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

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1 June 17, 2018 Eleventh 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 Michael Buras, Interim Principal 1801 Division Street Metairie, LA (504)

2 St. Benilde Catholic Church Ministers of the Liturgy June 16 & 17, 2018 Saturday - 4 P.M. Intention: Aime Grunewald, Henry P. Kaul, Jr., Carl A. Guidroz, Jr., Earl Lowrie, Catherine S. Finnan, George Spaulding, Joseph Segari, Glory Cresson, Mary Lewis, Melissa Mendel Zimmerman, Geno Soleto, Gerald May, Sylvia Hebert (L), Merle & Charles Dittmer, Rita Meyer, Patrick C. McKinney, Flora Maria Be, Austin Burroughs, Hubert LaBorde, A. J. Cortello, Karen Hebert (L), Joseph Cannizzaro, Russell Joubert, Jr., Julie Periou, Roy Phelps, Sr., Joseph Evola, Sr. R. Aucoin, K. Hartdegan Cantor: Kevin Rouchell Organist: Jared Croal Sunday - 9 A.M. Intention: Joy Rojas J. Tusa, P. Cifreo, C. Rispoli, B. Soleto Song Leaders: Traditional Choir Sunday - 11 A.M. Intention: Peter Muscarello, Jr., Joseph Evola, Sr., Audrey Cusimano, Judith Theisges, Todd Hillburn, Geno Soleto, Rose Mary Silbernagel, Thomas Prunty, Joseph Donald Bernard, Mary & Melvin Ducote, Don Rowan, Sr., Dolores Sabathe, George Spaulding, Michelle Thibodeaux, Chris Peters, Julie Periou, Ronnie & Dianne Harrison, Glory Cresson, Paul J. Hymel, Jr., Fr. Dominic Nguyen Hong Lac, Herbert Schmit, John Scala J. Hutchison, J. Hutchison, J. Ackermann, J. Wright Song Leaders: Contemporary Choir Monday Sunday - 6 P.M. Intention: Parishioners M. Drawe, D. Powers Cantor: Lauren Gisclair Pianist: Beth Kettenring Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Weekday Masses 7:00 a.m. Audrey Cusimano 5:30 p.m. Judith Theisges 7:00 a.m. June & Marvin Ackermann (L) 7:00 a.m. Floyd Bangs, Sr. 7:00 a.m. Erin Wright 5:30 p.m. Joy Rojas 7:00 a.m. Barbara Joan Holliday 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 for Prayers Answered Adoration Chapel Sanctuary Lamp burns in memory of Stuart & Gloria Fourroux Adoration Chapel Candles burn in memory of Our Deceased Priests Altar Ladies Week of June 17 J. Dunn, C. Batt, L. Segari Linens Large - L. Ducrow Small - S. Holliday The Altar Flowers are in memory of Ellwood Soupenne

3 St. Benilde Catholic Church Volume 36: Issue 24 Stewardship of Treasure Weekend of June 9 & 10 Envelopes...$3, Loose. 2, Electronic Giving Repairs & Maintenance..2, Msgr. Richaud Fund Totaling..$8, Summer Service Opportunity for High School Students Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans is offering a summer service program, Students Engaging in Reflective Volunteer Experiences, SERVE. This an opportunity for high school students to achieve the service hours required by many parochial high schools. Sessions run for three weeks with options to earn hours. SERVE sites include a homeless shelter, adult day healthcare center, and a food bank. Students must be incoming freshman through seniors. Registration is nonrefundable $15 for Mini-SERVE. Registration is open now until full. All participants will receive a t-shirt. For more information contact Shannon Murphy at (504) Register online at Day of Refreshment for Women The Catholic Charismatic Renewal of New Orleans (CCRNO) will sponsor its annual Day of Refreshment for Women on Saturday, June 23, from 10 to 3 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Kenner, in the school gym. The theme is We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight, presented by Patti Mansfield, Kim Lukinovich, Andi Oney, Denise Beyer, Janice Charbonnet, Mary Lukinovich. Cost is $30 and includes lunch. Women from the region come to enjoy teaching, fellowship, small groups, prayer ministry and music by Mercy Beaucoup. Register online at by Wednesday, June 20, noon, to order lunch. On-site registrations are accepted but no lunch is guaranteed. For more information, call CCRNO at or visit Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion June 23/24 4 PM J. Rodosta, L. Segari 9 AM C. & R. Ayers, K. Klapatch, R. Theriot 11 AM C. & T. Pitre, N. Bostick, L. Frey 6 PM D. Childers, D. Powers 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. Retreat for Men Men: Put aside the hustle and bustle of daily life and attend the men s Emmaus retreat the weekend of July The retreat is held at Rosaryville Spirit Life Center and retreat house in beautiful, peaceful Ponchatoula, Louisiana. The retreat is based on the scripture passage The appearance on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24: 13-35) and is an uplifting experience that has a profound effect on men s lives. The retreat begins at 5 PM Friday and ends after the 5:30 PM mass on Sunday. Round trip transportation is provided from St. Dominic Church, New Orleans. Please don t ignore this opportunity but pray on it instead. Something special definitely awaits you at Rosaryville! Please contact the following men for additional information: David , or Norm , or Rick (504)

4 St. Benilde Catholic Church Fr. Cooper s Corner Fathers and Families Father's Day is a time when we celebrate fatherhood. This is well and good, but I cannot help but notice that the families that fathers are supposed to be fathering are in utter disarray. Therefore, it seems that one thing we could do on this special day is reflect on the state of our families and try to answer the following question: What are fathers being called upon to do today? Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales, the former Archbishop of Manila, writes that fatherhood comes from God. We have been created in the image of God and made sharers in His life and work, though we can reject His plan for us. Consequently, natural fathers are meant to share in the fatherhood of God in a special way. This means that fathers are to do what God does: defend, protect, initiate, motivate, and sustain. So how does one share in the role of God's fatherhood? Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales tells us that we share in God's fatherhood by defending life and the values that protect life. These values comprise that which is true, right, good, just, compassionate, and loving. If we defend life and the values that protect it, then we are actively sharing in the role of God's fatherhood as defenders, protectors, initiators, motivators, and sustainers. Nowhere do these values need to be more protected today than in the family, for the family is under direct attack on many fronts. One of these fronts is the relationship between the state and the family. In his article published in the American Spectator, "America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution," Angelo Codevilla gives us an excellent synopsis of the relationship between the state and the family as it exists today. He writes as follows: "the relationships between men, women, and children and the state is fundamental. That is why individuals such as Hillary Clinton have written law review articles and books advocating a direct relationship between the government and children, effectively abolishing the presumption of parental authority. Hence, whereas within living memory school nurses could not administer an aspirin to a child without the parents' consent, the people who run America's schools nowadays administer pregnancy tests and ship girls off to abortion clinics without the parents' knowledge. Parents are not allowed to object to what their children are taught. However, the government may and often does object to how parents raise children. The ruling class's assumption is that what it mandates for children is correct ipso facto, while what parents do is potentially abusive. It only takes an anonymous accusation of abuse for parents to be taken away in handcuffs until they prove their innocence. Only sheer political weight has preserved parents' right against the ruling class's desire to accomplish what Woodrow Wilson so yearned: 'to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.'" The state, or the ruling class if you prefer, does not have a direct relationship with our children. It has no right to bypass the authority of parents, except when the family is in acute distress. The family is primary to the state. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains how to protect and sustain this order based on the principle of subsidiarity. According to this principle, "a community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions..." (CCC 1883).

5 St. Benilde Catholic Church Volume 36: Issue 24 This principle is derived from the way that God governs the world and His respect for human freedom. God did not reserve the exercise of all power to Himself. We can see this when we look at creation. God entrusted "to every creature the functions it is capable of performing, according to the capacities of its own nature" (CCC 1884). Thus, the principle of subsidiarity "sets limits for state intervention" (CCC 1885). "Authority, stability, and a life of relationships within the family constitute the foundation for freedom, security, and fraternity within society. The family is the community in which, from childhood, one can learn moral values, begin to honor God, and make good use of freedom. Family life is an initiation into life in society" (CCC 2207). Thus, there is a direct relationship between the well-being of the family and true freedom. Of course, when a family is not able to care for itself or a grave danger of some sort is present, it is right for the state to intervene with respect to the principle of subsidiarity. However, this is not what is happening today. Instead, the state has literally injected itself into the family to such a degree that relationships within the family are being undermined and members of the family are being unnecessarily harmed by the state. Depending on the specific situation, such aggressive intervention can easily drive a wedge between members in the family by causing distrust and alienating family members. It can undermine parental authority such that children do not listen to their parents and rebel. This can cause problems in the family for years, sometimes for a lifetime. Moreover, it creates a weak citizenry that can easily be enslaved by unscrupulous people in positions of power. For these reasons, as well as others, fathers need to speak the truth about our relationships and defend that truth against those who are perverting it. It seems to me that this is what fathers are being called to do today, that this is how they are to share in God's fatherhood. Fathers also need to sustain what is right and good in their families. Perhaps the best thing fathers can do for their families and society is to nurture their relationship with God and develop a devout prayer life. They can also defend motherhood by sustaining the dignity of motherhood and motivating others to do so. In addition, they can love their children's mother as Christ loves His Church. Retrouvaille Weekend for Troubled Marriages Retrouvaille is a program designed to provide help and support to married couples who are undergoing difficulties in their relationship. Sponsored by the Catholic Church, Retrouvaille is open to couples of all faiths. It has proven helpful to couples who are troubled and stressed, or if the relationship has grown cold and distant. The next Retrouvaille Weekend will be July 6-8, at the William J. Kelly Retreat Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. For additional information or to have information mailed to you contact the Office of Marriage and Family Life at (504) or visit the website at Willwoods 11 th Annual Diocesan-Wide Supper & Substance Attention all Married couples! You are invited to a fun and faith-filled date night celebrating & enriching marriages at our 11 th Annual Diocesan-Wide Supper & Substance on Saturday, July 28 th, from 7 to 9:30pm at Mid-City Lanes Rock N Bowl, 3016 S. Carrollton Ave., New Orleans. Come hear an inspiring presentation from our special guest speaker couple Dr. Chris and Christine Baglow, listen to live music from the talented Peace of Cake Band and enjoy great food, drinks, bowling and a rockin good time! For tickets, sponsoring a lane or to learn more about the event, call Jason Angelette at (504) or go to

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7 JUNE 17, 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: