Elliott’sSlaughter

House

1106 Lyons Point Hwy.Morse, Louisiana 337-

783-5240

108 1/2 Main Street Gueydan, La. 70542Owners: Diane & Donald Benoit

aint Peter the ApostleCatholic Church

603 Main Street - (P.O. Box 28) - Gueydan, La. 70542 337-536-9258 saintpeterchurch.org

Rev. Fr. Corey Campeaux-Pastor

MAY GOD BLESS

ALL MOTHERS

S Holy Mass Schedule Monday No MassTuesday 5:15 p.m.Wednesday NoonThursday 5:15 p.m.Friday 9:00 a.m. (Gueydan Guest Home) Saturday 4:00 p.m.Sunday 7:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.St. David 8:30 a.m.

Confession: Saturday 2:45-3:45 p.m. & 30 minutes before all other Masses or by appoint- ment.

Baptism: Arrangements made by the parents with thePastor. Godparents must be Confirmed and practic- ing Catholics.

Marriage Arrangements made bythe couple with the pastorno less than 6 months be- fore desired date.

Anointing: Emergency calls are answered immediately; call office for Holy Communion or Anointing of the Sick at

Office Hours: Monday: Closed Tues-Thurs 8am-3pm Friday-8 am-Noon Lunch: Noon– 1pm

May 13, 2018 The Ascension of the Lord

PRAYER FOR SEMINARIANS

May6 Tanner Darbonne7 Brent Didier8 Cameron Domingue9 Philip Domingue10 Reverend Mr. Blake Dubroc 11 Casey Dugas12 John Dugas

DAILY PRAYER FOR PRIESTSEternal Father, we lift up to You these and all the priests of the world. Sanctify them. Heal and guide them. Mold them into the likeness of Your Son, Jesus, the Eternal High Priest. May their lives be pleasing to You in Jesus’ name we pray. Amen

May6 Reverend Herbert Bennerfield7 Reverend Lloyd Benoit8 Reverend Paul Bergeron9 Reverend Conley Bertrand 10 Reverend Kenneth Bienvenu 11 Reverend Paul Bienvenu12 Very Reverend William Blanda, VF

Today’s letter from John reveals what Jesus’ life is: love. “God is love.” His life and His love flows from him into us. The word ‘love appears in one form or another in this Sunday’s readings an amaz- ing twenty times. God’s meaning of ‘preciousness,’ unconditional faithfulness needs to be our focus for ‘love.’ Our experience of human love is ideally a reproduction of it. Too often, it is a poor reflec- tion.

Is there perhaps a short circuit in our love lives? Our personal experience includes that we are condi- tioned to think we need to earn love. That has been the experience of every one of us at some level and because our personal experience is earning love, it is a stretch for us to accept that God does not work like that. Cardinal Basil Hume, once Bishop of Westminster Cathedral in England and noted author, said that it is easier to believe in God than to believe that God loves us. The truth is: we cannot earn God’s love. We are blessedly “stuck” with it. He has loved us first. That is the heart of today’s readings. Love exists not because we love, but because we are loved. God loves us whether we recognize it or whether we accept it or not.

We hear in the Gospel: “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you.” The depth of that state- ment is often missed. Jesus is saying that the same, intimate relationship that he experiences with his Father is also passed on to us disciples. Living that reality of being unconditionally loved empowersus, as Jesus says, to “love one another as I love you.” We are part of this magnificent circle of love

Offerings of the Past Week: St. Peter Church St. David’sFirst Collection $1866.00 $ 369.88Second Collection $ 551.25 $ 166.00 Second collection this week-end is for insurance and maintenance.

Please keep the sick and healing of our community in your prayers

with the Father, Jesus, and one another.Jesus taught this best at the Last Supper, when he washed the feet of his disciples and gave us example of how to be towards one another -- in service. Then he turned around and gave himself to us in Eucharist, allowing us to commune with him in word and body/blood in the communion called

Carol Badon Ronald BertrandTabby Broussard BenoitArline Bellard Ronald Bertrand Rachel Braud Kim Broussard Mary BroussardRoberta Broussard Christine Campbell Tammy Broussard Cormier Dallas, Kaitlin C.

Martha Frederick Cecil Gremillion Kade GuidryDexter, Syndie HarrisJohn D. IstreFelicia, Karine, Lance, Landon, Margaret, Walter Jr., III JolivetteDFLWesley Lemaire, Sr. Edna, Kylee NedFloyd Saltzman Josh Sonnier Hubert Suire

holy.We need to make this reality of God’s love an essential part of our ongoing dialogue with ourselves. We all have this constant dialogue in our heads and hearts. It is where we talk to ourselves, where our self-image speaks out. It is here that the conviction of God’s love for us needs to prevail. We need to bask in his love. We become empowered to respond in love both to him and with one another. We convey to others the love we have in our hearts, completing the circle of love. This is God’s plan.If Lenten practice was self-examination, Easter practice needs to be this life-giving, life-enabling ex- ercise in I instilling in us the ever-present conviction of God’s love for us. Our challenge is to appreci- ate, to really accept that God loves us unconditionally -- just as we are. Today’s Gospel is the very core of Jesus’ last supper discourse. We all need to keep this reality always in our ongoing dialogue

Think, O God, of our friends who are ill, whom we now commend to Your compassionate regard. Comfort them upon their sickbed, and ease their suffering. We beg fordeliverance, and submit that no healing is too hard for the Lord, if it be His will. We therefore pray that You bless our friends with Your loving care, renew their strength, and heal what ails them in Your loving name.

Thank You, Lord

with ourselves, so that we may constantly listen and

lovingly live. Deacon Hebert

TuesdayMass Intention:

5-08Guy LeDoux (BD)

5:15 P.M. St. Peter Church

Wednesday Mass Intention:

5-09Joseph Bourque (AOD)

12:05 P.M. St. Peter Church

Also remembered: Aurelian Thibodeaux

Thursday 5-10 5:15 P.M. St. Peter ChurchMass Intention: Kathryn M. Hatch, Nolan LeBlanc family, Dorothy Z. Toups, Joseph Zaunbrecher familyAlso remembered: Genevieve, Jimmy, Rodney Simon, Cyndi Alford, Joseph Bourque (BD).

Friday 5-11 9:00 A.M. Gueydan Memorial Guest Home Mass intention: Boatner, Marie, Paul, Whitney, WilseyAlso remembered: C.P., Dwayne, Wayne Zaunbrecher families

Saturday 5-12 4:00 P.M. St. Peter Church

Mass Intention: Nolan LeBlanc (AOD), Kathryn M. Hatch (BD)Also remembered: Francis & Sarah Chatagnier, Dora, Eldie, Garland, Mi-

chael, Oscar Sr., Sarah, Ty & Wilton Theriot, Lloyd Quater- mont, Living: Oscar Theriot, Sr., Family

Arnold, Duci, Steve, Jr., Theresa Meaux

Dunice, T-Joe, Faye, Neelis Bertrand, Anastasie, JD, Joseph Simon, James Smith family, Rodney Stelly, Jr & Sr. Lela Suggs, Father Donald Theriot, Living: Jonathan Deshotels

Allie, Carl Hoffpauir, Ronnie Lougon, Zach Simon

Jude Fluitt, Francis Klein, Cathy Klein Langley

Crip, Edith Bertrand, BB, Evelyn Breaux, Aldis, Marie, Ber- nice, Jane, Clevenis, Eriste, Craig, Brenda, Robert P., Wanda, Wilfred “Blanc” Broussard, Joe Gaspard, JohnnieB. Hebert (AOD), Ryan Henry, Ruby, Wallace Istre, Don- ald, Shawn Linscomb, Jules, Wayne Martin, Albay, Anite Thibodeaux

Guy, JC Broussard, Chester, Jim, Murphy, M/M Ozone Guidry, Kurt Istre, Michael, O’neil Sztroin.

Sunday 5-13 7:00 A.M. St. Peter Church

Mass Intention: Andrew, Everna CormierAlso Remembered: Joseph “Buster” LaPointe Lester Potier

Kathryn M. Hatch, Nolan Leblanc Family, Dorothy Z. Toups, Joseph Zaunbrecher Family

Anastasia Simon

Manson Saltzman

M/M Wilfred Broussard, Sr., Marvin Compton, Susan Earls, Memory of Jude Fluitt, Robert Paul Francez, Barbara, Faye, Francis, George, Henrietta, Jim, Lenia, Mildred, Pat Klein, Cathy Langley, Betty, Percy LaPoint, M/M Sidney Lounsberry, Carrie Walpole

Mass Intention: Emick, Helen “Sis” Melancon, Nellie, Thomas, Willie PetryAlso remembered:

Carleen Overley

Guy LeDoux & deceased family

Dwayne, Wayne & C.P. Zaunbrecher Family

Ethel Lege, Sean Simon

Wilton Theriot

Violet “Sis” Meaux

Dec’d Vance Benoit, Alexon Cormier families, Jerry Cormi- er, M/M Elly Fusilier, Freddie, Helen LeBeouf, Melisa LeJeune, Darrell, Wilson, Oneita Dupree Marceaux family, Dec’d Leon Schexnider family, Caina, Martha, Elma, Wil- son Smith

Louise H. Guidry (Dec’d), Dorothy, Helen, Laurie Sztroin, Living

8:30 A.M. St. David Chapel Living & deceased Members of Holy Name Society

Anna Mae, Bert, Johnnie Darbonne, Karl, Dr. Reno Petry

M/M Relay Adams, Sr., Vernice LeBlanc, M/M Isaac Saltz- man, Gordan Sandoz, Anthony, Peggy Terhall, Blanche,R.L. Walker, Jr.

Mass Intention: Parishioners of St. Peter Church 10:30 A.M. St. Peter Church

Perpetual AdorationLet us love being with the Lord! There we can speak with Him about everything. We can offer Him our petitions, or concerns, our troubles, our joys, our gratitude, our disappointments, our needs, and our aspirations. Above all we can remember to pray! “Lord send laborers intoYour Harvest! Help me to be a good worker in your vineyard!”

Adorers needed for:Monday 8:00 A.M.Tuesday 9:00 P.M.Friday Noon & 6:00 P.M.

Please call church office at 536-9258 to commit spending an hour with the Lord or to change your time.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK:

Monday 7 Acts 16:11-15

Ps 149:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 & 9

Jn15: 26-16

Tuesday 8 Acts 16:22-34

Ps 138:1-2, 2-3, 7-8

Jn 16:5-11

Wednesday 9 Acts 17:15, 22-18:1

Ps 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14

Jn 16:12-15

Thursday 10 Acts 18:1-8

Ps 98:1, 2-3, 3-4

Jn 16: 16-20

Friday 11 Acts18:9-18

Ps 47:2-3, 4-5, 6-7

Jn 16:20-23

Saturday 12 Acts 18:23-28

Ps 47:2-3, 8-9, 10

Jn 16:23-28

Centennial Prayer for the Diocese of Lafayette

O Lord God Almighty, by sending Your only- begotten Son to establish the One True Church through the power of the Most Holy Spirit, You gave mankind a haven from the world. We humbly implore Your blessing upon the Church of the Diocese of Lafayette as we observe this Century of Love. Through the in- tercession of Our Lady of the Immaculate Con- ception and Saint John Vianney, our patrons, bestow perpetual growth to Your Family ofFaith as we take refuge in Your InfiniteGrace. We humbly beseech You to enlighten us to learn from our past and to look to the fu- ture so that we may persist in the work of spreading the true faith. Fill us with gratitude in this Year of Jubilee as we live secure in the certain hope that You will be with us forev-er. We ask this through Christ theLord. Amen.Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, pray

for us.