September 9, 2018 - Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Rev. M. Keith LaBove, Pastor Parish Website: www.stpat.org

stpat.org@gmail.com

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

Holydays of Obligation: 7:30 am only Sacrament of Reconciliation

Saturday: 3:00 – 3:30 pm and Weekdays: 7:00-7:25 am (and by appointment)

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

Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time September 9, 2018

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK

Saturday, September 8--Vigil of the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 4:00 PM: Kenneth Langlinais; Dr. Leonard & Betty Rolfes; Howard Fournet; Betty Fournet (living);

James Delahoussaye & family; Phil Simon, Bud & Euna Arceneaux; Rosie Comeaux; Dawson, Gabby, Mia, Foti (living); Foti fam. (liv.)

S. Fitzpatrick and J. Hurst; Monty & Pierre Montagnet Sunday, September 9--Twenty-Third Sun-day in Ordinary Time 8:30 AM: Gregor Scott Lehmiller 10:00 AM: Parishioners of St. Patrick’s Monday, September 10--Weekday 7:30 AM: Bella & Yvonne Hernandez; Adam Hernandez

Tuesday, September 11--Weekday

7:30 AM: Sick List Wednesday, September 12--The Most Holy Name of Mary 7:30 AM: Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne; Col. Clark Comeaux & Catherine (living); Col. Kimberly Fedele (living) Thursday, September 13--St. John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church 7:30 AM: Sick List Friday, September 14--The Exaltation of the Holy Cross 7:30 AM: Dr. Charles Stewart Altar Flowers In Loving Memory of: Monty & Pierre Montagnet

Non-Liturgical Devotions Daily Rosary: Monday - Thursday 6:55 am Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena: Tues-day 7:15 am Rosary for Priests: Wednesday 7:00 am Chaplet of Divine Mercy: Thursday 7:15 am Pro-Life Rosary: 1st Fri. of the month 7 am Healing Hearts A Catholic support group for WOMEN, whose re-lationships have been negatively impacted by the pornography addiction or sexual addiction of a loved one. This may include a spouse, boyfriend, family member or friend. Strict confidentiality is observed by all members. Meetings are held on a weekly basis. Contact 337-404-6113 for more in-formation and respond to the prompting.

Did not God choose those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs to the kingdom? — James 2:5

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 “Holy Spirit, comforter of hearts, heal your peoples’ wounds and transform brokenness into wholeness. Grant us the courage and wisdom, humility and grace, to act with justice. Breathe wisdom into our prayers and labors. Grant that all harmed by abuse may find peace in justice. We ask this through Christ, our Lord” USCB Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection, “Promise to Protect” Bookmark .

Mark your Calendars! Parish Anniversary Celebration In celebration of the founding of our Diocese in 1918, and our parish’s founding in 1952, we will have a special Mass on Sunday, October 21st at 10:00 a.m. A reception in the parish hall will follow. This will mark the 66th anniver-sary of our parish. Reading “Rejoice and Be Glad” Fr. Keith will offer a five week series on Pope Francis’ latest Apostolic Exhortation, “Rejoice and Be Glad” on the call to holiness. Each session will be on Tuesday evening at 6 pm in St. Patrick Church: Oct. 30, & Nov 6, 13, 20 & 27. More details to follow. Friendsgiving in Christ This year, we will be doing our holiday gathering a bit dif-ferently. Instead of a Christmas party, we will celebrate a “Friendsgiving in Christ”, on the Sunday before Thanks-giving (Nov. 18th), after the 10 am Mass. (So save the date!) It will still be a covered dish luncheon, but with a Thanksgiving theme, with the parish providing the meat and drinks. However there will be an entrance fee: one canned good, as we express our gratitude with outreach to the needy in our community. Holy Hour for Vocations — Second Monday You are invited to the monthly “Holy Hour for Vocations and for the Spiritual Renewal of All Priests” on Monday, September 10 (because of Labor Day), 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 wel-come to join in these prayers for vocations and persever-ance of vocations to the priesthood and religious life spon-sored by the Serra Club of Lafayette. Food for the Journey The Central Deanery of the Diocese of Lafayette presents “Food for the Journey”, a monthly lunchtime speakers se-ries designed to help Catholics live out our faith in our dai-ly lives. Our speaker for September is Sister Mildred Leonards, Sisters of the Divine Providence, Lafayette. “Food for the Journey” will be held on Tuesday, Septem-ber 11, 2018, at River Oaks Catering and Event Center Lafayette, 520 East Kaliste Saloom Road, beginning at 12:00 noon. An optional 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 Danielle Huval (232-1322). Be a Good Steward of the Environment—Stop Plastic Pollution: Reduce-Reuse-Recycle: Plastic is the basic material of a consumer world. Without it we wouldn’t en-joy the same standard of living or convenience. But if we take the Holy Father’s urgent pleas seriously, we should take seriously the issue of plastic contaminating and dam-aging our environment. For Christian stewards, it is a mor-al responsibility to confront this pollution. And become better stewards of the earth.

Centennial News New School for boys in Lafayette— On \ September 15, 1919, Fr. William Teur- lings, pastor of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Lafayette opened a school for boys in the City of Lafayette. The Cathedral School opened its doors with 170 boys in grades 3-8. Fr. Teurlings entrusted the school to the care of the Christian Brothers who dedicate themselves to educa-tion in the tradition of St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle. In 1967, Mount Carmel, a school for girls which had been in Lafayette since 1880 merged with the Cathedral School for boys. Cathedral-Carmel continues to oper-ate today on the same campus as the boy’s school which began almost 100 years ago. Centennial Fest—Honoring our Diocesan Centennial with our young people throughout the Diocese of Lafa-yette, we will have a Youth Gathering at Parc Inter-national Downtown Lafayette on Saturday, October 20th from 3pm to 8pm and will include Music, Guest Speakers, Mass, Food and closing with a Candlelight Eucharistic Adoration with Bishop Deshotel. Our Youth, All Youth, Groups, Families, Clergy and Reli-gious are invited. Please mark your calendars now. This will be a great opportunity to see the Life of Our Faith. Admission will be free (food purchase will be available). Galveston Island Trip Friday, Nov 30 to Sunday, Dec 2 Dickens on the Strand Christmas Festival. Depart from/return to St. Mary Church parking lot. Sponsored by St. Mary Mother of the Church. Call: Cat Terre-bonne at Travel Machine 981-7870 or JoAnn LeJune 703-3041. Hosting a Teacher Lafayette Parish School System is searching for a host family to help welcome an exchange student teacher from France for 3 months. This young, aspiring teacher will learn from teachers at Evangeline Elementary in the French Immersion program. Anyone interested my contact Tia LeBrun at 337-521-7127, or at tmlebrun@lpssonline.com STEWARDSHIP OF THE PAST WEEK Our Response to God’s Generosity to Us Offertory…………….……… $ 3,426.00 Building Fund………………. $ 2,189.26 Thank you!!

The second collection this weekend is for Catholic University of America The good steward must not show favoritism. The rich may have many material gifts to share, but St. James reminds us in the second reading that God has chosen the world’s poor

to be rich in faith and inheritors of God’s kingdom.

Date

Saturday, September 15 4:00 p.m.

Sunday, September 16 8:30 a.m.

Sunday, September 16 10:00 a.m.

Lectors Kathy Kalweit Linda Garber Michael Doumit

Eucharistic Ministers

LeRoy Abshire Barbara Abshire Peggy Spruill

Ted Hampton Kay Hampton Gerrie McGovern

Phyllis Roy Robin Roy Monica Mullins

Altar Servers Harold Guilbeau Fred Vallot Debra Carroll

Ushers Oren Spruill George Guidry

Donald Vallot Linda Vallot

Jenny Feehan Mike Larson

Liturgical Roles for September

From the Pastor’s Desk

In recent weeks, while we were reading the ‘Bread of Life’ discourse from John’s Gospel, I spent a good bit of time in this space reflecting on the celebration of the Eucharist, and rightfully so. The Mass is the ‘Source and Summit’ of our life together as Catholics. Yet few things can enrich our communal Eucharistic prayer more than our private daily prayer. Just as silence enriches our common worship, so silence in our daily lives creates a space for God to speak to our hearts. In “Rejoice and Be Glad”, Pope Francis has this to say:

148. Saint John of the Cross tells us: “Endeavour to remain always in the presence of God, either real, imagi-native, or unitive, insofar as is permitted by your works”. In the end, our desire for God will surely find expression in our daily lives: “Try to be continuous in prayer, and in the midst of bodily exercises do not leave it. Whether you eat, drink, talk with others, or do anything, always go to God and attach your heart to him”.

149. For this to happen, however, some moments spent alone with God are also necessary. For Saint Teresa of Avila, prayer “is nothing but friendly intercourse, and frequent solitary converse, with him who we know loves us”. I would insist that this is true not only for a privileged few, but for all of us, for “we all have need of this silence, filled with the presence of him who is adored”. Trust-filled prayer is a response of a heart open to encountering God face to face, where all is peaceful and the quiet voice of the Lord can be heard in the midst of silence.

150. In that silence, we can discern, in the light of the Spirit, the paths of holiness to which the Lord is calling us. Otherwise, any decisions we make may only be window-dressing that, rather than exalting the Gospel in our lives, will mask or submerge it. For each disciple, it is essential to spend time with the Master, to listen to his words, and to learn from him always. Unless we listen, all our words will be nothing but useless chatter.

151. We need to remember that “contemplation of the face of Jesus, died and risen, restores our humanity, even when it has been broken by the troubles of this life or marred by sin. We must not domesticate the power of the face of Christ”. So let me ask you: Are there moments when you place yourself quietly in the Lord’s presence, when you calmly spend time with him, when you bask in his gaze? Do you let his fire inflame your heart? Unless you let him warm you more and more with his love and tenderness, you will not catch fire. How will you then be able to set the hearts of others on fire by your words and witness? If, gazing on the face of Christ, you feel unable to let yourself be healed and transformed, then enter into the Lord’s heart, into his wounds, for that is the abode of divine mercy.

Readings for the Week

Monday 1 Cor 5:1-8; Ps 5:5-7, 12; Lk 6:6-11

Tuesday 1 Cor 6:1-11; Ps 149:1b-6a, 9b; Lk 6:12-19

Wednesday 1 Cor 7:25-31; Ps 45:11-12, 14-17; Lk 6:20-26

Thursday 1 Cor 8:1b-7, 11-13; Ps 139:1b-3, 13-14ab, 23-24; Lk 6:27-38

Friday Nm 21:4b-9; Ps 78:1bc-2, 34-38; Phil 2:6-11; Jn 3:13-17

Saturday 1 Cor 10:14-22; Ps 116:12-13, 17-18; Jn 19:25-27 or Lk 2:33-35

Sunday Is 50:5-9a; Ps 116:1-6, 8-9; Jas 2:14-18; Mk 8:27-35