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June 7, 2015 - The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Rev. M. Keith LaBove, Pastor Parish Website: www.stpat.org
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
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Saturday: 3:00 – 3:30 pm and Weekdays: 7:15 am
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
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
June 7, 2015
MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK
Saturday, June 6--Vigil of the Solemnity of the
Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
4:00 PM: Mike Guilbeau;
Mary Thibeaux; Carita Boutte;
Eva Mae Hebert
Sunday, June 7--Solemnity of the Most Holy
Body and Blood of Christ 8:30 AM: Lorraine Day; Phil Simon;
Joseph & Eldie Woods; Bud & Una Arceneaux
10:00 AM: Parishioners of St. Patrick’s
Monday, June 8--Weekday -10th Week in Or-
dinary Time
7:30 AM: Dr. Nicholas Olivier
Tuesday, June 9--St. Ephrem, Deacon and
Doctor of the Church
7:30 AM: Bella Hernandez; Gussie Hernan-
dez; Manilla Conques
Wednesday, June 10--Weekday
7:30 AM: Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne;
Col. Clark Comeaux & Catherine (living);
Col. Kimberly Fedele (living)
Thursday, June 11--St. Barnabas, Apostle
7:30 AM: Julia Phillips
Friday, June 12--The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
7:30 AM: Dr. Charles Stewart
Altar Flowers In loving memory of:
Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne
Non-Liturgical Devotions
Daily Rosary: Monday - Friday 6:55 a.m.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena: Tuesday
7:15 a.m.
Rosary for Priests: Wednesday 7:00 a.m.
Chaplet of Divine Mercy: Thursday 7:15 a.m.
Pro-Life Rosary: 1st. Friday of the month 7
a.m.
Shamrocks—Friday, June 5: No cleaning.
Bethlehem Catholic Mission
Next weekend, June 13 & 14, Fr. Jacoub Nas-
ser’s group, Bethlehem Catholic Mission from
the Holy Land, will be visiting our parish. They
will speak about the Christian people in the Holy
Land. They also will be selling olive wood carv-
ings, handmade by the Catholic people in the Ho-
ly Land. The Catholic population in that area has
decreased to 1.5%
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
Lives Matter June is designated as Abortion and All Acts of Violence
Awareness Month in the African American Community.
In an effort to inform and educate individuals on these acts
which are destroying the sacredness of human life the Of-fice of Justice & Peace and Black Catholic Ministries have
partnered with Louisiana Black Advocates for Life – Right
to Life Program, Our Lady Queen of Peace and the Knights and Ladies of Peter Claver to provide a Day of Reflection .
This will be a day filled with speakers, reflections, prayer
and a call to action and is scheduled for Saturday, June 13,
2015 at Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church, Lafa-
yette. The day will start at 9:30 and end at 3 p.m. Flyers
are available on the back table.
Gently Worn School Uniforms Needed
Gently Worn School Uniforms are once again being col-
lected for needy children in the Lafayette Parish Schools. Please bring your children’s outgrown uniforms to church
as soon as possible. Sizes 4-20 and all adult sizes are
needed. Shir ts: r ed, white and navy blue, black and green. Pants/Shorts: navy blue, black and khaki-traditional
style. The need is great!
St. Mary Church Bus Trip St. Mary Church, Lafayette, is offering an overnight Bus
Trip on September 8-9, 2015, to visit the Our Lady of
Guadalupe Shrine in Port Arthur, Texas, and the “Moody Gardens and More” in Galveston, Texas. We will depart
Lafayette on Tuesday morning (September 8) at 6:30 a.m.
from St. Mary parking lot (419 Doucet Road, Lafayette). We will visit the Shrine in Port Arthur and then proceed to
Galveston. Some highlights of Galveston will be Moody
Gardens, Driving Tour of Galveston, Bishop’s Palace,
Mass at St. Mary’s Basilica, overnight at Comfort Inn and more. For registration details, cost and more information,
please contact JoAnn LeJune at St. Mary Church (981-
3379) or Barbara Thibodeaux (235-3240).
Camp Quo Vadis – June 23rd
Attention all Catholic young men ages 15-25: do you know where your life is going? Come discover the answer at Quo
Vadis Days Vocation Camp. Here you will learn about the
priesthood and how to discern your vocation. There will be
priests, seminarians and other young men like yourself gathered together in fellowship, recreation, prayer and dis-
cussion to help you explore our Lord’s call in your
life. The 4th Annual Quo Vadis Days Camp, sponsored by the Diocesan Office of Vocations, will be held
from Tuesday, June 23rd to Thursday, June 25th at Our
Lady of Sorrows Retreat Center, 103 Railroad Avenue in
St. Martinville. There is no cost. To register, contact Fa-ther Kevin Bordelon at the Office of Vocations, 337 261-
5690, [email protected], or download regis-
tration forms from lafayettevocations.org.
Office Hours During the Summer months of June and July, the office
will open from 8:00 am—12 noon.
Prayer Service at the Start of Hurricane Season—
Central Region
A special “Prayer Service at the Start of Hurricane Sea-
son” will be held on Tuesday, June 9, at 6:30 p.m. at Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Lafayette. All are
invited to attend this evening of prayer sponsored by
the Cathedral and supported by the Central Region. Rev. Chester Arceneaux, Rector of the Cathedral, will
lead the Prayer Service and give the homily. He will
be joined by Very Rev. Thomas James, SVD, VE,
Episcopal Vicar for the Central Region of the Diocese of Lafayette. SPECIAL NOTE: This year marks the
10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and Hurri-
cane Rita. Please join us to pray for continued safety and to thank God for His grace and protection of our
area. For more information, please call the Cathedral
(232-1322) or contact Mary Bergeron (654-8682; [email protected]).
All Night Vigil Honoring the Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Men of the Sacred Heart, in Conjunction with The
John Paul the Great Academy, will host a special all-night vigil beginning with Mass on Friday, June 12 at
7:00 p.m. for the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart, at
1522 Carmel Drive. The vigil will conclude with Bene-diction at 5:30 am. On Saturday, June 13, there will be
Mass at 6:45 a.m. at the Carmelite Monastery honoring
the Immaculate Heart of Mary. For more information call 337-837-5330.
Day of Reflection for Men and Women
“Practicing the 12 Step Principles in Our Daily
Lives” - Tuesday, June 23rd.
Spend a relaxing day at Our Lady of the Oaks Retreat
House, Grand Coteau, reflecting on the spiritual princi-ples found in 12 Step Spirituality as they relate to our
Judeo Christian heritage. Renee Hilton-Taylor will
present, from 8:30 a.m.—4:00 p.m. The cost is $25.00 Pre-registration is required. To register, please fill out
a reservation form and mail it in with the $25.00 fee.
Visit online at www.ourladyofthe oaks.com and click
on “retreats” to print a form. For more information, please call (337) 662-5410
STEWARDSHIP OF THE PAST WEEK Our Response to God’s Generosity to Us
Offertory……………………..$ 4,633.37 Thank You!
The second collection this weekend is for our
Building Fund
Date
Saturday, June 13
4:00 p.m.
Sunday, June 14
8:30 a.m.
Sunday, June 14
10:00 a.m.
Lectors
Dana Phillips Kenneth Phillips Brenda DeMette
Eucharistic
Ministers
Candis Thompson
Harold Guilbeau
Merrick Stelly
Larry Lewis
Ted Hampton
Kay Hampton
Kenneth Broussard
Madeline Simon
Janeth Harrington
Altar Servers Janell Venable Mary Kramer Harry DeMette
Ushers
George Guidry
Joyce Stelly
Rachelle Trahan
Keith Toups
Joyce Stelly
Lionel Jeanmard
Liturgical Roles for June
Readings for the Week
Monday 2 Cor 1:1-7; Ps 34:2-9; Mt 5:1-12
Tuesday 2 Cor 1:18-22; Ps 119:129-133, 135; Mt 5:13-16
Wednesday 2 Cor 3:4-11; Ps 99:5-9; Mt 5:17-19
Thursday Acts 11:21b-26; 13:1-3; Ps 85:9ab, 10-14; Mt 5:20-26
Friday Hos 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9; Is 12:2-6; Eph 3:8-12, 14-19; Jn 19:31-37
Saturday 2 Cor 5:14-21; Ps 103:1-4, 9-12; Mt 5:33-37
Sunday Ez 17:22-24; Ps 92:2-3, 13-16; 2 Cor 5:6-10; Mk 4:26-34
From the Pastor’s Desk
This the truth each Christian learns, / Bread into his flesh he turns, / To his precious blood the wine: Sight has fail’d, nor thought conceives, / But a dauntless faith believes, / Resting on a pow’r divine.
These words come from the Sequence for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, an ancient Chris-tian hymn striving in poetry to express the faith of the people of the Church. Since then countless volumes have been written throughout the history of the Church in an attempt to make sense of this reality that we call, per-haps most simply, the “Real Presence”. The Catechism says this:
"Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed inter-cedes for us," is present in many ways to his Church: in his word, in his Church's prayer, "where two or three are gathered in my name," in the poor, the sick, and the imprisoned, in the sacraments of which he is the author, in the sacrifice of the Mass, and in the person of the minister. But "he is present . . . most especially in the Eucharistic spe-cies. The mode of Christ’s presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sac-raments as "the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend." In the most blessed sac-rament of the Eucharist "the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, there-fore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained." "This presence is called 'real' - by which is not in-tended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be 'real' too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely pre-sent."
This change into the very Body and Blood of Christ is something that no woman or man can accomplish. Thus St. John Chrysostom declares: It is not man that causes the things offered to become the Body and Blood of Christ, but he who was crucified for us, Christ himself. The priest, in the role of Christ, pronounces these words, but their power and grace are God's. This is my body, he says. This word transforms the things offered.
And St. Ambrose says about this conversion: Be convinced that this is not what nature has formed, but what the blessing has consecrated. The power of the blessing prevails over that of nature, because by the blessing nature itself is changed. . . . Could not Christ's word, which can make from nothing what did not exist, change existing things into what they were not before? It is no less a feat to give things their original nature than to change their nature. If Christ can do this with bread and wine, what then might he do with us, if we let him?