ST. BENILDE. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 1901 Division Street Metairie, Louisiana 70001

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1 September 2, 2018 Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time ORDINARY FAMILIES EXTRAORDINARY FAITH ST. BENILDE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 1901 Division Street Metairie, Louisiana Church Office: (504) Church Fax: (504) Church CLERGY Rev. Robert T. Cooper, Pastor Rev. H.L. Brignac, Sacramental Asst. Deacon Biaggio DiGiovanni Deacon Stephen Gordon Deacon Clifford Wright BAPTISMS First and Third Sundays of the month at 12 Noon. Please call the Parish Office for more information. MATRIMONY Please contact a priest/deacon 8 months prior to your wedding. FUNERALS Arrangements may be made at the Parish Office. MASS TIMES Saturday Vigil 4 p.m. Sunday 9:00, 11:00 a.m. & 6 p.m. Monday Friday 7:00 a.m. Monday and Thursday 5:30 p.m. First Saturday 8:45 a.m. HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION See Inside the Bulletin for Schedule CONFESSION TIMES Saturday 3:00 3:45 p.m. Sunday 5:00 5:45 p.m. Monday 6:00 6:45 p.m. and by appointment at the Parish Office DIVINE MERCY ADORATION CHAPEL Eucharistic Adoration from 7:00 p.m. Sunday till 4:00 p.m. Saturday DEVOTIONS Holy Hour in Church Monday, 6:00-7:00 p.m. Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Following 7 a.m. Mass on Tuesday NEWCOMERS Call the Parish Office to receive a New Parishioner Registration Packet. ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY St. Benilde Conference (504) ST. BENILDE SCHOOL Mr. Thomas Huck, Principal 1801 Division Street Metairie, LA (504)

2 St. Benilde Catholic Church Ministers of the Liturgy September 1 & 2, 2018 Saturday - 4 P.M. Intention: Bob Kelly, Carl A. Guidroz, Jr., Mary & Jules Haydel, Austin Burroughs, George Spaulding, Flora Maria Be, Joseph Senko, Merle & Charles Dittmer, Patrick C. McKinney, Patricia Paisant, Melissa Mendel Zimmerman, Russell Joubert, Jr., Joseph Evola, Sr., Julie Periou, Edward Van Hoven, Joseph Segari, Hubert LaBorde A. & P. Delaup Cantor: Kevin Rouchell Organist: Jared Croal Sunday - 9 A.M. Intention: Parishioners M. Evola, P. Fleming, R. Meche, B. O Hara Song Leaders: Traditional Choir Sunday - 11 A.M. Intention: Abraham Cabrera, Audrey Cusimano, Frank Golemi, Joseph Donald Bernard, Geno Soleto, Julia Faye Collier, Dianne & Ronnie Harrison, Kelvin Ducote, Mary & Melvin Ducote, Paul Hymel, Jr., Geno Soleto, Judith Theisges, Fr. Robert DeGrandis, SSJ, Rita Hecker J. Ackermann, J. Wright, K. Archer, K. Sorensen Song Leaders: Contemporary Choir Sunday - 6 P.M. Intention: Chris & Marine Peters A. Calongne, M. Plaideau Cantor: Lauren Gisclair Pianist: Beth Kettenring Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Weekday Masses 7:00 a.m. Joseph Evola, Sr. 5:30 p.m. Ray Dunn 7:00 a.m. Floyd Bangs, Sr. 7:00 a.m. Mercedes Cabrera 8:15 a.m. Robert Kelly 7:00 a.m. Audrey Cusimano 5:30 p.m. Julie Periou 7:00 a.m. June & Marvin Ackermann (L) The Church Sanctuary Lamp burns in memory of The Souls in Purgatory The Blessed Mother Votive Lamps burn For Reparations for Sins The St. Joseph Votive Lamps burn in Thanksgiving for our Parish Family Adoration Chapel Sanctuary Lamp burns in memory of Stuart & Gloria Fourroux Adoration Chapel Candles burn for Mothers who have had Abortions Altar Ladies Week of September 2 B. O Hara, J. Didier Linens Large - F. Alvarez Small - A. Oleksik The Altar Flowers are in memory of Deceased Parishioners

3 St. Benilde Catholic Church Volume 36: Issue 35 Stewardship of Treasure Weekend of August 25 & 25 Envelopes... $2, Loose.1, Electronic Giving Repairs & Maintenance Msgr. Richaud Fund Totaling.. $4, Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion Sept. 8/9 4 PM J. Rodosta, L. Segari 9 AM C. Frederick, L. Director, C. Rispoli, B. Soleto 11 AM J. Hutchison, J. Hutchison, C. & T. Pitre 6 PM L. Daigle, B. David Help Wanted! St. Benilde Parish is looking to fill a part-time (approximately hours per week) maintenance position. Duties would include maintenance projects, grounds keeping, and janitorial work. Compensation based on skill set and experience. If you are interested in the position, please contact Fellman Mire at the Parish Office: CCD Registration St. Benilde s CCD Program is offered to pre-k4 through 12th grade students not currently attending Catholic school. Classes begin on Sunday, Sept. 9, in the main school building. We teach religion from 9:30 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. Registration forms are available in the Church vestibule and in the Parish Office. The usual fee/tuition is $50 per student. For more information, please visit or call Mary Kelly at ext R.C.I.A. to Begin Soon SVDP Pantry The shelves are almost empty! We are running low on the following items: peanut butter; jelly; mac n cheese; canned meats; soup; tomato sauce; l-lb. packs of pasta and rice; canned fruit; and canned vegetables. Thank you so much for your continued generosity. The Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (R.C.I.A.) begins Monday, September 10. Sessions are held Mondays, at 7:30 PM, in the Library. The program is open to those who have never been baptized; baptized Christians seeking to become Catholic; and Catholics desiring a better knowledge of their faith. Please call the Parish Office for more information.

4 St. Benilde Catholic Church Fr. Cooper s Corner The Gospel of Human Work When Christians think of the saving work of Jesus, many focus on the Triduum during which He was crucified, died and rose again. Others concentrate on the three years of His public ministry when He traversed Judea, Samaria, and Galilee: preaching, teaching, and working miracles. But few think of how the Son of Man spent the other ninety-one percent of His time on earth. The vast majority of it was spent in Nazareth as a manual laborer. His fellow Nazarenes knew Him as a construction worker (the Greek word teknon is broader than our English translation of carpenter ). Following His foster-father, Jesus entered into the world of human work, not as a cover until His real work would begin, but precisely to redeem noble human work in His process of redeeming the human person. Labor Day Weekend is an opportunity for all of us to reflect on the meaning of human work and specifically our work in God s divine plan. In the first command in the Bible, the Lord gave the human person the mission to co-operate (work together) with Him in bringing His work of creation to fulfillment: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish the birds and every living thing that moves on the earth (Gen 1:28). God, who worked for the six days of creation and whom Jesus says is still working (Jn 5:17), made man and woman in His own image and likeness and called them to share in this work. The first way we do so is through pro-creation, when in the image of the Trinitarian communion-of-persons-in-love we increase and multiply that part of creation God deemed very good. The second way we cooperate in bringing creation to perfection is through subduing the earth and exercising dominion over all living things. Right from the beginning, before the Fall, the human person had received this mission, which shows not only the goodness of human work but also how central it is for man s dignity, vocation, and mission. After the Fall, both aspects of man s work became toilsome procreation now would bring with it the pangs of childbirth for the woman and the work of subduing and having dominion would now bring sweat to one s brow (cf. Gen 3:16-19) but work would remain fundamentally good and, in fact, redemptive. But the most important part of work was not its transitive function of perfecting God s material universe, in cultivating the land, raising animals, and even, in modern times, making computer chips out of sand and life-saving medicines out of bacteria. It was the intransitive purpose of bringing God s greatest work the human person to perfection. Work done well gives the human person the opportunity to cultivate all the various hidden talents and potentials God has implanted in him physical, intellectual, and spiritual which are far greater than those He has inscribed in the earth. So great was Jesus appreciation for human work in God s divine plan that He could not stop using it as the proper analogy for His preaching. In His teaching, Jesus favorably mentions shepherds, farmers, doctors, sowers, householders, servants, stewards, merchants, laborers, soldiers, cooks, tax collectors, scholars, and many more. He compares the work of the apostolate to the manual work of harvesters and fishermen. He called all His listeners, of whatever noble profession, to be saints. A few He called to leave their fishing boats or tax-charts behind to proclaim the Gospel. The vast majority He called to proclaim the Gospel by living that Good News in their given state in life. That is still what Jesus does today.

5 St. Benilde Catholic Church Volume 36: Issue 35 Most of His followers are called to live out their discipleship and apostolate, their vocation and their mission, in the family and in the workplace. They are called to become saints and bring others to sanctity through this increasing and multiplying subduing and dominion. One s desk, or sewing machine, or kitchen, or chalkboard, or operating room, or workbench or boat, is meant to become an altar which sanctifies not only what is given to God in work, but the Giver as well. It is there that the vast majority of men and women are called to be sanctified and sanctify others through showing the original dignity and meaning of human work. Work is not principally about earning a paycheck, but about serving and loving others. When work takes on this meaning, the perfection of the human person continues, the work-place is evangelized, and God s work is advanced. On this Labor Day weekend, a diligent construction worker from Nazareth waves to each of us with calloused hands and says, Come, follow me! Friends of the Poor Walk/Run To benefit local SVdP Conferences providing services to the needy of metro New Orleans. Saturday, September 29, 2018 New Orleans City Park Reunion Shelter & Festival Grounds Friedrichs Boulevard Registration/Check In/Tee Shirts Warm-Up & One-Mile Walk 8:00 a.m. 8:45 a.m. Free Tee Shirt, Refreshments, Music & Games Traveling Trophy & the Honor of Leading the 2019 FOP Walk/Run to the Youth Group Collecting the Most Donations Online Registration: FOPWALK.ORG ->LOUISIANA->NEW ORLEANS SOUTH SHORE & WEST BANK Or Pickup a paper Registration form from the Parish Office. For more information contact: Conner Ellis cellis@wjbe.com Sandy Norman snormansandy@gmail.com

6 St. Benilde School Welcomes Three New Teachers Molly St. Romain Montana Chapman Roxanne Bates 5th Grade 1st Grade Pre K 3 Little Flowers and Blue Knights Little Flowers and Blue Knights will meet again one Friday a month September-May at St. Benilde. The clubs are open to boys and girls 5yrs old and up. They will learn about a saint and virtue in a fun way and do a craft or activity to correspond with it. Those with girls interested in Little Flowers should Casey at caseysprehe@gmail.com and those with boys interested in Blue Knights should Kevin at sprehe19@gmail.com Liturgical Ministry Workshops Scheduled Workshops for new ministers will be held this fall. Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion: September 15, Archdiocesan Administration Bldg.,7887 Walmsley Ave., NOLA; October 13, St. Ann Church and Shrine, 3601 Transcontinental Dr., Metairie; October 27, Archdiocesan Administration Bldg, 7887 Walsmley Ave., New Orleans; November 17, St. Joseph Church, 1802 Tulane Ave., New Orleans, December 1, Archdiocesan Administration Bldg., 7887 Walmsley, Ave., New Orleans. Lectors: October 20, St. Clement of Rome Church, 3101 Eton St., Metairie. All workshops are from 9 AM until 1 PM. You must get Fr. Cooper s permission before registering with the Parish Office. Annulment Writing Workshop The Archdiocese of New Orleans will offer a writing workshop for persons seeking an annulment in the Catholic Church or for persons responding to an annulment. The workshop will be held in the St. Benilde Teen Center in Metairie. The series will be for five (5) Tuesdays, September 11, 18, 25, October 2 and 9. Hours are 7:30 9 PM. The materials for the series cost $25. To register go to our website For more information, please call Cathy,

7 SEPTEMBER 2, 2018 ST. BENILDE CATHOLIC CHURCH ID # DIVISION ST. METAIRIE, LA NANCY CAROLLO MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAYS - 9 A.M. TO 3 P.M. FRIDAYS - 9 A.M. TO 12 NOON SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: