June 7, 2015 - The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

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

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, emailperebordelon@gmail.com, 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; Mbergeron@diolaf.org).

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?