THE HOLY YEAR of St. Joseph St. Joseph Catholic Church (Established 1848)
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October 25, 2020 Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time THE HOLY YEAR of St. Joseph St. Joseph Catholic Church (Established 1848) Parish Directory Celebration of Holy Mass Weekday Mailing Address: 1011 First St. Monday thru Thursday 11:00am Patterson, LA 70392 Weekend Saturday 4:30pm Email: [email protected] Sunday 8:00am & 10:30am Office / Rectory: 985-395-3616 Reconciliation Fr. Herb Bennerfield, Pastor ext. 3 ~ 20 minutes before Masses begin or Bobbie Diaz (Office Manager) ext. 4 ~ anytime by appointment. Office Fax: 985-395-9129 Rectory Office Hours Mon. thru Thur. 9:am to 3pm Education Office: 985-395-3881 Fri. 9am to 12 noon Mamie Perry (DRE) ext. 5 ~ Education Office Hour. Education Fax: 985-395-3685 Mon. thru Thur. 9:am to 3pm Email: [email protected] Fri. 9am to 12 noon Websites: St. Joseph Church New Parishioners www.stjosephpatla.org We welcome you with great joy and invite you to register and worship with us regularly. Forms are available in the Diocese of Lafayette rectory. www.diolaf.org SACRAMENT INFORMATION Baptism - Instructions are offered for both parents and godparents during the months of February, May , Pray for August, and November . Plan accordingly when expecting a child or choosing godparents and call 395- 3881 to register for the class or to Our Nation! schedule a baptism. Confirmation - Young people are prepared for Confirmation through the Confirmation Program. Adoration for Our Nation, A nationwide day of prayer, 3 November 2020 Adults are prepared for Confirmation On election day Catholic churches across the country are opening their doors for Eucharistic through the R.C.I.A. Matrimony - Diocesan Policy Adoration. We are joining this effort to bring healing, hope and prayer to our nation through our requires that a couple make Lord, Jesus. We are asking parishioners to sign up for one hour of adoration between the hours of arrangements with the pastor at least 6 months prior to desired date. 12:00 P.M. and 9:00 P.M. on Tuesday, November 3. For more information or to sign up for an hour, Sacrament of The Sick - Call the please contact Angie Stelly at 985-759-3154 (call or text). rectory to make arrangements for Communion and Anointing. Rite of Christian Burial - Arrangements to be made with a Prayer for Hurricane Season priest by the family. WIN A Sacrament of Holy Orders or calling to religious life - please WREATH! O God, Master of this passing world, hear the contact the priest in order to discern God’s will. humble voices of your children. The Sea of R.C.I.A. (Rite of Christian Galilee obeyed your order and returned to its Initiation of Adults) - This process former quietude; you are still the Master of is structured to provide information for the formation of those who are $1.00 / Ticket land and sea. We live in the shadow of a seeking a fuller life as Christians in danger over which we have no control. The the Catholic Tradition. For Gulf, like a provoked and angry giant, can information, please call the Office of Religious Education. awake from its seeming lethargy, overstep its Religious Education For Children conventional boundaries, invade our land, Call the Office of Religious Education for information about registering Support the religious education and spread chaos and disaster. During this your child. programs at St. Joseph Catholic hurricane season, we turn to You, O loving Father. Spare us from past tragedies whose Knights of Columbus - Meet the Church! second Thurs. of the month at 7pm. memories are still so vivid and whose wounds seem to refuse to heal with the passing of Come Lord Jesus Groups - time. O Virgin, Star of the Sea, Our Beloved Seeking to become closer to God, Drawing to be held November 22nd learning more about scripture and Mother, we ask you to plead with your Son in being spiritually prepared for Sunday @ St. Joseph Parish Hall immediately our behalf, so that spared from the calamities liturgy….consider joining a CLJ Group Call Marguerite Sumrall following the 10:30 am Mass. common to this area and animated with a true 395-5304 for more information. The winner will be contacted, spirit of gratitude, we will walk in the you do NOT have to be present to win. footsteps of your Divine Son to reach the heavenly Jerusalem where a storm-less Tickets can be purchased after Mass on weekends or from the Rectory. eternity awaits us. Amen. MASS INTENTIONS UPCOMING EVENTS… LIVE ON FACEBOOK! Father’s Adult Discussion Group : MONDAY, OCT. 26 Monday, 6:30pm @ the parish hall. 11:00 A.M: Sylvia Felterman, Gertrude Bailey, Virginia & Luke Lipari, Floyd Estay, Gail Smith, Mrs Year of St. Joseph Mission Melba & Murray Trahan, Brocato fly deceased, Ross Tuesday, October 27 at 6:30pm Grimball, Anthony Morella, , Mildred Bernadou, Gail Smith, Rucco Guarisco, Nick Accardo, Ronnie Roy, Wilson Bailey, BL Como, Andrus LeCompte, Rosary— every Monday @ 8:30am in Paul Brown, Peggy Rentrop, Donnie Landry, Kevin Church Tabor, Lola Riveria, J. Adams, Barbara Joy, Anita Hebert, Irene Mouton, Marshall Gray III, Gully Taylor, Frank Guarisco, Frank Governale, Kevin Garrett, Jackie Couture All Saints Day Flowers TUESDAY, OCT. 27 11:00 A.M: If you would like to donate money in memory WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28 of a loved one for All Saints & All Souls Day, 11:00 A.M: BLESSING OF THE GRAVES please contact the THURSDAY, OCT. 29 11:00P.M: Frank Guarisco, Gully Taylor Sun., Nov,1 rectory. 395-3616 FRIDAY, OCT. 30 NO MASS 12noon, Sunday-“Blessing of the Graves” (St. Joseph) SATURDAY, Oct. 31 4:30 P.M: Wilson & Gertrude Bailey, Frank 3pm, Sunday - “Blessing of the Graves” ( Ibert’s ) Guarisco, Gully Taylor, Ashton Flair, Donald & Mon., Nov. 2 All Souls Mass in the Graveyard 11am Leona Smith, Graci Andrews, Max Griffin SUNDAY, Nov. 1 All Saints Day 8:00am: Sylvia Felterman, Beth Verret, Floyd Estay, You Need to Know: One of the most important documents issued by the Catholic Katherine Cardinale, Judy Clark, Elsa Y. Parchmont, Church during the 20th century is the Lamentabili promulgated by Pope St. Pius X in 1907. Jackie Couture, John DiMatteo,, BL Como, Irene Mouton, Charpentier & Costa Fly living & deceased, Formally the “Lamentabili sane exitu” (with truly lamentable results”), it is a series or syllabus of Gail V. Smith, Pat Scully, M/M Gus Cremaldi, Elaine errors of Modernism which our late Holy Father condemned as being opposed to the Catholic Cremaldi, Barcenas & Guderian fly, M/M Jake P. Liari, faith. Modernism had been in existence for hundreds of years at that point and it was beginning M/M Andrus LeCompte, USA Military (living & to afflict many aspects of the Church. As a philosophy that tended to look inward to the self and to science rather Deceased), M/M Fulton Felterman Sr., Ernest & than to God, by the early 20th century there were those within the Church who sought to rid it of all traditional Dwight Coleman, Myran Ose, AJ Moncada, Guarisco & Moncada fly, Alvin Cloud, Paul & Josephine teachings as well as the Magisterium, the teaching arm of the Church. Modernism within the Catholic Church was Accardo, Accardo & Cremaldi fly, Katie Rose Simon, largely centered in France, Italy, and England. Many of the Modernist theologians of the time were thought to be Russell & Molly Governale, Frank & Diane influenced by the writings of Alfred Loisy, who expressed a relativistic view of truth where truth was changeable, Governale, Ashton Flair, Anthony & Josephine Bila, and Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species in regard to evolution. There are 65 individual propositions in the Gerard Bila, Wayne Leblanc, M/M Daniel Stelly, M/M Lamentabili that were condemned by Pius X. These include: the Church’s Magisterium cannot determined the Dallas Bertrand, Special Intention, Laura Gobert genuine sense of Sacred Scripture: they display simplicity or ignorance who believe God is really the author of 10:30am For the People of our Parish (Living & Deceased) Sacred Scripture: divine inspiration does not extend to all of Sacred Scripture: the fourth gospel (John ) Note: If a name is not printed above, due to exaggerated miracles to show the work and glory of God; the Resurrection of the Savior is not properly a fact of the human error, be assured that God has accepted historical order, but rather merely the supernatural order; the sacraments have their origin in the Apostles and their your intention in heaven. Canon Law 94 successors interpreting some idea and intention of Christ; the Christian community imposed the necessity of Baptism; it was far from Christ’s mind to found a Church as a society that would continue on earth for a long course Sick Relatives & Friends of centuries; Simon Peter never suspected that Christ entrusted the primacy in the Church to him; truth is no more Please pray for the sick of our parish & immutable than man himself; scientific progress demands that concepts of Christian doctrine concerning God, their caregivers: Stella Saleme, Jason creation, revelation, the Person of the Incarnate word, and redemption be adjusted; modern Catholicism can be Hernandez, Nicole Hingle, Wilda Cali, Angelle reconciled with true science only if it is transformed into non– dogmatic Christianity– into a broad and liberal Hebert, Iris Roy, Celeste Jumonville, Owen Hebert, Protestantism. As we can see from just this handful of condemned propositions, Modernism spread quickly Jackie Como, David Hartford, Lee Michel, Anne throughout our Church and remains with its errors in some very high places even today. Nevertheless, from the Broussard, Cursey Gordon, Rose Johnson, Robert Johnson, Scott Governale, Daisy LeBlanc, Shira Lamentabili’s promulgation until Vatican II all clerics were required to take an Oath against Modernism.