STS. PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH Address: 1110 Old Spanish Trail, Scott, LA 70583 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 610, Scott, LA 70583 Email: stspeterandpaulscott@hotmail.com Website: stspeterandpaulscott.org Phone Number: 337-235-2433 Fax: 337-233-4868 School: 337-504-3400 Elementary CCD: 337-232-6167

Mass Schedule (Temporary due to COVID-19): Saturday: 4:00pm, 6:00 pm Sunday: 8:00 am, 10:00 am Confessions (Temporary due to COVID-19): Saturday: 3:00-3:45pm (cry room) OR By appointment

Staff Pastor: Fr. Mark Derise Parochial Vicar: Fr. Vincent In Residence: Bishop Emeritus Michael Jarrell Deacon Cliff Tanner Trustees: Abby Aucoin & Brian Schlesinger School Principal: Danielle Babineaux Secretary & Bookkeeper: Monica Laperous Bulletin Editor: Nicole Habetz DRE 1st-8th: Janet Hebert & Beth Duplechin DRE 9th-11th: Nicole Habetz & Heather Augustin Office Hours: Monday– Thursday 8:30am-12:00pm, 1:00pm-4:00pm Friday: 8:30am-12:00pm Adoration Chapel: Mon-Fri. after morning Mass until 5pm.

GRACE AND ETERNAL LIFE Moses is a man after our own hearts, for haven’t we all dealt with more than our share of stiff-necked people? Indeed, haven’t we all gotten a little stiff-necked ourselves at times? Complaining . . . impatient . . . quick to anger. How lucky for Moses—how lucky for all of us—that God is exactly the opposite! And we don’t even have to guess about it. The Lord tells us so directly. Accordingly, Moses does what we all need to do. Even with the tablets in hand, he bows down and asks for God’s forgiveness and grace. Encouraging us to live together in peace—and in God’s favor—the Apostle Paul knows all about this grace, joyfully invoking Christ’s grace on us along with God’s love and the Holy Spirit’s. “Rejoice,” he says. And when it comes to rejoicing, John offers us the gladdest words of all: the assurance of eternal life through Jesus. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 1 Kgs 17:1-6; Ps 121:1bc-8; Mt 5:1-12 Tuesday: 1 Kgs 17:7-16; Ps 4:2-5, 7b-8; Mt 5:13-16 Wednesday: 1 Kgs 18:20-39; Ps 16:1b-2ab, 4, 5ab, 8, 11; Mt 5:17-19 Thursday: Acts 11:21b-26; 13:1-3; Ps 65:10-13; Mt 5:20-26 Friday: 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-16; Ps 27:7-9abc, 13-14; Mt 5:27-32 Saturday: 1 Kgs 19:19-21; Ps 16:1b-2a, 5, 7-10; Mt 5:33-37 Sunday: Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a; Ps 147:12-15, 19-20; 1 Cor 10:16-17; Jn 6:51-58

Continue to pray for those in the health care system who are testing and treating patients for the Corona Virus. We ask that God keep them and their families safe at this time . We pray for an end to this Virus not only in our country but world wide.

SAINT BERNADETTE SOUBIROUS (1844-1879) April 16 With Immaculate Mary’s “Ave Maria” for its refrain, Andy Williams’ “Village of Saint Bernadette” peaked at #7 on Billboard’s Top 40 at Christmas 1959, airing on radio stations all over America. Imagine! April 16 marks the feast of Bernardette Soubirous, the teenager who, combing a refuse heap for firewood, saw a “beautiful lady” who identified herself in words Bernadette faithfully reported to the bishop, though she did not understand their meaning: “I am the Immaculate Conception.” Relentlessly interrogated, she never wavered in her story or sweetness. Chronically ill all her life and dead at thirty-five, Bernadette left behind the shrine at Lourdes where healing wa-ters still flow from the spring that her “beautiful lady” pointed out to her. —Peter Scagnelli Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

Pray for Priests and Seminarians June 7: Rev. Anselm Ofodum & Gabe Dowden June 8: Rev. Norman O’Neal SJ & Rev. Mr. Casey Dugas June 9: Rev. Paul Onuegbe & John Dugas June 10: Rev. Anthony Ostini, SJ & Tré Fontenot June 11: Rev. Jose Padinjarepeedika, CMI & Andrew Furka June 12: Rev. Arockia Doss Palthasar, HGN & David Furka June 13: Rev. John Paul, SJ & James Hamilton

Mass Intentions Monday, June 8 M/M Faron Menard (L)(HBD), Lawrence Menard, Alex Lantier (Ann,) Rayford Domingue, Joseph Depa, Randy Falcon Tuesday, June 9 Michael O’Neil Mouton, Harry Courville Wednesday, June 10 Dr. & Mrs. Darrin Menard (L)(Ann), Eula Mae Hebert, Fr. Rene’ Pellessier (L) Thursday, June 11 M/M Paul L. Calaway (L), Fr. Michael Richard (L), Effie Phillips, M/M Don Montoucet, Michael Hilbun, Natalie Tanner (L)(HBD) Friday, June 12 Lynn & Jess Poirrier, Woodley Hebert (Ann) Saturday, June 13 @ 4:00 PM Larry Paul Arceneaux, Harry Leger, David L. “Boo” Prejean, M/M John Allen Prejean, Helen C. Perot, John Wade Mouton, MM Chester Duhon & Cindy Labbe, Dupre Hebert, Betty H. Falterman, Kent Hebert, Sybil Alleman, M/M Evan Domingue, Jill T. Bodin, Joseph Courville Family, Harry Jagneaux, Kevin A. Hilbun, Ozere Domingue Family, J. E. Mouton Family, Mark David Domingue Saturday, June 14 @ 6:00 PM For the People Sunday, June 14 @ 8:00AM: Lelia V. Thibodeaux, Dustin Wiltz, Joseph Thibodeaux, Bernice Weber, Spiritual Healing, Edward & Emetile Bourque Sunday, June 14 @ 10:00 AM: Charles M. Peterson, Deanna Sonnier, Rayford Domingue, M/M Adrian Vega, Ray Wirtz Family (L), John Allen Babineaux, M/M Roy Joseph Trahan & Dale Touchette, Donald Bernard, Rosamaria Reyes– Silva, Sylvia Comeaux

A Biblical Walk Through The Mass The Liturgical Year

The readings from Scripture also correspond to the various seasons and feasts of the Church. On one level, the Church walks us through the life and mission of Jesus through the seasons of the liturgical year. In the four weeks of Advent, we recall the Old Testament period of humanity’s longing for the Savior. In the Christmas season, we rejoice in the birth of the Son of God who came to dwell among us. In the forty days of Lent, we participate in Jesus’ prayer and fasting in the desert as we prepare to enter Christ’s passion in Holy Week. In the fifty days of the Easter season, we celebrate Jesus’ resurrection triumph and ascension into heaven, culmination on the fiftieth day with his sending of the Spirit on Pentecost. The rest of the liturgical year—known as Ordinary Time—focuses our attention on the public ministry of Jesus. All throughout the year, the Church also draws our attention to the various mysteries of faith. The feast of Corpus Christi (literally “body of Christ”), for example, celebrates the gift of the Eucharist. The feast of the Holy Trinity focuses on the mystery of the Godhead as Three Divine Persons. The Feast of All Saints praises God for the supernatural work he has accomplished in transforming weak, sinful human beings into saints who serve as models for us to follow in our own imitation of Christ. The Blessed Virgin Mary is chief among them and the saints who serve as models for us to follow in our own imitation of Christ. The Blessed Virgin Mary is chief among them and saints most often commemorated in the Liturgical Year, as we and other aspects of her life and role in God’s saving plan. Certainly, we should praise the Lord for every aspect of his life, especially his death and resurrection, every day of the year. And we should be constantly thankful for the mysteries of faith and the saints he had given us. But we are human and cannot fully grasp the entire mystery of Christ at once. This is one reason why the Church marks off special days to give attention, thanks and praise for a particular aspect of Jesus’ life or a specific aspect of the Catholic faith. As one liturgical scholar put it, “Each year [the Church] sees him an infant in the manger, fasting in the desert, offering Himself on the cross, raising from the grave, founding him Church, instituting the sacraments, ascending to the right hand of the Father, and sending the Holy Ghost upon men. The graces of all these divine mysteries are renewed in her.” Journeying through the Church’s Year annually throughout one’s life also helps us to appreciate Christ and his work of salvation all the more. It is similar to what happens when families celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, and other important dates and events. In my family, for example, we thank God each day for the blessing of each other’s lives in a general way. But we also celebrate birthdays, which help the family rally together to honor a particular child and give special thanks for the gift of that person’s life. Similarly, although I pray for my wife and my marriage everyday of the year, celebrating our anniversary is an annual opportunity to thank God in a more particular way for the blessing of each other’s lives and the sacramental bond we share. As the Family of God, the Church fittingly marks off special days to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, and other key aspects of God’s plan of salvation. But in this supernatural family, it is Christ Himself who is present in the various yearly celebrations. As Pius XII taught,

Hence, the liturgical year, devotedly fostered and accompanied by the Church, is not a cold and

lifeless representation of the events of the past, or a simple and bare record of a former age. It is rather Christ Himself who is ever living in his

Church. Here He continues that journey of immense mercy which He lovingly began in his mortal life,

going about doing good, with the design of bringing men to know His mysteries and in a way live by

them. These mysteries are ever present and active.

Monday, June 8, 2020: Tenth Week in Ordinary Time

Tuesday, June 9, 2020: St. Ephrem; Cry Room at 9am (Cancelled); CLJ in CCD Bldg. at 9:30am (Cancelled)

Wednesday, June 10, 2020:

Thursday, June 11, 2020: St. Barnabas, RCIA will be available every Thursday from 6:15pm-7:30pm in the parish hall. For more information contact the par-ish office. (Cancelled)

Friday, June 12, 2020:

Saturday, June 13, 2020: St. Anthony of Padua

Sunday, June 14, 2020: Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)

Weekly Calendar

This week the sanctuary lights burn for: Church: Protection from the Corona Virus Chapel: All Healthcare workers

Saint Anthony of Padua’s Story The gospel call to leave everything and follow Christ was the rule of Saint Anthony of Padua’s life. Over and over again, God called him to something new in his plan. Every time Anthony responded with renewed zeal and self-sacrificing to serve his Lord Jesus more completely.

His journey as the servant of God began as a very young man when he decided to join the Augustinians in Lisbon, giv-ing up a future of wealth and power to be a servant of God. Later when the bodies of the first Franciscan martyrs went through the Portuguese city where he was stationed, he was again filled with an intense longing to be one of those closest to Jesus himself: those who die for the Good News.

So Anthony entered the Franciscan Order and set out to preach to the Moors. But an illness prevented him from achieving that goal. He went to Italy and was stationed in a small hermitage where he spent most of his time praying, reading the Scriptures and doing menial tasks.

The call of God came again at an ordination where no one was prepared to speak. The humble and obedient Anthony hesitantly accepted the task. The years of searching for Jesus in prayer, of reading sacred Scripture and of serving him in poverty, chastity, and obedience had prepared Anthony to allow the Spirit to use his talents. Anthony’s sermon was astounding to those who expected an unprepared speech and knew not the Spirit’s power to give people words.

Recognized as a great man of prayer and a great Scripture and theology scholar, Anthony became the first friar to teach theology to the other friars. Soon he was called from that post to preach to the Albigensians in France, using his profound knowledge of Scripture and theology to convert and reassure those who had been misled by their denial of Christ’s divinity and of the sacraments..

After he led the friars in northern Italy for three years, he made his headquarters in the city of Padua. He resumed his preaching and began writing sermon notes to help other preachers. In the spring of 1231 Anthony withdrew to a friary at Camposampiero where he had a sort of treehouse built as a hermitage. There he prayed and prepared for death.

On June 13, he became very ill and asked to be taken back to Padua, where he died after receiving the last sacra-ments. Anthony was canonized less than a year later and named a Doctor of the Church in 1946.

Reflection

Anthony should be the patron of those who find their lives completely uprooted and set in a new and unexpected direc-tion. Like all saints, he is a perfect example of turning one’s life completely over to Christ. God did with Anthony as God pleased—and what God pleased was a life of spiritual power and brilliance that still attracts admiration today. He whom popular devotion has nominated as finder of lost objects found himself by losing himself totally to the providence of God.

Saint Anthony of Padua is the Patron Saint of:

Lost items Poor Travelers

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Known to Syrian Christians as "the harp of the Holy Ghost," this Mesopotamian from Nisibia was baptized at 18 and may have accompanied his bishop to the Council of Nicaea in 325. He served as head of the cathedral school and left Nisibia only after it became Persian. In 363 he moved to a cave overlooking Edessa but preached frequently in the city and wrote many poems, hymns and biblical commentaries; he organized a choir of women to sing his hymns during liturgies. About 370 he visited St. Basil in Caesarea. The winter before his death, he earned praise for managing relief supplies during a severe famine in Edessa. Ephraem is the only Syrian father declared a doctor of the church.

SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY Since you are children of God, God has sent into your hearts the Spirit of His Son, the Spirit who cries out: Abba, Father. (Gal 4:6; Communion Antiphon)

Each year, the Sunday following the Solemnity of Pentecost commemorates the Mystery of the Most Blessed Trinity, the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It is the Mystery of God Himself (Catechism of the Catholic Church 234). The Catechism teaches that “by sending his only Son and the Spirit of Love in the fullness of time, God has revealed his innermost secret: God Himself is an eternal exchange of love, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and He has destined us to share in that exchange” (Catechism of the Catholic Church 221). This innermost secret is what Jesus, the Son of God, has made known to us: “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you” (Jn 15:15). As the central mystery of Christian faith and life, the Mystery of the Most Blessed Trinity reveals to us the truth about God and the truth about man, the human person created in God’s image and likeness. By worshiping the Trinity we realize the full truth about ourselves. For this reason, the worship of God in the profession of the true faith is the surest guarantee of a life of meaningful purpose.

Who is this God? Does it matter what we call Him? Does it matter how we address this God? We take our Lord’s words at face value: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you” (Mt 28:18-20). There is no ambiguity in these words. It is therefore wrong to assert or even to insinuate that all religions worship the same God. This is an error that has become prevalent in our time and one that has given rise not only to religious relativism but also to religious indifference. It seems that the only form of belief tolerated by an increasingly secular world is a generic theism, “a vague and impotent theism” (Henri Cardinal de Lubac). In other words, an inconsequential belief in God that is at best notional.

Throughout history, especially through the witness of her saints and martyrs, the Church has endeavoured to remain faithful to our Lord’s divine mandate; and the evidence of history clearly illustrates that the darkness of paganism and the horrors of anti-humanism were dispelled by the radiance of Christian truth. One example suffices to illustrate the power of divine truth; first communicated to the Jewish people and completely revealed in Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh. Among all the ancient peoples only the Hebrews prohibited the public display of executed corpses (Deut 21:23) because an atrocity inflicted on the living image of God is an offence against God. Unless our ethnic heritage is Jewish, all of us are descendants of peoples and tribes that were at one time pagan. Pagan tribes felt no compunction about torturing and desecrating the cadavers of members of another collectivity. The Romans, we well know, used crucifixion, a cruel form of execution meant to humiliate victims before and after their death. The Christian West summoned the pagans (our ancestors for the most part) out of pre-history on the authority of a God whose love extends to every individual, so that as individuals they might abandon the collective identity of the tribe and instead embrace an individual identity as a child of God (David P. Goldman, “Syria’s Madness and Ours” in Front Page Magazine, May 2013) begotten in grace through Baptism. This theological truth is at the heart of the transformation of the West and indeed other cultures as well; from violent, barbaric collectives to what we rightly define as civilized. At the heart of this transformation is belief in a God whom we call Father, a God who loves, who abhors violence. This truth is more than implied in words we have just heard in our second reading: “When we cry, ‘Abba! Father’! it is the very spirit bearing witness that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ” (Rom 8:15-17).

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In the face of so much confusion about the nature and purpose of human life, and the very value of human life, perhaps as at no other time, our society and culture and the world at large need to hear the voice of the Church, teaching the truth about God and the truth about man created in the divine image. We must proclaim this truth fearlessly and with conviction. The Mystery of the Most Blessed Trinity, the central mystery of Christian faith and life, challenges us to live as persons who are revealing, loving and sharing. To live in this manner is to live in communion; to know and appreciate others and to know ourselves, for we can only define ourselves by living in our relationships; rightly ordered and based in truth. For this reason the Mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of faith and life. The Feast of the Most Holy Trinity celebrates the truth about God Himself and invites us who worship this wondrous Mystery to perceive in it the logic of our very lives. It is Christ our Lord who by His Cross has made this Mystery known to mankind; and the Holy Spirit continues to do this through the hearts of all who believe. This Mystery is not an abstraction but the source and destiny of all that is.

So we offer our worship to the Triune God through our Lord Jesus Christ, who calls us friends; and we ask that by the power of the Holy Spirit all nations and peoples may come to the knowledge of the true God. Through our sacred worship we “acknowledge today and take to heart that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth beneath; there is no other” (Dt 4:39). May our faithful discipleship be a clear and bold proclamation of this truth for this truth is His merciful love.

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