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May 2, 2014 Ommentatorvol THE CATHOLIC Bishop Muench visits death row PAGES 10 - 11 May 2, 2014 ommentatorVol. 52, No. 6 SERVING THE DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE SINCE 1963 thecatholiccommentator.org C MOMMA’S LOVE Mother hears God’s call to take in children By Barbara Chenevert The Catholic Commentator Just about everybody calls her momma, whether they are related or not. Baker resident Joyce Johnson sees her mission in life as helping people God instructs her to help. It just so happens that most of those are children. This 61-year-old bundle of energy has three chil- dren, three step-children, six adopted children and has brought 19 foster children into her home over the years. She is currently raising one of her 12 grandchildren, 3-year-old Brandon. She also owns her own real estate agency where she says she helps people restructure their lives so they can own homes. How and why does she do it? “I listen. That’s all I can tell you. I listen. “God dresses me in the morning. I pray before I get up, and God shows me what to do. Everything I do is what God tells me to do,” she said. Johnson, a parishioner of Immaculate Conception Church in Scotlandville, said she never intended to take in so many children. She had owned a day care center, when one day she ended up in the emergency room because of complications with her fourth pregnancy. While there, the day care center burned down. Her Joyce Johnson is known as momma to many of her family and friends. During the Easter break, she brought some baby also died, and she decided not do anything but stay of her grandchildren, who were out of school, with her while she worked in her real estate agency. With Johnson home. She did that for three years. are grandchildren Ambre, Jacob and James. Photo by Barbara Chenevert | The Catholic Commentator SEE JOHNSON PAGE 8 Diocesan committee to evaluate HISTORIC MEETING OF POPES long range plan for parishes By Barbara Chenevert Bishop Muench talked about issues The Catholic Commentator the committee is evaluating April 16 at the Mass of Chrism held at St. Aloysius Bishop Robert W. Muench has estab- Church in Baton Rouge. lished a pastoral planning committee to “There will an emphasis on prepar- make “maximum use of the resources” ing lay ecclesial minsters for pastoral of the diocese in light of the shortage of service, and a revitalized focus on the priests. promotion of vocations to the priesthood The committee, which has been meet- and the diaconate,” the bishop said in a ing for about a year, is looking at a long- letter to the clergy religious and lay of the rang plan that integrates creative pro- diocese. posals for clergy personnel to provide While the number of Catholics in Pope Benedict XVI, left, and Pope Francis greet each other at the Vatican on April parish ministry in new ways along with the diocese is growing, the number of 27 prior to the canonizations of St. John XXIII and St. John Paul II. For complete the design and possible redesign of some priests available for assignment contin- coverage of the canonization please turn to Page 4. CNS photo parish configurations, the bishop said. SEE COMMITTEE PAGE 14 2 The Catholic Commentator May 2, 2014 | IN THIS ISSUE | DID YOU KNOW THREE VOLUMES OF FAMILY RECORDS filling his days volunteer- Our Lady’s Pslater dating more than 300 years allow Acadians ing with the St. Vincent to trace their heritage. PAGE 5 de Paul and continuing to The Rosary. The word means garland berries or discs pursue his love of danc- of roses. of bone thread- AT 86 YEARS OLD, PHARMACIST ing. PAGE 7 This popular devotion to the Blessed ed on a string. In JOE CRONAN has barely lost a step, Mother is sometimes referred to as “Our one account, the Lady’s Pslater.” Countess Godiva | | IN THE NEXT ISSUE Archbishop Fulton Sheen called it the of Coventry who CORRECTIONS Blake “book of the blind, where souls see and lived in 1075 was A picture in and there enact the greatest drama of love the said to have left the April 18 Kristen world has ever known …” a “circlet of pre- issue of The Saucier Whatever name it is given, the rosary cious stones which she had threaded on a Catholic Com- of Port is a popular meditation on the greatest cord in order that by fingering them one mentator was Allen mysteries of the Catholic faith. after another she might count her prayers misidentified. never Although some believe this devo- exactly.” Those devotions primarily con- The caption should have read: AUTHOR lost faith tion was begun by St. Dominic, there is sisted of repeating the Our Father. VISIT – Author Ernest Gaines recently in God even after they lost their two evidence that the practice of counting In the middle of the 12th century discussed his book, “The Autobiography children and Blake’s father in a fire almost prayers on beads or pebbles had been in when the first half of the Hail Mary came of Miss Jane Pittman,” with eighth-grade four years ago. Today the Sauciers have practice for many years prior to his life. into general use, it is thought that the students at St. Francis Xavier School. two little girls who they say have restored Some believe the origins of the rosa- repetition of these Ave Marias became Gaines talked about writing style, char- laughter to their home and their lives. ry has its roots as far back as the 800s the basis for what the rosary is today. The acter development, historical research when religious orders and clergy recited addition of the meditation on the mys- and perseverance. Pictured, left to right: the Psalter, a book of the 150 psalms for teries of faith is believed to have begun teacher Paulette Hamilton, Gaines and | INDEX the deceased. Many of the laity and some sometime in the 15th century with St. student Jared Eaglen. Photo provided by Pau- CLASSIFIED ADS 18 monks did not have access to the Psalter Louis de Montfort being credited with lette Hamilton | St. Francis Xavier School COMING EVENTS 18 or could not read, so instead they sub- dividing the mysteries into the five joy- stituted prayers such as the Our Father ful, sorrowful and glorious meditations. ENTERTAINMENT 14 Also, Father Keun-Soo Lee was ordained which they repeated up to 150 times. In 2002, Blessed Pope John Paul II intro- June 10, 1995 by Bishop Alfred C. Hughes SPIRITUALITY 7 In the 11th and 12th centuries it is be- duced the luminous mysteries. at St. Joseph Cathedral. Father Lee is a VIEWPOINT 16 lieved that counting these prayers was Pope Leo X approved the universal native of the Republic of Korea. YOUTH 12 accomplished through the use of pebbles, use of the rosary in 1520. LOOK FOR | PRAY FOR THOSE WHO PRAY FOR US THE CATHOLIC COMMENTATOR Please pray for the priests, deacons and religious women and men in the Baton Rouge Diocese. AT YOUR LOCAL OUTLETS INCLUDING: May 5 Rev. Philip F. Spano May 12 Rev. Clarence J. Waguespack ✔ Albertsons on Government St., Bluebonnet Blvd. and College Dr. in Dcn. Curles P. Reeson Jr. Dcn. Milton J. Schanzbach Baton Rouge and in Denham Springs Br. Malcolm Melcher SC Sr. Huong Nguyen ICM ✔ Alexander’s Highland Market in Baton Rouge May 6 Rev. Robert F. Stine May 13 Rev. Miles D. Walsh Dcn. Frank W. Rhodes Jr. Dcn. Peter Schlette ✔ Ascension Books & Gifts in Gonzales Sr. Anne Meridier CSJ Sr. Mary Noel OP ✔ Benedetto’s Market in Addis ✔ May 7 Rev. Martin N. Thanh ICM May 14 Rev. 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