Welcome to St. Louis Cathedral....

On behalf of our Archbishop, Most Rev. Gregory M. Aymond, our parishioners, deacons, and priests, I welcome you to St. Louis Cathedral and hope that your visit will be a memorable one. January 7, 2018, Archbishop Aymond celebrated Mass, opening the Tricentennial Celebration of the City of New Orleans and recognizing the presence of the Catholic Church here in this location since the city’s founding. You join visitors from across the United States and around the world who have worshipped with us for 300 years. I invite you to consider the Cathedral your parish away from home. It is my prayer that your time here will be a spiritually uplifting experience. I appreciate your generosity in the support of our Cathedral. It is with your help that we are able to maintain its beautiful state, that we may continue to worship God within these walls as has been done since 1718. May God enrich you with many graces and blessings.

Third Sunday of Lent March 4, 2018

I, the LORD, am your God . . . You shall not have other gods besides Me.

— Exodus 20:2a, 3

TODAY’S READINGS 

First Reading — God gives the law through Moses (Exodus 20:1-17 [1-3, 7-8, 12-17]) or Exodus 17:3-7.

Psalm — Lord, you have the words of everlasting life (Psalm 19) or Psalm 95.

Second Reading — We proclaim Christ crucified (1 Corinthians 1:22-25) or Romans 5:1-2, 5-8.

Gospel — Many began to believe in Jesus’ name when they saw the signs he was doing (John 2:13-25)

The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: Third Sunday of Lent; First Scrutiny Wednesday: Ss. Perpetua and Felicity Thursday: St. John of God Friday: St. Frances of Rome; Abstinence

READINGS FOR THE WEEK 

 

Monday: 2 Kgs 5:1-15b; Ps 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4; Lk 4:24-30

Tuesday: Dn 3:25, 34-43; Ps 25:4-5ab, 6-7bc, 8-9; Mt 18:21-35

Wednesday: Dt 4:1, 5-9; Ps 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20; Mt 5:17-19

Thursday: Jer 7:23-28; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; Lk 11:14-23

Friday: Hos 14:2-10; Ps 81:6c-11ab, 14, 17; Mk 12:28-34

Saturday: Hos 6:1-6; Ps 51:3-4, 18-21ab; Lk 18:9-14

Sunday: 2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23; Ps 137:1-6; Eph 2:4-10; Jn 3:14-21

SLC VOLUME 61 NUMBER 13

PRAYER INTENTIONS

Wanda Mary Aizpurua, Steven Bailey, Charlee P. Bath, Rodney Batistella, Kevin Baye, Sylvia Beyer, Alexander Blais, Samuel Blimling, Jr. Walter Bonam, Grayson Bond, Jon Bourdais, Paul Bordelon, Anna Brocato, John Bruno, Trey Michael Bruno, Barbara Butler, Kayla Carrierre, Fr. Joseph Cazanavette, Diane Centanni, Drew Chambers, Joe & Susie Chenevert, Valerie Claverie, Rodney Coco, Virgie Cooper, Mary Dahir, Don Daley, Jr. Patricia Daniels, Adrianne DeCarolis, Charles and Ruth Delacerda, Josephine Eva Zeringue Deimel, Elizabeth Douglas, Claire Duplantier, Ben Edmunson, Ivan Edwards, Orly R. Elizondo, Brady Evans, Angelo Fiorella, Ed Foulks, Brad Freichter, Robert Friedman; Dylan Frught, Judy Gilmore, Timmy Giroir, Olivia Gonzales, Daniel Grant, Julie Green, Riley Griffin, Ann Griffiths, Catherine Henry, Louis Hilaire, Harriet Hill, Beth Hingle, Jessica Hong, Carolyn Hornyak, Leroy and Joyce Houston, Charlene Hughes, Sput Hughes, Brandon Jackson, Emily Judice, Tylor Lenart, Fr. Michael Levy, OMI, Robert Maddox IV, Kenneth Maes, Maureen Mallory, George Markey, Doug Marsters, Dorothy Martin, Joshua McAlister, Karla Millet, Gloria Mitchell, Baby Leo Mitchell, Steven Murphey, Lynda Mutchler, Heather Newell, Mike Oddo, C.J. Otillio, Sylvia Otillio; Christina Margaret Mary Luna Perez, John Perkins, Loriann and Joseph Pliska, Donna Poche, Johnny Poche, Wanda Raines, Irlee Redmann, Joel Rivera, Ronald Rizzo, Deborah Roberts, Michael Rudiger, Nora Saldana, Jim Sansone, Anna Mae Saussaye, Bernadina Sceovern, Raymond Schexnayder, Maria Soares, Sister Mary Lou Specha, Jean Stephens, Rebecca Temple & Family, Don Theriot, Noah Townsend, Sal Trabanino, Jim Viola, Mickey James & Pablo Welsh, Lee Whitaker, Marie Williams, Fritz Windhorst, Chris Zimmer

If you are ill or know of someone who is ill and should be included in our prayers, please contact the parish office.

CHURCH SUPPORT

“YOUR STEWARDSHIP IS THE SOURCE OF OUR GROWTH”

February 25, 2018 First Collection $8,135.00 Collection for CCEE $1,981.00

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND GENEROSITY.

The statement printed above expresses the gratitude felt in response to the generosity of the people of the St. Louis Cathedral parish. For it is your weekly contributions that make much of what is done here at the Cathedral possible. Thanks are extended to those who use Church Support envelopes regularly. If you are not currently using envelopes, please consider doing so that our parish may continue to prosper. If you would like to receive monthly envelopes, kindly visit the Parish Office at 615 Pere Antoine Alley or contact us by phone at 525-9585 ext. 5341.

SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2018

9:00 AM Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Werling+ John Freshno+ Martin Siegel+ Ulys & Helen Parent + Kathleen Blanco Elsie & Nick Mosca+ Anna Kieu Thi Nhu+ Richard Caron+ Anthony Gilbert+ 11:00 AM For the People of the Archdiocese

MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2018

12:05 PM Myra Landry+

TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2018

12:05 PM Paul Huu Dang+

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2018

12:05 PM Shirley Mae Bouligny+

THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2018

12:05 PM Mathilde Landry+

FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2018

12:05 PM Ernest J. Bouligny+

SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2018

5:00 PM For the Poor Souls in Purgatory Friends and Benefactors of SLC Beverly B. Powell Joseph Kahn Dang+ Maria Thoa Pham+ John Michael Murphy, Sr.+ Kathleen Blanco Lillian Ann Tennille+ Mariana Kusuma+ Fr. Luke Nguyen Fr. John Ryan John Petitto Angel Luis Echeverria+

MASS INTENTIONS

Cathedral Sanctuary Lamp

Our Sanctuary Lamp burns this week in honor of

Kathleen Blanco

Third Sunday of Lent

KEEP HOLY THE SABBATH

There’s no better way to deepen our Lenten practice than to review the Ten Commandments. The first three, having to do with our right relationship to God, get the most ink. The one we busy people probably have the most problem with is keeping holy the Sabbath.

If we take this commandment literally, babies will go undiapered and dishes will stay on the table, or perhaps meals will not be served. The sick will go unattended and nothing that has anything to do with physical labor will be done. Is mental labor really work? How about changing that dirty diaper (poor baby!)?

We need to depend on God to discern how to observe real Sabbath time in our lives. The point of this commandment is that God has given us a great gift: one whole day per week when we are free to rest, worship God, sing, feast, love, and rejoice. As Psalm 19 proclaims: “The law of the LORD is perfect, refreshing the soul” (19:8). Our Sabbath rest is a great gift, to be received from God with joy, not with nitpicking.

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Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, St. Jude Community Center, St. Louis Cathedral, Archdiocese of New Orleans,

and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation present a

Musical Prelude to the Celebration of Easter

the Fifth Annual Series of Free, Public Concerts for Lent

at Historic St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 1100 Chartres St.

Tuesdays, 6:30 P. M. February 20 - March 27, 2018

Soul of the City: 300 Y ears of Musical Diversity

For Complete Details: 504-586-1609 or faulkhouse@aol.com

Voluntary Collections at Concerts will Benefit Programs for the Poor Provided by:

St. Jude Community Center

Roots of Music March 6, 2018

A New Orleans favorite composed of young brass band musicians who are part of an after school program that assists students with their studies and offers musical lessons led by well-known musicians.  In addition there will be a presentation by Jazz Museum curator, David Kunian, on the origins of brass in New Orleans Music.

Easter Flower Memorials

Remember your loved ones in a special way this Easter by donating funds in their name toward the purchase of the flowers that will adorn the Cathedral for the celebration of Easter. Donations may be placed in the weekend collection baskets. Please include the names of those to be remembered as well as donors. A list of donors and memorials will be published in the bulletin of April 1. Your generosity, as always, is greatly appreciated.

Organ Concert featuring

DAVIDE MARIANO

Young Artist in Residence St. Louis Cathedral

Sunday, March 11, 2018

6:00pm

Admission free and open to the public

Made possible through the Elise

Cambon Memorial Trust

ARCHDIOCESAN NEWS

POPE FRANCIS’ PRAYER INTENTION FOR MARCH   

Formation in Spiritual Discernment

That the Church may appreciate the urgency of formation in spiritual discernment, both on the personal and communitarian levels.  

2018 ARCHDIOCESAN GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

The 2018 Archdiocesan Golden Wedding Anniversary Celebration will take place on Sunday, June 10, 2018 at 3:00pm in St. Philip Neri Church in Metairie. St. Louis Cathedral parishioners celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary in 2018 who are interested in participating should contact the parish office to register. Registrations must be completed by Wednesday, March 7, 2018. Please note that this year’s celebration will not be a Mass, but a Prayer Service. Attendance of Mass for Sunday obligation will have to be met within one’s parish.

CATHEDRAL EASTER EGG HUNT

As is now the tradition, there will be an Easter egg hunt after the 11:00 a.m. Mass on Easter Sunday. If you would like to be involved in the planning of this special event, please call the parish office at 525-9585 ext. 5341 for information. If you are not able to be a part of the planning committee, but would like to help out, you are invited to donate plastic eggs and/or individually wrapped candies that may be used to stuff the eggs. Monetary donations toward the purchase of these items are welcome as well. Donations may be brought to the Parish Office Monday–Friday between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monetary gifts may be placed in envelopes, labeled “Egg Hunt”, and put in the weekly collection baskets. Your generosity as always is greatly appreciated.

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ARCHDIOCESAN NEWS

Most Reverend Gregory M. Aymond Archbishop of New Orleans

PARISH STAFF Very Rev. Philip G. Landry, Rector Rev. Terence Hayden, In residence Deacon Richard M. Brady Deacon Ronald J. Guidry Deacon A. David Warriner, Jr. Maureen Scheuermann, Director of Operations Chase Rodrigue, Business & Comm. Coordinator Larry Barabino, Facilities Coordinator  

The Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis King of France 615 Pere Antoine Alley New Orleans, Louisiana 70116

Phone 504-525-9585 • Fax 504-525-9583 www.stlouiscathedral.org

MASS SCHEDULE AT ST. LOUIS CATHEDRAL MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY - 12:05 P.M.

Confessions will be heard 11:30 A.M. - 11:50 A.M. SATURDAY -5:00 P.M. VIGIL

Confessions will be heard from 4:15 P.M.-4:45 P.M. SUNDAY – 9:00 A.M. AND 11:00 A.M.

MUSIC MINISTRY Dreux Montegut, Music Director Lynda Grillot, Music Coordinator Jesse Reeks, Organist St. Louis Cathedral Choir

WEDDING DIRECTORS Mr. Kevin Charpentier Mrs. Sandra Junius Phone: 525-9585 ext. 5351

GIFT SHOPS Mrs. Jolie Sekinger, Manager Cathedral shop located inside the Cathedral Phone: 504-525-9585 ext. 5349 Old Ursuline Convent shop located at 1100 Chartres Street Phone: 504-529-3040 ext. 5363

The Catholic Cultural Heritage Center St. Louis Cathedral, The Old Ursuline Convent, St. Mary’s Church

1100 Chartres • Oldest Building in the Mississippi River Valley

INFORMATION PAGE

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