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

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1 June 10, 2018 Tenth 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 9 & 10, 2018 Saturday - 4 P.M. Intention: Sylvia Hebert (L), Melissa Mendel Zimmerman, Theresa & Charles Montgomery, Thomas Dunn, George Spaulding, Henry P. Kaul, Jr., Ed Curry (L), Joseph Segari, Merle & Charles Dittmer, Geno Soleto, Joseph Senko, Patrick C. McKinney, Hubert LaBorde, Michael Borrello, Flora Maria Be, Austin Burroughs, Edward Van Hoven, Jr, Dr. John D Antoni, Jr. (L), Cathy & Jack D Antoni (L), Joseph Evola, Sr, Rita Meyer, Julie Periou, Roberta G. Pareti, Mara Teresa Hollingsworth A. & P. Delaup Cantor: Kevin Rouchell Organist: Jared Croal Sunday - 9 A.M. Intention: Joy Rojas C. Frederick, L. Director, J. Zeringue, G. Rojas Song Leaders: Traditional Choir Sunday - 11 A.M. Intention: Audean Syble Ducote, Connie Gay (L), Joseph Donald Bernard, Jess Matherne, Jr., Geno Soleto, Paul Hymel, Jr., Todd Hillburn, Audrey Cusimano, Holy Souls, Joseph Evola, Sr., Lucien Sabath, Frank Golemi, Fred Favalora, Michelle Thibodeaux, Bernadette Kisner, Mary & Melvin Ducote, Kelvin Ducote, Judith Theisges, Peter Muscarello, Jr., Ronnie & Dianne Harrison S. Gordon, N. Bostick, K. Archer, K. Sorensen Song Leaders: Contemporary Choir Monday Sunday - 6 P.M. Intention: Parishioners L. Daigle, B. David Cantor: Lauren Gisclair Pianist: Beth Kettenring Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Weekday Masses 7:00 a.m. Edwin Melan, Jr. 5:30 p.m. Joy Rojas 7:00 a.m. June & Marvin Ackermann (L) 7:00 a.m. Marisa Saborio 7:00 a.m. Pascal Giovingo 5:30 p.m. Ellwood Soupenne 7:00 a.m. Larry Hart 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 for a Special Intention Altar Ladies Week of June 10 B. O Hara, J. Didier Linens Large - L. Ducrow Small - S. Holliday The Altar Flowers are in memory of Deceased Parishioners

3 St. Benilde Catholic Church Volume 36: Issue 23 Stewardship of Treasure Weekend of June 2 & 3 Envelopes..$5, Loose 2, Electronic Giving Repairs & Maintenance 1, Totaling...$11, Adoration Chapel Collection...$3, Let us focus on generosity, or returning God s gifts with increase, through the generous sharing of our time, talent and treasure. ~ Fr. Cooper Retrouvaille A Program for Hurting Marriages For couples seeking a lifeline for a troubled marriage. The Archdiocese of New Orleans Family Life Apostolate is sponsoring a Retrouvaille weekend to be held at the William Kelly Retreat Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi on July 6-8. The weekend is not a spiritual retreat, not a sensitivity group, not a seminar, not a social gathering, nor is it counseling. You will not be asked to share your problems with anyone else. The weekend will help you discover how listening, forgiving, communication, and the dialogue process become powerful aids for building a loving and lasting relationship. For registration or more information, call the Family Life Office (504/ ) or go to the Retrouvaille web site ( Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion June 16/17 4 PM R. Aucoin, K. Hartdegan 9 AM J. Tusa, P. Cifreo, C. Rispoli, B. Soleto 11 AM J. Hutchison, J. Hutchison, J. Ackermann, J. Wright 6 PM M. Drawe, 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. Finding St. Anthony: A Story of Loss and Light St. Benilde will host a movie night on Friday, June 15, at 7 PM in the Teen Center. The presentation, Finding St. Anthony: A Story of Loss and Light, is a documentary film that focuses on the experiences of Fernando Martins de Bulhoes, a thirteenth century Christian, whom we know today as St. Anthony of Padua. Many Catholics and even non- Catholics, think of St. Anthony as the first one to turn to when something is lost. In the film we will discover a young man who was often lost and searching for the life God was calling him to lead. His journey will give insight and inspiration for our own spiritual journey. Please join us.

4 St. Benilde Catholic Church Fr. Cooper s Corner The Sacred Heart of Jesus June is traditionally the month dedicated to Jesus Sacred Heart. It has always struck me as noteworthy that we do not have a feast of Jesus sacred brain, even though Jesus is the eternal logos. We do not honor His hallowed hands, which, in spite of calluses from hard work in a hidden Nazarene carpentry shop, brought a tender healing touch to so many. There is no commemoration of the Lord s consecrated feet, which traversed the ancient holy land as He announced the Good News from town to town. There is no liturgical observation of Jesus blessed eyes, which looked on the rich young man with love and were so powerful that, with one glance, they could make Peter weep in the high priest s courtyard. There is no festival of His venerable voice, which amplified the Word of God made man. While there would be a certain fittingness to honoring all of these parts of Jesus sacred anatomy especially since His head was crowned with thorns, His hands and feet pierced by nails, His eyes bruised and beaten and His voice thoroughly parched on Good Friday out of love for us Jesus has never asked that we do so. Rather, when He began to appear to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in 1673, He did request that a feast be instituted to honor Him under the image and reality of His Sacred Heart. The Lord s reason for choosing His heart will always remain, in some ways, a great and beautiful mystery, but even with our limited human intellects we can come up with at least two partial explanations why. First, according to the language and imagery of the Bible, the heart has always been considered the center of the person, the point where reason, will, and emotions converge, the place where one finds his inner unity and direction. To honor Jesus heart means that we give homage to His entire sacred humanity, conscious that Jesus took our own nature in order to offer it for us, redeem it, and make it the sacred dwelling place of God once again. Second, the heart is the organ that most effectively symbolizes love. To adore Jesus heart is to venerate His great love for us. When Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary, He exposed His heart and she saw it engulfed in flames, a sign that He burns with love of us. Twice during the Last Supper, Jesus said that He loves us as much as the Father loves Him (Jn 13:34; Jn 15:13) and, just like the Father s love for Him, Jesus love for us has no limits. Jesus Himself revealed this to St. Margaret Mary when she saw His exposed, ardent heart also surrounded by a crown of thorns. No one has greater love, Jesus said, than to lay down his life for his friends, and the crown of thorns united in the midst of the flames is a sign of just how much suffering Jesus love for us was willing to bear. Because Jesus has a human heart, however, that heart can be broken, and it has been and not just when it was pierced with a lance upon the Cross. Jesus told St. Margaret Mary as much in 1675, because the burning love of His heart for us so often goes totally unrequited. Pointing to His heart, He said to her, Behold the heart which has so much loved men that it has spared nothing, even exhausting and consuming itself in testimony of its love. Instead of gratitude, I receive from most only indifference, by irreverence and sacrilege and the coldness and scorn that men have for me in the sacrament of love. The sacrament of love He was referring to was, of course, the Eucharist. This was

5 St. Benilde Catholic Church Volume 36: Issue 23 the reason why Jesus wanted the Feast of the Sacred Heart established within the octave of the Feast of Corpus Christi, so that a reparation of love and adoration could be done by the Church in response to the glacial indifference with which His abiding Eucharistic love is met. It is no surprise that He told St. Margaret Mary that that reparation should take a particularly Eucharistic form in the practice of frequent communion, especially on first Fridays, as well as by a vigil of prayerful adoration on Thursdays in memory of His agony and desertion. It is important to stress that Jesus was not just asking for devotion, not merely recognition, of His sacred humanity and burning love. For Him, it was not enough that people know that He loved them passionately enough to take on our humanity, redeem it, and then remain with us until the end of time in the Eucharist; He desired for that knowledge to pass from their heads, to their hearts, to their knees, to all parts of their lives. Much like what the Lord did with the Feast of Corpus Christi in the 13 th century and of Divine Mercy in the 20th creating the occasion for belief in His real presence in the Eucharist and in our need for His mercy to pass from knowledge to ardent love so with the revelation of His Sacred Heart, He wanted us to adore His sacred humanity and merciful love all in one, not in plaster statues, but in the Eucharist. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus brings us to the source and summit of the Christian life, which is the Eucharist. That is why Pope Benedict said that devotion to the Sacred Heart is essentially the center of the faith. The Heart of Christ, he stated, expresses in a simple and authentic way the glad tidings of love, summarizing the mystery of the Incarnation and the Redemption in itself God desired to enter into the limits of history and the human condition. He took on a body and a heart; thus we can contemplate and meet the infinite in the finite. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI calls every person to find his center in Jesus Sacred Heart, which he poetically says constitutes a source of truth and goodness to draw from in the flux of the different situations of everyday life and its toil. Every one of us, when he pauses for a moment of silence, needs to feel not only the beating of his own heart, but more deeply, the beating of a trustworthy presence, perceptible to the senses of faith and yet more real: the presence of Christ, the heart of the world. For that reason he explicitly wanted to invite everyone to renew his devotion to the Sacred Heart of Christ, in which man and woman can find again their center by rediscovering in Christ both the ontological meaning of their humanity which Christ humbled Himself to take so that we might share in His divinity as well as the moral meaning, in receiving and sharing the self-sacrificial love of Christ. This June is a special occasion for each of us to return to this devotion of our faith, this summary of the mystery of the Incarnation and Redemption. O Sacred Heart of Jesus, make our hearts like unto thine! Adoration Chapel We have several one-hour openings for permanent adorers in our Divine Mercy Adoration Chapel: Mondays 1-2 AM, 1-2 PM Fridays 3-4 AM; 1-2 PM; 5-6 PM Saturdays 1-2 AM; 2-3 AM; 3-4 AM If you would like to spend an hour in quiet prayer with the Lord, please call George Rojas at for more information. Ministry Workshops Scheduled We are in need of Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion for weekend Masses and for Homebound Communion. Two workshops for new ministers have been scheduled: July 21 and August 18, from 9 AM to 1 PM, at the Archdiocesan Administration Building, 7887 Walmsley Ave., New Orleans. If you feel called to this ministry, you must get Fr. Cooper s permission before registering with the Parish Office.

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7 JUNE 10, 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: