April 5, 2015 - Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

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 Rev. M. Keith LaBove, Pastor

Parish Website: www.stpat.org — stpat.org@gmail.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

Welcome to St. Patrick Church

Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

April 5, 2015

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK

Saturday, April 4--Holy Saturday, Easter

Vigil

8:00 PM: Mike Guilbeau; Clayton Melancon;

Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne; The Family of

Dr. & Mrs. Walter B. Comeaux, Jr.;

Monty & Pierre Montagnet

Sunday, April 5--Easter Sunday of the Resur-

rection of the Lord

8:30 AM: Lorraine Day; Julia Phillips;

Cecelia Ledet; Joseph & Eldie Woods;

Dolores Anna “Dee” Zimmerman;

Judith A. White; Phil Simon;

Bud & Una Arceneaux

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

Monday, April 6--Monday Within the Octave

of Easter

7:30 AM: Toni Doumit Kalifeh

Tuesday, April 7--Tuesday Within the Octave

of Ester

7:30 AM: Dr. Nicholas Olivier

Wednesday, April 8--Wednesday Within the Oc-

tave of Easter

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

Col. Clark Comeaux & Catherine (living);

Col. Kimberly Fedele (living)

Thursday, April 9--Thursday Within the Octave

of Easter

7:30 AM: Joyce Weilbaecher; Lucy LeBlanc;

Brian Callier

Friday, April 10--Friday in the Octave of Easter

7:30 AM: Dr. Charles Stewart

Easter Flowers

In loving memory of:

Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne

Pierre & “Monty” Montagnet

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, April 10: No cleaning.

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

Holy Hour for Vocations Please join us for our monthly “Holy Hour for Vocations

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 pray-

ers for vocations and perseverance of vocations 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 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 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 Bergeron

(654-8682).

Food for the Journey Seminary Burse In celebration of the 10-year Anniversary of “Food for the

Journey” and with great gratitude, the Central Region of

the Diocese of Lafayette has created a “Food for the Jour-ney Seminary Burse” through the Office of Vocations and

Seminarians. Donations for seminary burses are placed in

a trust fund, with interest used to pay for the education of

men preparing for the priesthood. To contribute, please make check payable to “Diocese of Lafayette” (with nota-

tion “Food for the Journey Seminary Burse”) and mail to

Office of Vocations, Diocese of Lafayette, 1408 Carmel Drive, Lafayette, LA 70501. For more information, please

call Mary Bergeron (654-8682).

Antique Fair in Washington

Visit Washington, LA on April 10th–11th for the spring

Antique Fair. Parking will be available at Immaculate

Conception Catholic Church for a suggested $5.00 dona-tion. BBQ sandwiches and drinks will be sold as well.

Help Immaculate Conception defray expenses from re-

building after the fire.

HopeFest

St. Thomas More Catholic High is sponsoring HopeFest, to raise money for Healing House and for the STM Options

Program. Country music artist Tracy Lawrence will be

headlining the event on April 18, 2015, from noon-9:30

p.m at Parc International. Tickets are available in advance at www.stmcougars.net/hopefest, or from the school

Annual Celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday The Central Region of the Diocese of Lafayette will

host a special celebration of “Divine Mercy Sunday”

on Sunday, April 12, at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic

Church. This event begins at 2:00 p.m. with Exposi-tion of the Blessed Sacrament, Divine Mercy Chaplet

and Prayers, Sacrament of Reconciliation, and more,

followed by Holy Mass at 3:00 p.m. The main cele-brant will be Rev. Michael Russo, Pastor of Our Lady

of Fatima Catholic Church; homilist will be Rev. Ste-

ven LeBlanc, Pastor of St. Pius X Catholic Church. Very Rev. Thomas James, SVD, VE, Episco-

pal Vicar of the Central Region, will concelebrate

along with other clergy. A blessing with the Relic of

St. Faustina will be held at the end of the Mass. All are welcome to attend, and no pre-registration is re-

quired. Please note that Confessions will be limited;

you may receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation prior to Divine Mercy Sunday. Every effort will be made to

accommodate those attending; however, Confessions

will end promptly at 2:45 p.m. Parking is available at Our Lady of Fatima, with additional parking at Black-

ham Coliseum with a uniformed police escort to assist

in crossing Johnston Street to the Church. For more

information, please contact Mary Bergeron (654-8682) or visit www.centralregiononline.org or

www.diolaf.org.

Train Up a Child: The Challenge of Christian Par-

enting

As a parent you recognize that raising children in to-

day’s world is a challenge. How do you uniquely raise your children so they become responsible Christian

men and women? “Train Up a Child: The Challenge of

Christian Parenting” will be presented by Daniel Jurek, M.Min, M.A., on Tuesday, April 28, from 6:00-8:00

p.m. at Our Lady of Fatima Church (Knight Hall),

Lafayette. This workshop will explore your important role as a Christian Parent and offer some strategies ad

solutions you need to fulfill this vocation and mis-

sion. Early Registration $25, at the Door $30. For

more information or to register, please call 993-1960 or email dan@paxrenewalcenter.com

It is not too late to give donations to give to Operation Rice Bowl. Your support help

families around the world through Catholic

Relief Services.

STEWARDSHIP OF THE PAST WEEK

Our Response to God’s Generosity to Us

Offertory……………………..$ 5,321.05 Thank You! The second collection this weekend is for our

Building Fund.

Date

Saturday, April 11

8:00 p.m.

Sunday, April 12

8:30 a.m.

Sunday, April 12

10:00 a.m.

Lectors

Dana Guidry Gerrie McGovern Brenda DeMette

Eucharistic

Ministers

Peggy Spruill

Rosalind Allen

Kathy Kalweit

Maggie Sonnier

Geneva Phillips

Sarah Hamsher

Jerry Boudreaux

Dee Boudreaux

Janeth Harrington

Altar Servers Janell Venable Mary Kramer Harry DeMette

Ushers

Oren Spruill

Joyce Stelly

William & Stephanie Bacque Robin Roy

Lionel Jeanmard

Liturgical Roles for April

Readings for the Week

Monday Acts 2:14, 22-33; Ps 16:1-2, 5, 7-11; Mt 28:8-15

Tuesday Acts 2:36-41; Ps 33:4-5, 18-20, 22; Jn 20:11-18

Wednesday Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-4, 6-9; Lk 24:13-35

Thursday Acts 3:11-26; Ps 8:2, 5-9; Lk 24:35-48

Friday Acts 4:1-12; Ps 118:1-2, 4, 22-27; Jn 21:1-14

Saturday Acts 4:13-21; Ps 118:1, 14-15ab, 16-21; Mk 16:9-15

Sunday Acts 4:32-35; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 Jn 5:1-6; Jn 20:19-31

From the Pastor’s Desk

Walking with Simon Peter to the empty tomb: He was the first to confess Jesus as the Christ. Given a new name, he was called “The Rock”. With James & John, he was chosen to attend special events, like the transfigura-tion. Not bad, for a fisherman.

He wanted to follow Jesus, had been doing so for three years already. Jesus started talking about going to Jerusalem, whatever that meant. (They had all been there before.) Then Jesus said they could not follow. Peter still wanted to follow. Jesus said you can’t, and Peter insisted: ““Even though I should have to die with you.”

Even unto death. That was the vow that Peter made. Surely he meant it, every word. He could not even imagine doing anything else. And all this talk about denial was disturbing, to say the least. First of all, it would do no good. Being Jesus’ “right hand man” was something known to everyone, and Peter had done nothing to hide it. If he did try to deny being with Jesus, probably even the servants would recognize him and call him out, not to mention the leaders and such. He, Simon Peter, the Rock, would never, ever deny his Jesus.

And then he did. Against all odds, he found himself lurking in the night, stealthily approaching the light of the fire only to try and keep warm. And then it happened. His anonymity is blown. Clearly he was a Galilean, and must be one of the prisoner’s followers. What else could he do? He disagreed. He protested. He denied, loudly and clearly: “I do not even know the man!!!” And then the cock crowed. And he remembered. What had hap-pened to his conviction, his resolve, his integrity — even unto death? His discipleship is ripped to shreds and scattered about by his very own words.

They’re back in that upper room, hiding behind locked doors, in fear and trembling. Peter had gone out earlier with John, upon hearing the report from the women that the tomb was empty. Now more confused than ever, The Eleven are talking and debating and perhaps even arguing, as they try and make sense of all this.

The doors were locked. And suddenly, there He was. Jesus. Peter knew he had died, and the best guess was that someone had stolen the body. Yet here he was, walking and talking, and even eating a piece of fish they gave him.

And once more Peter looked into the eyes of Jesus — the one he had thrice denied. He looked at this Naz-areth carpenter, this Lamb of God, this Crucified One. And there he saw mercy and forgiveness. The Risen One still loved him. Nothing else mattered. He still loved him.