May 7, 2017 - Fourth Sunday of Easter

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

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

Fourth Sunday of Easter May 7, 2017

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK

Saturday, May 6--Vigil of the Fourth Sunday of Easter 4:00 PM: Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Rolfes; Mike Guilbeau; In Thanksgiving; Ray Kalweit (living); Matt Laurich; Shanna B.; Margaret Beyt; Deacon Julian Judice Sunday, May 7--Fourth Sunday of Easter 8:30 AM: Joseph & Eldie Woods; Sonya & Angela Thibodeaux; Dr. Robert Chastant & Evelyn; Eddie Upton; John Daigle; Chris Gambel; Robert & Betty Perea 10:00 AM: Parishioners of St. Patrick’s Monday, May 8--Easter Weekday 7:30 AM: Special Intention (J.V.) Tuesday, May 9--Easter Weekday 7:30 AM: Esther Metz

Wednesday, May 10--St. Damien de Veuster, Priest 7:30 AM: Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne; Col. Clark Comeaux & Catherine (living); Col. Kimberly Fedele (living) Thursday, May 11--Easter Weekday 7:30 AM: Angie, Haley, Buck & Gabbie Redrick Friday, May 12--St. Nereus & Achilleus, Martyrs; St. Pancras, Martyr 7:30 AM: Dr. Charles Stewart Altar Flowers In Loving Memory of: Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne

Non-Liturgical Devotions Daily Rosary: Monday - Thursday 6:55 a.m. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena: Tues-day 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, May 12: No cleaning. We thank all the volunteers who participate in this Ministry!! Altar Flowers Our Altar Flowers are purchased at “Flowers by Rodney”. They have been preparing the arrangements and delivering to our Church for many years. In accordance with the cost of liv-ing, the arrangements will now be $60.00 To donate an arrangement in memory of a loved one, please come by the office.

Retreat Information The Jesuit Spirituality Center in Grand Coteau, LA is of-fering the following retreats: Finding God in All Things: Encountering the Living God in our Everyday Lives Robin Hebert -Thursday, May 25—Sunday, May 28. Fee: $270.00, Commuters $200.00 Day of Renewal for Women: Abide in Me Andrea Vidrine– Saturday, July 15, 9:00 am –4:00 pm. Fee: $60.00 (includes lunch) Silent, Individually-Directed Retreats of 3, 5, or 8 days begin Mon., May 15 or Thur., May 18; Mon., May 29 or Thur., June 1; Mon., June 19 or Thur., June 22 For more information or for an application form to regis-ter, please visit the website: jesuitspiritualitycenter.org or call 337-662-5251 M-F 8 am— 12 noon and 1—5:00 pm

Dine for the Diner St. Joseph Diner, known for feeding the hungry in Acadiana since 1983, is hosting its annual Dine for the Diner fundraising event on Thursday, May 18, 2017. The community will be encouraged to eat out to end hunger at participating area restaurants. Dine for the Diner is a unique opportunity for local restaurants to fill up their tables and for St. Joseph Diner supporters in the community to help feed the hungry. St. Joseph Diner is one of 6 programs of Catholic Services of Acadiana that provides essential services to people expe-riencing homelessness in our area. On average St. Joseph Diner shares over 100,000 meals with the hungry each year. In addition to providing a free meal at lunch every day, the Diner creates a shared community space where volunteers and staff can engage with patrons - learning their names and their needs to assist them on their journey to self-sufficiency. These services would be impossible without the support of the community and the generosity of the restau-rants participating in this event. For a list of participating restaurants, visit catho-licservice.org/dineforthediner. Integrity of Heart Men struggling with sexual compulsivity and/or an addic-tion to pornography now have a confidential support group right here in Lafayette. Weekly meetings are held for an hour and fifteen minutes. STRICT CONFIDENTIALITY is observed by all members and a Confidentiality Statement is signed by each member after an initial meeting with the facilitator. Call and leave a confidential message at 337-944-9860 and the group facilitator will return your call and give you more information. Healing Hearts “Healing Hearts” is a Support Group for women whose re-lationships have been affected by pornography or sexual addiction of a loved one. Meetings are held in the evening during the week for 1 hour and 30 minutes, in Lafayette. This is a highly confidential group. Confidentiality state-ment must be signed by all members before the place and time of meeting will be disclosed. Please call 337-404-6113 Voicemail and the group facilitator will return your call as soon as possible. Remember Me Support Group Remember Me is a faith-based support group for caregivers, family, and friends of individuals who are coping with de-mentia/Alzheimer’s. No cost or registration is necessary; those who are in need of support are simply invited to come and share ideas and resources with one another. The group meets in the Ministries Building of St. Elizabeth Seton Church (610 Raintree Trail, Lafayette 70507) every third Monday of each month. The next meeting is Monday, May 15th at 6:30 pm. For more information contact the parish office at 235-1483.

Baby Items-Women's Center Some of you may have noticed that the 'bassinet' for baby items is now out every weekend. This is to make it easier for those who want to support new mothers in bringing their children into the world, at the Women's Center and their maternity home. Here is a list of items that are always needed: Paper towels; Liquid washing detergent (baby & adult); 13 gal trash bags; Deodorant; Windex; Pledge; Lysol; Shampoo; Condi-tioner; Bath Soap; Liquid dish washing gel; Ziplock bags; Gift cards for maternity clothes, etc.; Baby pow-er & lotion; Diaper rash ointment; Baby wash; Diapers (size 4 & 5). Add one or two of these items to your shopping list each month, leave it in the car, and drop it off when you come to church. We will publish this list once a month. Come, Lord Jesus! We have an active group that meets on Tuesdays, at 6 pm, in the classroom directly behind the Church (across from the restrooms). Anyone interested who missed the previous meetings is welcome to attend, even if you are not sure about continuing. Resources for the program are available for purchase at the Come, Lord Jesus! office at 1804 West University Ave, Lafa-yette. Call: 337-233-6277 Retrouvaille Weekend Couples who are experiencing trouble in their marriag-es are invited to attend a Retrouvaille weekend in the Acadiana/Lafayette area May 26-27, 2017 Retrouvaille (the word is French for “rediscovery” or “reawakening”) is a Catholic ministry that encourages individual and spiritual growth, and the ultimate goal is to reinstall in hurting couples the joy and satisfaction of sacramental marriage. This is a peer ministry, meaning that all of the presenting couples are past at-tendees who came to Retrouvaille with marriages in trouble and who have firsthand experience of the bene-fits that can result. The weekends involve intensive work on communication skills and provide the founda-tion for the forgiveness and trust essential for rebuild-ing broken marriages. The six post-sessions frame up the concepts and provide practical solutions such as a method to resolve conflicts in a way that avoids the hurts of the past. For more information or to register for the weekend, please contact Stacy or Donea Benan-di at 985-714-2442-/2443, or Bill and Andi Says at 337-298-5170. Those who are interested in learning more about Retrouvaille are also encouraged to visit www.HelpOurMarriage.com. STEWARDSHIP OF THE PAST WEEK Our Response to God’s Generosity to Us Offertory……………………… $4,552.52 Rice Bowls……………...……...$ 837.89 The second collection this weekend is for our Building Fund.

Time Away Fr. Keith will be taking a few days of vacation, from Mon-day, May 15 (after the morning mass) through Friday, May 20. Please keep him in your prayers, and welcome Msgr. Charles Mallet who will be here for the daily mass-es. Thanks. Dine for the Diner St. Joseph Diner, known for feeding the hungry in Acadiana since 1983, is hosting its annual Dine for the Diner fundraising event on Thursday, May 18, 2017. The community will be encouraged to eat out to end hunger at participating area restaurants. Dine for the Diner is a unique opportunity for local restaurants to fill up their tables and for St. Joseph Diner supporters in the community to help feed the hungry. St. Joseph Diner is one of 6 programs of Catholic Services of Acadiana that provides essential services to people expe-riencing homelessness in our area. On average St. Joseph Diner shares over 100,000 meals with the hungry each year. In addition to providing a free meal at lunch every day, the Diner creates a shared community space where volunteers and staff can engage with patrons - learning their names and their needs to assist them on their journey to self-sufficiency. These services would be impossible without the support of the community and the generosity of the restau-rants participating in this event. For a list of participating restaurants, visit catho-licservice.org/dineforthediner. Integrity of Heart Men struggling with sexual compulsivity and/or an addic-tion to pornography now have a confidential support group right here in Lafayette. Weekly meetings are held for an hour and fifteen minutes. STRICT CONFIDENTIALITY is observed by all members and a Confidentiality Statement is signed by each member after an initial meeting with the facilitator. Call and leave a confidential message at 337-944-9860 and the group facilitator will return your call and give you more information. Remember Me Support Group Remember Me is a faith-based support group for caregivers, family, and friends of individuals who are coping with de-mentia/Alzheimer’s. No cost or registration is necessary; those who are in need of support are simply invited to come and share ideas and resources with one another. The group meets in the Ministries Building of St. Elizabeth Seton Church (610 Raintree Trail, Lafayette 70507) every third Monday of each month. The next meeting is Monday, May 15th at 6:30 pm. For more information contact the parish office at 235-1483. Sunday, May 7th.

Baby Items-Women's Center Some of you may have noticed that the 'bassinet' for baby items is now out every weekend. This is to make it easier for those who want to support new mothers in bringing their children into the world, at the Women's Center and their maternity home. Here is a list of items that are always needed: Paper towels; Liquid washing detergent (baby & adult); 13 gal trash bags; Deodorant; Windex; Pledge; Lysol; Shampoo; Condi-tioner; Bath Soap; Liquid dish washing gel; Ziplock bags; Gift cards for maternity clothes, etc.; Baby pow-er & lotion; Diaper rash ointment; Baby wash; Diapers (size 4 & 5). Add one or two of these items to your shopping list each month, leave it in the car, and drop it off when you come to church. We will publish this list once a month. Come, Lord Jesus! We have an active group that meets on Tuesdays, at 6 pm, in the classroom directly behind the Church (across from the restrooms). Anyone interested who missed the previous meetings is welcome to attend, even if you are not sure about continuing. Resources for the program are available for purchase at the Come, Lord Jesus! office at 1804 West University Ave, Lafa-yette. Call: 337-233-6277 Retrouvaille Weekend Couples who are experiencing trouble in their marriag-es are invited to attend a Retrouvaille weekend in the Acadiana/Lafayette area May 26-27, 2017 Retrouvaille (the word is French for “rediscovery” or “reawakening”) is a Catholic ministry that encourages individual and spiritual growth, and the ultimate goal is to reinstall in hurting couples the joy and satisfaction of sacramental marriage. This is a peer ministry, meaning that all of the presenting couples are past at-tendees who came to Retrouvaille with marriages in trouble and who have firsthand experience of the bene-fits that can result. The weekends involve intensive work on communication skills and provide the founda-tion for the forgiveness and trust essential for rebuild-ing broken marriages. The six post-sessions frame up the concepts and provide practical solutions such as a method to resolve conflicts in a way that avoids the hurts of the past. For more information or to register for the weekend, please contact Stacy or Donea Benan-di at 985-714-2442-/2443, or Bill and Andi Says at 337-298-5170. Those who are interested in learning more about Retrouvaille are also encouraged to visit www.HelpOurMarriage.com. STEWARDSHIP OF THE PAST WEEK Our Response to God’s Generosity to Us Offertory……………………… $4,552.52 Rice Bowls……………...……...$ 837.89 The second collection this weekend is for our Building Fund.

Date

Saturday, May 13 4:00 p.m.

Sunday, May 14 8:30 a.m.

Sunday, May 14 10:00 a.m.

Lectors Kathy Kalweit Kenneth Phillips Karen Begnaud

Eucharistic Ministers

Rosalind Allen Dana Guidry Candis Thompson

Geneva Phillips Ted Hampton Kay Hampton

Jerry Boudreaux Dee Boudreaux Debra Carroll

Altar Servers Harold Guilbeau Mary Kramer Nicholas Begnaud

Ushers George Guidry George Eaton

Rachelle Trahan Keith Toups

Robin Roy Lionel Jeanmard

Liturgical Roles for May

From the Pastor’s Desk

Last Sunday, the Gospel was the story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus. Since this is by far my per-sonal favorite of the resurrection stories, I’m not ready to leave it behind yet. So consider this the homily, part two. There are only a handful of resurrection stories in the Gospels, and without a doubt there were other times when the disciples encountered the Risen Lord before the Ascension. Yet these are the stories which those early believers preserved, for themselves as well as for us. This passage from Luke was therefore that important to them.

There are probably many reasons for this. I’d like to focus on the last line of the passage: “how he was made known to them in the breaking of bread”. Keep in mind that some fifty years or so had passed before the author of Luke’s Gospel wrote down the stories he had collected. That means that while they were telling and re-telling this story, the communities of disciples had all that time to experience the celebration of the Eucharist. For decades, they had been gathering, telling these stories, (the Liturgy of the Word) and then doing what Jesus had done with bread and wine: taking, and blessing and breaking and sharing (the Liturgy of the Eucharist). It was from those gatherings that they were then sent out into the world to share the Good News.

When I think about those early communities of disciples, I imagine them figuring out who they were, what they were doing, and what it meant for them for Jesus to be the Risen Christ. While they certainly experi-enced the presence of Jesus in many ways, the encounter with Jesus in those gatherings would eventually come to be called an encounter with his “Real Presence”. They would also have told those stories of Jesus feeding the mul-titudes on the hillsides during his early ministry, and recalled his describing himself as the “Bread of Life”.

In the context of this experience, they told and re-told the story of the two disciples on the road to Em-maus, and how those two early believers (they would not be called ‘Christians’ for years) “came to know him in the breaking of the bread”. How could this story not be a powerful reminder of their own personal experience: They, too, in their ritual taking and blessing and breaking and sharing, had also come to know him in the Break-ing of the Bread. As a matter of fact, the entire Eucharist, what we call the Mass, was often know precisely as “The Breaking of the Bread”.

If those early believers—the Emmaus disciples, the other communities of disciples, Luke’s readers — could come to know Jesus in the breaking of the bread, then so can we. Real Presence, indeed!

Readings for the Week

Monday Acts 11:1-18; Ps 42:2-3; 43:3, 4; Jn 10:11-18

Tuesday Acts 11:19-26; Ps 87:1b-7; Jn 10:22-30

Wednesday Acts 12:24 — 13:5a; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Jn 12:44-50

Thursday Acts 13:13-25; Ps 89:2-3, 21-22, 25, 27; Jn 13:16-20

Friday Acts 13:26-33; Ps 2:6-11ab; Jn 14:1-6

Saturday Acts 13:44-52; Ps 98:1-4; Jn 14:7-14

Sunday Acts 6:1-7; Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19; 1 Pt 2:4-9; Jn 14:1-12