Holy SpiritHoly Spirit Catholic ChurchCatholic Church

6201 Stratford Place, New Orleans LA. 70131 Phone: 394-5492, Fax: 398-0901,

Email: holyspirit@archdiocese-no.org Website: holyspiritchurchnola.org

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WORSHIPING SCHEDULE

CONTACTS

Rev. James Bach, Pastor, Cell ............ 644-7780 Rev. John Talamo, Jr. V.F. Dean of Algiers/Plaquemines

Deanery. Elizabeth P. Sliman, Secretary ........... 985-774-9711 Pam Kamphuis, Music Director.

& Ministry Coordinator........................ 504-394-5492 Judy Sherman, Min. Coordinator Asst. 394-5492 Fran Laudun, Custodian ..................... 394-5492. Jane Mix, DRE .................................... 394-5492

SACRAMENTS and RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Religious Education: Tuesday: 5:00 - 6:00 PM.

Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday: 4:15 - 4:45 PM Mon-Fri: 8:00 AM Or by appointment.

Marriage Arrangements: Contact the office six months in advance.

Baptism: Baptismal Seminar is required for Parents and Godparents.

Parents meet with the Pastor/Deacon. Godparents must provide proof of Confirmation in the Catholic Church.

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Sunday Saturday

• 4:15-4:45 PM Confessions • 5:00 PM Vigil Mass

• 10:00 AM Mass

Monday - Friday: • 8:00 AM Rosary • 8:30 AM Mass • 9:00 AM Adoration (30 Minutes.)

Monday Adoration

• Love4Life (Pro Life)

Tuesday Adoration

• Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Wednesday Adoration

• Love4Life (Pro Life)

Thursday Adoration

• Love4Life (Pro Life)

Friday Adoration

• Divine Mercy Chaplet

First Fridays: Morning Mass is Healing Mass with the Anointing of the Sick

MASS INTENTIONS

THIS WEEKEND

SATURDAY 5:00 pm 7/27 Joseph Loi Tran, Poor Souls, In Memory of Joel Padgett, Special Healing,

Mary G. Baham Landreneau and Baham Family

SUNDAY 10:00 am 7/28 All Holy Spirit Parishioners, All Souls, The Conversion of

Sinners, Dalton Boutte, Thanksgiving, Terexa

Liturgical Assignments: Next Weekend

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Please find your substitute if you are unable to serve as assigned )

1st Reading - Ecclesiastes 1:2;2:21-23 (114C) Psalm - 90: 3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14&17

2nd Reading - Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11 Gospel Reading - Luke 12:13-21

AUGUST 3

AUGUST 4

SATURDAY

5:00 PM VIGIL

Sylvia Schwarz Michael Nedd

Cily Winkeler Valerie Sims Michael Nedd

Jermaine Lewis Julie Williams

SUNDAY

10:00 AM

Gretchen Mura Jim Macika

Cindy Nguyen Ho Nguyen

Donna Crowden

Donna Crowden Gilbert Crowden

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NEXT WEEKEND

SATURDAY 5:00 pm 8/3 Joseph Loi Tran, Poor Souls, All Souls, The Conversion of Sinners,

Fons Koper, Mr. Vinhto

SUNDAY 10:00 am 8/4 All Holy Spirit Parishioners, All Souls, The

Conversion of Sinners, Special Healing, Jeff Wadlington

WEEKDAYS

Monday 7/29 Tuesday 7/30 Wednesday 7/31 Thursday 8/1 Friday 8/2

Special Healing, Mary G. Baham

Landreneau

All Souls, The Conversion of

Sinners Special Healing

All Souls, The Conversion of

Sinners Special Healing

"The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest

to send out laborers for his harvest.” Luke 10:2

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Gn 18:20-32 In those days, the LORD said: "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and their sin so grave, that I must go down and see whether or not their actions fully correspond to the cry against them that comes to me. I mean to find out." While Abraham's visitors walked on far-ther toward Sodom, the LORD remained standing before Abraham.

Then Abraham drew nearer and said: "Will you sweep away the innocent with the guilty? Suppose there were fifty innocent people in the city; would you

wipe out the place, rather than spare it for the sake of the fifty innocent people within it? Far be it from you to do such a thing, to make the innocent die with the guilty so that the innocent and the guilty would be treated alike! Should not the judge of all the world act with justice?" The LORD replied, "If I find fifty innocent people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake." Abraham spoke up again: "See how I am presuming to speak to my Lord, though I am but dust and ashes! What if there are five less than fifty innocent people? Will you destroy the whole city because of those five?" He an-swered, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there." But Abraham persisted, saying "What if only forty are found there?" He replied, "I will forbear doing it for the sake of the forty." Then Abraham said, "Let not my Lord grow impatient if I go on. What if only thirty are found there?" He replied, "I will forbear doing it if I can find but thirty there." Still Abraham went on, "Since I have thus dared to speak to my Lord, what if there are no more than twenty?" The LORD answered, "I will not destroy it, for the sake of the twenty." But he still persisted: "Please, let not my Lord grow angry if I speak up this last time. What if there are at least ten there?" He replied, "For the sake of those ten, I will not destroy it."

Col 2:12-14 Brothers and sisters: You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

And even when you were dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he brought you to life along with him, having forgiven us all our transgressions; obliterating the bond against us, with its legal claims, which was opposed to us, he also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross.

LLk 11:1-13 Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples." He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread and for-give us our sins for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us, and do not subject us to the final test."

And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend to whom he goes at mid-night and says, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey and I have nothing to offer him,' and he says in reply from within, 'Do not bother me; the door has already been locked and my children and I are already in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.' I tell you, if he does not get up to give the visitor the loaves because of their friendship, he will get up to give him whatever he needs because of his persistence.

"And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. What father among you would hand his son a snake when he asks for a fish? Or hand him a scorpion when he asks for an egg? If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"

First Reading

Second Reading

My sisters and brothers in Christ, When there is tragedy in life, there is often a lot of prayer. This seems to hold true in many cultures. Some people go on to begin to ask questions about prayer. Today’s Gospel tells us about an encounter with Jesus and His disciples. They see Him praying and then one of them asks Him to teach prayer.

From this request for teaching about prayer, Jesus teaches us the Our Father. We recognize that this prayer cannot be repeated over and over with magical effects. To pray, we must really mean what we say. Any of us could spend a life time simply praying the Our Father and no other prayer.

Jesus goes on in the Gospel to give more teachings about prayer. The basic lesson seems to be for each one of us: keep trying to speak with God, tell God what you want and what you need and then trust that God is listening to you and is present with you and involved in your life at every moment.

The first reading, from Genesis, gives us the famous story of Abraham arguing with God, negotiating with God for the welfare of God’s people. God seems like some judge who has just given a bad sentence to a group of criminals. As with all Biblical stories, our focus needs to be on the teaching and not on the story itself. God is not a judge in this way and God is not fickle. The story instead wants to teach us that we should always have confidence in God and keep insisting with God on what we think is right. Basically, we must have an ongoing and confident relationship with God, no matter what is happening in our lives.

Many of us are so aware of our sins and our ongoing struggle to try to do what is right that we have a deep sense that God does not listen. We think that he might listen to someone like Abraham, who has a big name, or perhaps to Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who seemed so good, or to Saint Padre Pio, who obviously had an ongoing relationship with the Lord.

Jesus wants us to know clearly: God loves each one of us. Each of us must have this relationship of confidence and trust with God. Each of us must speak with God daily and throughout the day.

Today we are invited to pray again. No matter what we have done in the past, no matter how awful our lives may seem, no matter what we think of God,

we can begin today to develop this wonderful relationship with a God who loves us and invites us to speak with Him as one who loves us more than anyone else.

Let us pick up our courage and begin to pray!

Abbot Philip: Christ in the Desert, 2017

Fr. Bach

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Lula Ward 7/13, Pat Lannes 7/26, Janet Gisleson 7/12, Ronald Goldman 7/9, Jaime Tuazon 7/25, Jane Mix 7/28,

Valerie Sims 7/18, Joseph Hebert 7/26, In memory of Kenny Perdue 7/12, Donna Crowden 7/11, Julie Williams 7/25 Chris Fortmayer 7/5,

John Fortmayer 7/21, Carolyn Laudun 7/19, Ethan Slawson 7/1, Katie Bowes 7/7

Aaron F. Mckens, Albert Thomas, Alexander, Allen Martin, Ana Sison & Family, Antoinette Franklin & Deborah Franklin,

Ahmad. Phillips, Ava Neal, Auron Gray Croy, Betty Boisdore, Bob & Arlene Eiswirth, Brenda Thompson, Byron Davis, Cary Gomez, Charles & Elizabeth Rivera, Charlotte Dixon, Chris & Arden, Conrad Degel, Corcoran Family, David Nguyen, David Scarnato, Dion Dukes, Donald Carey, Jr. Elena Cutrera, Ernest Miles, Ernest Miles, Sr. & Family, Gwen Jolly, Gwen & Jerry Bennette, Helen Brown, Helen Dukes, Herman Sherman, Jr.,

India Lazaro, Irene Marion, Jaime Tuazon, James Duplessis, Jr., Jayden Pham, Jaymee Pham, Jennifer Pham, Joan Brennan, Jody Barrilleaux, Johnny Jordan, Johnny Pham, Joseph

Celestain, Sr., Joseph Klaus, Joy Nelson, Juanita Hardy, Kelli Cutrera, Kenny Perdue, Lance E. Benezech, Sr., Lea Causey, Liz Burcham, Locke Walters, Lois Timmons, Lolita Feria, Lori

Holmes, Louis Leroy Carter, Sr., and Gary( his Mother)Lucy Jones, Luke Vegas, Lynell Dixon, Lynn Evans, Makeda Dukes, Marcie Chiasson, Maria Nunez, Marie Leatheman, Margaret Covell, Marsha Register, Mary and All Souls, Mary Landreneau, Mary Van, Martinez & Carolyn Hart, Micky and Wendy Williams, Nandi Dukes, Nanette Davis,

Nguyen & Family, Pearl & Michael Nedd, Rachel Celentano, Rachael Hymel, Ranet Jones, Richard Stone, Roland Jones and Family, Sandra Carter, Sheila Phillips, Sylvia Martinez, Teo

Eloy Chesney, Terence R. Donnelly, Thomas B., Jr., Tommie O’Donoghue, Tony Nguyen, Troy T. Townsend, Tyrone & Tenneths, Vanessa Muse, Will Petty, William Charlot, Yael

Dukes. Lyons Family: Loretta, Maria, Mervin, Kowana, Gwendolyn, Carmelita, Sedra, Nakia, NaJae, Infinity, Italy, Roy.

July 1-31

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DONATIONS TO PRAY FOR DONATED BY

Sanctuary Candle Mary G. Baham Landreneau Charlotte and Buddy Baham

Divine Mercy Candle Holy Spirit Parishioners

Mary Candle

Flowers: Altar. Divine

Mercy, Mary

To burn a candle or offers flowers… in memory of your loved ones… Call the Office, $10 is a donation for a candle.

Let Holy Spirit help you with your next big event.

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Rent the Parish Life Center for your next big event Wedding, Birthday, Anniversary...

Ask Elizabeth in the Church office for pricing.

VERY REASONABLE!

2019 - August

♥ August 10: Welcome Social Father’s Day special Celebration( previously postponed) after 5:00pm Mass

♥ August 11: Welcome Coffee after 10:00am Mass

♥ August 24 & 25: We will have a special Missionary Priest visiting

Thank You Holy Spirit Parishioners and Friends For everything you do!

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