Baptisms: Call the of ice two months in advance to schedule an appointment. Marriages: Call at least six (6) months in advance for pre-marriage instruction. Reconciliation: Every Sat. 3:15pm - 4:10pm or by appointment during the week. Anointing of the Sick: Available anytime, please call of ice to make arrangements. Holy Orders: Interested in priesthood or deaconate, please contact Msgr. Daniel Torres 439-7400 Ext. 220

SACRAMENTS PASTORAL STAFF Emergency 478-3845

Sat. Anticipated Mass 4:30 pm Sunday 8:00 am & 10:30 am Tuesday - Friday 8:00 am Holy Days of Obligation 8:00 am & 6:00 pm

Mailing Address: 5383 Elliott Road Lake Charles, Louisiana 70605 (337) 478-3845 Fax: (337) 477-2828 Of ice Hours: Mon. - Fri. 9:00a -12N, 1:00 - 4:30pm Of iceisclosedfrom12N-1pmforlunchwww.smdpcatholic.com Incaseofemergencies:(337)478-3845(leaveamessage,someonewillbepaged) Main Church 5495 Elliott Rd. Granger/Vincent Multi-Purpose Complex 5326 Elliott Rd.

Reverend Monsignor Jace Eskind jace.eskind@lcdiocese.org Deacon Richard Donahoe - Director of RCIA rdonahoe@smdpcatholic.com Jackie Goodwill - Administrative Assistant jgoodwill@smdpcatholic.com Pat Foy - Of ice Manager pfoy@smdpcatholic.com Kellie Onxley - Bookkeeper konxley@smdpcatholic.com Joe Whitbeck - Dir. Communications/Facilities/IT jwhitbeck@smdpcatholic.com Leah Arnaud - Records/Receptionist larnaud@smdpcatholic.com Jenny Bellow- Religious Ed. Coordinator - Grades 1-4 jbellow@smdpcatholic.com Melanie Lubrano - Religious Ed. Coordinator - Grades 5-8 mlubrano@smdpcatholic.com Becky Clements - Religious Ed. Coordinator - Grades 9-12 bclements@smdpcatholic.com Terri Wainwright - Religious Ed. Secretary twainwright@smdpcatholic.com Pam Fontenot - Music Ministry/Liturgy Chris Miller - Choir Director

MASS SCHEDULE

P P - Wekeepinprayerourlovedoneswhoaredeployedtoserveinmilitaryforces,aswellastheirfamilies.

SMdP PARISH LEADERSHIP Parish Trustees

Pastoral Council

Finance Council

W.J. Lechtenberg Veronica Miller

Sally Daigle Mary Kaye Eason

Cindy Hanks Eva Hibbing

Cynthia Honore’ Roland Morton Michael Webre

Stephen Liles David Bruchhaus

Mike Eason David Ieyoub

Tina Higgins Johnette Szydlo Shively Verrette

Upcoming 2nd Collections

Jan. 24 - Church of Latin America Feb. 7 - Debt Reduction/Building Fund Feb. 14 - Bishop Services Appeal Feb. 21 - Diocesan Religious Education Feb. 28 - Black & Indian Missions

Jay & Verna White; John Thomas Savoie; Sylvia Elender (B); Irvin Broussard Kenneth O'Blanc

MASS PRAYER INTENTIONS Jan.16-Jan.24,2021

Sat., Jan 16 4:30 am Sun., Jan 17 8 am 10:30 am Tue., Jan 19 8 am

Wed., Jan 20 8 am

Thu., Jan 21 4p

Fri., Jan 22 8 am Sat., Jan 23 4:30 pm Sun., Jan 24 8 am 10:30 am

Georgiann Compton Parishioners of St. Martin de Porres

Elizabeth "Betty" Wilson

Ifyouhavea familymemberdeployedor serving in themilitary,pleasesubmit their names to our “Pray forPeace”military prayer list. Thesenameswillbe lefton the list for the coming yearand removedonlyonyourrequest.Calltheparishof iceat478-3845andaskforLeah.Ty Fuselier Jarron Glass Jeffery Paul Langley Riley Morris Ronald L. Thompson, II

Jennifer Bellon Leo, Bertie & Scott Schwertner Candace Harrington

Lee Bruney; LeRoy "Lee" LeBlanc (B), Ellis, Dora, Danny & Ricky LeBlanc

Ruth Ella Fontenot; Audrey "Sis" Jacobson

Parishioners of St. Martin de Porres Darrell Martel

As we begin our journey through Ordinary Time, the gospel begins with looking and gazing and responding to the call to discipleship. John the Baptist stands with two of his disciples, ready to decrease in personal signi icance so that Jesus may increase. After his testimony there will be no hanging onto or hankering for his former disciples. John watches Jesus pass by; the eyes of John’s heart penetrate to the reality of this man, and he points him out to his disciples as the Lamb of God. The Jewish religious experience of the lamb was as the sacri icial offering that overcame the alienation of sin and created unity between the people and God. In whatever way the Baptist’s disciples understood his words, they were spoken with an urgency that made them leave John and follow Jesus. Jesus himself turns and sees them. The word the evangelist uses for saw (theásthai) has the sense of gazing contemplatively and engagingly at these two followers. Jesus then asks them his irst question in the fourth gospel: What are you looking for? It is a question that will persist throughout this gospel, from this irst chapter to the garden of the resurrection morning, but by then the What has become Whom in the intimate encounter of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The two disciples ask Jesus, the Teacher (Rabbi), where he is staying, and he responds by inviting them to Come,and you will see. Their question is about a place; their experience is about abiding for the rest of the day in a relationship with a person, about the beginning of a new communion between the people and this Lamb of God. The where is not as important as the withwhom. The pattern of discipleship is established: through witness (of the Baptist), others follow and experience Jesus’s truth for themselves. They in turn bring others to Jesus. One of the irst two who followed Jesus remains anonymous, perhaps as a Johannine invitation to future readers to see a challenge to themselves in the following, seeking pattern of discipleship. The other is later named as Andrew, who announces to his brother, Simon Peter, that he has found the Messiah. Like the irst disciples, we all see something different in this same Jesus, and Jesus recognizes the truth in us, just as in this irst chapter of the fourth gospel, Jesus’s insight into Simon’s role in the community of the disciples suggests his renaming as Cephas (in Aramaic, kepha; in Greek, petra; in English, rock). This gospel proclaims that all discipleship is an active and involving relationship with Jesus: a following, seeking, staying, inding, and dialoguing with him. We hear how each decision to follow Jesus is a response to a statement about Jesus’s identity as Lamb of God, Rabbi, Messiah, by people whose ears and hearts are open to the Word of God, who hear his invitation through the words of friend or stranger, through events of joy or sorrow, or who discern a moment of religious signi icance in the everyday. As the nineteenth-century English poet Matthew Arnold wrote in his haunting poem “The Buried Life”: Butoften,intheworld’smostcrowdedstreets,Butofteninthedinofstrife,ThererisesanunspeakabledesireAftertheknowledgeofourburiedlife;Athirsttospendour ireandrestlessforceIntrackingoutourtrue,originalcourse,AlongingtoenquireIntothemysteryofthisheartwhichbeatsSowild,sodeepinus—toknowWhenceourlivescomeandwhencetheygo.

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PRAY FOR THE SICK Carol Bertrand Jace Boyd Floyd Braud III Erline Bryant Bob Gary Elnora Granger Verla Guidry Ron Harrington Hilda Leblanc

Carol Manuel Lee Melacon Alfred Moore Edith Payne Dorothy Rogers Sheila Thibodeaux Paul Thomassee Jimmy Vickers

MASS READINGS Jan. 18 - Jan. 24

Mon., Jan 18 - Heb 5:1-10; Ps 110:1-4; Mk 2:18-22 Tue., Jan 19 - Heb 6:10-20; Ps 111:1-2, 4-5, 9, 10c; Mk 2:23-28 Wed., Jan 20 - Heb 7:1-3, 15-17; Ps 110:1-4; Mk 3:1-6 Thu., Jan 21 - Heb 7:25 — 8:6; Ps 40:7-10, 17; Mk 3:7-12 Fri., Jan 22 - Heb 8:6-13; Ps 85:8, 10-14; Mk 3:13-19 Sat., Jan 23 - Heb 9:2-3, 11-14; Ps 47:2-3, 6-9; Mk 3:20-21 Sun., Jan 24 - Jon 3:1-5, 10; Ps 25:4-9; 1 Cor 7:29-31; Mk 1:14-20

ATTENDING MASS DURING THE PANDEMIC RESTRICTIONS

REMINDERS/SUGGESTIONS

• It’s highly recommended you wear a mask if you attend Mass (removeonlyforcommunion) • If you are not feeling well, please DO NOT attend Mass • DO NOT use the drinking fountains • DO NOT use the baptismal font (ifwaterisinfontitisforbaptismuseonly)

• If you use the bathrooms, wash your hands thoroughly and use the provided hand sanitizer as well • If attending Mass sit only in the labeled seating areas • If your kids are small and active during Mass, please consider watching Mass in the church parking lot or watching the Facebook video at home. • Please avoid touching the pews or other church surfaces unnecessarily (staffmembersmustthoroughlydisinfectaftereachMass.)

• Adoration Chapel is open. Please follow cleaning protocol found inside chapel

The Bishop’s dispensation from the obligation toattend Mass has been lifted for the faithful of theDioceseofLakeCharles.

Live Streaming & Recorded Mass Schedule

Facebook Live Tuesday - Friday 8am Saturday 4:30pm Sunday 8am & 10:30am Join us live on Facebook for the daily Mass Tuesday - Friday at 8am, Saturday afternoon at 4:30pm anticipated Mass and 8am & 10:30am. (Like our page at St. Mar-tin de Porres Catholic Church). Stay connected on FB and the church website at: www.smdpcatholic.com

JOY The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything —St. Julian

WORRIES The greatest of worries can’t pay the smallest of debts. —Anonymous

SPEAK, LORD, WE ARE LISTENING In today’s irst reading God keeps calling out in the night to a sleeping boy. Neither the boy, Samuel, nor his teacher, Eli, understands who is calling. But God’s persistence convinces them. Samuel is then ready—not ready yet to do anything, but ready to listen. “Speak, for your servant is listening” (1 Samuel 3:10). In the Gospel Jesus is out teaching. Various people notice him and begin to gather around. They soon become disciples and, like the young Samuel, are ready—not ready yet to do anything, but ready to listen. “Speak,” they say, “we are listening.” God’s voice is always with us, awake or asleep. It swirls around us like fog on a waterfront, enveloping us, gently urging us to wake up, to listen. Awareness of the voice comes irst; then willingness to listen; then, in time, the decision to act, to live according to God’s word. Let’s ask today for the ability to keep our ears open so we don’t miss God’s voice. ©J.S.PaluchCo.

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Medjugorje Messages from Mary

Messages Interpreted and updated regularly at: https://www.medjugorje.com/ & https://marytv.tv/ Have you considered Altar Flowers in memory of a loved one or to celebrate a special occasion, like a wedding, convalidation or special anniversary? The lowers will sit in the sanctuary and add beauty to the liturgy and your special occasion will be noted in the bulletin. A donation of $75 - $100 or more will cover the cost of the lowers.

Altar Flowers Donations

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General Offertory - $110,472 Christmas Offerings - $15,937 Holy Days - $1,981 Second Collections: Debt/Building Fund - $91,754 Christmas Charities - $2,320 Retirement Fund - $5,114 Bishop Service’s Appeal - $3,003ThankYouForYourGenerosity!

Monsignor Eskind and the parish of ice staff would like your help knowing when fellow parishioners are sick, in the hospital, need prayer, or having surgery etc. Please have an immediate family member call the church of ice at 478-3845 and let us know. The staff and/or Msgr. Eskind would like to follow-up and check on our in irmed brothers and sisters.

PLEASELETUSKNOW

The Divine Mercy Chaplet is prayed after each Wednesday morning Mass. To participate just stay after attending Mass. Prayer materials are available.

Divine Mercy Chaplet After Wednesday Mass

Bishop Services Appeal Quota for SMdP Parish $60,561 St. Martin de Porres Parish has been given a quota ($60,561) by the Diocese, to collect funds to help support the important functions of many Diocesan of ice of ministry such as, Catholic Charities, The St. Charles Retreat Center, Rachel’s Vineyard, and seminarians education and many more. Please continue to give as generously as possible to ful ill this year’s campaign appeal. On-line givers, remember to select second collections options, as desired.

SMdP Parish Of ices Closed in Observance of Martin Luther King Day

The parish of ices will be closed

Mon., January 18, and re-open

Tue., January 19

Emergenciescall478-3845andleaveamessage

The St. Martin de Porres Knights of Columbus, annually, honor a high school senior boy and girl who exhibit qualities as promising future Catholic leaders. The award is an essay contest. Participants write about their contributions to their communities, church parishes, and to their schools. By participating in the Catholic Youth Leadership Award Scholarship program, these leaders are offered an opportunity to be recognized as one of the best Catholic students in their respective school! Winners receive cash awards. Deadlines, forms and other details are on the church website at www.smdpcatholic.com.

KC Catholic Youth Leadership Award

Winners of the 2020 “Keep Christ in Christmas”

Poster Contest sponsored by the SMdP Knights of Columbus

Ages 8-10 Braden Mere Ages 5-7 Emmy Elizabeth Gaudet NoEntrieswerereceivedforthe11-14agegroup

Eachwillreceivea$75.00awardandbothadvancetotheDioceseCompetition.

In loving Memory... Gene W. Savant, Sr.

November 5, 2020

Charles Benoit November 29, 2020

Georgiann Compton

December 5, 2020

Mary Ann Dever December 12, 2020

Frank Corbello December 19, 2020

Jennifer Bellon December 19, 2020

Shirley Marie

Fontenot December 21, 2020

Stephen Douglas Diamond

December 29, 2020

Curtis James Primeaux

January 1, 2021

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord; and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.

Parish Of ice Open Of ice Hours

9 am - 12 pm 1pm - 4:30p

Monday - FridayThe parish of ice is open behind the church in the meeting and music rooms. The repairs to the affected of ices will take months to complete. The parish of ice phone number is back up and running, call 478-3845. After hour and emergency calls continue to be forwarded to appropriate personnel.

Anthony Ryan Atherton &

Lindsey Ann Fournet November7,2020

Congratulations

David Joseph Durand & Frances Barry Thompson

November20,2020

Raul Samano & Megan Lyn LeBouef November21,2020

James Edward Riley III & Andrea Caitlin Ziervogel

December31,2020

Hayden Joshua Brown December 19, 2020

Parents-Patrick&AlanaBrown

Durrell Leon Hudson, IV December 13, 2020

Parents-Durrell & Xiujuan Hudson Sebastian Tomeu Weggeman

December 27, 2020 Parents-Hayes & Veronica Weggeman

Maeve Ryan Chapman January 2, 2021

Parents-Carlin & Jenna Chapman

KC 2020 Raf le Winners

The council donated all the proceeds, $8,500, to the Church including an additional $250.00 donation for a total of $8,750.00 to be used to help with the hurricane recovery.

$5,000 - Dr. Craig Morton $1,000 - Judy Mott

$500 - Ben Williams