March 9, st Sunday of Lent

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1 Established Old Spanish Trail P.O. Box 610 Sco, LA Rectory: (337) Fax: (337) CCD: (337) Catholic School: (337) Fr. Tom's Parish Parish Web-Site: School Web-site: School Diocesan Website: Find us on Facebook March 9, st Sunday of Lent STAFF: Rev. Fr. Thomas Voorhies Pastor Rev. Fr. Mario Romero Associate Pastor Arthur F. Bakeler, Jr. Permanent Deacon Monica D. Laperous Secretary/Bookkeeper Earleen Wirtz Public High School Religion Laurice A. Dubuc Public Elementary Religion Janet S. Hebert Catholic School: Dr. Robert Richard Principal Yvette S. Lavergne Administrative Assistants Tiffany Albarado Mona Hodge High School Youth Group (SYG) Jeremy & Amie Clostio & Art & Bridget Trevino Jr. High Youth Group (SKOT) Gary Gauthier College Youth Group (SALT) Yvette W. Broussard Choir Director Kip Faulk High School Choir Director OFFICE HOURS: Monday thru Thursday: 8:30am - 4:00pm Friday: 8:30am - 12:00pm MASS SCHEDULE: Saturday (Anticipated Mass) 4:00pm Sunday 6:30, 8:00, 10:00am & 6:00pm Monday, Wednesday & Friday 6:30am Tuesday, Thursday & 1st Saturday 8:30am Holy Days of Obligation As announced SACRAMENT OF PENANCE: On Saturdays from 3:00-3:45pm; on Sundays from 6:00-6:15am, 7:30-7:45am, 9:15-9:45am and from 5:15-5:45pm. 30 minutes before all of our weekday Masses and by personal appointment. MARRIAGE: Couples planning marriage need to make an appointment with one of the priests at least SIX months before the intended wedding date to begin the preparation process. A wedding date cannot be scheduled without approval of a priest. BAPTISM: Expectant parents should contact the office four to six (4-6) months before the birth of the child. VISITATION OF THE SICK OR SHUT-INS: If any one is ill at home and not on the regular Communion list, please call the parish office at NEW PARISHIONERS: Please complete the form provided at entrances of the church, then place it in the collection basket or mail it to the parish office. BULLETIN NOTICE: Deadline is two weeks before the announcement is to appear. RELIGION CLASSES: Contact the CCD Office for registration of new students.

2 Page Two Dear Parishioners, I hope you have all had a good start to your Lenten Season. Today we begin our Parish Mission as Fr. Cedric Pisegna preaches at all Masses. He will lead our Mission on March at 7:00pm in church. The 11th will be a talk plus a penance service for all to go to confession and Wednesday, March 12 will be a Mass so there will be no other Masses on that day. Please invite everyone to hear this dynamic preacher. If you miss a night of our Mission, St. Edmond Church will be having it the next week. Besides the regularly scheduled weekday Masses we will have a 12:10 Mass on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. We will have Way of the Cross after Friday morning Mass and a Friday evening Way of the Cross at 6:00pm. For those interested in my 25th anniversary trip in the year 2015, we have an information meeting with Magni icat Travel in our church hall Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 6:30pm. All interested in going on this trip should attend this meeting. Extensive walking will be required for this trip. If you cannot hear in church, for $90 you can buy a headset which you will own. If you are interested please call the rectory so that we can order them all at one time. I am the chairman of the Priestly Association Of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Priest and Victim. We have a monthly Holy Hour and meal and speaker as well as a yearly retreat that we sponsor. If anyone would like to donate towards this worthy cause please see me. Congratulations to Mr. Dolphy Alleman who received the Bishop s Service Medal last Saturday. He recently retired from being the head usher for many years and still is the head of the Holy Name Society. Thanks for your many years of service. altar. Thanks to Lee and Deborah Boudreaux for donating the Hymn Board on the Blessed Mother side of the I love you all. Joke of the Week: The Children s Sermon Sister Smith invited the children to come forward around the altar for an object lesson using squirrels as and example of industry and planning ahead. She requested that the boys and girls raise their hands when they knew what she was describing. This thing lives in trees (pause) and eats nuts (pause). No hands went up. It is gray (pause). The children looked at each other, but no hands were raised. And it jumps from branch to branch (pause) and chatters when it gets excited (pause). Finally a little boy tentatively raised his hand. Sister Smith breathed a sign of relief and called on him. Well, he said, I know the answer must be Jesus, but it sure sounds more like a squirrel to me. In Jesus, Fr. Tom frtom@sts-peter-paul.org mdl

3 Page Three LOOKING AHEAD TO LENT Don t forget all Fridays are abstinence from meat. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays of Lent we will have two Masses, our regular morning Mass and a 12:10 Mass. We will also have Stations of the Cross on Fridays after the 6:30am Mass and at 6:00pm on Fridays (No Mass) Weekday Masses During Lent: Way of the Cross Parish Mission: Parish Confession Service: Monday 6:30am Tuesday 8:30am(School Mass) & 12:10pm Wednesday 6:30am & 12:10pm Thursday 8:30am Friday 6:30 & 12:10pm Friday after the 6:30am Mass and Friday at 6:00pm (No Mass) Monday-Wednesday, March :00pm in Church Tuesday, March 11 as part of the Lenten Mission OUR CATHOLIC SCHOOL NEWS!! KNIGHT OF THE MONTH Knights of the Month for January based on the attribute of Knowledge are: Pre-K Caleb Gonzales and Kennedy Kling; Kindergarten Kate Plogruto and Adelynne Bienvenu ;1 st Mylie Robinson and Reid Broussard; 2 nd Kohen LeJeune and Jackson Lastrappes ; 3 rd Lainey Emmels and Max DeRoche ; 4 th Jacob Elkins and Alex Andrepont- 5th Jackson Andrepont ; 6 th Connor Benoit ; 7th Zachary Mouton ; 8 th Parker Boudreaux SCHOOL CONTACT INFORMATION School's address: 1301 Old Spanish Trail Scott, LA address: info@sts-peter-paul.org Web Site: Phone Number: Fax Number: Don't Just Give Up Something, Do Something for Lent Join us on the Mondays of Lent in the Church Hall for video presentations of Catholicism as we journey around the world and into our faith. With creator and host Father Robert Barron, you will learn what Catholics believe and why, while being immersed in the art, architecture, literature, beliefs, and practices of the Catholic tradition. Filmed in 50 locations throughout 15 countries, the Catholicism DVD series is on-location and in the streets illustrating the splendor of the global Church. Father Robert Barron is an acclaimed author, theologian and podcasting priest from Chicago, and one of the world s great and most innovative teachers of the Catholic faith. He is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. There will be two showings each Lenten Monday. The irst showing will be at 3:00 p.m. and the second will be at 6:30 p.m. ( 6:00 pm on March 10 because of the parish mission). Each episode will last approximately 50 minutes with some time for discussion afterwards. THAT MAN IS YOU! Men, if you are looking for something for your spiritual life and wondering what you should do for Lent this year, we have a Lenten program for you that will be amazing! Join the 130 men of our parish with TMIY, every Tuesday morning from 5-6:30 am, on an incredible Lenten Journey. Now is the time to join TMIY if you never have. Now is the time to return if you have been missing sessions. Wives, please help us in this effort and get your husbands to TMIY!

4 Page Four TIME 4:00pm PRIEST Fr. Mario PRIEST, EXTRAORDINARY LAY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION LECTORS & ALTAR SERVERS SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2014 ELMOHC Bob Chaney, Charles Frederick Becky Daigle READERS Shirley Boutte ALTAR SERVERS Labron Campbell, Kelsey Latiolais Luke Broussard Grant Duplechin SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2014 TIME 6:30am PRIEST Fr. Mario ELMOHC Warren Sensat, Stephanie Hendrix Lan Thi Nguyen READERS Ginger Sensat ALTAR SERVERS Adrenne & Stephen Hendrix Isabelle Sabatier 8:00am Fr. Tom 10:00am Fr. Mario Joe & Elsie Smith, Carral Menard Tommy & Susan Ducharme Deena Campbell, Eric Stromer Jeanie Sullivan Cindy LeBlanc Stacey Thibodeaux Kevin Hilbun, Gabrielle Trevino Ruby Thibodeaux, Gavin Michael Lejeune Blake & Kennedy Comeaux, Cade Cormier, Tyler Searle 6:00pm Fr. Tom Earleen Wirtz, Stephanie LaFleur Deacon Art Bakeler Life Teen Kevin Schexnayder, Seth Trahan, Emillie Comeaux, Tucker Savoy COLLECTION REPORT: MARCH 2 $12, MAILED/DROPPED IN OFFICE 1, TOTAL MARCH 2 $13, BLDG/MAINT/SCHOOL DEBT $ 6, MAILED/DROPPED IN OFFICE 1, TOTAL BLDG./MAINT/SCH DEBT $ 8, CENTRAL/ EASTERN EUROPE $ SCHOOL DEBT: $1,161, NUMBER OF FAMILIES: 3026 THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS DONATIONS AND STEWARDSHIP. PLEASE REMEMBER TO PUT STS. PETER & PAUL CHURCH AND SCHOOL IN YOUR WILL. SECOND COLLECTION NEXT WEEKEND BISHOP S SERVICES APPEAL PLEASE PRAY FOR THE FOLLOWING SICK: Edward Bourque Jr, Wayne Cassano, Graham Landry, Laura P Credeur, Michelle Rivero, Laurie Miguez, Amie Clostio, Paige LaCombe, Joanna & Fred Gaspard, Hazel Leleux, Prescilla John I Boudreaux, Gene Quebodeaux, Angella Labbie Cannon, Wilsey & Velma Vincent, Cresta Trahan, Janelle Dupuis, Cheryl Guillory, Vickie Domingue, Roy Matthieu, Noelie Prejean (1)Drew Moreau, Bryan Lasseigne, Glenda Thibodeaux, Lernell Lormand, John Hebert Jr, Norma Hoffpauir Chiasson, Sue Trahan, Mildred Leger, Harry Leger, Harry Trahan, Earlin Miller, Preston Hebert, Carolyn Denais, Polly Richard, Renelle Welborn, Linda Savoie, Margaret Lavergne, Ashley Harris, Wayne Cormier, Michelle Morgan, Marie Prejean, Aiden Benoit, Hannah Simmons, Patsy Martin, Cathy Hollier, Mable Domingue, Patsy Robin, Leroy & Sable Alleman, Murphy Hebert, Mac Arnold(2) Gayle Lasseigne, Joann Judice, Vivian Domingue, Annette Sonnier, Curtis Hebert, Charlene Reninger, Adam LaBauve, Stony Sittig, Jerry Darby, Barbara Comeaux, Larry Thibodeaux, Dianne McQuirk, Brenda LaPorte, Dot Gauthe, Faith Kimball, Harry Bertrand, Charlie Thibodeaux, Joe & Irene Sellers, Pauline Lacy, Lois Trahan, Jo Sonnier, Martha Ortiz, Lois Dooley, Andrew LeBlanc, Frannie Roy(3)If you know of any person who is sick and needs prayers or visits, please call the parish of ice Names on the above sick list were given to us by parishioners.

5 Page Five HAPPENINGS AROUND STS. PETER & PAUL - Our Lady of the Oaks Retreats for Women Our Lady of the Oaks is hosting mid-week retreats and weekend retreats. For more information call Our Lady of the Oaks Married Couples Retreat Our Lady of the Oaks is hosting a married couples retreat on February For more information call or - Marriage Encounter weekends are being planned. For more information call or or go on-line at - Acadiana Salutes our Servicemen/women - The A.S.O.S. is a support group for the loved ones of those serving our country. Meetings are held the 1st Thursday of each month at 6pm at the American Legion Hall on Surrey St in Lafayette. FMI call Karen Circle of Friends Single adults in Acadiana, ages 30 and up can find a venue of fellowship and speakers. For meeting dates and calendar please visit catholicfellowshipnetwork.webs.com/ -Community of Jesus Crucified Retreats - Married Couple's Retreats to be announced. To register call Cheryl Moss at Retrouvaille - A Lifeline for Marriage - helps couples through difficult times in their marriages. For more information please call Christ in the City- for young adults in their 20 s & 30 s 1st Thursday of the month at 7:00pm At St. Mary Catholic Church, 419 Doucet Road. Cry room available Natural Family Planning Classes June 14, Chapel of Our Lady of Sacred Heart, Church Point, LA; July 21, Eunice (Mowatta Highway), August 4, St Peter s Church Hall, Carencro, LA. To register for any go to Catholic Daughter #2214 A Day of Recollection Thursday, March 13, :00am-12:00pm Family Life Center of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mire, LA Registration 8:30-9:00am & Court Members will provide Breakfast & Lunch Fr Howard Blessing will lead activities & Celebrate noon Mass TEMPTATION Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. William Butler Yeats THIS WEEK AT STS. PETER & PAUL AA Meetings: Sun, Wed & Fri 8:00pm (Room 11) Tue, Thu & Sat 7:00pm (Room 11) Saturday, March 8-5:30pm-SALT Meeting-SALT Room - High School CCD-4:45pm - 6:00pm High School Rite of Continuing Conversion for Con irmation - "Sensat" Come Lord Jesus Bible Study & so much more- 6:00pm -CCD Building - "Kimble" Come Lord Jesus Bible Study & so much more-6:00pm- CCD Building Monday-Wednesday, March Parish Mission-7:00pm-Church Monday, March 10 - Catholicism-3:00-4:00pm & 6:00-7:00pm-hall Tuesday, March 11 - That Man Is You! -5:00am-Hall - 8:30am-School Mass - 9:30am-Wirtz Come Lord Jesus-CCD Building - NO 1-4th grade CCD - NO 5-8th grade CCD - Patriotic Rosary-6:30pm-Adoration Chapel - KC Meeting-7:00pm-KC Hall Wednesday, March 12 - Mae Boudreaux s Prayer Group-10:00am in Cry Room - Habetz Come Lord Jesus Bible Study & so much more-6:30pm-ccd Building Thursday, March 13 - Rosary prayed in Cry Room-9am-Everyone Invited - Divine Mercy Chaplet then Seniors Come Lord Jesus Bible Study-3:00pm- Acadian Heritage - NO RCIA - 6:30pm-Meeting for Rome Trip - 6:30-8:30pm Grief Support Meeting-CCD Bldg Friday, March 14-6:30am-Mass then Way of the Cross - 12:10 Mass - 6:00pm Way of the Cross-Church Sunday, March 16 - High School CCD-4:45pm - "Sensat" Come Lord Jesus Bible Study & so much more- 6:00pm -CCD Building - "Kimble" Come Lord Jesus Bible Study & so much more-6:00pm- CCD Building PRAYER The value of persistent prayer is not that God will hear us, but that we will finally hear God. William McGill

6 Page Six Lenten Opportunities for Confession The Central Region of the Diocese of Lafayette is sponsoring ive regional Opportunities for Confession during Lent. Several priests will be present to hear Confessions as follows: Tuesday, March 18, at 8:00 p.m. at St. Edmond Catholic Church, Lafayette (following Mission Presentation at 7:00 p.m.); Tuesday, March 25, from 6:00-7:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, Broussard; Tuesday, April 1, from 7:00-8:30 p.m. at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Lafayette; Tuesday, April 8, from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church, Lafayette; and Wednesday, April 9, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at St. Bernard Catholic Church, Breaux Bridge. All are encouraged to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation in preparation for Easter Sunday. For more information, please call Mary Bergeron ( ). MATTHEW: THE KING AND HIS KINGDOM BIBLE STUDY Matthew: The King and His Kingdom is a Catholic Bible study that brings the history of Christ to life through Matthew s Gospel. You will see Jesus as the awaited Messiah who ful ills the promises and prophecies of the Old Testament, establishes the New Law, and inaugurates the Kingdom of Heaven. Warren and Ginger Sensat will facilitate this 24-week course on Monday evenings from 6:30-8:30 pm in the CCD building beginning on May 5, The course will include a video presentation by Jeff Cavins followed by group discussions. The cost for the study materials/binder is $40.00 per person. Interested persons should sign up and pay in the rectory by April 1, 2014, so that materials can be purchased.

7 Page Seven THE POPE WRITES A LETTER TO FAMILIES ASKING THEM TO PRAY FOR THE NEXT SYNOD Vatican City, 25 February 2014 (VIS) Pope Francis has written a letter to families asking them to pray for the next Synod of Bishops, which will be celebrated in the Vatican in October, and the theme of which will be The pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelisation. The letter, dated 2 February, Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, is published in full below: Dear families, With this letter, I wish, as it were, to come into your homes to speak about an event which will take place at the Vatican this coming October. It is the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which is being convened to discuss the theme of pastoral challenges to the family in the context of evangelization. Indeed, in our day the Church is called to proclaim the Gospel by confronting the new and urgent pastoral needs facing the family. This important meeting will involve all the People of God bishops, priests, consecrated men and women, and lay faithful of the particular Churches of the entire world all of whom are actively participating in preparations for the meeting through practical suggestions and the crucial support of prayer. Such support on your part, dear families, is especially significant and more necessary than ever. This Synodal Assembly is dedicated in a special way to you, to your vocation and mission in the Church and in society; to the challenges of marriage, of family life, of the education of children; and the role of the family in the life of the Church. I ask you, therefore, to pray intensely to the Holy Spirit, so that the Spirit may illumine the Synodal Fathers and guide them in their important task. As you know, this Extraordinary Synodal Assembly will be followed a year later by the Ordinary Assembly, which will also have the family as its theme. In that context, there will also be the World Meeting of Families due to take place in Philadelphia in September May we all, then, pray together so that through these events the Church will undertake a true journey of discernment and adopt the necessary pastoral means to help families face their present challenges with the light and strength that comes from the Gospel. I am writing this letter to you on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple. The evangelist Luke tells us that the Blessed Mother and Saint Joseph, in keeping with the Law of Moses, took the Baby Jesus to the temple to offer him to the Lord, and that an elderly man and woman, Simeon and Anna, moved by the Holy Spirit, went to meet them and acknowledged Jesus as the Messiah. Simeon took him in his arms and thanked God that he had finally 'seen' salvation. Anna, despite her advanced age, found new vigour and began to speak to everyone about the Baby. It is a beautiful image: two young parents and two elderly people, brought together by Jesus. He is the one who brings together and unites generations! He is the inexhaustible font of that love which overcomes every occasion of self-absorption, solitude, and sadness. In your journey as a family, you share so many beautiful moments: meals, rest, housework, leisure, prayer, trips and pilgrimages, and times of mutual support Nevertheless, if there is no love then there is no joy, and authentic love comes to us from Jesus. He offers us his word, which illuminates our path; he gives us the Bread of life which sustains us on our journey. Dear families, your prayer for the Synod of Bishops will be a precious treasure which enriches the Church. I thank you, and I ask you to pray also for me, so that I may serve the People of God in truth and in love. May the protection of the Blessed Mother and Saint Joseph always accompany all of you and help you to walk united in love and in caring for one another. I willingly invoke on every family the blessing of the Lord. KC Cat ish Dinners Again this year the KC s will be serving cat ish dinners every Friday during Lent March 14, 21 & 28 from 5:00-7:00pm at the KC Hall at 123 Lions Club Road. Dinners include fried cat ish, French fries, cole slaw, hush puppies and cookies for $7.00. Contact any KC members if you have questions.

8 Page Eight The rosary is prayed 30 minutes before each weekday Mass. Saturday, March 8 4:00pm Shirley Ann Leger M/M Cyrus Leger M/M Easton Thibodeaux Adley & Beverly Scrantz Joseph Larry Hoffpauir Girdy C Menard M/M Whitney Breaux M/M Alex Martin Jr & Mona Comeaux-Duet dfm Suzanne P Chatelain Leonard L Richard Joe & Hilda Peschier David L Boo Prejean Emetile D & Edward (L) Bourque Sr Paulette Provost (L)(HB) Joseph, Elta, Lee Jane & Earvis Viola & Forest Blanchard & dfm Oleus, Donald (Anniv), Eileen, Neil, Nelma, Jessica Domingue & Carter Adam Ross Reed Nick & Noelie Provost & dfm Russell & Hilda Hebert Woodley J Credeur Grace Huval (L)(HB) Rodney Hebert (Anniv), Adam & Helen Hebert Eby Doucet M/M Eddie Morris Evan Domingue Dupre Hebert Vivian A Davidson Emory Hebert 6:30am Rivers Quibodeaux (L) Eddie Quibodeaux Mollie Domingue Clay Mouton Bernice Hebert Milton Arceneaux Priests & Seminarians (L) 8:00am Wayne M Hebert M/M Stony Arceneaux & Fly George & Gladys Naquin Spiritual Healing Nola Chaisson Maria Chan Dinh Bien Bui & Thien Dinh 10:00am Michael O Neil Mouton Amithilde & Libbon Guidry DiGi Gianfala Rayford Domingue Carl, Waver & Sosthene Guidry Charlie, Gene & Louis Provost Lawrence Baillio Sanearl Sam Foreman Paul & Eunice Richard Jim Richard Adam Ross Reed Brittany Nicole Richard Kermit & Walter Duhon Agnes Hernandez Eula Mae Hebert 6:00pm For the People Monday, March 10 Martin Begnaud Lelia Lacy Comeaux Joseph Pham Tuesday, March 11 8:30am Madeline Bergeron (Anniv) 12:10pm Elton Melancon Wednesday, March 12 7:00pm G A Simon (L) & Audrey Alice Roger Wendy Menard (L)(HB) Ron Hollier Thursday, March 13 Joseph Pham Palma G LeBlanc Waver (Anniv) & Sosthene Guidry Friday, March 14 6:30am Alice Rita Duhon In Thanksgiving for Family Past & Future Mollie Domingue 12:10pm Lauren Wiltz (L)(HB) VIGIL LIGHTS: John B Sonnier Family, Woodly Paul Credeur, Francis Pop-Pop Resweber, Agnes Trahan Pogue, Rodney Hebert, Special Intention-D Prayer for our Mission God our Father, We thank you for this time of renewal. Make our hearts hungry and thirsty for you. Recreate our minds and hearts with the ire of your Word during our Mission. Touch us with the sweet presence of the Holy Spirit. We want to be illed with Passion and Peace! We pray for the grace to say Yes to you. We ask this in the name of Jesus the Lord. Amen!

9 CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS Sts. Peter and Paul Church # Old Spanish Trail Scott, LA TELEPHONE CONTACT PERSON Monica Laperous SOFTWARE MSPublisher 2010 Adobe Acrobat X Windows 7 PRINTER HP Laserjet 6P TRANSMISSION TIME Monday: 2:45pm SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION March 9, 2014 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 1 through 9 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS