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Roman Catholic Church Sunday, July 9, 2017 Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time ORDINARY FAMILIES EXTRAORDINARY FAITH ST. BENILDE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 1901 Division Street • Metairie, Louisiana 70001 Church Office: (504) 834-4980 • Church Fax: (504) 831-5810 • Church Email: [email protected] www.stbenilde.org DEVOTIONS CLERGY MASS TIMES Holy Hour in Church Rev. Robert T. Cooper, Pastor Saturday Vigil … 4 p.m. Monday, 6:00-7:00 p.m. Rev. H.L. Brignac, Sacramental Asst. Sunday … 9:00, 11:00 a.m. & 6 p.m. Deacon Biaggio DiGiovanni Monday—Friday … 7:00 a.m. Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Deacon Stephen Gordon Monday and Thursday … 5:30 p.m. Following 7 a.m. Mass on Tuesday Deacon Clifford Wright First Saturday … 8:45 a.m. NEWCOMERS BAPTISMS HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION Call the Parish Office to receive a New First and Third Sundays of the month See Inside the Bulletin for Schedule Parishioner Registration Packet. at 12 Noon. Please call the Parish Office for more information. CONFESSION TIMES ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY Saturday … 3:00—3:45 p.m. St. Benilde Conference MATRIMONY Sunday … 5:00—5:45 p.m. (504) 233-3246 Please contact a priest/deacon Monday … 6:00—6:45 p.m. 8 months prior to your wedding. and by appointment at the Parish Office ST. BENILDE SCHOOL Mr. Matt Downey, Principal FUNERALS DIVINE MERCY ADORATION CHAPEL 1801 Division Street • Metairie, LA Arrangements may be made at the Eucharistic Adoration from 7:00 p.m. Sunday (504) 833-9894 Parish Office. till 4:00 p.m. Saturday St. Benilde Catholic Church The Church Sanctuary Lamp Ministers of the Liturgy burns in memory of July 8 & 9, 2017 The Souls in Purgatory Saturday - 4 P.M. Intention: Dorothy Van Hoven, Carl A. Guidroz, Jr. Dale Forshag, Hubert LaBorde, Patrick C. McKinney, The Blessed Mother Merle & Charles Dittmer, Bill Welsh, Steve Scalise (L), Maizie Marks, George Spaulding, Jennie Spitale, Votive Lamps burn Judy Welsh (L), Rose Marie Greco Federico, For Reparations for Sins Melissa Mendel Zimmerman, Dolores Fallon, Wilmon (Butch) Little, Winifred Marcell Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion: C. Casente, A. Delaup Cantor: Trish Foti Organist: Jared Croal The St. Joseph Votive Lamps burn for the Sunday - 9 A.M. Intention: Parishioners Seminarians at St. Ben’s Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion: C. Rispoli, B. Soleto, J. & G. Rojas Song Leaders: Traditional Choir Adoration Chapel Sunday - 11 A.M. Sanctuary Lamp burns Intention: Charles & Theresa Montgomery, in memory of Emily Raynol, Joyce Fontenelle, Mary & Jules Haydel, Mary & Melvin Ducote, Joseph Donald Bernard, Stuart and Gloria Fourroux Dianne Z. Harrison, Kelvin Ducote, Judith Theisges, William A. Welsh, Jr., Virgilio Serrano, Flora Maria Be, Adoration Chapel Candles Patricia Tichter, Paul J. Hymel, Jr., Marie Crawford Floyd Sutton, Thanks to Our Lady of Lourdes burn in memory of our Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion: Deceased Religious Sisters J. Ackermann, J. Wright, A. Duersel, T. Pitre Song Leaders: Contemporary Choir Altar Ladies Sunday - 6 P.M. Week of July 9 Intention: June & Marvin Ackermann (L) Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion: A. Delaup, C. Pacheci L. Daigle, B. David Cantor: Lauren Gisclair Pianist: Beth Kettenring Linens Weekday Masses Large - A. Duersel Monday 7:00 a.m. Bill C. Johnson Small - G. St. Germain, 5:30 p.m. St. Benilde Parishoners Helen Guichard Tuesday 7:00 a.m. Pascal A. Giovingo Wednesday 7:00 a.m. Jennifer Curry (L) Thursday 7:00 a.m. Pierre Thibodeaux The Altar Flowers are in 5:30 p.m. Ellwood Soupenne memory of Friday 7:00 a.m. Hilton F. Daigle, Jr. Deceased Parishioners Parish Motto—Building the Kingdom of God St. Benilde Catholic Church Volume 35 Issue 28 Extraordinary Ministers Stewardship of Treasure of Holy Communion Weekend of July 1 & 2 July 15 & 16 4 PM A. & P. Delaup Totals unavailable due to early deadline. 9 AM K. Klapatch, R. Theriot, J. Tusa, P. Cifreo 11 AM K. & M. Sorensen, Childers, R. Oleksik 6 PM M. Drawe, L. Daigle SVDP Pantry Our St. Vincent de Paul Pantry is The R.C.I.A. (Rite of Christian running low on a few specific Initiation for Adults) is a set of items. We are in need of cereal, sessions to share with others jelly, peanut butter, rice, canned the truths of the Catholic faith. tuna, canned chicken, canned The program is open to those fruit and powdered or non- who have never been baptized, perishable milk. baptized Christians seeking to We truly appreciate your become Catholic, and Catholics desiring a generosity every time we make an appeal for better knowledge of their faith. Weekly food. May God bless you. meetings are held on Mondays, beginning August 14, at 7:30 PM, in the Library. Please call the Parish Office for more information. Are You Having Marital Problems? In our society, with the pressures of conflicting demands and too little time, personal relationships are often taken for granted. With all the distractions, we easily forget that without attention and care, marriages wither. Retrouvaille is helping couples put the pieces back together and rebuild loving relationships. Retrouvaille consists of a weekend experience and a series of 6 follow-up sessions, along with a monthly support group. The next weekend for the New Orleans community is July 21- 23 at Lumen Christi Retreat Center in Schriever, LA, near Houma. f you want more information, or if you want to register for the Retrouvaille program, Next weekend is Hospitality call 985-641-3802. A non-refundable registration fee Weekend. Please join us for is required to confirm your reservation, food and coffee, donuts, and fellowship lodging. There is a limited capacity so early after Mass. registration is necessary. Parish Motto—Building the Kingdom of God St. Benilde Catholic Church Fr. Cooper’s Corner The Importance of the Fatima Centenary A big danger to growth in faith is letting it become routine. That’s one of the reasons why I have always been a big supporter of ecclesiastical holy years, which provide a prism through which to look with fresh eyes and renewed hearts at all the interconnected aspects of the life of faith. In the last 20 years, Catholics have been blessed to have had more such holy years than at any time in history: we have had years dedicated to God the Son (1997), God the Holy Spirit (1998), God the Father (1999), the Incarnation (2000), the Rosary (2002-3), the Eucharist (2004-5), St. Paul (2008-9), the Priesthood (2009-10), Faith (2012-3), Consecrated Life (2014-6) and Mercy (2015-6). As a disciple and as a priest, I have grown so much from the graces of these years and have sought to help others profit from them that, I confess, I am almost on a little spiritual and pastoral “withdrawal” from not having one to focus the Church’s attention since last November’s close of the Jubilee of Mercy. The absence of an officially declared holy year, however, provides the opportunity for popular devotion to fill the vacuum. I would suggest that 2017 would best be lived as a “Year of Fatima,” a time to celebrate the centenary of the appearances of Our Lady to the three shepherd children in the Cova d’Iria in Portugal, to ponder the messages entrusted by Mary to them, and to imitate the response of Lucy, Francisco and Jacinta. Over the course of the next several bulletin articles, that is what I will try to do. But before we get there, I would like first to address the subject of “private revelations” so that all of you will know where apparitions like Fatima fit into the practice of the Catholic faith. The Catechism of the Catholic Church writes, “Throughout the ages, there have been so-called ‘private’ revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church. They do not belong, however, to the deposit of faith. It is not their role to improve or complete Christ’s definitive Revelation, but to help live more fully by it in a certain period of history. Guided by the magisterium of the Church, the sensus fidelium knows how to discern and welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of Christ or his saints to the Church” (67). When the Church recognizes a private revelation — a reputed vision or apparition since the completion of the New Testament — as worthy of belief, we do not believe it like we do the truths contained in the “public revelation” of Sacred Scripture and Tradition, but look to it as a means to live the faith contained in Scripture and Tradition more fully. Public revelation demands an act of faith in the God who sent His Son as His incarnate Word, who founded the Church to share His Gospel, who sent the Holy Spirit to guide that Church into all truth and prevent it from erring, ever, on teaching definitively what we are to believe and do. Such faith is different from any form of human trust, opinion or belief, because it is founded on a trust in God on the basis of which we accept what He reveals, and we build our life on it. Private revelation, on the other hand, is accepted as credible and probable with what we could call human faith, prudence, or purified common sense. In the case of Fatima, for example, we can examine the “miracle of the sun” that occurred October 13, 1917 and recognize that what happened defies human explanation — as the reports of communist journalists present that day attest — and adds great credibility to the shepherd children who said that Our Lady would give such a sign.
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