Most Blessed Sacrament 15615 Jefferson Hwy. Baton Rouge, LA 70817-6311 Parish News On Line: www.mbsparish.org February 23-24, 2019 Volume XXXIV No. 8 The Parish Family of Most Blessed Sacrament Church invites you to join us at the Celebration of the Eucharist on February 24, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. honoring Father Donald Blanchard on the occasion of his 50th Anniversary of Ordination to the Priesthood at Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church 15615 Jefferson Hwy. Baton Rouge, LA Reception to follow in the Most Blessed Sacrament School Gym Your presence is your gift Dear Parishioners, As you see here, Fr. Blanchard celebrates his 50th Anniversary this Sunday, February 24th at 2:30 p.m. (actual date of ordination is March 1, 1969) here at MBS. I am grateful that Fr. Blanchard is a very active retired priest sharing his passionate faith at our liturgies and at other venues in the Diocese of Baton Rouge and New Orleans. I am deeply appreciative of his wisdom and friendship we ve shared over many years. I hope you can be a part of this Eucharistic Celebration (fulfills your Sunday obligation) and the reception to follow in the MBS School Gym. Congratulations, prayers, and love on behalf of our MBS family (in addition to the many churches he s served over the last 50 years). Sincerely in Christ, Fr. Phil P.S. If your schedule doesn t allow attendance for the Mass, feel free to come by the reception between 4:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. or so. Lent begins Ash Wednesday - March 6th Masses with distribution of ashes are at 8:45 a.m., 12:00 noon, and 6:30 p.m.
Parish Staff Pastor...Fr. Phil Spano Mass Assistance Fr. Donald Blanchard Parish Life Coord.....Deacon Don Musso Permanent Deacon.. Deacon Mark Berard Receptionist...Andrea Leger Secretary...Caryn Didier Bookkeeper...Darlene Moscona Director of Music...Kathy Duplessis and Ministry Youth Directors...Jeanne Mancuso West Giffin Director of Christian Formation. Christian Formation office - (225) 751-5867 Secretary-Christian Formation...Theresa LeBoeuf Child Protection Coordinator...Roslyn Landry Child Protection office - (225) 753-5526 Parish Office Hours: Monday Thursday: 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. (Closed 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.) Friday: 8:00 a.m. - Noon BAPTISMS: Twice a month, after 11:30 Mass. Call office during pregnancy to sign up and for class information. MARRIAGE: Law of Diocese requires 6 month preparation period prior to wedding. Call church office for more information. FUNERAL: Please call the priest for prayer and before setting date/time. RCIA: If interested in becoming Catholic, call the church office. Mass Schedule: Saturday: 4:30 p.m./confessions 3:00 p.m. Sunday: 8:00 a.m., 9:45 a.m., & 11:30 a.m. Monday: 8:45 a.m. - Communion Service Tuesday - Friday: 8:45 a.m. except during school year when Thursday Mass is at 8:15 a.m. MBS SCHOOL 8033 Baringer Road Baton Rouge, LA 70817 Principal: Cheri Gioe School Phone 751-0273 / Fax: 753-7259 Extended Care: Sheena Gauthier 751-0023 MBS Early Learning Center 7853 Broker Avenue Baton Rouge, LA 70817 Director: Laurina Conger 752-8829 This Week at MBS... Sunday, February 24, 2019 9:15 am PSR Elementary - School Rooms 9:30 am RCIA - St. John Room 9:30 am RCIC - St. Luke Room 12:30 pm Baptisms - Church 2:30 pm Fr. Blanchard 50th Anniv. Mass - Church 4:00 pm Fr. Blanchard 50th Anniv. Reception - Gym 5:30 pm PSR High School - School Rooms Monday, February 25, 2019 9:15 am Faith-Fellowship-Friendship/Men - St. Luke 6:30 pm Bible Study - St. John Room Tuesday, February 26, 2019 9:30 pm Bible Study - St. John Room Wednesday, February 27, 2019 9:30 am Walking With Purpose - St. Luke Room 6:30 pm Walking With Purpose - St. John Room 7:00 pm Choir Practice - Church 7:00 pm Baptism Seminar. - St. Luke Room Thursday, February 28, 2019 6:00 pm Wedding Rehearsal - Church 7:00 pm Scripture & Spirituality - St. John Room Friday, March 1, 2019 7:00 pm Wedding - Church DO NO HARM We listen quite a while before we get to the punch line of the first reading today: even though it would be an easy thing to do, David will not harm the anointed one of the Lord. We, of course, know that Jesus is the Messiah, the anointed one of God, but the Bible uses this term for many different people. It is scripture s way of indicating who has been chosen by God for a special place and mission in salvation history. In today s Gospel, Jesus presents a greatly enlarged list of those who, as children of God, we should not harm, but love instead: our enemies, those who curse us or do us harm, those who owe us money, the ungrateful, the wicked. The point of Jesus teaching is not to encourage these kinds of behaviors in others, but rather to form us in the image of our heavenly Father by increasing our opportunities to love unconditionally, expecting no return; to be merciful and forgiving, even when it would be easier not to. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co.
Musical Reflections On The Passion 2019 Second Annual Performance presented by Michael McDowell. All are invited for a night of improvised piano music in an immersive spiritual environment inviting reflection on The Passion and Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Palm Sunday - April 14, 2019 MBS Church 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $20 plus tax for the first five rows, $15 plus tax for advance tickets, or $20 at the door. To purchase tickets, go to www.mcdowellpianist.com After every Good Friday there is always an Easter Sunday. With an Irish accent these words were often spoken by Father Mike Collins. To continue his legacy, Poppy s Pancakes will be held on March 23, 2019 from 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. at Pointe-Marie Village Center (14200 River Road) just West of L Auberge Casino in Baton Rouge with proceeds benefiting St. Jude Children s Research Hospital. A limited number of advance sale tickets are available. Sponsorship and donation opportunities are also available. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit the website at poppyspancakes.com.
Instructions for Mission Appeal: Please note that on the 1st weekend of each month, we normally take up a 2nd collection for our MBS Building & Development Fund. For the weekend of March 2nd-3rd, the 2nd collection will be for a Mission Appeal as mentioned on this bulletin page. I m asking that you please place your regular Weekly Stewardship AND your monthly Building & Development offerings together in the 1st collection. For the 2nd collection Mission Appeal, if paying by check - make it payable to MBS with notation of Mission Appeal and place donation in 2nd collection. Walking with Purpose Women's Bible Study - Living in the Father's Love Do you sometimes doubt if God really loves you? Are you searching for purpose? Do you struggle to measure up to our culture s definition of beauty? Is there someone you need to forgive, but you don t know how? Lisa Brenninkmeyer, the founder of Walking with Purpose, created this study to give women practical ways to apply the truth of the Bible to their everyday challenges. This brief but powerful six-week Bible study is the ideal way to revive and refresh yourself. Discover just how much God loves us and how the Gospels are deeply relevant to our relationship with God and with those we love. This Bible Study will kick-off on Wednesday, February 27 in the St. Luke Room. Then, we will meet on Wednesday's during lent from March 13th through April 17th from 10 AM - 11:45 AM. Please join us for coffee and snacks to find out more about yourself and your relationship with Christ. To register for this Bible Study, please call Angela Diffendal at (225) 252-1489 or Beth Robb at (225) 406-1731. MBS 2019 MISSION APPEAL Next Weekend - March 2-3, 2019 The Propagation of the Faith office of our diocese has invited the Diocese of Kumbakonam, India to speak to us about their missionary activities and challenges. Accordingly, Rev. M. S. Selva Raj will be speaking at Most Blessed Sacrament during all the Masses on the weekend of March 2-3, 2019. This diocese, started in 1899 in the State of Tamil Nadu, India, has an area of 7823 sq. km and a Catholic population of 213,000 (6% of the population). It is served by 210 diocesan and 63 religious priests, 588 nuns and 15 trained lay catechists. The diocese has certain concrete and meaningful goals for a New Evangelization in the III millennium which are: 1) Establishing 10 more new parishes, each with a new church and rectory. At present, this diocese is 93 parishes and 618 mission-stations. Many of the missions are so large that they have to be made independent parishes with a resident priest. Most Catholics have no vehicle to travel to the main parish church for Sunday Mass. The people are unable to give financial support for such pressing pastoral projects. 2) Providing the 126 Catholic schools in the missions with better facilities, tools, children s Bibles, a projector, catechetical materials in the form of DVDs, pictures, text-books and workbooks to improve the quality of religious and faith formation of Catholic and Non-Catholic students in mission schools. 3) Enabling 485 nuns and 2,155 Catholic teachers in charge of catechetical, educational, medical and social ministries throughout this rural diocese. The need to educate the children in the Catholic faith and to help the people, particularly the poor, for their integral development. 4) Providing buildings and infrastructure to our mission schools in villages since education in a main means of evangelization while the government pays most of the teachers. 5) Education of more young men in the seminary since the diocese abounds in vocation to priesthood and religious life so that some can be sent as missionaries to missions abroad where there is a shortage of priests. Note: Every year, an average of 50 young men and women go out of the diocese to other missions in India and abroad to serve God and His people as missionaries. 6) Education of 1000 very poor or orphan children from poor families every year by providing them with free board & lodge. All the above mission projects are 80% dependent on Mission Cooperative Appeal funds. The diocese is trying to materialize these missionary goals, depending on the availability of funds. The mission and spiritual prospects of Kumbadonam diocese are bright but its needs are many and pressing. Sixty percent of its Catholics are depressingly poor. Therefore, your fervent prayers and generous help are earnestly requested for building the Kingdom of God, in and through the diocese of Kumbakonam, India.
Lenten Regulations for the Diocese of Baton Rouge In the Diocese of Baton Rouge, as in the rest of the Church in the United States, Catholics ages 18-59 are bound by a grave obligation to observe a solemn fast on both Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Catholics ages 14 and up are to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday, all Fridays of Lent, and Good Friday as well. To fast means to consume only one full meal a day at most, although taking of other, smaller quantities of food at the other customary mealtimes is permitted. Food and drink "between meals" (excepting only water and medicine) is not permitted on fast days. To abstain from meat means refraining from eating beef, veal, pork, or poultry at least, although not necessarily eggs, milk products, or meat broths or condiments made from animal fat. The consumption of fish, shellfish, and reptiles (e.g., turtle, alligator) is permitted if desired. Each in his or her own way, every Christian is bound to do penance by virtue of divine law. Only ill health or some similar situation of urgency excuses. Christ Jesus' own challenges to "prayer, fasting and almsgiving" are paramount (see the Gospel reading for Ash Wednesday, Mt 6:1-6, 16-18). We seek forgiveness for sin (especially in the Sacrament of Penance) and come to appreciate ever more the great sufferings and sacrifice which Jesus experienced for the sake of our salvation. Scout Sunday at MBS February 10th Fr. Blanchard extends a blessing of apprecia on to all of the youth and adults in the various Scou ng programs at Most Blessed Sacrament
Most Blessed Sacrament Church Mission Statement The mission of Most Blessed Sacrament Church is for members to witness the real presence of the Lord in word and sacrament, and that they may live out the message from the gospel and serve one another as followers of Jesus Christ. Mass Schedule and Intentions Sat. Feb. 23 4:30 pm Bonnie Trude Morris & Carr Families Warren & Doris Naquin Theophile Perrault John Garitty Mr & Mrs Gene Leach Martha Matherne Carlos Michael Holmes Cody Holmes Sun. Feb. 24 8:00 am Rosemary LaBruzza Day Irene Berthelot Linda White Cheryl Manders Angie, Bernard, and Mya Mistretta Josh Thurmond Terri Lyn Lambert Marti Alavarrita 9:45 am For The People 11:30 am Nora Eckert Dan Englert Phil Muscarello Nessa Hartley Jeri McInturff Leona Rose Mon. Feb. 25 8:45 am Communion Service Tues. Feb. 26 8:45 am Wed. Feb. 27 8:45 am Thurs. Feb. 28 8:15 am Joey Boudreau Fri. Mar. 1 8:45 am Jacquin-Brun Families Lydie Broussard Patrice Smyczek STEWARDSHIP OFFERING - February 9-10, 2019 Identified Contributors $22,577.00 Unidentified Contributors $ 2,212.00 Total $24,789.00 PRAYING FOR ALL MILITARY Please keep the following in your daily prayers: Andy Blum Scott & Jamie French Caleb Burris Nathan Colter Jeremy Ferguson Brett Gilbert Chris & Ali Jones Eric Schweitzer Connor Ryan Adam Girior Morgan Miller Tyler Phelps Andrew Barksdale Trey Perault Craig Dardenne Alex Grantier Brian Primeaux Will Howland Landon Bourg Matthew Bourgeois Maxwell Conger Steven Dubuc Nathan Scott Jorge Vega SUNDAY READINGS First Reading David found Saul in a deep sleep, but would not harm him (1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23). Psalm The Lord is kind and merciful (Psalm 103). Second Reading We shall bear the image of the heavenly Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45-49). Gospel Give to everyone who asks of you. Lend expecting nothing back (Luke 6:27-38). READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday:Sir 1:1-10; Ps 93:1-2, 5; Mk 9:14-29 Tuesday:Sir 2:1-11; Ps 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40; Mk 9:30-37 Wednesday:Sir 4:11-19; Ps 119:165, 168, 171, 172, 174, 175; Mk 9:38-40 Thursday:Sir 5:1-8; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Mk 9:41-50 Friday:Sir 6:5-17; Ps 119:12, 16, 18, 27, 34, 35; Mk 10:1-12 Saturday:Sir 17:1-15; Ps 103:13-18; Mk 10:13-16 Masses - February 23-24, 2019 4:30 p.m. 8:00 a.m. 9:45 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Celebrant - Subject to Change Fr. Phil Fr. Phil Fr. Phil Fr. Phil February 23-24, 2019 The 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Servers Lectors Extraordinary Ministers 4:30 pm A Loya, C Adolph, J Wicker T Hollis, L Tabary G Landry, M Weger, T Hollis, B Conner, C Canale, L Sulik, Deacon Don, B Landry 8:00 am E Lacombe, M Gauthier, A Button S Werling, M Werling K Hollier, W Rabalais, C Rabalais, J Lahners, D Romero, S Vermaelen, S Gaudet, M Vermaelen 9:45 am E Waguespack, C O Quin, N Huff A Guillot, N Zeringue K Johnson, F Fleniken, D Broussard, J Gutierrez, M Delafield, B LaSalle, W Golden, P Mistretta 11:30 am B Meek, JP Manasseh, T Oudit J Mancuso, S Long D Passman, V Webre, K Browning, J Ruh, MK Aucoin, C LeBlanc, Deacon Mark, T Passman
CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS Most Blessed Sacrament Church #515223 15615 Jefferson Highway Baton Rouge, LA 70817 TELEPHONE 225 752-6230 CONTACT PERSON Caryn Didier EMAIL: cdidier@mbsparish.org SOFTWARE MSPublisher 2016 Adobe Acrobat XI Windows 10 TRANSMISSION TIME Thursday 5:00 SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION February 23-24, 2019 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 1 through 7 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: