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: Monday: 12:10pm

Tuesday & Thursday: 8:30am Wednesday & Friday: 6:30am

First Saturday: 8:30am Saturday: 4:00pm

Sunday: 6:30am, 8:00am, 10:00am & 5:00pm Confessions:

15 minutes before each Mass; Saturday: 3:00-3:45pm & by appointment

Colored by: Lainey Hotard 5 years old

January 6, 2019 The Epiphany of the Lord

Sts. Peter and Paul School News

DATE CHANGE: The Professional Development Day originally scheduled for Friday, February 8th has been changed to Friday, February 1st. Students will not have school this day. 2019-2020 Admissions Information – New student tours started October 1st and we encourage those planning to en-roll for next year to visit the school to receive important information. January tours will take place every Tuesday at 9:30am. Applications for new students will open on Tuesday, January 8th and the link will be on the school website at www.sts-peter-paul.org. Please call 504-3400 to schedule a tour if Tuesday does not work for your schedule. Annual Appeal – The Grandparent’s Annual Appeal has started. A letter and information was mailed to our current and alumni grandparents. Grandparents may use the envelope sent or donate online through our secure, online portal on the school website. Please consider a year-end gift to support our student’s spiritual and academic growth. Knights Athletics – Please join us for basketball and soccer seasons currently underway. Team schedules are locat-ed on the school website. Facebook – We welcome all parishioners to follow our Facebook page (Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School) to keep informed of all the amazing things happening on our campus. Make sure to follow our school in Scott, LA as there are several schools around the nation with the same name. Christmas Break – School will dismiss at 11:00 on Friday, December 21st and resume on January 7, 2019. Students of the Year – Congratulations to Sadie Guidry (8th) and Cole Hebert (5th) on being selected as the Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School Students of the Year. Good luck as you both move forward to represent the school at the diocesan level. Special Treat - Fr. Mark treated the PK and K students to a story read by Seminarian Connor Poirrier the week before Christmas. The story was followed with cookies and chocolate milk for all the students. Thanks Fr. Mark for welcoming the students into your home and making memories they will never forget.

Visit them: 1301 Old Spanish Trail, Scott, LA 70583

Fax them: (337) 504-4995

Contact or Visit Them On-line:

www.sts-peter-paul.org

Email: info@sts-peter-paul.org

Mass Intentions Saturday, January 5 @ 4:00pm:

Hubert Leger, Jr. Gary LeBleu, Priscilla Duplechin, M/M (L) Joe Alleman, Robert Schexnayder, Bernice F. Fournier (Ann) Mary Anne Dugas, Joe & Hilda Peschier & Suzanne, Louis & Jeanne Prejean & Michael, David L. “Boo” Prejean, Harry Leger

Jacques Tien, Marilyn Arton Sunday, January 6 @ 6:30am:

For the People Sunday, January 6 @ 8:00am:

Henry & Wilma Langlinais, Francis & Ellen Resweber, Spiritual Healing, Kaleigh Degeyter (L)(HBD)

Sunday, January 6 @ 10:00am: Deanna Sonnier, Sylvia Comeaux, Mary Hebert, M/M Adrian Vega

Sunday, January 6 @ 5:00pm: For all aborted babies, For women thinking about having an abortion that they

choose life. Monday, January 7 @ 12:10pm:

M/M Brian Menard (L)(Ann), Ryan Degeyter (L)(HBD), Claudia S. Breaux (Ann) Tuesday, January 8 @ 8:00am:

Anna Nga Wednesday, January 9 @ 6:30am:

Suzanne Sang Thursday, January 10 @ 8:30am:

Suzanne Sang, Lucille Ann Sonnier (Ann) Friday, January 11 @ 6:30am:

For those suffering from addiction

Parish Announcements & Contact Informa on e RCIA is offered for adults seeking to become Catholic, or adult Catholics seeking to receive First Holy Communion, Confirmation, or have their civil marriage blessed by God’s Church. It is also available to adult Catholics who simply want to continue learning about their faith. RCIA will be available every Thursday from 6:15pm-7:30pm in the parish office. For more information contact the parish office.

Due to bulletin deadlines there is no collection information.

WEEKLY EXPENSES: $17,000

MONTHLY EXPENSES: $68,000

Please consider putting Sts. Peter & Paul Church and School in your will

Collections for the weekend of:

January 6: 2 Collections

(Church Debt)

January 13: One Collection

January 20: 2 Collections

(Maintenance Fund)

PLEASE don’t skip a Sunday Donation!!! It makes a huge difference. You can always mail it or drop it off at the Church office. If we’re closed you can drop it through the mail slot on the door!

e Applications for the Men’s ACTS retreat are available on our website and in the Church Office. Please turn them in to the church office as soon as possible. The retreat is February 7-10, 2019.

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ROOTEDNESS The flower does not bear the root. The root bears the flower. The

rose is merely evidence of the vitality of the root. --Woodrow Wilson

Diocesan Announcements

O Jesus, eternal Priest, keep your priests within the shelter of Your Sacred Heart, where none may touch them. Keep unstained their anointed hands,

which daily touch Your Sacred Body. Keep unsullied their lips, daily purpled with your

Precious Blood. Keep pure and unearthly their hearts, sealed with the sublime mark of the

priesthood. Let Your holy love surround them and shield them from the world's contagion. Bless

their labors with abundant fruit and may the souls to whom they minister be their joy and

consola on here and in heaven their beau ful and everlas ng crown. Amen.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

Jan. 6 Rev. Msgr. Charles Mallet & Chad Peltier

Jan. 7 Very Rev. Msgr. W. Curtis Mallet, VG & Connor Poirrier

Jan. 8 Rev. C. William Mayne & Seth Ransonet

Jan. 9 Rev. Kenneth Mayne & Michael Vidrine

Jan. 10 Rev. Garrett McIntyre & Nicholas Ware

Jan. 11 Rev. Bert Mead, SJ & Cole Zaunbrecher

Jan. 12 Rev. Glenn Meaux, SOLT & Dylan Allen

e Theology of the Body-Level 2-"Into the Heart" Location: St. Elizabeth Seton Church, Lafayette

Classes will be held in the Father Lafleur Family Center, which is the large building on the far east side of the parking lot. The church is located at 610 Raintree Trail in Lafayette. Level 2 classes are held every Wednesday evening from January 30-March 27, 2019, with the exception of Wednesday, March 6, which is Ash Wednesday. To register, call Trista Littell at 337-262-5598. Workbooks will be provided when you sign in. The cost is $20. Adele Guillot and Karol Meynard will co-facilitate the series.

e CASA of SoLA is seeking volunteers to become a voice for abused and neglected children that are in the foster care system. For more information please visit www.casaofsola.org or call 337-268-5111

THE WAY TO HEAVEN Love of heaven is the only way to

heaven. --John Henry Newman

Sunday January 6, 2019: CLJ in CCD Bldg. at 6pm; AA meeting in Rm. 11 at 8pm; No Formation Monday, January 7, 2019: N/A

Tuesday, January 8, 2019: Rosary in the Cry Room at 9am; CLJ in CCD Bldg. at 9:30 am; AA meeting in Rm.11 at 7pm; No Elementary CCD

Wednesday, January 9, 2019: Prayer group in Cry Room at 10am; CLJ in CCD Bldg. at 6:30pm; AA in Rm. 11at 8pm;

Thursday, January 10, 2019: AA in Rm.11 at 7pm; RCIA in the rectory at 6:15-7:45; School Mass at 8:30am Friday, January 11, 2019: AA in Rm.11 at 8pm

Saturday, January 12, 2019: AA in Rm.11 at 7pm; The Village 9-10:30am

Weekly Calendar

Eucharistic Ministers for January 12/13 4:00pm: Tommy & Susan Ducharme, Dn. Tanner

6:30am: Warren Sensat, Stephanie Hendrix, Melanie Martin 8:00am: Brian Schlesinger, Dr. Darrin & Lynette Menard, Jake Prejean, Leighton Mire

10:00am: Gary & Rachel Kimble, Charles Frederick 5:00pm: Joe & Abby Aucoin, Karen Granger

Readers for January 12/13 4:00pm: Douglas Brown 6:30am: Ginger Sensat 8:00am: JoAnn Tanner 10:00am: Kelly Wahl

5:00pm: Josh & Landon Stockstill

Altar Servers for January 12/13 4:00pm: Blake Broussard, Grant Duplechin, Myah Hebert, Camille Swilley

6:30am: Adrienne Hendrix, Mary-Ester LeBlanc 8:00am: Abigail Mahne, Kaiton Hayes, Madison Lenox

10:00am: Cora Broussard, Reid Broussard, Jaxon Cho, Jake Domingue, Jake Fontenot 5:00pm: Gabriel Reed, Ellen Faye Thibodeaux, Jack Babineaux

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Monday of this week is Christmas Day in Russia and in much of the Orthodox world. This curious difference in schedule has a lot to do with how calendars have been developed and changed over the years. In the year 45 B.C. Julius Ceasar gave the empire his Julian Calendar, with the winter solstice on January 6. This put an end to a system in which officials called pontiffs were able to

tweak the calendar by adding extra days in as needed. He invented two new months at that time, December and January; and in order to correct the mess the pontiffs had made, forced a year of

445 days on the empire in what he named The Last Year of Confusion. The new months varied in number of days according to a complex schedule, but the calendar was still off by nearly twelve

minutes a year, and lost a full day every 130 years. Pope Gregory XIII reformed the calendar in 1583, but not everyone appreciated his efforts. England held out for two hundred years. The year 1700 was a leap year in England, but not in France; they were eleven days apart! George Washington was really born on February 11; when the Gregorian calendar was finally adopted in the English colonies shortly before the Revolution, he had to move his birthday to February 22. Now the calendars are thirteen days apart, which accounts for Russia s

Julian calendar Christmas. And Caesar thought he had brought confusion to an end! --James Field, Copyright (c) J. S. Paluch Co.

FINDING GOD The splendid magi, all sparkle and dash and solemnity, march right up off the pages of Matthew's

Gospel and into our churches today. Matthew alone tells us this grand and seductive story so that we might see the light and know that the child these magi visited is the fulfillment of prophecy, the king of

the world that stretches to the magi's home country and beyond, right down the ages to us. We too see and understand anew. Like the magi, our patron saints for this day, we see in the newborn

child the king of the universe and light of the world. Like the magi, we find in ourselves a new faith and a new life. Like them, we return to our home by a new route.

We are asked to come away from this festive season ourselves renewed and awake to the presence of God among us. We are asked to find God where God is to be found, to be attentive and surprised and

ready to bow down in adoration and to offer our gifts. Copyright (c) J. S. Paluch Co.

TODAY'S READINGS First Reading -- Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! The Lord shines upon you (Isaiah 60:1-6).

Psalm -- Lord, every nation on earth will adore you (Psalm 72). Second Reading -- The Gentiles are coheirs, copartners in the promise in Christ Jesus through the

gospel (Ephesians 3:2-3a, 5-6). Gospel -- Magi from the east arrived, looking for the newborn king of the Jews (Matthew 2:1-12).

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 1 Jn 3:22 -- 4:6; Ps 2:7bc-8, 10-12a; Mt 4:12-17, 23-25

Tuesday: 1 Jn 4:7-10; Ps 72:1-4, 7-8; Mk 6:34-44 Wednesday: 1 Jn 4:11-18; Ps 72: 1-2, 10, 12-13; Mk 6:45-52

Thursday: 1 Jn 4:19 -- 5:4; Ps 72:1-2, 14, 15bc, 17; Lk 4:14-22a Friday: 1 Jn 5:5-13; Ps 147:12-15, 19-20; Lk 5:12-16 Saturday: 1 Jn 5:14-21; Ps 149:1-6a, 9b; Jn 3:22-30

Sunday: Is 42:1-4, 6-7 or Is 40:1-5, 9-11; Ps 29:1-4, 3, 9-10 or Ps 104:1b-4, 24-25, 27-30; Acts 10:34-38 or Ti 2:11-14; 3:4-7; Lk 3:15-16, 21-22

Sacramental Information & New Parishioners Baptism: Expectant parents, who are parishioners, should contact the office four to six (4 - 6) months before the birth of the child.

Marriage: Couples planning marriage need to make an appointment with the pastor at least six months before the intended wedding date to begin the preparation process. A wedding date cannot be scheduled without approval of the pastor.

Anointing of the Sick: Contact the office to schedule an appointment, home or nursing home visit, and, if death is imminent , contact the office for immediate action.

First Communion and Confirmation: Contact the Elementary DRE or High School DRE respectively.

Holy Communion for the Homebound: Contact the parish office to request a visit.

If you are interested in becoming Catholic or receiving Confirmation as an adult, or if you simply want to learn more about your faith, contact the office to inquire about RCIA. “Jesus said to them, ‘Come, and you will see’” (John 1:39).

New Parishioner Forms are found in church and on our website (Policies and Forms, Census Form) and should be submitted to the office.

Parishioner Funeral: When a parishioner passes away we ask that you please contact the parish office first before going to the Funeral Home. Fr. Mark would like to set up an appointment with the family of the deceased.

Adeline Veillon; Sixth Grade at Sts. Peter and Paul School One explanation of how “The Twelve Days of Christmas” may have been composed. The explanation says that in the 16th– century England leaders prevented many Christians from practicing their religion. During that period, a

royal decree forced those who did not embrace particular religious beliefs to take their worship into hiding. Violation of the laws of the time could result in severe punishment, even death, but these persecuted, humble

followers of Christ are believed to have found a way to express their adoration for our Savior. By carefully hiding doctrinal teaching in harmless lyrics, they could conceal a coded message of their belief and faith. So the “true love” in the song is actually Christ, who provides all that is essential in this life for His faithful followers. And the

twelve days of Christmas are the days between Christmas and Epiphany, the day when the Magi are believed to have found the Christ Child. For most people, “The Twelve Days of Christmas” is a silly song that simply mentions a series of extravagant gifts that a person gives to his or her beloved at Christmastime. However, when you seek Christ, even this amusing little Christmas song can transform into a stunning, symbolic message and testimony of

the Savior. This is what each day stood for: 1. The partridge in a pear tree was Jesus Christ. 2. Two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments. 3. Three French hens stood for faith, hope and love. 4. The four calling birds were the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John. 5. The five golden rings recalled the Torah or Law, the first five books of the Old Testament. 6. The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation. 7. Seven swans a-swimming represented the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit- Prophecy, Serving, Teaching,

Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy. 8. The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes 9. Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit– Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness,

Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self Control. 10. The ten lords a– leaping were the ten commandments 11. The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful disciples 12. The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostles Creed

CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS:

Sts. Peter and Paul Church #525201

1110 Old Spanish Trail

Sco , LA 70583

TELEPHONE: 337 235-2433

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