June 28, 2020 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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June 28, 2020 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time DIVINE MERCY CATHOLIC PARISH Loving Mercifully, Living Marian. 4337 Sal Lentini Parkway • Kenner, Louisiana 70065 Church Office: (504) 466-5016 • Church Email: [email protected] www.divinemercyparish.org Parish Staff Mass Times Devotions Pastor: Saturday Vigil: 4:00 p.m. & Eucharistic Adoration: Rev. Robert T. Cooper 7:00 p.m. (Español) 24/7 in the Adoration Chapel Sunday: 8:30, 10:30 a.m. & 6:00 p.m. Parochial Vicar: Monday and Tuesday: Chaplet of Divine Mercy: Rev. Paul Clark 6:30 p.m. Thursday & Friday, 3 p.m. in Wednesday, Thursday & Friday: Adoration Chapel Deacons: and following Noel Martinsen, Drea Capaci, 7:30 a.m. Holy Days of Obligation Weekday Morning Masses Larry Oney, and David Caldero See Inside the Bulletin for Schedule Rosary: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School Monday—Friday before Mass, Joan Kathmann, Principal Confession Times Sunday before 8:30 a.m. Mass, and (504) 468-3524 Saturday: 3:00—3:45p.m. Sábados, 6:30 p.m. (Español) Sábado: 6:15—6:45 p.m. (Español) Director of Religious Ed.: Sunday: 30 minutes before Mass Our Lady of Perpetual Help: Jacques Delouche Tuesday: Prior to 6:30 p.m. Mass Novena on Wednesday following And by Appointment Youth Minister: the 7:30 a.m. Mass Ryan Foulon Culture of Life Rosary Director of Music: 1st Thursday of Month following the Garrett Fried 7:30 a.m. Mass Administrative Staff: Sherryl Clements Antoinette Silver Page 2 St. Joseph Sunday Missal Today’s Readings: p. 529 Mass Intentions Next Sunday: p. 535 To schedule Mass intentions, please visit website To purchase a Sunday Missal for $20, www.divinemercyparish.org. The link for the please see an usher. Mass intentions page is under “Pray,” then “Prayer & Liturgy,” then “Mass Intentions”, or The Sanctuary Candle contact the Parish Office. burns this week In Memory of June 28-July 3, 2020 Owen J. LaCour, Sr. Saturday 4:00 pm Alexander John Defrank, Barbara Sutphen (Living), Bill Parks, Christie Ellis (Living), Curtis Chatelain, Danny Matte, David Segrave, The Adoration Chapel Diane & Wally Spath (Living), Eddie Sanchez, Evelyn Beler, Candles burn this week Gloria Cabrera (Living), Joan Preston, JoAnn, Bruce & Jerry Malter (Living), Kim & Leon Shingledecker (Living), In Memory of Mike Lemmon, Miriam Chacon, Paul Siragusa, Peggy Farinelli, Philip Clark, Prayer Blanket Recipients-Living & Deceased, Kenneth J. Seals Robert Hebert, Rose LoCicero Collongues, Sherren Farrell (Living), Stanley Adamcewicz, Sr., Wayne Nicholas, Flora & Elwood Dufour Sábado-Misa de las 7:00 pm Pray for the Repose of the Pablo Merlos, Angelita Padilla Souls of those who have died: Sunday 8:30 am Carolyn Bridges Benny & Margie Bourgeois, Dalton Chaney (Living), Deacon Peter Rizzo (Living), Doris Howcott, Jay Lazarre, Lizzie Noble & Jose Truxillo, Poor Souls, Prayer Blanket Recipients-Living & Deceased May her soul and the souls of all the Sunday 10:30 am faithful departed, Peter Lynch through the mercy of God, rest in Sunday 6:00 pm Mass peace! All Parishioners Weekday Masses Act of Spiritual Communion Monday 6:30 pm: Bruce Bernard Abadie My Jesus, I believe that You are in the Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all Tuesday 6:30 pm: Noel Clinton Yambra things, and I long for You in my soul. Since Wednesday 7:30 am: Laura Jean Cambre Hope I cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. As Thursday 7:30 am: April Anne Morris though You have already come, I embrace You and unite myself entirely to You; never Friday 7:30 am: Carolyn Cook-Braud permit me to be separated from You. Jesus, I trust in You! Page 3 Calendar of Events Stewardship of Treasure Sunday, June 28 Weekend of June 14, 2020 • Masses 8:30 AM, 10:30 AM, 6:00 PM Envelopes ...................................$ 9,760 • Bilingual Confession, 3-4:00 PM, in Church Loose ..........................................$ 2,376 Confessional Online Giving ..............................$ 3,419 Capital Campaign .......................$ 1,629 Monday, June 29 Other Income ..............................$ 1,764 • Church open 9 AM to 5 PM Totaling .................................. $ 18,948 • 6:30 PM Mass St. Anthony Ministry ...................$ 1,091 Tuesday, June 30 • Church open 9 AM to 5 PM Debt Reduction Weekend ................... $ 2,165 • 6:30 PM Mass Wednesday, July 1 “Let us focus on generosity, or returning God’s gifts with • 7:30 AM Mass increase, through the • Church Cleaning 8:30 AM —12:00 Noon generous sharing of our time, • St. Anthony Ministry to the Needy, 12:00—4:00 PM talent and treasure.” • Church open 9 AM to 5 PM ~ Fr. Cooper Thursday, July 2 • 7:30 AM Mass • Church open 9 AM to 5 PM • Legion of Mary Culture of Life Rosary, 8:00—8:30 AM June 28, 2020—Thirteenth Sunday in Friday, July 3 Ordinary Time • Parish Office Closed • 7:30 AM Mass “…whoever does not take up his cross and follow after • First Friday Holy Hour and Benediction, me is not worthy of me.” (Matthew 10:38) 8:00 AM -9:00 AM • Church Cleaning 9:00 AM—10:30 AM Pope Benedict XVI said, “The world offers you Saturday, July 4 comfort. But you were not made for comfort, • 4TH OF JULY you were made for greatness.” “Comfort” puts • Masses 4:00 PM Vigil, 7:00 PM Spanish me first. “Picking up your cross and following Sunday, July 5 Jesus” puts God and others first. • Masses 8:30 AM, 10:30 AM, 6:00 PM Why settle for comfort • Bilingual Confession, 3-4:00 PM, when you can achieve in Church Confessional greatness! Pick up your cross, ask Jesus for The Parish Office will be closed on guidance on using your Friday, July 3, in observance of the gifts and live the life God Fourth of July holiday! intended for you! Loving Mercifully, Living Marian. Page 4 Today, is the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. In the Divine Mercy Parish would like to thank our Gospel (MT 10:37-42), we are presented with the families who are currently giving electronically. conditions of discipleship that Jesus says to His apostles. He says, “Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever You may not see these fellow parishioners loses his life for my sake will find it,” (MT 10:39}. A place an envelope in the basket every week, but LIFETEEN author explains that, “Being a Christian in this their consistent giving does not go unnoticed. world is difficult.” The LIFETEEN author also states, Each month our parish receives a steady and “From the moment of our baptism, we live with one foot in predictable stream of income this world and the other foot in the new life, the resurrected from those donors who have life, Jesus promises us.” At LIFETEEN and Edge we discuss what the LIFETEEN author says about “One of the made the commitment to give greatest desires in each of us is to be wanted, needed, to God first by having a chosen, loved.” The LIFETEEN author adds, “We some- designated contribution times spend our lives looking for ways to fulfill that desire, automatically transferred to but we do not notice that we are already all of those. Our our parish through our Online heavenly Father loves us, chooses us, desires us.” Please join us as we discuss the LIFETEEN author’s com- Giving Program. If you would like to learn more ment that “God is always faithful to His people, and His about this easy, safe, and secure way of giving, faithfulness gives us a reason to rejoice.” Together we will please check out our website: “lose our life” for Jesus! www.divinemercyparish.org/ways-to-give.html You are invited to stay connected with us on Instagram at divinemercylte, Twitter at divinemercylte, and YouTube Prayer Intentions at Divine Mercy Life Teen. Jody Rome, Veronica Simon, Dominic Carmen, Angel Veitia, Sharon Huffman, Charles Boes, Jackie Reynolds, Amy & Kennedy Messer, Mary Ann Ferguson, Gloria Cabrera, Sandra Padilla, Burt Ernst, Gabriella Benavide, William Alexis Marcia, Phil Jeansonne, Miguel & Raul Padilla, All Prayer Blanket Recipients, and All Prayer Intentions on the Divine Mercy website. Names will remain on the list one month. Call 466-5016 to add a name. Prayer Blanket Ministry Relief to the suffering, peace to the fearful. May each Prayer Blanket Recipient know they are not alone. We are praying for their healing and comfort. This beautiful act of sacrifice before the Lord transforms this blanket into a prayer blanket whose very threads become interwoven with pleas for healing on behalf of the recipient. To request a Prayer Blanket for someone who is ill or in need, contact Meryl Rooney at (504) 472-4383. Jesus, I trust in You! Page 5 “Why are you terrified, O you of little faith?” Over the last 3 months, St. Anthony Ministry has Then He got up, rebuked the winds and the helped over 100 families with financial & food re- sea, and there was great calm. (Matthew 8:26) quests. Our Parish Family is very caring and giving, but our recent demands have left us very low on food and funds. Please consider helping our Ministry in the form of a donation. Here is how you can help: 1) Donate Food items - see list below. (Food items can be left in the Narthex of the church), 2) Give a Monetary Donation (place in the St. Anthony Box in the Narthex), or 3) Donate to St. Anthony Ministry thru Online Giving. Who among us does not experience fear when we In Proverbs 19:17 we are reminded, "Whoever is kind watch the daily news and ponder on the sequence to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward them of crises which are descending upon us in quick for what they have done.” succession? We would not be human if we did Thank you for your prayers & donations.