January 25, 2015 - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Baptisms

Seminars are held every other month - register by calling the office. Attend-ance is suggested during pregnancy.

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

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

January 25, 2015

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK

Saturday, January 24--Vigil of the Third Sun-

day in Ordinary Time 4:00 PM: Mary Jane Belfie (living); Special

Intention; Mac; Wayne Hebert; Mike Guilbeau;

Herman & Betty Landry ((living); Jacque Stelly;

Monty & Pierre Montagnet;

Emily & Lannie Webb

Sunday, January 25--Third Sunday in Ordi-

nary Time

8:30 AM: Beverly Welch;

Julia Phillips

10:00 AM: Parishioners of St. Patrick’s

Monday, January 26--Saints Timothy and Ti-

tus, Bishops 7:30 AM: Brandy Letchworth

Tuesday, January 27--St. Angela Merici, Vir-

gin

7:30 AM: Carolyn Sittig

Wednesday, January 28--St. Thomas Aquinas

7:30 AM: Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne;

Col. Clark Comeaux & Catherine (living);

Thursday, January 29--Weekday

7:30 AM: Richard Gilette

Friday, January 30--Weekday

7:30 AM: Dr. Charles Stewart

Altar Flowers

In Loving Memory of:

Monty & Pierre Montagnet

The kingdom of God is at hand.

Repent, and believe in the gospel.

— Mark 1:15

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, January 30: Jerry Bou-

dreaux; Dee Boudreaux; Andre Arceneaux; Betty

Fournet; Charlotte Privat

Following is a list of the Diocesan Collections to be taken

throughout the year.

Annual Diocesan Collections—2015

Church in Latin America January 17-18

Aid to Church in Eastern

Europe & Africa & Feb. 21-22 (combined) Black & Indian Missions

Catholic Relief Services March 21-22

Holy Land (Good Friday) April 3 Catholic Home Missions April 18-19

Peter’s Pence June 20-21

Catholic Communications July 19-20

Catholic University of America September 19-20 Bishop’s Services Appeal October 17 –18

World Mission Sunday October 24 –25

Cath. Campaign Human Dev. November 21-22 Retirement Fund for Religious December 12-13

Food for the Journey The Central Region of the Diocese of Lafayette presents

“Food for the Journey”, a monthly lunchtime speaker series

designed to help Catholics live out our faith in our daily

lives. Our speaker for February is Rev. Michael DeBlanc, Associate Pastor of St. Genevieve Catholic Church, Lafa-

yette. “Food for the Journey” will be held on Tuesday,

February 3, at Hotel Acadiana, 1801 W. Pinhook Road, beginning at 12:00 noon. An optional lunch buffet is avail-

able 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 required. For more information, please

call Mary Bergeron (654-8682).

Theresians Lenten Day of Reflection The Roses of Acadiana District of Theresians International

is sponsoring a “Lenten Day of Reflection” for women on

Saturday, February 21, from 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at St. Pius X Elementary School Theater, 201 East Bayou Park-

way, Lafayette. This year’s retreat, entitled “When There’s

a Calling, There’s a Cross”, features speakers Diane Alex-ander, Deacon Philip Lizotte and Rev William “Bill” Rus-

koski. A light snack and lunch are included. Please go

to www.acadianatheresians.com for information and to reg-

ister and pay on line. For additional information, please contact Gerry LeBlanc (233-0015 or gple-

blanc@cox.net). For registration questions, please contact

Cheryl Angelette (344-5142), Virginia Champagne (962-3944) or email either at register@acadianatheresians.com.

VITA to Train Volunteer Tutors

VITA (Volunteer Instructors Teaching Adults) will hold its next tutor training workshop in its downtown location on 2

consecutive Thursdays, January 28th and February 4th

from 5—7:30 p.m. This workshop is the first night-training session this year. VITA is a non-profit, community

- based adult literacy organizations promoting literacy in

Acadiana with offices in Lafayette and Opelousas. Litera-cy instruction is provided free of charge to adults 17 years

of age or older. In Lafayette Parish 24 % of the population

is low-literate, meaning over 10,000 cannot find a number

in a telephone book, write a simple message, hold a job, or read to a child. Volunteers from the community are special-

ly trained to provide instruction to adults. Training ses-

sions are held approximately every eight weeks at 905 Jef-ferson St., Suite 404 in Downtown Lafayette. For more

information, please contact the office at (337) 234-4600, or

email at vitala@bellsouth.com or visit the website at www.vitalaf.org

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, February 2, from 6:00-7:00 p.m. at St. Pat-

rick 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

vocations to the priesthood and religious life, spon-sored by the Serra Club of Lafayette.

Day of Recollection at St. Edmond The St. Edmond’s Altar Society will host a Day of Rec-

ollection on Thursday, February 19, at St. Edmond

Catholic Church, Lafayette. The event is scheduled to

begin at 9:00 a.m. with registration starting at 8:00 a.m. Coffee, donuts and juice will be served during

registration, followed by recitation of the Rosary inside

the church. Other activities of the day include the cele-bration of Mass, the opportunity for Confession, medi-

tation on the Stations of the Cross and Benedic-

tion. Retreat Master will be Rev. William Scham-bough, Pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Mil-

ton. Father Schambough is originally from Eunice and

was ordained on June 23, 2012. He served as Associ-

ate Pastor at St. Pius X, Lafayette, for 2 years and was named Pastor at St. Joseph, Milton, in July

2014. There will be five priests available for Confes-

sion before Mass. Tickets for the Day of Recollection are $12.00 per person which includes a baked chicken

dinner. Tickets must be purchased prior to February

13. To obtain a ticket, please contact RaNelle Simon

(337-232-2849) or send your check made payable to St. Edmond’s Altar Society, 116 Delmar Lane, Lafayette,

LA 70506. You may also pick up tickets at St. Ed-

mond’s office, 4131 West Congress Street, Lafayette.

Aquinas Institute—Spring 2015 Course Offerings

-Ecclesiology: Nature and Mission of the Church

-Controversial Topics in Moral Theology -Old testament History & Prophets

-Introduction to the New Testament: Synoptic Gospels

Registration fee: $60 per course. College Student Dis-counted Registration: $30 with a valid College ID Reg-

istration is available online www.AquinasLafayette.org

or contact Aquinas Institute Coordinator, Katie Austin

via email: Katie@ourladyofwisdom.org or call 337-232– 8742. Checks payable to “Aquinas Intstitu

te.” Courses begin February 2nd.

STEWARDSHIP OF THE PAST WEEK

Our Response to God’s Generosity to Us

Offertory……………………..$ 4,784.00

Church in Latin America…….$ 922.68 Heifer International………….$12,450.00 (total) Thank You!

Date

Saturday, January 31

4:00 p.m.

Sunday, February 1

8:30 a.m.

Sunday, February 1

10:00 a.m.

Lectors

Marguerite Montagnet Kenneth Phillips Robin Roy

Eucharistic

Ministers

George Eaton

Harold Guilbeau

Kathy Kalweit

Geneva Phillips

Susan Cain

Sarah Hamsher

Kenneth Broussard

Madeline Simon

Debra Carroll

Altar Servers Merrick Stelly Mary Kramer Nicholas Begnaud

Ushers

Janell Venable

Joyce Stelly

William & Stephanie Bacque Jenny Feehan

Lionel Jeanmard

Liturgical Roles for January

Readings for the Week

Monday 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5; Ps 96:1-3, 7-8a, 10; Mk 3:22-30

Tuesday Heb 10:1-10; Ps 40:2, 4ab, 7-8a, 10, 11; Mk 3:31-35

Wednesday Heb 10:11-18; Ps 110:1-4; Mk 4:1-20

Thursday Heb 10:19-25; Ps 24:1-6; Mk 4:21-25

Friday Heb 10:32-39; Ps 37:3-6, 23-24, 39-40; Mk 4:26-34

Saturday Heb 11:1-2, 8-19; Lk 1:69-75; Mk 4:35-41

Sunday Dt 18:15-20; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; 1 Cor 7:32-35; Mk1:21-28

From the Pastor’s Desk

This last Thursday, our morning Mass was the “Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children”, re-cently added to our Missal by the U.S. Bishops. The occasion for that Mass was of course the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, which effectively legalized abortion on demand in our nation.

In my homily that day, I recalled the great legislative victories for justice that resulted from the civil rights movement. While some of those victories have been eroded of late by legislation and court decisions, those laws are a testament to a greater level of justice achieved for so many. Today, some 50 years later, we would be naï ve however if we were to imagine that those laws eradicated racism from our midst. Tragically, racism continues to thrive in institutional structures as well as individually, sometimes quietly, sometimes more openly. Since racism is an infectious disease of the human heart, it takes much more than laws to overcome the hatred and bias and prejudice.

I offer this as simply context for the quest for the legal protection of the unborn. Certainly the goal to en-shrine in law the protection of human life from the moment of conception is a worthy one, even as we recognize that it will not happen today. Because we believe in the innate dignity of the human person, created in the image and likeness of God, the fundamental rights of that person cannot be based on the choice of this or that individual. Fundamental rights exist whether they are recognized in law or not.

Yet we would again be naï ve if we believed that changing the law, or the constitution, would resolve the problem. Much like racism, we are concerned here with attitudes of the human heart, and specifically, an attitude of respect for all human life. While working for a just society and just laws is a worthy activity for the Church, we also need to remember that our core mission is the conversion of the human heart, through the power of God’s grace.

A couple of weeks ago, I gave a talk connecting the respect for life with the need for a just society. I point-ed out that when it comes to human dignity, the devil is truly in the exceptions. Most people value life. The issue arises with the exceptions: to value life, except when the other is called enemy, or is a guilty criminal, or except when the other is old and dying, or when the other is just not yet born. It is the exceptions who are at risk.

So we continue to pray. We continue to work for laws that respect life. And we continue to strive for a more just society, where no one is the exception.