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

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1 Sunday, November 6, 2016 Thirty-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. Matt Downey, Principal 1801 Division Street Metairie, LA (504)

2 St. Benilde Catholic Church Ministers of the Liturgy November 5 & 6, 2016 Saturday - 4 P.M. Intention: Dorothy Van Hoven, James Pinner, Pete Fountain, George Spaulding, Gerry Golemi, Bill Lawrence, Chelsea Hunton, Claire Senko, Sabella Family, Rose Marie Greco Federico, Merle & Charles Dittmer, Patrick C. McKinney Flora Maria Be, Hilton F. Daigle, Jr. J. Rodosta, L. Segari Cantor: Trish Foti Sunday - 9 A.M. Intention: Parishioners M. Evola, P. Fleming, R. Meche, B. Soleto Song Leaders: Traditional Choir Sunday - 11 A.M. Intention: William (Chuck) Credo, Jr., Poor Souls, Cecile Cambre, Virginia D. Rivolo, Joseph Torres, Dianne Z. Harrison, Melvin Ducote, Kelvin Ducote, Mary Ducote, JoAnne Flettrich, Rosary Schilleci, Joseph Donald Bernard, Lucien & Mary Musco, Legion of Mary Founder Frank Duff and Deceased Legionnaires, Barbara Assad, Brenda Frey (L), Floyd C. Bangs, Sr. J. Hutchinson, R. Oleksik, S. Gordon, L. Peters Song Leaders: Contemporary Choir Sunday - 6 P.M. Intention: Gerald Hahn A. Calongne, B. Henry Cantor: Lauren Gisclair Pianist: Beth Kettenring Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Weekday Masses 7:00 a.m. Don Rowan, Sr. 5:30 p.m. Charles McElwain 7:00 a.m. John Frisard 7:00 a.m. Lucille Dares 8:15 a.m. Claire Senko 7:00 a.m. Joseph & Thelma Conrad 5:30 p.m. Thomas M. Leavy 7:00 a.m. Olga Claiborne & D. J. Olister Jr. The Church Sanctuary Lamp burns in memory of The Souls in Purgatory The Blessed Mother Votive Lamps burn For Protection During the Hurricane Season The St. Joseph Votive Lamps burn in Thanksgiving for a Prayer Answered Adoration Chapel Sanctuary Lamp burns in memory of Stuart and Gloria Fourroux Adoration Chapel Candles burn for Members of the Chers Amis Altar Ladies Week of November 6 M. Seeber, F. Alvarez Linens Large - J. Zeringue Small - A. Delaup The Altar Flowers are in memory of Deceased Parishioners

3 St. Benilde Catholic Church Volume 34 Issue 45 Stewardship of Treasure Weekend of October 29 & 30 Envelopes.. $2, Loose.2, Electronic Giving Repairs & Maintenance Msgr. Richaud Fund Totaling..$5, Let us focus on generosity, or returning God s gifts with increase, through the generous sharing of our time, talent and treasure. ~ Fr. Cooper Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion Nov. 12/13 4 PM R. Aucoin, C. Casente 9 AM J. & G. Rojas, C. Rispoli, B. Soleto 11 AM C. & T. Pitre, N. Bostick, L. Frey 6 PM L. Daigle, B. David Out Of Reverence For The Lord Jesus who so generously shares with us His Body and Blood in the Eucharist, worshipers are earnestly invited to remain with the congregation until Mass is concluded. We Walk by Faith, A Day of Prayer and Reflection Join Archdiocesan Spirituality Center Associate Directors, Jeanne Burmaster and Bonnie Chase, for a Day of Prayer and Reflection as together, we learn how to cultivate a heart that leads to a deepening love for God and for those we meet along the path of life. Thursday, November 17, 9:30 a..- 3:30 p.m., at the Archdiocese of New Orleans Retreat Center, 5500 St. Mary St., Metairie. Spend a Day of Prayer and Reflection on the quiet and beautiful grounds of the Archdiocese of New Orleans Retreat Center, 5500 St. Mary St., Metairie. The environment is conducive to solitude, silence and prayer. Bring your Bible and a brown bag lunch. Drinks will be provided. Cost $30 (adjustments can be made). To register please call (504) archspirctr@arch-no.org or register on the web: The Catholic Foundation Annual Dinner Celebrating 40 th Anniversary The Catholic Foundation will host its annual dinner on Thursday, Dec. 1, at the New Orleans Hilton Riverside celebrating The Foundation s 40 th Anniversary. This year s dinner will honor the 2016 Saint John Paul II Award recipient Marilyn Quirk. Reservations are required. Cocktails at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. Register online: For more information, call , or mklein@archdiocese-no.org Sacramental Workshop This Sunday, November 6, from 1 to 2 p.m., there will be a Sacramental Workshop for parents of children making their First Reconciliation and Holy Communion. One or both parents must attend. The parents should meet in Church. Please bring a copy of your child s Baptismal Certificate. A $20 Sacramental registration fee will be due at this time. All St. Benilde School Sacramental year children must attend an activity that will be held in the school building at the same time.

4 St. Benilde Catholic Church Fr. Cooper s Corner The Most Enduring Work of Mercy On Wednesday, with Catholics throughout the world, we commemorate all the faithful departed those who have died in the last year, the beloved deceased members of our families, the victims of war, violence and genocide, those who have died of hunger, disease and neglect, the infants who have died in miscarriages or who have been killed through exposure or abortion, the Christians who have died for the faith in persecution, the anonymous who rest in common graves, those forgotten by the world and whose names are known only by God. Contrary to the popular heresy that presumes that everyone who dies automatically goes to a better place, the Catholic faith does not believe everyone who dies goes to heaven, especially immediately. Jesus told us emphatically not to judge, and this means not only that we should not condemn to Hell someone we thought was evil but also not to place in Heaven someone we thought was good, for only God sees the heart. And so on All Souls Day and throughout the month of November, we pray for those who lived, in our eyes, a good and holy life, who cared for Christ in the hungry and poor, who died with the sacraments. We also pray for those who lived, by human impressions, a life far from God, His sacraments and Commandments, and who may have died in objectively sinful circumstances. We pray for them all, entrusting them to God s mercy. We pray because the Church believes that to enter heaven, one not only must be free at death of the mortal sins that would lead one to the place of definitive self-exclusion from God we call Hell, but also completely attached to God and radically detached from all venial sin and everything that is not of God. Nothing unclean shall enter heaven, the Book of Revelation stresses (Rev. 21:27). There are many who do not live and die with that type of purity of life and hence they need to be purified to enter into the kingdom in which God is all in all. This state in which the dead are decontaminated from all sin and worldliness has been traditionally called by the Church Purgatory from the Latin term purgare, which means to cleanse. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, in a 2007 encyclical on Christian Hope, says that Purgatory seems to be the state where the great majority of people, go after they die. The Church has believed in the need for purification after death since before she was founded. In the second book of Maccabees, written about 140 years before Christ s birth, we see that the Jewish people offered sacrifices in the temple for all those Jews who had lived a double life and betrayed the Lord by carrying in their clothing various idols of the Greek pagans who sought to destroy the temple and extirpate the Jewish faith. If, the sacred author wrote, they were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead (2 Macc 12:43-45). In St. Matthew s Gospel, Jesus says, Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come (Mt 12:32), implying quite clearly that there are some sins that can be forgiven in the age to come, the type of sin which St. John s first letter says is not mortal or deadly (1 John 5:16). Continuing the tradition of the faithful Jews, the Church has therefore prayed for people to be purified of their venial sins, because it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they might be loosed from their sins (2 Macc 12:45). The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, From the beginning the Church has honored the memory of the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them, above all the Eucharistic sacrifice, so that, thus purified, they may attain the beatific vision of God. The Church also commends almsgiving, indulgences, and works of penance undertaken on behalf of the dead (CCC 1032). In an Angelus meditation last November, Pope Francis urged us to carry

5 St. Benilde Catholic Church Volume 34: Issue 45 out this spiritual work of mercy. Church tradition, he said, has always urged prayer for the dead, in particular by offering the celebration of the Eucharist for them: it is the best spiritual help that we can give to their souls, particularly to the most abandoned ones. The foundation of prayers in suffrage of souls is in the communion of the Mystical Body, and that communion is expressed most powerfully at Mass. So let s get practical. Are we praying for the dead? Are we carrying out this spiritual work of mercy as if others lives depended on it? Do we have funeral and memorial Masses offered for our family members and attend Masses offered for others? Do we come to Mass on All Souls Day and throughout November to pray for all the faithful departed? Do we pray the Rosary, asking Mary to pray for the dead at the hour of their death and for us now? Do we offer sacrifices for them and try to obtain indulgences for them? Similarly, do we ask people to pray for us after we die? Have we passed on to the younger generations the example of praying for deceased loved ones? Do we take them to Masses offered for friends and family members and to the cemeteries to care for their grave and pray for them? Have we written in our Will the desire for a funeral Mass to be celebrated upon our death and left a designated amount of money for Masses (i.e. Mass Intentions) to be prayed for us, so that we can count on the prayers of the Church even if our family members are not as prayerful as they should be? It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, Sacred Scripture tells us, and throughout this month in particular way the Church prays: Eternal Rest grant unto them, O Lord. And let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Quieting Room We are blessed to have many children in our Parish. They and their parents are most welcome to participate fully in the celebration of Mass. The community needs to be patient with parents trying to teach their children how to behave in Church. Parents need to be mindful of how and when to teach such lessons. During the celebration of Mass, the Quieting Room is intended to serve as a place of refuge for parents whose children need to be removed from the assembly. It is NOT an alternative seating area where adults can talk or children simply play or munch on cereal. It is important that children be taught proper Church discipline and etiquette. Therefore, parents with children who are able to be seated in the Church are kindly asked not to take up the space in the Quieting Room from those parents who may find their children need a "timeout." 2017 Mass Book The 2017 Mass Book is now open. Each Mass intentions is $5. The sanctuary lights and candles are $10 each and burn for the week. The weekly altar flowers may be purchased for $120. We do not carry over intentions from year to year. Attention Sophomore Confirmation Candidates This Sunday, November 6, there will be a Confirmation activity for Sophomore Candidates. It will be held in the main school building beginning at 12 o clock noon. For more information, please call Cecilia Wilson at

6 St. Benilde Catholic Church Eucharistic Adorers Needed For the past 10 years, we have been blessed to have Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration here at St. Benilde Parish. Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration is the adoration of Jesus Christ present in the Holy Eucharist. The Eucharist is displayed in a special holder called a monstrance, and people come to pray and worship Jesus continually throughout the day and the night. Come to our Perpetual Adoration Chapel and spend some time with our Lord. He is waiting there to embrace you, lovingly and mercifully! If you would like to become a committed adorer, please contact Joy Rojas at (504) or visit the parish website: eucharistic-adoration The Online Giving (E-Giving) program is a convenient way to practice responsible financial stewardship by using electronic funds transfer (EFT). Through Online Giving, all contributions to St. Benilde Parish will be made via an automatic payment (ACH - bank draft) from your checking account. Once your Online Authorization Form is completed and you are properly enrolled, monthly donations to the regular Sunday Collection, the Repairs and Maintenance Fund, or the Msgr. Richaud Endowment Fund become automatic. To Enroll in our Online Giving Program, visit the parish website:

7 NOVEMBER 6, 2016 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: