AGNES Church 749 EAST BOULEVARD BATON ROUGE, LA 70802

• Office: 225-383-4127 • Fax: 225-383-4154

• Email: [email protected] or [email protected] • Website: www.stagnesbr.com February 9, 2020 • 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time PARISH STAFF Rev. Charbel Jamhoury Mr. Keith Manley Pastor Security/Sacristan

Rev. J. Clifton Hill, C.S.Sp. Mrs. Nancy Hendrick In Residence Cantor

Ms. Carla Landry Rev. Joey F. Angeles Latin Choir Director In Residence Mr. Daniel Blanchard Mrs. Kitty Blanchard Organist Bookkeeper/Secretary Child Protection Coordinator Miss Christi Atkinson Pianist Mr. Michael Sanders Bulletin/Website Mr. Danny Atkinson Guitarist

Mr. Allen Taylor Mr. Eric LeDuff Coord. of Religious Education Facilities Service Manager

MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday Vigil ...... 4:00 p.m. Sunday ...... 8:00 a.m., 9:15 a.m. (Tridentine), 11:00 a.m. Monday–Friday………... 6:00 a.m. (also 5:30 p.m. during Lent) Saturday ...... 8:00 a.m.

CONFESSIONS: Before daily Mass and Saturday morning Mass.

PARISH OFFICE HOURS Also, Saturdays 3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. or by appointment.

Monday, Wednesday & Thursday: : Contact the Parish Office. 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Tuesday & Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. MARRIAGES: Engaged couples should contact the Pastor six months before the wedding date for preparations. Closed on Holidays

SPECIAL DEVOTIONS DONATIONS FOR WEEKEND OF

Perpetual Help Novena Prayers: February 1st & 2nd February 15th & 16th

Tuesday after 6:00 a.m. Mass Saturday Vigil: Regular Collection 7,597.00 st 4:00 p.m. Fr. Charbel Benediction: 1 Friday after 6 a.m. Mass Capital Campaign 1,110.00 1st Saturday before 8:00 a.m. Mass Repairs/Replacements 165.00 Sunday: Healing Mass: In honor of St. Charbel Other 105.00 8:00 a.m. Fr. Charbel 22nd of every month at 6 p.m. ————— 9:15 a.m. (Latin) Fr. Hill Pro-Life Mass: Total $8,977.00 nd 11:00 a.m. Fr. Charbel 2 Tuesday of the month at 5:30 p.m.

Adoration Chapel: Open Daily

Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Total amount allocated for

Capital Campaign: Due to unforeseen circumstances, clergy Holy Hour for Vocations: $153,297.96 assignments may change. 1st Saturday of every month 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. From Fr. Charbel… 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time February 9, 2020

My dear parishioners and friends,

“Peace be with you!”

(St John Paul II and the Eucharist)

Prayer was the rhythm of St John Paul’s life. Someone said: “While walking from place to place inside the Vatican or outside, prayer became as natural and vital to him as his breath”. Even though he loved to communicating with God with an incessant prayer, the best and favorite place to pray for him was before the Blessed Sacrament. One of his collaborators said that, the union with our Eucharistic Lord allowed the “"not merely to speak to Christ, but actually to converse with him." When he was a bishop, he told his friend one time that, for each person, the true meaning of the Eucharist consists on the fact that “we have two people in one another’s presence: Our Lord and me” he said. The true and authentic prayer for him is when we desire to be as attentive to God in the adoration chapel as He is to us. And under the species of the bread and wine, God is present to us, in His Body and Blood, and in His Soul and Divinity, as he always confessed it.

The Eucharist was the principal reason for his priesthood. He said, "For me, the Mass constitutes the center of my life and my every day. Saint John Paul didn't merely offer the Mass. He lived it as we say, and became, as we pray on the Eucharistic prayer at the Mass, “a living sacrifice” offered to the Father for the of the world. " He wrote: “The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church and to the whole world… Let Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament speak to your hearts. It is he who is the true answer of life that you seek. He stays here with us: he is God with us. Seek him without tiring, welcome him without reserve, love him without interruption: today, tomorrow, forever”.

(to be continued) 5th Sunday in O.T. (Latin: Septuagesima Sunday) February 9, 2020

Mass Intentions Mon (10) 6:00am Rose Brian ad intentionem dantis Tue (11) 6:00am List of the Deceased Chef David

Wed (12) 6:00am Gerald Beatty Call for all your catering needs Marjorie Metzger Thu (13) 6:00am St. Agnes Clergy & Staff ad int. Holidays • Parties • Special Occasions Fri (14) 6:00am Carol Hissong Sat (15) 8:00am Lorena Henson (Vigil) 4:00pm Meyers Family (225) 936-4353 Kenny & Crystal Kittelman Sun (16) 8:00am For the Parishioners (Latin) 9:15am John & Concetta Greco 11:00am Paul Livaudais, Jr.

Sanctuary lamp Vocation View The sanctuary lamp in church burns this week in How blest are parents who support their children who memorial of Louis Oldenburg; in the chapel it embrace a vocation, knowing that it is God who calls them burns for a special intention. If you’d like to to such a commitment. If God is calling you to a vocation, have the sanctuary lamp burn in memory of a contact Fr. Merrick at 336-9778 or [email protected] loved one, contact the parish office at 383-4127. St. Agnes Adoration Chapel Membership drive of altar society “The Blessed Sacrament is that Presence which The Altar Society annual membership drive will begin makes a different from every January 1st and end February 9th. Dues are $20/year. Each other place in the world; which makes it, as no additional member from the same household has a other place can be, holy.” - St. John Henry Newman membership fee of only $5. Envelopes are located on tables (d.1890; Catholic convert from Anglicanism) by the entrances of church. Fill out the information requested, then place the envelope and contribution in the Youth Choir collection basket. If you’ve never been a member, please Rehearsals for the St. Agnes Youth Choir consider joining now. If you are unable to work, please join have resumed. The choir is open to all 3rd- as an inactive member and become our prayer source for the 12th graders. Practices are every Tuesday at success of the society and the needs of our parish. 5:30pm. The choir will sing once a month at 11am Mass. Contact Nancy Hendrick at [email protected] Pro-Life Mass The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the surest means to Men of the Immaculata ending the abortion holocaust in America. Join us to pray Begin your Lent with over 1,000 brothers in Christ! A Call for healing and forgiveness for all those who to Battle: Catholic Men's Conference will be at St. George have been affected by the scourge of parish on Saturday, February 29th. The theme, "What is abortion. Let us unite our prayers to Our Truth?", will expose the distorted view of relativism in the Lady under her titles of the Immaculate modern world and clearly reveal the Truth, Who is Jesus Conception and Our Lady of Guadalupe! Tuesday, Christ. The conference features key note speakers, Fr. Wade February 11th at 5:30 pm, followed by the rosary. Menezes (Fathers of Mercy), from EWTN Television and Radio, scholar and author, Jeff Cavins, and Michelangelo – a different view dynamic parish priest, Fr. Mark Beard, of our local diocese. Every year, four million people visit the Sistine Chapel in Visit www.catholicmenbr.com for more information. Rome to admire the beautiful ceiling frescoes by the artist Michelangelo. In partnership with Visit Baton Rouge, the Veritas Lecture & Gala dinner Raising Cane’s River Center will be The John Paul the Great Academy annual fundraising bringing these masterpieces to Baton event provides an opportunity to share the truth through a Rouge, April 1-30. The exhibit offers the guest speaker and benefits the scholarship program. The unique opportunity to look at his timeless 2020 speaker is Pro-Life advocate Abbey Johnson. work in a different way. Visitors can March 13th, 7pm https://www.jpgacademy.org/gala view the paintings from a distance of only two meters with no time constraints. Tickets can be purchased at the Raising Announcements Cane’s River Center Box Office and Ticketmaster.com Second Collection - Repairs and Replacements

Marriage Encounter Weekend Meetings For February 10 - February 16 The next Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend in Tue - 9:00am Louisiana is February 14-16 at the Bishop Robert E. PSR 4:00-5:15pm / Youth Choir Practice 5:30pm Knights of Columbus 6:30pm in meeting room Tracy Center on Acadian Thruway. Call Gary & Susie Thu - Latin Choir Practice Sat - Apologetics 11am Munoz at 225-439-3384 or visit www.LAMS-wwme.org

CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS St Agnes Church #003550 749 East Boulevard Baton Rouge, LA 70802

TELEPHONE 225-383-4127

CONTACT PERSON Michael Sanders

EMAIL: [email protected]

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