Fourth Sunday of Lent March 22, 2020

ALL MASSES CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!

At the direction of Archbishop Aymond, the following Masses/events are cancelled until further notice:

All daily and Sunday Masses All Confessions

All Stations of the Cross All St. Joseph Altars

OLPS’ Lenten Mission Any event with more than 50 people

All retreats at the Retreat Center

We remind everyone that there is a live broadcast of the 11:00 AM Sunday from St. Louis Cathedral on WLAE-TV. This Mass is also live-streamed at the DailyMass.com and the DailyMass.com Facebook page. We also encourage you to pray at home with your family and remember our faith community in your prayers. To your weekly donations online during the COVID-19 crisis, visit Our Lady of Prompt Succor’s website and click on the on-line giving button. If you have any questions about on-line giving, please contact Marie at the Rectory. Archbishop Aymond encourages those who are elderly, sick, experiencing symptoms of illness or who are at high risk of illness to not venture out from their homes. For those 60 years or older and those with underlying medical issues, please adhere to the executive order for “social distancing”. Anyone in these two groups could suffer life-threatening complications from this illness. FR. MARLON AND FR. ANGEL CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR OLPS PARISHIONERS DAILY. OUR LADY OF PROMPT SUCCOR, HASTEN TO HELP US!

PARISH CLERGY & STAFF

PASTOR: Rev. Marlon Mangubat

PAROCHIAL VICAR: Rev. Angel Diaz-Perez

DEACON: Dcn. Lino G. Parulan

PRINCIPAL: Mrs. Annette Accomando

aacomando@olpsschool.org www.olpsschool.org

504-271-2953

COORDINATOR OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Mr. Ruben Saavedra olpsccd@yahoo.com

504-952-1369

The prayer list will run for two weeks only. If you would like to add your beloved to the list or keep them on past the two weeks, please call the rectory or drop the intention in the collection basket.

Norman VanCourt, Sr.; Allyson Maechling; Karen Faye Patrick; Donald Russo; Elloit Adams; Paul Russo, Sr.; Dorothy Russo; Richard Adams, Jr.; Paul Russo, III; Salvador Fernandez; Melissa Fernandez; Dolores Fernandez; Dustin Fernandez; Lee Carlisle, Jr.; Diane Bourgeois; Warren Ruiz; Dorothy Traina; Alexis Hauptmann;

Timothy Wells; Hayden Manuel; Woody Calley; Paul Seruntine; Johnathan Serigne’s family; Joan Forsythe; Mandy; Hearty Family; Health of Michael R. Hearty; Al Maiaro; Corey Springer; Roy Christopher Migliore; Roger Dennis; Doyle Garcia, Jr.; Samuel Savage, Jr.; Betty Simmons; Jill Dentino; Shawn Rogers; Brandi Rogers; Jacob Bech; Denise Palmisano Cordes; Alan Wust, Jr.; Frank Ianni; Tiny Ianni; Pascal Ianni; Coco Teanna; Mark Klein; Margaret Scorsone; Josephine Scorsone; Denise Rogers; Petrina Ruiz Imbraguglio; George Theaux; Joan Livaccari; Francis Peter Brossette, III; Terry Pitre; Raymond Thibodeaux; Van Robin; Rosie Hansen; Henry Randazzo; Salvador Genovese; Keith Robin, Jr.; Angele Chaplain; Pam Ponthieux; Glenda Rauch; the Daigle Family; Catherine Lucia; Karen D. Favalora; Michael Pizzuto; the Pizzuto Family; Nick Gullo, Sr.; Kayla, Kali & Jakie; Janis Gause

March 14-15, 2020 Attendance: 594.00

Collections: $4,455.77 Social Outreach (St. Anthony):

$394.00 Donations: $500.00

Vigil Light

Tu Tran; Thien Tran

Saturday, March 21, 2020 4:00 p.m. Rachel Gabb; Joan & Carl T. Treitler, Sr.; Kirby Lodrigues, Jr.; Judy Nunez; Archie, Helen & Kenneth Forsyth; Alfred, Margaret & Kathleen Jirovec; Jeffrey Cusimano; Sidney Torres, Jr.; Anthony Torres, Leander Nunez; Petrina, Sam & Anthony Randazzo; Kathy Salles; Joseph & Teresa Scardina; Rita & Adam Bernard, Sr.; Hank Williams; Jake Bernard; Health of Michael R. Hearty; Rusty Barras, Sr.; Brooke Michelle Whittington; Thelma & Anthony Licciardi; Lee & Charlette Melancon; Betty, Gus & Gus Hercules Georgusis; Joseph & Juanita Richardson; Santo Migliore; Albert E. Clavin, Sr.; Tu Tran; Thien Tran; Carroll J. Borne; Eloise McHughes; Sandra P. Dempsey; Roy V. Uhle; Felix Lauricella; Dwight Rodrigue, Sr.; Jack Walters

Sunday, March 22, 2020 7:00 a.m. The Parishioners of Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church 8:30 a.m. Benfiglio & Baham Families; Brian D. Wohlrab; Stephanie Sierra; Albert L. Schell, III; Carol Ann Daigle; Gregory Baure; Health of Mathew Carderara, Sr.; Health of Josie Carderara 10:30 a.m. John Palmer; Stephen Romare, Jr.; Margie Perniciaro; Health of Alan Wust, Jr.; Brooklyn Fitzgerald; Tu Tran; Thien Tran; Patricia Hoover; Devin & Darcy Hill; Celie Ginart Tanet; Bert W. Rowley; Barbara Carver Chetta; Health of the Daigle Family; Evelyn Kennair; Carol Ann Daigle; Fay Champigne; Carol Cantrell; Ethel Dauterive; John Mutter Miller 12:30 p.m. The Parishioners of Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church 7:00 p.m. Philip Creger; Nathan Longo; Melrose C. Kathmann; Jane C. Johnson

Monday, March 23, 2020 7:00 a.m. Anna Mae Cardinale; Tu Tran; Thien Tran; Kathy Jo Browning; Catherine Truitt; Carol Ann Daigle;

Tuesday, March 24, 2020 7:00 a.m. The Parishioners of Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church

Wednesday, March 25, 2020 7:00 a.m. Tu Tran; Thien Tran

Thursday, March 25, 2020 7:00 a.m. Tu Tran; Thien Tran; Kathy Dauterive

Friday, March 27, 2020 7:00 a.m. Tu Tran; Thien Tran

Saturday, March 28, 2020

8:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. Donald Miller; Josephine Tinney; Rachel Gabb; Joan & Carl T. Treitler, Sr.; Kirby Lodrigues, Jr.; Judy Nunez; Archie, Helen & Kenneth Forsyth; Alfred, Margaret & Kathleen Jirovec; Jeffrey Cusimano; Sidney Torres, Jr.; Anthony Torres, Leander Nunez; Petrina, Sam & Anthony Randazzo; Kathy Salles; Joseph & Teresa Scardina; Rita & Adam Bernard, Sr.; Hank Williams; Jake Bernard; Health of Michael R. Hearty; Rusty Barras, Sr.; Brooke Michelle Whittington; Thelma & Anthony Licciardi; Lee & Charlette Melancon; Betty, Gus & Gus Hercules Georgusis; Joseph & Juanita Richardson; Santo Migliore; Albert E. Clavin, Sr.; Tu Tran; Thien Tran; Carroll J. Borne; Sandra P. Dempsey; Felix Lauricella; Joyce Cantrell; Donald Cantrell

LIGHT “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light” (Ephesians 5:14). We are at the midpoint of our Lenten journey of conversion. As always, God never gives up on us, especially those who have “fallen asleep” along the road to conversion. The most powerful stories of conversion are proclaimed during these final weeks of Lent. They have the power to shake us out of our sleep. Today’s Gospel story of the healing of the man born blind exposes the real blindness in the time of Christ—the blindness of the self-righteous religious leaders. In a few weeks, at the Easter Vigil, the Church will proclaim “Christ our Light” as the paschal candle is carried into darkened churches throughout the world. May the darkness of sin that still pervades our lives, communities, and world, be dispelled by the Christ who comes to bring sight to the blind and light to the world. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

Please Pray for the Soul of

Shirley Luthjens

PRAYER OF POPE FRANCIS DURING THIS PANDEMIC

O Mary, you always shine on our path

as a sign of salvation and of hope. We entrust ourselves to you,

Health of the Sick, who at the cross took part in Jesus’ pain,

keeping your faith firm. You, Salvation of the Roman people,

know what we need, and we are sure you will provide

so that, as in Cana of Galilee, we may return to joy and to feasting

after this time of trial. Help us, Mother of Divine Love,

to conform to the will of the Father and to do as we are told by Jesus,

who has taken upon himself our sufferings and carried our sorrows

to lead us, through the cross, to the joy of the resurrection. Amen.

Under your protection, we seek refuge, Holy Mother of God. Do not disdain the entreaties of we who are in trial, but deliver us from every danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin.

Our Lady of Prompt Succor… hasten to help us!