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July 3, 2016 - Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Rev. M. Keith LaBove, Pastor Parish Website: www.stpat.org
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
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
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
July 3, 2016
MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK
Saturday, July 2--Vigil of the Fourteenth Sun-day in Ordinary Time 4:00 PM: Cecil & Eva Mae Hebert; Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Rolfes; Johnny Leon Ducote; Family Tree: Champagne, Romero, Theriot, Kalweit Sunday, July 3--Thirteenth Sunday in Ordi-nary Time 8:30 AM: Robert Chastant & Evelyn; Eddie Upton; M/M Elliott Roy; Robert Cole; Dr. Almore (Doc) Bordelon; Nick & Earl Chiasson; Joseph & Eldie Woods 10:00 AM: Parishioners of St. Patrick’s Monday, July 4--Weekday; Independence Day 7:30 AM: Joan Braungart Tuesday, July 5--St. Anthony Zaccaria, Priest; St. Elizabeth of Portugal 7:30 AM: Verna & Wiley Romero
Wednesday, July 6--St. Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr 7:30 AM:Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne; Col. Clark Comeaux & Catherine (living); Col. Kimberly Fedele (living) Thursday, July 7--Weekday 7:30 AM: Dr. Nicholas Olivier Friday, July 8--Weekday 7:30 AM: Dr. Charles Stewart Altar Flowers In memory of: Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne
May I never boast except in the cross
of our Lord Jesus Christ. — Galatians 6:14
Non-Liturgical Devotions Daily Rosary: Monday - Thursday 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, July 8: No cleaning this week. Gently Worn School Uniforms Needed Gently Worn School Uniforms are once again being collected for needy children in the Lafa-yette Parish Schools. Please bring your chil-dren’s outgrown uniforms to church as soon as possible. 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. The need is great!
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
Food for the Journey The Central Region of the Diocese of Lafayette presents “Food for the Journey”, a monthly lunchtime speaker series designed to help Catholics live out our faith in our daily lives. Our speaker for July is Rev. Kevin Bordelon, Pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Rayne, and Director of the Office of Vocations and Seminarians and Director of the Office of Ongoing Formation of Priests for the Diocese of Lafayette. PLEASE NOTE: Our Seminarians will join Fa-ther Bordelon and introduce themselves as part of this presentation. “Food for the Journey” will be held on Tues-day, July 5, at Wyndham Garden Lafayette (former ly “Hotel Acadiana”), 1801 W. Pinhook Road, beginning at 12:00 noon. An optional lunch buffet is available for pur-chase beginning at 11:30 a.m. All are welcome to come “eat and be fed”- please bring a friend! Pre-registration is not required. For more information, please call Mary Ber-geron (654-8682). Additional Trip Added: St. Mary Church Local Pil-grimage Bus Trip for Jubilee “Year of Mercy” After “selling out” their Bus Trip in April, St. Mary Church, Lafayette, is offering an additional one-day Pilgrimage Bus Trip on Thursday, August 11, to visit Pilgrimage Sites in the Diocese of Lafayette designated by Bishop Michael Jar-rell to reflect on the Father’s mercy and how we can emu-late that mercy in our lives. We will attend 7:00 a.m. Mass at St. Mary Church (419 Doucet Road, Lafayette), then de-part at 7:45 a.m. from St. Mary parking lot, returning about 6:00-6:30 p.m. We will visit, take tours and have our book-lets stamped at the Carmelite Monastery; St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church, St. Martinville; Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church, Henderson; Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto and St. Leo Catholic Church, Leonville; Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church, Opelousas; Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church, Church Point; Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church, Rayne; and Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Lafayette. Each person will receive a booklet “Merciful Like the Father”; inside you will find the Prayer for the Year of Mercy which we will pray at every location, and we will have our booklets stamped at each site. Lunch (included) will be at Little Big Cup in Arnaudville. To se-cure a reservation, $70 registration is due to Barbara Thibodeaux by July 11. For complete details and registra-tion information, please contact JoAnn LeJune at St. Mary Church (981-3379) or Barbara Thibodeaux (235-3240). Retrouvaille Weekend Retrouvaille is a program for troubled marriages. The week-end provides a safe setting that encourages couples to learn communication in marriage in a respectful manner. Visit the website for more information and to register www.helpourmarriage.com. Prayer Calendar for Priests and For Seminarians Support vocations and perseverance of vocations to the priesthood by praying for a Priest and a Seminarian each day. The July calendar is available on the table at the main entrance of the church.
Centennial Campaign As a few pledge cards continue to trickle in, we would encourage anyone planning to make a gift to do so this week. (Cards are available under the stairwell, near the main entrance of the Church.) In that way, we will be able to run the numbers and give you a final total for our parish, which is already over our assigned goal. Please keep in mind: All checks for the campaign must be made out to "Centennial Campaign", not St. Patrick Church. (We cannot run these checks through our books without complicating things.) Also, if you have filled out a pledge card, you will be con-tacted by the Campaign office at the diocese on how to continue to donate over the course of your pledge. Please do not send your check to the parish. And again, many thanks for the generosity of so many. Holy Hour for Vocations Please join us for our monthly “Holy Hour for Voca-tions and for the Spiritual Renewal of All Priests” on Monday, July 11 (due to Fourth of July Holiday), from 6:00-7:00 p.m. at St. Patrick Catholic 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 priesthood and religious life, sponsored by the Serra Club of Lafayette. The Joy of Love – Exploring the Heart of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation The Joy of Love is a day of reflection for married and engaged couples. Fr. Bryce Sibley and Kyle & Missy Polozola will lead the day. It will be held July 16, 2016 9:00am – 4:00pm at Our Lady of Wisdom Church. Lunch is included - $75/couple. Deadline to register is July 13th. Visit www.our ladyofwisdom.org/joyof love or email Robin Hebert at [email protected] for more information. Pilgrimage to Rome & Assisi – Canonization of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta Rev. Robert Seay, OFM, Pastor of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church, Lafayette, and its Mission, Good Hope Chapel, will be Chaplain of a pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi for the Canonization of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta from September 1-7, 2016. For more information, please contact Father Seay at St. Paul the Apostle (235-0272). STEWARDSHIP OF THE PAST WEEK Our Response to God’s Generosity to Us Offertory………………………$ 3,221.56 Thank You! The second collection this weekend is for our Building Fund.
Date
Saturday, July 9 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, July 10 8:30 a.m.
Sunday, July 10 10:00 a.m.
Lectors Marguerite Montagnet Kenneth Phillips Phyllis Roy
Eucharistic Ministers
Harold Guilbeau Candis Thompson Merrick Stelly
Geneva Phillips Kay Hampton Ted Hampton
Andre Arceneaux Jean Arceneaux Robin Roy
Altar Servers George Eaton Mary Kramer Debra Carroll
Ushers Kevin & Daylan Phillips Rachelle Trahan Keith Toups
Jenny Feehan Lionel Jeanmard
Liturgical Roles for July
Readings for the Week
Monday Hos 2:16, 17b-18, 21-22; Ps 145:2-9; Mt 9:18-26
Tuesday Hos 8:4-7, 11-13; Ps 115:3-10; Mt 9:32-38
Wednesday Hos 10:1-3, 7-8, 12; Ps 105:2-7; Mt 10:1-7
Thursday Hos 11:1-4, 8c-9; Ps 80:2ac, 3b, 15-16; Mt 10:7-15
Friday Hos 14:2-10; Ps 51:3-4, 8-9, 12-14, 17; Mt 10:16-23
Saturday Is 6:1-8; Ps 93:1-2, 5; Mt 10:24-33
Sunday Dt 30:10-14; Ps 19:8-11; Col 1:15-20; Lk 10:25-37
From the Pastor’s Desk
You may have noticed we are moving toward an election this fall. On this 4th of July weekend, it seems like a good time to draw some attention to the social justice teaching that is offered to help us in exercising what we call “Faithful Citizenship”. As we celebrate freedom, it is good recognize the importance of being engaged in one of the most important tools we have for preserving freedom, the right to vote.
This week, and next week, we will be including inserts prepared by our U.S. Bishops on this topic of Faith-ful Citizenship. The two inserts (Part I & Part II) are a summary of a longer document entitled “Forming Con-sciences for Faithful Citizenship”. You can find this document online at the Bishops’ site (faithfulcitizenship.org), or by searching for “Faithful Citizenship”. There is also a link from our parish website to a variety of resources on this topic that I have gathered together. Reading the entire document is highly recommended. Otherwise, the summary will at least offer the basic ideas.
This document on faithful citizenship has an interesting history. The first version was issued in 1976. It not only had a different title—Political Responsibility— but a different focus. At that time, it stressed the im-portance for Catholics and all Christians to be involved in the political process, not least by voting. It also made clear that for the believer, the challenge is to apply the truths of the Gospel and the social teaching of the Church to the issues of the day. This allows the faith to guide and direct one’s electoral decisions. One cannot leave one’s faith at the door of the voting booth.
Since then, the document has been revised every 4 years, and expanded to include more teaching on the basic themes of Catholic Social Teaching (dignity of human persons, family and the common good, preferential option for the poor, etc.) and to address a greater number of specific issues (e.g., human life, religious freedom, migration, the right to health care, caring for the environment, etc.). Yet even in speaking of these specific issues, the document in no way tells anyone how to vote or endorses any candidate or political party. That decision is left up to the individual, who hopefully has formed his or her conscience in accord with these teachings on justice and human dignity. The document provides valuable guidance for all.
On a personal note, I have to say that this year’s political campaigning is some of the ugliest I have every seen. Malicious attacks on persons and groups of people have become the order of the day, accompanied by a blatant disregard for the truth. We as Americans deserve better than this, and should demand it.
