Volume 91, Number 32 15, 2021: The Assumption of the Blessed Mary

Per the directives of Governor Edwards and Bishop Duca, we ask that everyone wear face masks at all times when inside of the Church or inside of any building on the premises.

2250 Main Street • Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 OFFICE HOURS: Monday–Thursday: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Friday: 8:00 a.m. – 12 noon (Closed Daily for Lunch 12:00 – 12:30 p.m.) Telephone: 225.387.6671 • Fax: 225.387.6674 • Email: [email protected] • Website: www.sacredheartbr.org

MASS SCHEDULE Saturday Vigil: 4:00 p.m. • Sunday: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m. Tuesday & Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. (No Wednesday Daily when school is not in session) • Thursday & Friday: 9:00 a.m. (1st Friday of every month, Mass is at 12 noon.) Church is open for prayer Tuesday - Friday; 12 noon - 4 p.m. (Call Office for More Information)

Please call or e-mail your prayer requests to Clare Coulon at 387-6671 or [email protected] THE FIVE STONES OF MEDJUGORJE: The Little Known Connection to the Biblical Story of and Goliath

One day in the history of Israel, the figure of Goliath came forth. He was a strong man, proud and invincible. Although Israel was incapable of imagining how it might defeat such a strong warrior, knew how to do it. He chose a young boy, a shepherd named David. The Lord told him to gather five stones from the river and face the giant. Trusting only in God’s help, David went forth; he defeated and killed Goliath. [cf. 1 17]

Our Lady has chosen you, like David: you who are small, just as David was. She has suggested that you put five stones in your sack in order to overcome the atheism that surrounds us, that unbelieving mentality that is being disseminated and seems invincible today. Neither we nor the Church are capable of conquering the faithless spirit of the world on our own. Our Lady has appeared in Medjugorje to declare that this is possible. Here are her five stones: Prayer, , the , Confession and the Eucharist. With these weapons we overcome the world.   I give you the weapon against Goliath; here are your little stones.

The Parish of Medjugorje is situated in the of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a Croatian village located 200 meters above sea level. In this small village, Our Lady is appearing daily, at the same hour of 6:40 pm, since June 24, 1981. She began appearing to the six visionaries in order to spread the message of peace and to call the world to faith in God, and for repentance and reconciliation. The visionaries are: Vicka, Mirjana, Marija, Ivanka, Jakov and Ivan. (Continued on Page 3)

Page 2 , 2021 (Continued from Page 2) Our Lady asks us to pray for the intentions that she mentions in Medjugorje: Our Lady asks us to be armed with the “Five Stones of Medjugorje” and she reminds us of what Christ PEACE: “Pray for peace in your hearts, then in Our Lord asks us to do in the Bible: your families, and after that, you can carry this peace to the whole world, so that you may become makers PRAY THE : “Pray, pray, pray - prayer is of my peace in this world.” the basis of peace.” FAMILIES: “Dear Children, I call you to renew FAST: “Let the people perform strict fasting on prayer in your families. With prayer and reading the Wednesdays and Fridays, except the sick. The best Holy Scripture, the may enter in your fasting is on bread and water.” families for He is the one who will renew you.”

READ THE HOLY SCRIPTURES DAILY: YOUTH: “Tell the youth not to let themselves be “You have forgotten the Holy Scripture.” led astray from the right path, tell them to remain loyal to their faith. CONFESSION ONCE A MONTH: “In confession, many blessings are received.” : “Priests themselves should pray and fast constantly…Priests don’t need your criticism but EUCHARIST (HOLY MASS): “The Holy Mass is your prayers and your love.” the climax of prayer” because it is the Real Presence of Christ. NON-BELIEVERS: “I desire that you present prayers for those who are unaware of my love and my Son’s love.”

THE SICK: “When you have a sick person, pray for my intentions and make sacrifices for my intentions, and I will take care of the sick person.”

THE SOULS IN PURGATORY: “There are many souls who have been in purgatory for so long, and nobody prays for them.”

Page 3 August 15, 2021 Confirmation Registration. All 11th graders who are 2nd grade PSR can be found at the parish web site listed baptized Catholics are eligible to receive the of under “ – 1st Reconciliation and 1st Confirmation. Registration for Confirmation will begin Eucharist”. There is a $10 registration fee for these on our parish web site on AUGUST 2 classes, however inability to pay this fee should not [ www.sacredheartbr.org ]. Registration deadline is prevent a child from participating in these sessions of August 25. There is a $50 registration fee, however, an sacramental preparation. Classes begin on September 19, inability to pay this fee should not stop a candidate from in the parish activity center, from 10:10 to 10:50 am. If joining the class. Sessions will be held in the parish you have any questions, please call Clare Coulon at the activity center from 9:10 am to 10:50 am beginning on parish office. August 22. If you have any questions, please call Clare Coulon in the parish office. Are You Interested in Becoming or Learning More About Parish School of Religion the Catholic Faith? RCIA – the Rite Registration. PSR registration will of Christian Initiation of Adults is a open on the parish program designed to present the website www.sacredheartbr.org for Catholic faith to persons considering grades 1 & 3-10 on August 2 [look the possibility of becoming Catholic. It under PSR registration tab]. There is a registration fee of is also a program appropriate for people interested in the $40 per student for these classes, however, an inability to Faith, but not yet ready to consider conversion. Adult pay this fee should not stop a child from being eligible Catholics who have not been confirmed are also invited for the program. PSR classes for these grades are virtual to take part in this program to prepare for that and self-paced. Registration is open until the end of sacrament. If you or someone you know is interested, August. please call (387-6671) or you may e-mail Clare Coulon at ([email protected]) for more information. Parish School of Religion For 2nd Graders Making There will be an introductory session in the parish office 1st Reconciliation and 1st Eucharist. PSR registration on Sunday, August 29 from 10:20-10:50 am. for 2nd graders will open on August 2. Registration for

Page 4 August 15, 2021 Sunday, August 15: Assumption of the BVM: On of Jesus and Mary. , 1950, Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary to be a of faith: “We Friday: St. Bernard, , : In pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed the year 1111, Bernard joined the monastic community dogma that the immaculate Mother of God, the ever of Citeaux. His five brothers, two uncles, and some 30 Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly young friends followed him into the monastery. Within life, was assumed body and soul to heavenly glory.” four years, a dying community had recovered enough Homilies on the Assumption go back to the sixth century vitality to establish a new house at Clairvaux with in the east; by the 13th century the feast was celebrated Bernard as abbott. He was gifted as an arbitrator and universally in the Church. counselor, and he settled many long-standing disputes including a full-blown schism settled in favor of the pope Monday: St Stephen of : St. Stephen is the against an . In his life he was an adviser of spiritual patron of Hungary. Born a pagan, he was , preacher of the Second Crusade, defender of the baptized around age of 10. At 20, he married Gisela, faith, a healer of schism, reformer of a monastic order, sister to the future emperor, St. Henry. When he Scripture scholar, theologian, and eloquent preacher. succeeded his father as ruler of the Magyars, Stephen Bernard died on August 20, 1153, one of the greatest began the Christianization of his country. He suppressed men of the 12th century. a series of revolts by pagan nobles and welded the Magyars into a strong national group. He asked the pope Saturday: St. Pius X, Pope: was born the to provide for the Church’s organization in Hungary— second of 10 children in a poor Italian family. He was and also requested that the pope confer the title of king elected Pope at age 68 and was one of the 20th century’s upon him. He was crowned on day in 1001. greatest pontiffs. Mindful of his humble origin, Pope Stephen established a system of tithes to support Pius stated, “I was born poor, I lived poor, I will die churches and to relieve the poor. In 1031, his son poor.” Interested in politics, Pope Pius encouraged Emeric died, and the rest of Stephen’s days were Italian Catholics to become politically involved. One of troubled by controversy over his successor. He died in his first papal acts was to end the supposed right of 1038 and was canonized, along with his son, in 1083. governments to interfere by veto in papal elections. He denounced the ill treatment of indigenous peoples on the Tuesday: Weekday plantations of Peru, sent a relief commission to Messina after an earthquake, and sheltered refugees at his own Wednesday: Weekday expense. He is probably best known as the pope who encouraged frequent reception of the Eucharist, Thursday: St. John Eudes, : John Eudes, over especially by children. the course of his life, was a religious, a parish , and the founder of two religious communities. He is Next Sunday, August 22: 21st Sunday in Ordinary best known for the central themes of his writings: Jesus Time as the source of holiness; Mary as the model of the Christian life. His devotion to the Sacred Heart and to the led Pope Pius XI to declare him the father of the liturgical cult of the Hearts

BAPTISM SUNDAY NURSERY: CONFESSIONS Seminar required. Please visit the website or call the Closed until further notice. Tuesday & Wednesday, 7:30 a.m. Parish Office for information. Thursday & Friday 8:30 a.m NOVENA TO OUR MOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELP Saturday 2:30—3:30 p.m. and by appointment. CARE OF THE SICK Follows 8:00 a.m. Mass on Tuesday Visits made regularly to hospitalized and homebound. MARRIAGE Contact the Parish Office for Anointing of the Sick or NOVENA TO THE SACRED Couples should contact the Parish Office at least six (6) to receive Holy Communion. HEART OF JESUS months to the desired date and must complete the EVERY 1ST FRIDAY OCTOBER - JUNE Marriage Preparation Program. FUNERAL PLANNING CONFESSIONS: 11 a.m. MASS: 12 noon Please call the Parish Office prior to scheduling NOVENA: 12:30 p.m. with the funeral home.

Page 5 August 15, 2021 Sunday, August 15 Vigil: 1 Chr 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1- Tuesday, August 17 Thursday, August 19 Saturday, August 21 2/Ps 132:6-7, 9-10, 13-14 [8]/1 Jgs 6:11-24a/Ps 85:9, Jgs 11:29-39a/Ps 40:5, 7-8a, 8b- Ru 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17/Ps Cor 15:54b-57/Lk 11:27-28 11-12, 13-14 [cf. 9b]/Mt 19:23- 9, 10 [8a and 9a]/Mt 22:1-14 128:1b-2, 3, 4, 5 [4]/Mt 23:1-12 Day: Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab/ 30 Ps 45:10, 11, 12, 16 [10bc]/1 Cor 15:20-27/Lk 1:39-56 Wednesday, August 18 Friday, August 20 Sunday, August 22 Monday, August 16 Jgs 9:6-15/Ps 21:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 Ru 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22/Ps 146:5 Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b/Ps 34:2- Jgs 2:11-19/Ps 106:34-35, 36-37, [2a]/Mt 20:1-16 -6ab, 6c-7, 8-9a, 9bc-10 [1b]/Mt 3, 16-17, 18-19, 20-21, 22-23 39-40, 43ab and 44 [4a]/Mt 22:34-40 [9a]/Eph 5:21-32 or 5:2a, 25- 19:16-22 32/Jn 6:60-69

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16 8 a.m. Van & Viola Gaudin, Sr. Daily Mass/Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Tuesday Lindley Spaht Dodson TUE 8 a.m., Church 8-17-21 Martha B. Haase 17 Church Open For Prayer 12 noon - 4 p.m. Mary, Sam, & Joanne Politz Daily Mass with School, 8 a.m., Church Wednesday 8 a.m. Joseph Ulysses Pierre, Sr. WED Church Open For Prayer 12 noon - 4 p.m. 8-18-21 18 Thursday 9 a.m. Philip Keller Daily Mass, 9 a.m., Church THU 8-19-21 19 Church Open For Prayer 12 noon - 4 p.m. Friday 9 a.m. Don Kneipp Daily Mass, 9 a.m., Church FRI 8-20-21 20 Church Open For Prayer 12 noon - 4 p.m. Saturday 4 p.m. Parishioners of Sacred Heart SVdP Visitation Meeting, 8:30 a.m., AC-Fr. Dugas Rm. 8-21-21 SAT Confessions, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. 21 Vigil Mass, 4 p.m., Church 9 a.m. Cecilia & Shelley Tramonte Sunday Joyce Ourso 21st Sunday in 8-22-21 SUN Masses, 9 & 11 a.m. Lindley Spaht Dodson 22 Confirmation Class/Session 1, 9 a.m., AC-Fr. Blasco Rm. 11 a.m. Michael DiVincenti, III.; Frank Culotta; Hilda, Clarence & Jewel LeBlanc; Henry William Bellows

August 14-15, 2021: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary August 21-22, 2021: 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Mass Readers Mass Readers Saturday, 4:00 PM Phyllis Territo (1) Saturday, 4:00 PM Mark LeBlanc (1) Dana Barton (2) Clare Coulon (2) Sunday, 9:00 AM Pamela Bennett (1) Sunday, 9:00 AM Lisa Gardner (1) Marilyn Kelley (2) Perry Key (2) Sunday, 11:00 AM Jackie Culotta (1) Sunday, 11:00 AM Michael Comeaux (1) Holly Coleman (2) Franny Comeaux (2) Breaking Bread Missalettes are located at the front doors of the church, as well as the east doors by the Parish Hall. PLEASE RETURN YOUR HYMNALS TO THE BOOK CARTS AFTER MASS!

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Director of Religious Education Pastor Ms. Clare Coulon Director of Music/Organist Reverend Miles Walsh Mr. Davis Hotard Receptionist/Bookkeeper Pastoral Associate Mrs. Denise Williston Wedding Coordinator Clayton Hollier Mrs. Ashley Coleman Facilities Services Manager Business Manager Mr. Jonathan Olivier Contribution Accounting Mrs. Tiffany Dykes Mrs. Mary Eggart Youth Coordinator Mrs. Nicole Salassi

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