March 29, 2015 - Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

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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

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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

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

March 29, 2015

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK

Saturday, March 28--Vigil of Palm Sunday of

the Passion of the Lord

4:00 PM: Mike Guilbeau

Sunday, March 29--Palm Sunday of the Pas-

sion of the Lord 8:30 AM: Lorraine Day

10:00 AM: Parishioners of St. Patrick’s

Monday, March 30--Monday of Holy Week

7:30 AM: Joyce Weilbaecher; Lucy LeBlanc;

Brian Callier

Tuesday, March 31--Tuesday of Holy Week

7:30 AM: Toni Doumit Kalifeh

[Christ Jesus] humbled himself,

becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

— Philippians 2:8

Wednesday, April 1--Wednesday of Holy Week

7:30 AM: Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne;

Col. Clark Comeaux & Catherine (living);

Col. Kimberly Fedele (living)

Thursday, April 2--Holy Thursday

7:30 AM: Dr. Charles Stewart

Friday, April 3--Good Friday

3:00 PM: Service

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—Wednesday, April 1: Donna

Guilbeau; Susan Cain; Andre Arceneaux.

Confession Opportunities

All are encouraged to receive the Sacrament of

Reconciliation in preparation for Easter Sunday.

Please note that after Wednesday of Holy Week

(April 1), there are no scheduled confessions un-

til after Easter.

Volunteers Needed at United Christian Outreach

UCO was incorporated in October 1977 and is an

ecumenical organization with 23 member churches.

The organization is located at 422 Carmel Drive,

Lafayette and provides help of food, clothing, utility

assistance, and medicine, for clients “inside” the city

limits only; opens 4 days a week: Monday, Tuesday,

Wednesday and Friday (from 10 am to 1:30 pm).

The workers are ALL volunteers and represent only 7

churches at this time (St. Patrick being one of them).

Volunteers are desperately needed at this time to as-

sist in the areas of office work, food distribution,

clothing inventory, and purchase/picking up food

from one of its local partners. Volunteers may offer

their services in any capacity, once a week, once a

month, every week and as a sub. If interested please

contact Geneva Phillips at 280-2065 or Kay Hampton

at 706-8334

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday

Masses at 7:30 a.m.

Holy Thursday, April 2

Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 6 p.m.

Following Mass, Adoration will continue

until 8 p.m. in the Church

After the fasting of Lent, Holy Thursday recalls both the

Last Supper and the Washing of the Feet, the nourishment for service.

Good Friday, April 3

Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion at 3 p.m.

Day of fast and abstinence

The sacrifice of Good Friday is filled with prayer, from Jesus in the Garden to his final words on the Cross.

Holy Saturday, April 4

The Easter Vigil at 8:00 p.m.

Service of Light, Liturgy of the Word

Remembrance of Baptism, & Celebration of

the Eucharist

Holy Saturday is the day of the hidden mystery of divine

action. The disciples were convinced that all their hopes had ended in disaster. Holy Saturday reminds us that our

best guess about the future is only that; God has plans and

powers beyond anything we can imagine.

Easter Sunday, April 5

Masses at 8:30 and 10:00 a.m.

Easter morning began with a very human gesture: the women’s desire to give Jesus a proper burial. Because they

acted on their heartfelt inclination, the Good News of the

Resurrection became known to the disciples. The Gospel

message is spread whenever we cooperate with God’s grace.

Good Friday: Good Friday is a day of fast and abstinence

for people age 18—59. This means limiting to one full

meal and two smaller meals, with no snacking between

meals. Those who are younger or older may freely em-brace these disciplines. —Lenten disciplines should never

endanger your health.

Celebrate Holy Week and Easter with EWTN Learn more about your Faith during the holiest time of

the year with EWTN’s first-rate movies, documen-

taries, musicals, children’s programs, and much more!

Join in the celebration of Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome or at the majestic Basilica of the National Shrine

of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Get

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you!

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, April 6, 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 vo-cations to the priesthood and religious life, sponsored

by the Serra Club of Lafayette.

Food for the Journey

The Central Region of the Diocese of Lafayette pre-

sents “Food for the Journey”, a monthly lunchtime

speaker series designed to help Catholics live out our faith in our daily lives. Our speaker for April is Rev.

Richard Kalinowski, SVD, Chaplain at University

Health Clinics (UHC). “Food for the Journey” will be held on Tuesday, April 7, at Hotel Acadiana, 1801 W.

Pinhook Road, beginning at 12:00 noon. An optional

lunch buffet is available for purchase beginning at

11:30 a.m. All are welcome to come “eat and be fed”- please bring a friend! Pre-registration is not re-

quired. For more information, please call Mary Ber-

geron (654-8682).

Good Friday Collection

Christians around the world are united in a special way during Lent, Holy Week and Easter. Our hearts, minds

and prayers are also especially aware of the Holy Land.

Our parish, once a year on Good Friday, is called to

support Christians in the Holy Land. Good Friday Col-lection offers a direct link for parishioners to be wit-

nesses of peace and to help protect the Holy Places.

When you donate on Good Friday, you are supporting Christians in the Holy Land. Please be generous!

STEWARDSHIP OF THE PAST WEEK Our Response to God’s Generosity to Us

Offertory……………………..$ 5,831.62

Thank You! The second collection next weekend will be for our

Building Fund.

Date

Saturday, April 4

8:00 p.m.

Sunday, April 5

8:30 a.m.

Sunday, April 5

10:00 a.m.

Lectors

Benda DeMette

Phyllis Roy

Gerrie McGovern Karen Begnaud

Eucharistic

Ministers

Robin Roy

Candis Thompson

Peggy Spruill

Larry Lewis

Maggie Sonnier

Susan Cain

Tami Petre

Jerry Boudreaux

Dee Boudreaux

Altar Servers Harold Guilbeau—Harry DeMette Melinda Voorhies Nicholas Begnaud

Ushers

Oren Spruill

Joyce Stelly

Rachelle Trahan

Keith Toups

Lionel Jeanmard

Joyce Stelly

Liturgical Roles for April

Readings for the Week

Monday Is 42:1-7; Ps 27:1-3, 13-14; Jn 12:1-11

Tuesday Is 49:1-6; Ps 71:1-6, 15, 17; Jn 13:21-33, 36-38

Wednesday Is 50:4-9a; Ps 69: 8-34; Mt 26:14-25

Thursday Lord’s Supper: Ex 12:1-8, 11-14; Ps 116; 1 Cor 11:23-26; Jn 13:1-15

Friday Is 52:13 — 53:12; Ps 31; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; Jn 18:1 — 19:42

Saturday a) Gn 1:1 —2:2; b) Ex 14:15 —15:1; c) Is 55:1-11; d) Ez 36:16-17a,

18-28;

Romans 6:3-11; Psalm 118:1-2,16-17,22-23; Lk 24-1-12

Sunday Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Ps 118; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9

From the Pastor’s Desk

It is said by those who know about such things that the Gospels were written backwards. By that they mean that the first parts of the Gospels to be written were the Passion narratives. This is probably reflective of the pattern of preaching of the early Church. The heart of the Good News for those early believers was that Jesus suffered, and died, and rose from the dead. One sees that in the preaching of St. Paul, who is so very clear that this is the Jesus he proclaims: the one who died, or rather was raised up, and lives forever. Without the “death and resurrection” part of the story Jesus remains a story-teller and sometimes miracle worker. Given the consistent miss-understanding of even his closest followers, we know that it was only through that death and ris-ing that even they came to understand who Jesus was, and who they had been walking with for three years.

Only after proclaiming ‘The Risen One’ would they then turn to the second question, what did he say and do. The reply to this question ends up making up the larger part of the Gospel story, and is the part that is proba-bly most familiar to us. We live with the stories of Jesus’ preaching and miracles throughout the year, as our Lec-tionary presents us with these teachings and deeds of Jesus. And it was only later that the early Church even con-sidered asking how this Jesus of Nazareth came to be. This resulted in what we call the “Infancy Narratives”, the stories of Jesus conception and birth. Yet we find these only in Matthew and Luke. Mark begins with the preach-ing of John the Baptist, while John opens his Gospel with his famous “Prologue”, describing this Jesus as the Word made Flesh, who came to dwell among us.

Twice a year, we have read in our midst that early core of the Gospel message, the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, it is long. Yes, we probably saw the movie. Yet it remains essential that we hear this part of the story of our salvation. This passion, and death, is not only essential to the Jesus story — it is an essential part of our story, the story of our salvation.

This Sunday we pair the reading of the Passion with the triumphant entry into Jerusalem. This brings to-gether both acclaim and condemnation, as the one greeted with Hosanna is soon to be dragged our of the garden into the public square of shame and humiliation, and death.

Later this week, the Passion is read again, on Good Friday. Here the story is told with much anticipation, as the darkness of that day of death is lived in anticipation of the bright light of Easter morning. Yet the suffering and death is no less real. Let us enter deeply into this story this week, for it is truly our story.