaspard & Ronnie Brazan Denis, Eve & Denis Jr. Chenier Frederic Clarke Edward, Anna & Eddie Clement Joseph “Lal” and Frances Constant Leslie CortezLester, Lois & Neil Cortez Terry & Bertha CortezDonald Delatte, Jr.Bernard, Esther & Karen Dumas Edwin Joseph DumasJanet Becnel FolseReid & Jeanne Folse
Chance & Doris FrazierDavid Mark Granier Andrew GravoisEdwin “Menew” Gravois Eloise B. Gravois Jessica Rodrigue Busscher Honora GravoisJoseph N. Gros, Jr.Joseph Sr. & Olympe Gros Raymond L Gros, Sr. George Grow, Jr.Gillis & Mabel GuillotKelsey HymelLynn & Gayle HymelJohn & Laura Isom Willie & Josephine IsomEva D. and Joseph I. James Warren A. JefferyByron J. & Morris Keller, Jr. Johnny J. & Jarran Keller Ora Lee L. KellerFrancile Baker LabatCecilia W. LoupPhilip & Inez MarseThomas & Thelma MarseTy Michael MartinezJoseph, Gladys & Ernest Narcisse Clamce & Alvin OubreEddie & Therese Oubre Fly. Eugenia Steib OubreFreddie P. Oubre, Sr. family
Hurby J. OubreJoseph Sr. & Hilda Oubre family Herman ReuletJoyce ReuletLloyd Reulet familyAlwin RodrigueAugust & Alice RodrigueChester & Joyce W. Rodrigue Manuel RodrigueTodd RodrigueElodie RomeMary D. RomeRoger & Eugene RomeV. J. RomeJerry RougeeLucien & Edna RougeeRaymond RougeeElmond J. Saul FamilyFernand & Lorne Schexnayder,Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Guy Schexnayder Sidney & Isabelle SimonAlvin Joseph “Specky" SteibAndre & Iona SteibBenoit & Alice Steib & Rashaud Charles SteibFlo, Regina, Mark, Donavon Steib Paul & Alice I. SteibRosemond & Vivian SteibBernice T. SteinLeonard J. SteinOscar Zeno, Sr. & Larry
Adorers Needed Adorers are needed for the Adoration Chapel. To fill one of these time slots or any other, call Rose Brazan, 504-621-4092. Sun.: 3-4 a.m., 12 noon-1 p.m.Mon.: 12 midnight-1 a.m., 3-4 p.m.Wed.: 1-2 a.m., 3-4 a.m.Thur.: 1-2 a.m.; 2-3 a.m Fri.: 1-2 a.m.; 4-5 a.m., 1-2 p.m., 7-8 p.m. 10-11 p.m., Sat.: 2-3 a.m., 3-4 a.m., 5-6 p.m.,10-11 pm
COLLECTION AMOUNT
Offertory $ $2490.00
St. Joseph Abbey $230.00
ST. JAMES
COLLECTION AMOUNT
Offertory $2876.00
St. Joseph Abbey $699.00
ST. PHILIP
COLLECTION AMOUNT
Offertory $5,685.00
Repairs & Replacements $166.00
Adoration Chapel $218.25
Social Justice Fund $2.00
OUR LADY OF PEACE
In Loving Memory
Flower Donations Flower envelopes can be put in any collection between now and Christmas.
