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St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish 4700 PINEDA STREET • NEW ORLEANS, LA 70126
CHURCH LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF LOUISA DR AND PINEDA – 5029 LOUISA DR.
PHONE 504 282 0296 • FAX 504 288 8585 •
WEB PAGE ADDRESS www.stgabe.net • EMAIL ADDRESS [email protected]
PASTORAL TEAM: MASS SCHEDULE:
Pastor: Rev. John Payne, J.C.L. Saturday Vigil: 4:00 p.m.
Pastoral Associate: Mrs. Michele Bergeron Sunday: 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
Parish Secretary: Mrs. Belinda Rodgers Daily: 8:30 a.m.-Mon. – Thurs. in Daily Chapel
OFFICE HOURS:
MAINTENANCE STAFF: Monday: 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Mr. Willie Daniel Tuesday - Thursday: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Mr. Christopher Travis Patin
NEW PARISHIONERS: Welcome! Please fill out a Registration Form in church or on the webpage. Also, all parishioners please
complete the form to notify us of your change of address, telephone number, or email. The form can be placed in the collection
basket, given to an usher, or sent to the office.
CONFESSION (Reconciliation): Saturday 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Sunday 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. or any time by appointment.
BAPTISM: Parents must call the parish office at least 3 months prior to the Baptism. Baptism is ordinarily celebrated on the second
Sunday of the month.
PARISH SCHOOL OF RELIGION (PSR): provides religious formation for youth Pre-K through high school. PSR meets Sunday mornings at 9 a.m., September thru May.
MARRIAGE: As soon as a decision to marry is reached, an appointment should be arranged by the couple with the priest to begin the process of marriage preparation. This should be at least 1 year in advance of the anticipated wedding date. Reservations should not be made with a reception hall before setting the date and time of the wedding with the church.
VISITATION OF THE SICK: Please inform the parish office when someone is sick, shut-in, or hospitalized, and unable to attend
mass.
FUNERAL: When a member of the family dies, please notify the priest as soon as possible, before making arrangements with
the funeral home.
ST. GABRIEL THE ARCHANGEL PARISH BULLETIN October 25, 2015
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Through his miracle, Jesus makes Bartimaeus a living sign of what he is doing in the name of his Father – healing
the world’s blindness, leading the human family to see in him the truth of God’s ways.
God’s grace has prepared the blind man. He is ready to take the risk. He left a place he knew well and went to
Jesus, a person whom he had only heard of. He left his cloak which may have been all he had. As he works the
miracle for him, Jesus commends his ‘faith’. ‘Faith’ has a very concrete meaning when it is referred to by Jesus.
The ‘faith’ Jesus frequently speaks of as he works a miracle is a blessed openness that recognizes in his coming,
his works, and even in his suffering and death that the Father’s generous plan for us is being realized. In contrast
to those around Jesus, Bartimaeus has this openness. He is the first person in the gospel accounts to address Jesus
publicly with the messianic title, ‘Son of David’. He throws off his cloak and hurries forward to ask for the miracle
that had been promised as a sign of the messiah of Israel’s hopes. His readiness is instantly rewarded, and he joins
the company of Jesus’ disciples.
For old Israel, God was known through the ‘great things’ God had done for Israel. God had a plan that was
unfolding through the history of the chosen people. The reading from the prophet Jeremiah gives us a glimpse of
the startling confidence of old Israel’s faith. Jeremiah assures them of a future filled with blessings – ‘Shout with
joy… Proclaim! Praise! Shout! The Lord has saved his people’. If they ‘left in tears’ for the trials of life in a foreign
land, their return will be like a new Exodus, the whole company – the strong and the weak – will be led back, as
God shows himself to be their loving ‘Father’.
Faith is both gift and a call. Given at baptism when we are young, it can grow during life if it is well tended. As
the blind man recognized Jesus and immediately followed him, so too are we called to recognize Christ present
amongst us today in the poor, the needy and most vulnerable in our midst and to ‘see’ the new spiritual, social,
and material realities God makes possible through our faithful acts of discipleship.
In the Peace and Love of Our Risen Lord!
Father John Michele Bergeron
ENDS NEXT SATURDAY
TURN CLOCKS BACK
SCRIPTURE READINGS Monday: Rom 8:12-17; Ps 68:2, 4, 6-7ab, 20-21;
Lk 13:10-17
Tuesday: Rom 8:18-25; Ps 126:1b-6; Lk 13:18-21
Wednesday: Eph 2:19-22; Ps 19:2-5; Lk 6:12-16
Thursday: Rom 8:31b-39; Ps 109:21-22, 26-27, 30-
31; Lk 13:31-35
Friday: Rom 9:1-5; Ps 147:12-15, 19-20; Lk 14:1-6
Saturday: Rom 11:1-2a, 11-12, 25-29; Ps 94:12-13a,
14-15, 17-18; Lk 14:1, 7-11
Sunday: Rv 7:2-4, 9-14; Ps 24:1-6; 1 Jn 3:1-3;
Mt 5:1-12a
Holy Land Gifts - Olive Wood Carvings
Available This Weekend Saida & George Rashmawi will have some beautiful
Olive Wood carvings which are all handmade by the
Christian people in Bethlehem, for sale after all the
Masses this weekend. The sale of these items helps to
maintain the existence of the Catholic people in the
Holy Land. Catholic Christians were once the
majority in that land but the percentage has shrunk to
less than 1.5%. These carvings make great
sacramental and Christmas gifts that have an added
special significance given where and why they were
made.
Weekly Report Mass Attendance:
October 17, Saturday Vigil 75
October 18, Sunday, 8:00 am 52
10:30 am 190
Stewardship: 317 Saturday Vigil $ 1,354.00
Sunday 8:00 am $ 812.00 Sunday 10:30 am $ 4,382.00
Total Collection $ 6,548.00
Online Giving $ 1279.54
Total Stewardship $ 7,827.54
Building Fund: $ 20.00
4:00 p.m., Saturday, October 24, 2015
Armand L. Charbonnet
8:00 a.m., Sunday, October 25, 2015
For all parishioners
10:30 a.m., Sunday, October 25, 2015 Benefactors of the Sister of Mount Carmel
Anthony R. Cullier, Sr. Miguel Gerard Jones
Peter Joseph Labat, Sr. Ruth Estavan
8:30 a.m., Monday, October 26, 2015 Miguel Gerard Jones
8:30 a.m., Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Miguel Gerard Jones
Leandious C. Washington, Jr.
After 8:30.a.m. Mass, Monday – Thursday,
Recitation of the Rosary
8:15 a.m., Tuesday Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Novena
Sanctuary Light For the week of
October 25, 2015
Ethel Lee
Please Pray for Sick and
Shut-In Parishioners
Please pray for Judith Adams, Gwen Armstrong,
Lawrence Coulon, Sr. Kathleen Driscoll, Harry & Joyce
Eves, Alice Gilyard, Lynne Guimont, Miriam Haydel,
Brandi Hebert, Sr. Pam Hodgson, Yvonne Keys, Shirley
McIntyre, Madeline Pipkin, Mary Provost, Marlene
Reeves, George Robertson, Eric Stevens, Turner
Thomas, Eddie Triggs, King Wells, Byron Wright,
Christopher Young and all those listed in the Book of the
Sick.
PRAYERS FOR THE DECEASED Please pray for Joseph Lee Sullivan, Jr., son of
Doris Sullivan, who died recently and pray for his
family and friends who will miss him that they may
be comforted in knowing that their loved one is at
peace in the Lord’s Kingdom.
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Purificators are small pieces of white linen,
marked with a cross in the center, used by the
priest in the celebration of Mass. It is folded in
three layers and used by the priest to purify his
fingers and the chalice and paten after Holy
Communion and by the Eucharistic Ministers to wipe
the lip of the cup as the precious Blood is served to
recipients. As you can guess, they are easily stained
and periodically have to be replaced. This week 30
purificators were donated in memory of
Leanidous C. Washington, Jr. What a wonderful
way to remember him! This gift also helps us to
avoid an outlay of funds to purchase these items.
That’s good news!
If you have Good News you would like to share with
the parish, please email it to stgabriel@archdiocese-
no.org and put Good News in the subject line.
Pictorial Directories Thank you for turning out for our parish directory; it
should be useful for people to get to know each
other. However, please direct any questions or concerns about the format or printing errors to Life Touch or its
agents directly since the parish office was not involved in
the editing process. (504) 469-0044.
The directories are available in the parish office or after
masses this weekend. One book is available for each family group whose picture was taken by Life Touch.
Once these books are distributed, any remaining books
will be available for purchase at $10 each.
WORLD MISSIONS Thanks for your generosity in last weekend’s collection
for the World Missions. Your World Mission Sunday gift
may be used to buy Bibles for catechists in Sierra Leone, or provide for a small parish in India. Most importantly,
wherever your offering is sent, it brings with it the Good
News of Jesus Christ and His message of peace, hope and
salvation.
St. Gabriel the Archangel Church 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time October 25, 2015
Books for Advent/Christmas
We will have the book, Give Us This Day for your
prayer and reflection during the seasons of Advent
and Christmas. The book has the mass texts,
especially the Scripture readings, for each day, as
well as daily reflections/meditations on the Scripture.
Give Us This Day also has morning and evening
prayer for each day and an article on the saint for the
day. The book will be sold for $2.00 each. You can
sign up this weekend to order the book and also to
make your payment. This will help us to ensure
timely receipt for the beginning of Advent. Don’t
forget about friends and relatives who may want a
copy!
David Rosas is a Notre Dame seminarian who will be
spending some time with us helping to ensure the history
of St. Gabriel is not lost by conducting interviews with
parishioners, especially the older members of our faith
community. This type of oral history is very important
because it gives the color, the background, the
understanding of what the Church was like through the
eyes of its members. If you would like to participate,
please contact the parish office at (504) 282-0296.
Leadership Formation Workshop
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Please RSVP to the Parish Office
Catholic Teach-In on Migration
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish is co-
sponsoring A Catholic Teach-In on
Migration on Tuesday evening, November 10, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM in the Parish
Hall.
Saturday, Oct 24 2:00 p.m. Children’s Ministry Mtg. Rm. 1
4:00 p.m. Vigil Mass Church
Sunday, Oct 25 8:00 a.m. Mass Church
9:00 a.m. PSR Classes Admin. Bldg.
RCIA
10:30 a.m. Mass Church
Wednesday, Oct 28 10:00 a.m. Bereavement Ministry Conf. Rm.
Thursday, Oct 29 11:00 a.m. Trumpeteers Mtg. Conf. Rm.
Saturday, Oct 31 4:00 p.m. Vigil Mass Church
Sunday, Nov 1
8:00 a.m. Mass Church
9:00 a.m. PSR Classes Admin. Bldg.
RCIA
10:30 a.m. Mass Church
This Sunday has been designated by the bishops of the United States as the national annual celebration of World
Youth Day. There will be nine kids and chaperones attending from St. Gabriel. During this weekend, let us remember the youth of our parish and our archdiocese and the gifts they bring to the Church. Let us pray for them and ask God’s blessing on them.
In Memory O f
Arthur M. Anderson, Sr. & Austin M. Anderson
Joseph & Joyce Baptiste
Ethel & Herbert Baudy, Sr., & Herbert Baudy, Jr.
Oscar & Irma Bluain
Ernest & Agnes Holmes Campbell
Mayo, Greene & Cunningham Families
Shelia Wells Davis
Ruth & Lester Sr., Lester Jr. & Tom Doussan
Emily Thomas Evans
Clifford J. & Dolores D. Francis
Nile J. & Dardanella D. Hamilton
Marguerite Holmes Johnson
Kenneth M. Jones
Melvin C. Jones
Miguel Gerard Jones
Brenda Bernadette Joseph
Elouise G. Ford & Julietta F. Knight
Samuel Lee, Jr.
Mary Berenice McCall
Augusta & Herlin Mogilles Sr.
Kimberly Nicole Perry & Alcee Joseph Perry
George Robertson Jr.
Howard & Nelda Rodgers
Clifford & Rachel Young & Beverly Y. Thompson
The Valeary Family
Leanidous C. Jr & Letria Washington
Malone & Williams Families
Earle, Donna, Glenn Sr., & Glenn Jr. Winnier
Alphonse Joseph Woods
If any parishioner would like to list the names of their deceased loved ones, please complete an In Memory Of
envelope, which can be found on the entrance tables or call the parish office to make arrangements.
Finding God in Your Everyday Life Experiences, a Morning of Reflection Archdiocesan Spirituality Assistant Director, Sr. Gloria Murillo, STJ, invites you to a “Morning of Reflection." The following topics will be part of the morning: A) The importance of reflecting on your everyday life experiences B) Praying with your everyday life experiences and recognizing the presence of God in those experiences C) Learning a method for reflection on the action of God in your life Thursday, October 29, 2015, 9:30-Noon Cost $25.00 (adjustments can be made). Laudato Si You are invited to a gathering on November 4th and 5th at the Archdiocesan Retreat Center (formerly The Cenacle) to pray and reflect on the encyclical Laudato Si’ written by Pope Francis. Using videos and a shortened print version of this encyclical, we will hear our Holy Father share his concerns about the degradation of the earth’s environment. He says that this is one of the most important issues facing humankind and calls on all of us to take serious steps to better “Care For Our Common Home.” Take advantage of this opportunity to pray and reflect with others as we discern how to respond to this call by Pope Francis. 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Nov 4 & 5, Cost $50.00 which includes lunch and refreshments. Presenter: Matt Rousso Both events are offered by the Archdiocesan Spirituality Center 2501 Maine Avenue, Metairie. Register on the web http://asc.archno.org, email [email protected] or call (504) 861-3254. Xavier University’s Institute of Black Catholic Studies presents "Black Lives Matter: Race, Violence & Poverty
Symposium" - November 6-7, 2015. Phenomenal Speakers and Workshops! Registration is now open. $40.00
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Universal: That human trafficking, the modern form of slavery, may be eradicated.
Evangelization: That with a missionary spirit the Christian communities of Asia may
announce the Gospel to those who are still awaiting it.
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