St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church Parish founded in 1819 Church built in 1879

August 27, 2017

Sacrament of Baptism: Parents or guardians of infants or children to be baptized should call the church and schedule a meeting with a priest or deacon at least one month prior to baptism date. Instruction class is on the first Sunday of the month. Baptisms are celebrated on the following Saturday. Please visit our church website for more information.

Sacrament of Marriage: Couples wishing to get mar-ried should call the church office at least six months prior to the anticipated date of the wedding to begin marriage preparation. Please visit our website for more detailed information.

Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday 3:15-3:45 PM and any time during rectory office hours. Please call to make an appointment.

Pastor: Rev. Derrick Weingartner, S.J.

Associate Pastor: Rev. Clyde LeBlanc, S.J.

Pastoral Ministers: Deacon Herd Guilbeau Deacon Guy Kilchrist

Parish Manager: Darrell Burleigh Church Secretary: Mary Ann Matte

P.O. Drawer A (174 Church Street) Grand Coteau, LA 70541 Phone: 337-662-5279 Fax: 337-662-5279

www.st-charles-borromeo.org Email: StCharles1819@gmail.com

Church Office Hours: Monday: Closed morning. Open 1:00 to 4:00 Tues-Fri:8:00 to 12 noon, and 1:00 to 4:00 Saturday: 8:00 to 12 noon, and 1:00 to 3:00

Sunday Masses Weekday Masses (St. Charles Ch) Saturday (Sunday Vigil) St. Charles Church 7:30 AM Monday & Friday 6:15 AM St Charles Church Christ the King 9:00 AM Wednesday 8:00 AM Reconciliation 3:15-3:45 PM St. Charles Church 10:30 AM Tuesday & Thursday 5:00 PM Anticipated Sunday Mass 4:00 PM

Music: Jewel Trosclair Stephen Joubert

Altar Server Contact: Angela Boone 662-1167 Angell Jordan 945-2454

Religious Education: 662-5271 Email: stcharlesrec@gmail.com Director -Elaine Kinnerson Secretary -Linda Senegal

Proclaimer & EMHC Coordinator Brenda Kennerson 412-8939 Email: stcharlesministry@gmail.com

Marriage and Family Life Ministry Craig and Christina Baker 817-727-0639

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time

August 27, 2017

“Whatever you bind on earth, will be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven..”

We are a Sacrificial Giving Parish, Giving of our Time, Talent and Treasure. Our Offertory collection for this past weekend was $7751.00.

Altar Flowers for August 26-27

In Memory of Peter & Velma Smith, Wilfred & Catherine Eaglin, Ryan Paul Smith, Calvin Harris, Pemella Williams By: Paulette Smith

Prayer Blanket Bee is scheduled for Saturday, September 9th at 9:30 AM in the Parish Meeting Room

Religious Education Office Relocation: The Religious Ed Office is now located at the rear of St. Charles Chapel. You may enter from the main entrance which is opposite the KPC Gym. If you have any questions, please call the office at 662-5271. Thank You!

We welcome the following children into St. Charles Church who were baptized in August.

Maxwell Isaac Bailey Eden Grace Bouillion

Rhett James Marks Zayden Ja’Quincy Wright

“You are sealed by the Holy Spirit in baptism and marked as Christ’s own forever”.

2017 Youth Confirmation Program Wednesdays (7-8:30 PM) 1. Baptism and Confirmation (Aug 30) 2. The Mass (Sept 6) 3. Eucharist and Reconciliation (Sept 13) 4. The Church—People of God (Sept 20) 5. Gifts of the Spirit (Sept 27) 6. Happiness in Life (Oct 4) 7. Made for Mission (Oct 11)

Altar Server Meeting is scheduled for Sunday, August 27th at 11:45 AM in St. Ignatius Gym. Lunch will be provided. Altar servers are needed. Anyone wishing to join this ministry is also invited to attend. You may also contact Angie Boone at 662-1167 to volunteer.

Christ the King Bazaar will be held the weekend of September 1st, 2nd & 3rd. Lots of food will be served including sweet dough pies and boudin. There will be a Teen Dance on Saturday and Sunday evenings. Gumbo will be sold on Saturday evening. There will be live Zy-deco music, bingo and games for the children. Please plan to attend this Annual Fundraiser. Raffle tickets and Bar-B-Cue Dinner tickets will be sold after all weekend Masses in August. Mark your calendars!!

Infant Mortality Awareness and Remem-brance Service on Tuesday, September 5, 2017 will begin at 5:30 PM at Lafayette City Hall. Participants will then process to St. John Cemetery Plaza and then to the Cemetery Baby Land. The event is sponsored by the Diocese Of-fice of Marriage, Family Life and Pro Life. For more information ,call 261-5598.

Are you an adult Catholic male who feels a call-ing to serve your Church and your parish? Do you have the “heart of a servant?” If so, you may be hearing a call to the Permanent Diaco-nate of the Diocese of Lafayette. Inquiry sessions will begin September 9th for those interested in exploring that calling. Go to www.diolaf.org and click on the “Offices” tab to locate the Di-aconate Inquire form, or call the Office of Per-manent Diaconate at 261-5609.

New schedules for Proclaimers and Eucharistic Ministers are located in the Minister’s Room.

Welcome to Visitors and/or New Parishioners

Knights of Peter Claver and Ladies Auxillary

SOCC Committee To all of our supporters we want to say; “Thank You for your continued support”

Because of your support in the past, we have been able to do the following to our KPC Hall:

1. Repair the roof of the building. 2. Remove tree and tree limbs hanging over the building. 3. Install a canopy in front of the hall. 4. Repair A/C and heating units and purchase two new ones. 5. Paint walls and bleachers in the hall. 6. Purchase new chairs and tables for the hall. 7. Repair and upgrade the floor in the gym hall. 8. Paint portion of the roof of the building. 9. Install new ceramic tile in the bathrooms. 10. Install new blinds and clean carpet in our meeting room. 11. Install new rug in the kitchen of the hall and secure additional cooling boxes. 12. Fill potholes in front of hall as well as install new concrete slab under canopy. 13. Beautify the entrance of the building with new fake windows and shutters. 14. Clean the rear grounds and remove fallen trees. 15. Remove old cooling fans and close in the area where they were. 16. Install new rug and paint entrance of the building. 17. Install flower beds and plants to beautify entrance of KPC Hall. 18. Most importantly, your support and our efforts have enabled us to restore and beautify our historic Knights of St. Peter Hall. These are just a few of the projects that we have undertaken in the past and our next project is to try to get a blacktop road poured in the horse-shoe area in front of the KPC Hall. Your continued support will be greatly appreciated. SOCC Committee KPC Members & Ladies Auxillary

Building Fund Envelopes are available on the table at the church entrance.

Minister Schedule - September 2-3

4 PM-Lector Corliss White Communion Deacon Herd Giulbeau, Jim Burleigh, Theresa Cormier Janice Kilchrist, Jackie Vautrot

7:30-Lector Cheri Dubroc Communion Deacon Guy Kilchrist, Patrick Guilbeau, Gary Dubroc Genny Melancon, Juanita Comeaux Altar Servers Murphy Riggs, Jasper James Lucy Baker

10:30-Lecor Kurt Richard Communion Doris Etienne, Avis Domingue, Amy Taylor, Cathy Taylor Nancy Bourque Altar Servers Jake Domingue, Jordan Bouillion, Isaac Rowell

God’s Housekeepers - Sept. 2-3

Kandy Boss Gloria DeValcourt Anna Lee Boss Agnes Lewi

Gert Noel Mavis Stelly Mickey & Gerry Lastrapes

Larry & Jean Janice

BE A ROCK Peter’s history as a follower or friend of Je-sus is a bit spotty. It might be natural to wonder if Jesus, in giving him the keys to the kingdom, didn’t feel a bit like a parent giving a teenager the keys to the family car. But it was at the mo-ment when God’s power and presence broke through everything else to raise up Peter’s great profession of faith in Christ as Messiah that Jesus chose to establish the bond between the loving, forgiving mercy of heaven and our vocation to be witnesses of that love, mercy, and forgiveness on earth. Like any parent, Jesus no doubt foresaw the failings, the irresponsible maneuvers or im-paired senses, the collisions that the church would be headed for. But, most importantly, he also saw us at that moment as God prefers to see us: capable of manifesting great faith, with a willingness to remain at the feet of Christ to understand what it truly means to be Messiah and Christ. As the letter to the Romans points out to us today, we have not known the mind or the wisdom of God, but God knows us and still chooses to manifest the reign of justice, joy, beauty, and peace through us. Let this be our vo-cation. Let us always strive to be solid ground on which the church of Jesus Christ can be founded and on which it can continue to be built.

Please join us for our next Bible Study Wisdom: God’s Vision for Life

We begin at 10:00 am Wednesday, September 6th in the side chapel at St. Charles Borromeo. The ses-sions will run for 8 consecutive Wednesdays ending on October 25. Each session runs about an hour and 15 minutes. In this program, you will: discover what wisdom is (and what it isn’t), learn new habits for increasing wisdom in your daily life, gain confi-dence through role models, and practice living ac-cording to God’s vision. Workbooks to accompany the video sessions are $21 to be collected at the first session. Please call Janice Kilchrist at 298-3353 no later than August 28 to sign up and to reserve your copy. This will ensure that you receive your work-book at the first session.

Coming Events

SU 27 11:45 Altar Server Meeting-SIS Gym T 29 6 PM Chimes Choir Practice W 30 8 AM SIS School Mass 9 AM Patriotic Rosary 7 PM Confirmation Class TH 31 4 PM Holy Hour-Vigil of First Firday SU 3 Bellevue Bazaar M 4 Labor Day T 5 6 PM Chimes Choir Practice W 6 8 AM SIS School Mass

SVD Youth Day Conference, sponsored by SVD Associates of Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Opelousas will be held on Satur-day September 23, 2017 beginning at 8 AM and ending at 5 PM with a celebration of Holy Mass. All youth, church pastors and youth min-ister leaders are invited to attend. All students from public and catholic school, CCD and RCIA classes, ages 10 through 19 are invited. It is required that one adult chaperone be in at-tendance with each group of 10 students. The registration fee is $15 per person. Please call the parish office at 942-2732 for registration information.