June 18, 2017 - Solemnity of 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

Holydays of Obligation: 7:30 am only Sacrament of Reconciliation

Saturday: 3:00 – 3:30 pm and Weekdays: 7:00-7:25 am (and by appointment)

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

Solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ June 18, 2017

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK

Saturday, June 17--Vigil of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ 4:00 PM: Dr. Leonard & Betty Rolfes; Jules, Isola & Bart LeJeune; Wallace, Romaine, & Ron Venable; Amy & Chad Cother (living); Jim Parker; Robert Prejean; Willie Noel; Joseph Benjamin; Dovic Babineaux; Maurice Menard; Frank T. Ben Broussard Sunday, June 18--Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ 8:30 AM: Junius Ledet; Arthur Phillips; Robert Phillips; Thomas James; Joseph Benja-min; Helen Vallot; Gerald Domingue; Alma & Richard Sonnier; Nola & Oren Domingue; Dr. Robert Chastant & Evelyn; Eddie Upton; John Daigle; Guillermo & Carmen Lozada; Peter Lozada (living) 10:00 AM: Parishioners of St. Patrick’s Monday, June 19--Weekday (Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time) 7:30 AM: John Thompson

Tuesday, June 20--Weekday 7:30 AM: Marilyn Arton Wednesday, June 21--St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Reli-gious 7:30 AM: Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne; Col. Clark Comeaux & Catherine (living); Col. Kimberly Fedele (living) Thursday, June 22--St. Paulinus of Nola, Bishop; Saints John Fisher, Bishop, and Thomas More, Martyrs 7:30 AM: John Thompson Friday, --June 23--The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus 7:30 AM: Dr. Charles Stewart Altar Flowers In Loving Memory of: Monty & Pierre Montagnet Bread is the staff of life. —English saying

Non-Liturgical Devotions Daily Rosary: Monday - Thursday 6:55 a.m. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena: Tues-day 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 23: No cleaning this week. We are grateful to all the faithful vol-unteers who participate in this Ministry! Fatherhood Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gen-tle voices call him father! —Lydia M. Child

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

Come, Lord Jesus! This is a weekly study/support group that focuses on the upcoming Sunday readings in a small group setting. Through study, prayer and faith-sharing in a small group, members are able to deepen their faith, as well as their ap-preciation for the Sunday Eucharist, as a help to living out the Gospel day by day. We have an active group that meets on Tuesdays, at 6 pm, in the classroom directly behind the Church (across from the restrooms). Anyone interested in deepening their faith and appreciation for the Eucharist is welcome to try it out. No need to register, just come and see! Quo Vadis Days Quo Vadis Days (where are you going?) is a time of recrea-tion, fellowship, prayer and discussion to help you explore our Lord’s call in your life. There will be priest, seminari-ans and other young men like yourself gathered together for these days. This vocation discernment camp for young men ages 15-25 is sponsored by the DOL Office of Vocations and will be held at Our Lady of Sorrows Retreat House, 103 Railroad Ave, St. Martinville, June 27-29, 2017. There is no cost, and registration forms can be downloaded from www.lafayettevocations.org or 337-261-5690.

Camp Brave Hearts Hospice of Acadiana Inc. is holding its Annual Camp Brave Hearts for children who are faced with the challenges of grief on June 23, 2017. Whether or not we are aware of it, grief calls forth a BRAVE HEART in all of us. Being brave means being honest about difficult feelings and being will-ing to share those feelings with other children who are also grieving. The camp will provide a safe place for Brave Hearts to freely share such difficult feelings though fun ac-tivities. Spaces are limited. Call Hospice of Acadiana for more information at 337-232-1234. Retreat Information The Jesuit Spirituality Center in Grand Coteau, LA is offer-ing the following retreats: Day of Renewal for Women: Abide in Me Andrea Vidrine– Saturday, July 15, 9:00 am –4:00 pm. Fee: $60.00 (includes lunch). Praying with St. Peter: A Day of Reflection and Prayer Fr. Mark E. Thibodeaux, S.J., Saturday, September 16, 9:00am—4:00 pm. Fee: $60.00 (includes lunch). Silent, Individually-Directed Retreats of 3, 5, or 8 days Beginning on the following dates: Wed. July 5 (for 3, 5, or 8 days); Mon. July 17 or Thur., July 20; Tue., Aug 1 of Fri., Aug. 4; Mon., Aug. 21 or Thur., Aug. 24; Tue., Sep. 5 or Fri., Sep 8. For more information or for an application form to register, please visit the website: jesuitspiritualitycenter.org or call 337-662-5251 M-F 8 am— 12 noon and 1—5:00 pm.

Not by bread alone does one live, but by every word that comes forth

from the mouth of the Lord. — Deuteronomy 8:3b

Fete-Dieu du Teche Fȇte-Dieu du Teche, Eucharistic Boat Procession down Bayou Teche, will take place on the Feast of the As-sumption, Tuesday, August 15. All are invited to a Mass in French at 8 am at St. Leo the Great in Leon-ville to begin the day. Bishop Douglas Deshotel will preside and give the homily. At the end of Mass, there will be a procession from Church with the Blessed Sacrament to the boat landing. At 9:30 am 50 boats will disembark in procession and make their way down Bayou Teche, retracing part of the actual journey of our Acadian ancestors, toward St. Martinville, arriving around 5 pm. Confessions will be heard at each of the stops along the way. Registrations are now being ac-cepted for boats that would like to participate. For more information about the day or to register a boat visit our website at www.fetedieuduteche.org, send us an email at fetedieuduteche@gmail.com, or call (337) 394-6550. Gently Worn School Uniforms Needed Gently Worn Public School Uniforms only, are once again being collected for needy children in the Lafa-yette Parish Schools. Please bring your children’s out-grown uniforms to church as soon as possible. Sizes 4-20 and all adult sizes are needed. Shirts: red, white and navy blue, black and green. Pants/Shorts: navy blue, black and khaki-traditional style. The need is great! Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend Marriage Life can be hectic and overwhelming. There never seems to be enough time. We are always caught up taking care of everyone and everything except each other. You think, where can we find the time to talk and if we do, how can we really, fully understand and reach one another? There is an answer. Learn a new way to re-discover one another by using a unique com-munication technique that will bring new life to your relationship. Sign up today for a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend. It will be one of the most im-portant and significant decisions you make. LAMS-wwme.org or call Jack & Angel LaBate at 470-297-8560 or jackandangel@bellsouth.net The next week-ends are July 14-16 and October 20-22, 2017 at Bish-op Robert Tracy Center in Baton Rouge. STEWARDSHIP OF THE PAST WEEK Our Response to God’s Generosity to Us Offertory……………………… $ 4,780.24 Thank You!

The second collection this weekend is for Peter’s Pence (for Pope Francis’ charitable outreach to the suffering and marginalized around the world).

Date

Saturday, June 24 4:00 p.m.

Sunday, June 25 8:30 a.m.

Sunday, June 25 10:00 a.m.

Lectors Angie Redrick Linda Garber Phyllis Roy

Eucharistic Ministers

Harold Guilbeau Rosalind Allen Peggy Spruill

Susan Cain Ted Hampton Gerrie McGovern

Jerry Boudreaux Dee Boudreaux Robin Roy

Altar Servers Janell Venable Mary Kramer Andre Arceneaux

Ushers Oren Spruill George Guidry

Rachelle Trahan Keith Toups

Jenny Feehan Lionel Jeanmard

Liturgical Roles for June

From the Pastor’s Desk

This is a quote from Fr. Ron Rolheiser’s book, “Our One Great Act of Fidelity: Waiting for Christ in the Eu-charist”:

“In one of his sermons on the Eucharist, Ronald Knox made this observation: Throughout two thousand years of history, Christians, both whole churches and individual believers, have consistently been able to ignore many of Jesus’ key commandments and invitations. We have either been too weak to follow his counsels or we have ration-alized them away in some way.

“And so to a large extent, we have exempted ourselves from the demands to love our enemies; to turn the oth-er cheek when attacked; to forgive seventy times seven; to leave our gift at the altar and first go and seek reconcilia-tion with our brother before we worship; to place justice on the same level as worship; to see mercy as more im-portant than dogma; to not commit adultery, not steal, not call someone a fool, not tell lies, not give in to jealousy. We have, in virtually every one of these areas, individually and collectively, a history of infidelity and rationalization.

“But we have, for the most part, been faithful and consistent throughout all the years to one of Jesus’ com-mands, to celebrate the Eucharist, to meet together in every circumstance and share his word and break bread and drink wine in his memory. . . .

“God is truly beyond us, beyond language, beyond imagination, and even beyond feeling. WE can know God, but can never understand God. And so we must be more humble, both in our theology and in our ecclesiology. Mostly we don’t know what we are doing. The Eucharist, because it is the one ritual given us by Jesus himself, is one of our places of confidence.”

I find in these words a powerful call to a humility that is absolutely essential to celebrating Eucharist. Gathered for Eucharist, we long for a change that we of ourselves cannot make happen: bread and wine into Body and Blood. We are undeniably dependent upon the power of the Holy Spirit, for whose intervention we pray, to change these simple gifts. In the proclamation of the Word and in the sharing of the Body and Blood, we encounter the Real Presence of Jesus.

This humility teaches us that it is not only the bread and wine that need to be changed. If we are to have any hope of following Jesus’ commands, we too must be transformed, or ‘transubstantiated’. Because we balk at such change, we must come to Eucharist again and again and again. To that task, we can be faithful.

Readings for the Week

Monday 2 Cor 6:1-10; Ps 98:1, 2b, 3-4; Mt 5:38-42

Tuesday 2 Cor 8:1-9; Ps 146:2, 5-9a; Mt 5:43-48

Wednesday 2 Cor 9:6-11; Ps 112:1bc-4, 9; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18

Thursday 2 Cor 11:1-11; Ps 111:1b-4, 7-8; Mt 6:7-15

Friday Dt 7:6-11; Ps 103:1-4, 6-8, 10; 1 Jn 4:7-16; Mt 11:25-30

Saturday Is 49:1-6; Ps 139:1-3, 13-15; Acts 13:22-26; Lk 1:57-66, 80

Sunday Jer 20:10-13; Ps 69:8-10, 14, 17, 33-35; Rom 5:12-15; Mt 10:26-33