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Weekend Mass Schedule: 1st Saturday: 8:00am Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Saturday: 4:00 pm and 5:30 pm Sunday: 7:00, 9:00, 11:00 am & 6:30pm Roman Catholic Church Weekday Mass Schedule: 1303 St. Jude Avenue Monday, Wednesday & Friday: 12:15pm New Iberia, LA • 70560 ~ Tuesday & Thursday: 5:15pm Phone: 337-365-5481 Fax: 337-365-5483 Confessions: 15 minutes before each weekday Email: [email protected]~ Website: www.olphni.net Mass; Saturday: 3:00 pm-3:45 pm, and by appointment. STAFF Pastor Fr. Bill John Melancon Parochial Vicar Fr. Francois Sainte’Marie Deacon Durk Viator Trustees: Jed Leblanc Anne Minvielle Catholic High School Advisory Council Representative: April Byrom Bookkeeper—Joan Berard Office Assistant-Charlene Guillot Evangelization Director/ High School Formation: Mike Norris Adm.Asst./ Safe Environment/ Middle School Formation Peggy Tauzin Elementary School Formation Anna Breaux Receptionist—Anne-Claire Viator Bulletin Editor/Office Assistant Sandy Babineaux Sacristan Karen “Kerrie” Laviolette Custodian Roxanne Hebert Office Hours Monday 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, 1:00 pm- 4:00 pm Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 8:30 am - 12:00 pm, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Friday 8:30 am- 12:00 pm Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time DISCOVERING CHRIST THE CALL ROOTED IN DISCOVERY A friend once told me that he lives every day of his life looking for This experience taught me so much about what it means to be someone who tries to follow Christ. I discovered that in order to get a chance to meet the Lord. I agreed that this was the way I led my to know Christ more and more, we have to be the ones who are life also, until one day when I discovered exactly what he meant. diligently searching for him in the people we encounter every single He had been traveling in my neighborhood and had come across a day of our lives. Today the Lord Jesus asks us to pray that the young man, with no shoes on his feet, who was asking people for abundant harvest will have more laborers. Let us pray that more and money outside the local convenience store. He told the young man more people will have the courage to search for Christ in their that he would do what he could to get him some shoes and fresh everyday lives. And perhaps some will hear the voice of the Lord clothing. And where did he bring this young man to find these calling them into ordained ministry. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. shoes and clothes? To my house! I was taken aback when the two ******************************************************** arrived at my front door and my friend explained the situation. He OBSTACLES... The prophet Ezekiel, Saint Paul, and the Lord Jesus told me how excited he was that another day had passed and he share something in common in today’s scripture readings. They all found this opportunity to meet the Lord. I was dumbfounded, yet experience obstacles to their ministry. Ezekiel is summoned to profoundly humbled by the very presence of Christ in my home. I prophesy to the Israelites, who are “[h]ard of face and obstinate of went to my dresser drawer and hesitated briefly as I drew out some heart” (Ezekiel 2:4). Saint Paul recounts how he has been given a clothes I hadn’t worn in a long time. Something inside me said to “thorn in the flesh” (2 Corinthians 12:7). The Lord Jesus is unable to go to the closet. There I pulled out my favorite jeans, a fairly new perform many signs in his native place. The Gospel tells us that “[he] shirt and sweater, some new underclothes, a pair of shoes and was amazed at their lack of faith” (Mark 6:6). We too sometimes encounter obstacles as we travel along the journey of faith. So often socks. The young man went into the bathroom to change and when we experience weakness on this journey. Let the words of the Lord to he emerged, his face was nothing less than radiant. In the mean- Saint Paul encourage us today: “My grace is sufficient for you, for time my friend had raided my refrigerator, had made up a “to-go” power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9).Copyright © meal, and took the young man to a place where he could spend the J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. night. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. RICHES TO RAGS Why would a wealthy heiress leave a life of luxury for one of poverty and service? The life of Saint Katharine Drexel (1858– TODAY’S READINGS 1955) is a “riches to rags” story that turns the conventional American success story upside down. Katharine was the middle First Reading — They shall know that a prophet has been daughter of a wealthy, socially prominent Philadelphia banker. Her father was convinced that their large fortune meant that among them (Ezekiel 2:2-5). God had greater expectations of them concerning its use. Psalm — Our eyes are fixed on the Lord, pleading for his Katharine saw the impact of her family’s generosity, which mercy (Psalm 123). influenced her to devote her life and money to the poor. Second Reading — I am content with weaknesses and hard- Initially she wanted simply to renounce her fortune. She even ships for the sake of Christ (2 Corinthians 12:7-10). asked Pope Leo XIII to send missionary priests to serve Native Gospel — The people said: “Where did this man get all this? Americans. He suggested she do it herself, so Katharine gave Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary?” up her place of privilege to found the Sisters of the Blessed (Mark 6:1-6). Sacrament, devoted to serving African-Americans and Native All rights reserved Americans. Using twenty million dollars of her own money, she founded over sixty schools and established Xavier University in READINGS FOR THE WEEK New Orleans, the only Catholic university for African- Americans. As they spread across the United States, Katharine READINGSMonday: FORHos THE 2:16, WEEK 17b-18, 21-22; Ps 145:2-9; and her sisters extended themselves tirelessly in caring for those Mt 9:18-26 on the margins of American society. Like the seventy disciples Tuesday: Hos 8:4-7, 11-13; Ps 115:3-10; Mt 9:32-38 in today’s Gospel, they and their work were despised by some. Wednesday: Hos 10:1-3, 7-8, 12; Ps 105:2-7; Mt 10:1-7 They were called vicious names and spat upon in the street. Thursday: Hos 11:1-4, 8c-9; Ps 80:2ac, 3b, 15-16; Mother Katharine, as her sisters called her, renounced wealth and embraced poverty because of her deep love for Jesus Mt 10:7-15 Christ, gratitude for his sacrifice on the cross, and desire to be Friday: Hos 14:2-10; Ps 51:3-4, 8-9, 12-14, 17; united with him forever. In Jesus’ name, she and her sisters Mt 10:16-23 brought education, material assistance, and above all, the Good Saturday: Is 6:1-8; Ps 93:1-2, 5; Mt 10:24-33 News to those despised or avoided by society at large. Blessed Sunday: Am 7:12-15; Ps 85:9-14; Sacrament Sisters continue serving today, bringing the message Eph 1:3-14 [3-10]; Mk 6:7-13 of today’s Gospel: “The kingdom of God is at hand for you” (Luke 10:9). All rights reserved Copyright © 2009, World Library Publications. All rights reserved. MASS INTENTIONS ANNOUNCEMENTS SATURDAY, July 7th Catholic Daughters of the Americas Court 8:00am—Joyce Lambert Blessed Mother Teresa #2550 meets every 2nd 4:00pm—Loveless Vice Family/ Kern Comeaux Monday of the month (except June and July) in the Maxine McDonald Boudreaux/ Ella Mae Sedotal/ Parish Life Center of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Ella & Walter F. Shipp, Church, 1303 St. Jude Ave., @ 6:00pm. “We Dr. & Mrs. Rene Broussard/ Barbara Dubois/ welcome anyone interested in joining to attend.” Joey Glenn Broussard/ Danny & Nolan Meche/ ************************************************* Mark deClouet/ Betty & Howard Lasseigne/ Ryan Segura/ Johnny & Brenda Breaux/ In Prayerful Remembrance of our beloved deceased. Arnold “Bud” Pellerin/ Linda Goodyear, Please pray for the soul of Godfrey Bourque, Sr. & Family/ Gertrude “Gert” Provost M/M Alvin Menard/ Glynn Breaux & Family/ who recently died and for those who mourn for her. Mona Dore/ Fr. Jacob Dumont/ Dan & Edith Boutte/ Earl Migues, Sr. 5:30pm—Henry & Eulalie Broussard/ Fr. Jacob Dumont ALTAR SERVER SCHEDULE SUNDAY, July 8th Saturday, July 14th 7:00am—Lester & Cynthia Babineaux Lopez/ 4:00 pm—Layne & Bennet Boudreaux Fr. Nicholas Dupre’ 5:30 pm—Colton Broussard, 9:00 am— All Parishioners of OLPH Caroline Viator 11:00 am—Ernest Freyou/ Albert Pisani/ Sunday, July 15th Tony Gassiot/ Eugene & Ruby Duhon/ 7:00 am—Marcus Jacob Sidonia L. & Wilton Joseph Dore/ Patricia Verret/ 9:00 am—Ensley Landry For the Souls in Purgatory/ Mona Dore/ 11:00 am–Zoe Robinson Fr. Nicholas Dupre’/ Dominic Tac, Peter Tam, Wyatt Bergeron Anton Tang, Joseph Xuam/ Louis Douet/ 6:30pm—Anya & Isabelle Berry Special Intention 6:30 pm—Fr. Nicholas Dupre’ MONDAY, July 9th—Angelus @ noon 12:15pm--Maxine McDonald Boudreaux/ RCIA classes will begin on July 11, 2018 for Fr. Gilbert Dutel anyone interested in becoming Catholic. TUESDAY, July 10th—Novena to OLPH @ 5:00pm 5:15pm —Eugene & Ruby Duhon/ Please call Peggy @ the Parish Life Office, Fr. Dan Edwards 365-5481, to register. WEDNESDAY,July 11th— 12:15pm—Ernest Freyou/ Fr. Darren Eldridge THURSDAY, July 12th The Vocation Cross will be in the home 5:15pm— Albert Pisani/ Fr.