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March 29, 2015 - Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
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406 East Pinhook Road Lafayette, LA 70501-8727
Phone: (337) 237-0988 Fax: (337) 233-8868 Rev. M. Keith LaBove, Pastor
Parish Website: www.stpat.org
Weddings
Arrangements must be made at least six months in advance to allow time
for preparation
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
Welcome to St. Patrick Church
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
March 29, 2015
MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK
Saturday, March 28--Vigil of Palm Sunday of
the Passion of the Lord
4:00 PM: Mike Guilbeau
Sunday, March 29--Palm Sunday of the Pas-
sion of the Lord 8:30 AM: Lorraine Day
10:00 AM: Parishioners of St. Patrick’s
Monday, March 30--Monday of Holy Week
7:30 AM: Joyce Weilbaecher; Lucy LeBlanc;
Brian Callier
Tuesday, March 31--Tuesday of Holy Week
7:30 AM: Toni Doumit Kalifeh
[Christ Jesus] humbled himself,
becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
— Philippians 2:8
Wednesday, April 1--Wednesday of Holy Week
7:30 AM: Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne;
Col. Clark Comeaux & Catherine (living);
Col. Kimberly Fedele (living)
Thursday, April 2--Holy Thursday
7:30 AM: Dr. Charles Stewart
Friday, April 3--Good Friday
3:00 PM: Service
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—Wednesday, April 1: Donna
Guilbeau; Susan Cain; Andre Arceneaux.
Confession Opportunities
All are encouraged to receive the Sacrament of
Reconciliation in preparation for Easter Sunday.
Please note that after Wednesday of Holy Week
(April 1), there are no scheduled confessions un-
til after Easter.
Volunteers Needed at United Christian Outreach
UCO was incorporated in October 1977 and is an
ecumenical organization with 23 member churches.
The organization is located at 422 Carmel Drive,
Lafayette and provides help of food, clothing, utility
assistance, and medicine, for clients “inside” the city
limits only; opens 4 days a week: Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Friday (from 10 am to 1:30 pm).
The workers are ALL volunteers and represent only 7
churches at this time (St. Patrick being one of them).
Volunteers are desperately needed at this time to as-
sist in the areas of office work, food distribution,
clothing inventory, and purchase/picking up food
from one of its local partners. Volunteers may offer
their services in any capacity, once a week, once a
month, every week and as a sub. If interested please
contact Geneva Phillips at 280-2065 or Kay Hampton
at 706-8334
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
Masses at 7:30 a.m.
Holy Thursday, April 2
Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 6 p.m.
Following Mass, Adoration will continue
until 8 p.m. in the Church
After the fasting of Lent, Holy Thursday recalls both the
Last Supper and the Washing of the Feet, the nourishment for service.
Good Friday, April 3
Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion at 3 p.m.
Day of fast and abstinence
The sacrifice of Good Friday is filled with prayer, from Jesus in the Garden to his final words on the Cross.
Holy Saturday, April 4
The Easter Vigil at 8:00 p.m.
Service of Light, Liturgy of the Word
Remembrance of Baptism, & Celebration of
the Eucharist
Holy Saturday is the day of the hidden mystery of divine
action. The disciples were convinced that all their hopes had ended in disaster. Holy Saturday reminds us that our
best guess about the future is only that; God has plans and
powers beyond anything we can imagine.
Easter Sunday, April 5
Masses at 8:30 and 10:00 a.m.
Easter morning began with a very human gesture: the women’s desire to give Jesus a proper burial. Because they
acted on their heartfelt inclination, the Good News of the
Resurrection became known to the disciples. The Gospel
message is spread whenever we cooperate with God’s grace.
Good Friday: Good Friday is a day of fast and abstinence
for people age 18—59. This means limiting to one full
meal and two smaller meals, with no snacking between
meals. Those who are younger or older may freely em-brace these disciplines. —Lenten disciplines should never
endanger your health.
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Holy Hour for Vocations
Please join us for our monthly “Holy Hour for Voca-
tions and for the Spiritual Renewal of All Priests” on
Monday, April 6, from 6:00-7:00 p.m. at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 406 E. Pinhook Road. Recitation of
the Rosary begins at 5:30 p.m. All are welcome to join
in these prayers for vocations and perseverance of vo-cations to the priesthood and religious life, sponsored
by the Serra Club of Lafayette.
Food for the Journey
The Central Region of the Diocese of Lafayette pre-
sents “Food for the Journey”, a monthly lunchtime
speaker series designed to help Catholics live out our faith in our daily lives. Our speaker for April is Rev.
Richard Kalinowski, SVD, Chaplain at University
Health Clinics (UHC). “Food for the Journey” will be held on Tuesday, April 7, at Hotel Acadiana, 1801 W.
Pinhook Road, beginning at 12:00 noon. An optional
lunch buffet is available for purchase beginning at
11:30 a.m. All are welcome to come “eat and be fed”- please bring a friend! Pre-registration is not re-
quired. For more information, please call Mary Ber-
geron (654-8682).
Good Friday Collection
Christians around the world are united in a special way during Lent, Holy Week and Easter. Our hearts, minds
and prayers are also especially aware of the Holy Land.
Our parish, once a year on Good Friday, is called to
support Christians in the Holy Land. Good Friday Col-lection offers a direct link for parishioners to be wit-
nesses of peace and to help protect the Holy Places.
When you donate on Good Friday, you are supporting Christians in the Holy Land. Please be generous!
STEWARDSHIP OF THE PAST WEEK Our Response to God’s Generosity to Us
Offertory……………………..$ 5,831.62
Thank You! The second collection next weekend will be for our
Building Fund.
Date
Saturday, April 4
8:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 5
8:30 a.m.
Sunday, April 5
10:00 a.m.
Lectors
Benda DeMette
Phyllis Roy
Gerrie McGovern Karen Begnaud
Eucharistic
Ministers
Robin Roy
Candis Thompson
Peggy Spruill
Larry Lewis
Maggie Sonnier
Susan Cain
Tami Petre
Jerry Boudreaux
Dee Boudreaux
Altar Servers Harold Guilbeau—Harry DeMette Melinda Voorhies Nicholas Begnaud
Ushers
Oren Spruill
Joyce Stelly
Rachelle Trahan
Keith Toups
Lionel Jeanmard
Joyce Stelly
Liturgical Roles for April
Readings for the Week
Monday Is 42:1-7; Ps 27:1-3, 13-14; Jn 12:1-11
Tuesday Is 49:1-6; Ps 71:1-6, 15, 17; Jn 13:21-33, 36-38
Wednesday Is 50:4-9a; Ps 69: 8-34; Mt 26:14-25
Thursday Lord’s Supper: Ex 12:1-8, 11-14; Ps 116; 1 Cor 11:23-26; Jn 13:1-15
Friday Is 52:13 — 53:12; Ps 31; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; Jn 18:1 — 19:42
Saturday a) Gn 1:1 —2:2; b) Ex 14:15 —15:1; c) Is 55:1-11; d) Ez 36:16-17a,
18-28;
Romans 6:3-11; Psalm 118:1-2,16-17,22-23; Lk 24-1-12
Sunday Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Ps 118; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9
From the Pastor’s Desk
It is said by those who know about such things that the Gospels were written backwards. By that they mean that the first parts of the Gospels to be written were the Passion narratives. This is probably reflective of the pattern of preaching of the early Church. The heart of the Good News for those early believers was that Jesus suffered, and died, and rose from the dead. One sees that in the preaching of St. Paul, who is so very clear that this is the Jesus he proclaims: the one who died, or rather was raised up, and lives forever. Without the “death and resurrection” part of the story Jesus remains a story-teller and sometimes miracle worker. Given the consistent miss-understanding of even his closest followers, we know that it was only through that death and ris-ing that even they came to understand who Jesus was, and who they had been walking with for three years.
Only after proclaiming ‘The Risen One’ would they then turn to the second question, what did he say and do. The reply to this question ends up making up the larger part of the Gospel story, and is the part that is proba-bly most familiar to us. We live with the stories of Jesus’ preaching and miracles throughout the year, as our Lec-tionary presents us with these teachings and deeds of Jesus. And it was only later that the early Church even con-sidered asking how this Jesus of Nazareth came to be. This resulted in what we call the “Infancy Narratives”, the stories of Jesus conception and birth. Yet we find these only in Matthew and Luke. Mark begins with the preach-ing of John the Baptist, while John opens his Gospel with his famous “Prologue”, describing this Jesus as the Word made Flesh, who came to dwell among us.
Twice a year, we have read in our midst that early core of the Gospel message, the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, it is long. Yes, we probably saw the movie. Yet it remains essential that we hear this part of the story of our salvation. This passion, and death, is not only essential to the Jesus story — it is an essential part of our story, the story of our salvation.
This Sunday we pair the reading of the Passion with the triumphant entry into Jerusalem. This brings to-gether both acclaim and condemnation, as the one greeted with Hosanna is soon to be dragged our of the garden into the public square of shame and humiliation, and death.
Later this week, the Passion is read again, on Good Friday. Here the story is told with much anticipation, as the darkness of that day of death is lived in anticipation of the bright light of Easter morning. Yet the suffering and death is no less real. Let us enter deeply into this story this week, for it is truly our story.