St. Bernard Catholic Church (Established in 1787)
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St. Bernard Catholic Church (Established in 1787) DAILY MASSES Monday—Friday: Mass 8:30 a.m. First Saturday 8:30 a.m. WEEKEND MASSES Saturday Vigil 4:00 p.m. Sunday 10:00 a.m. 2805 Bayou Road St. Joseph Adoration Chapel: P. O. Box 220 Thursday St. Bernard, LA 70085 MISSION STATEMENT In the total love for Jesus through the Heart of Mary, We St. Bernard Catholic Church commit to BE BOLD—BE CATHOLIC—BE CHRIST And faithfully pass it on...Heart to Heart. I.M. Office Hours: 9:30—1:00 Monday—Thursday Phone: (504) 281-2267 — Fax: (504) 281-2268 E-Mail: [email protected] www.stbernard-stbla.com Rev. Hoang M. Tuong, Pastor St. Bernard Catholic Cemetery: (504) 421-9533 Cell Phone: 985-705-0357 Lynne, Parish Secretary, Cell: (504) 421-5969 Rev. Charles Caluda, Retired Lenore—Religious Ed Deacon Norbert Billiot, Jr. [email protected] Music Director: Bea Girard Baptism: Parents are asked to call the office. Baptisms will be held the 3rd weekend of the month or by special arrangement. Sacrament of Reconciliation: Confessions are held before each Mass, or call for an appointment. Communion of the Sick: Please call when someone is ill or in the hospital. Sacrament of Marriage: Couples must contact the church at least six (6) months before the date of the wedding. Christian Burial: Please contact the funeral home to make arrangements they will contact church and cemetery. Pastoral & Finance Meeting - Pastoral Council meetings will be announced. Volume 52 Issue 32 19TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME AUGUST 11, 2019 Saturday August 10, 2019 Rosary 3:30 p.m. Ministry Schedule 4:00 p.m. All Parishioners of St. For Next Week: Bernard Catholic Church; Bernard & Chase Naquin; Duke Collins; Donald Saturday, August 17, 4:00 p.m. Serpas, Sr.; Tim George; Timothy George; Sal Gagliano; Celebrant: Fr. Hoang Skye Labat; Elaine & Paul Tranpani; Scotty Lopez; Beth Lector: Mary Frances Byrd Ruiz; Richie Byrd; Felix Morales Charles, Cornelia Ministers of Communion: & Lori Robertson; Fr John; and all on our Sick List Dwight Sunday, August 11, 2019 Rosary 9:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Charles L. Smith; Gauthé Family; Agnes Sunday, August 18, 10:00 a.m. & Wallace Serpas; Jerry Wheat; HJ Lind; Josephine & Celebrant: Fr. Hoang Reese Nunez; Mike, Rosie & André Colletti; Dickie Lector: Pat Stander; Merle King; Louise M. Alphonso; Larry Gonzales, Jr.; Raymond Serpas; Jason Steele; Adam Ministers of Communion: Serigne; Walter Guidry; Chester Romero; The Romero Lenore Family; Rudy Alphonso; Juan & Frankie Montelongo; Rhonda Alfred Nunez, Sr. & Family; Harry Phillips; Ramona Ramos Thank you St. Jude; and all Military Personnel & Families Sanctuary Lamp DAILY—Rosary 8 a.m.—Mass 8:30 a.m.: Beth Byrd Ruiz Monday For Our Youth Tuesday All Sick & Dying Wednesday All Souls in Purgatory Marian Candle Thursday All Parishioners Ramona Ramos Friday Deceased Priests Saturday (only First Saturday) 8:30 a.m. St. Joseph Candle Sylvia Guillot Readings For The Week Monday: Dt 10:12-22; Ps 147:12-15, 19-20; Mt 17:22-27 Tuesday: Dt 31:1-8; Dt 32:3-4ab, 7-9, 12; Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 Wednesday: Dt 34:1-2; Ps 66:1-3a, 5, 8, 16-17; Mt 18:15-20 August 3—4, 2019 Thursday: Vigil: 1 Chr 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2; Ps 132:6-7, 9-10, 13-14; 1 Cor 15:54b-57; Lk 11:27-28 Attendance: 83 Day: Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; Ps 45:10-12, 16; 1 Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56 Collection: $1,549.00 Friday: Jos 24:1-13; Ps 136:1-3, 16-18, 21-22, 24; Mt 19:3-12 Poor Box: $ 107.00 Saturday: Jos 24:14-29; Ps 16:1-2a, 5, 7-8, 11; Mt 19:13-15 Thank you for your support Sunday: Jer 38:4-6, 8-10; Ps 40:2-4, 18; Heb 12:1-4; Lk 12:49-53 1st Reading - Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10 Gospel - Luke 12:49-53 For nearly three-fourths of a century after the death of Continuing our discussion of last week where Jesus told Isaiah no great prophet arose in Judah. It seemed as though the disciples of internal problems caused by selfish the work of the religious leaders in the 8th century B.C. had Church officials, Jesus now goes on to tell them that He been in vain. During the long and wicked reign of Manasseh has not come to give peace, but discord. (693-639 B.C.) idolatrous worship was established more firmly than ever, and the morals of the people sank to the [Jesus said to His disciples:] 49 “I have come to set the lowest ebb. The prophets of Yahweh who dared to raise earth on fire, their voices in protest and warning were either silenced or Fire is usually a figure of judgment (see Luke 3:16-17); brutally murdered. It was only after a change for the better here it seems to be the fire that will separate and purify had been inaugurated under the successors of Manasseh, those who are meant for the kingdom (purgatorial fire?). that “men of God” again came to the forefront, and a second It will work through Jesus’ word and His Spirit. The golden age of Hebrew prophecy began. It is the age of Gospel of Thomas (an apocryphal Gnostic gospel), saying Jeremiah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Ezekiel, and Daniel. The greatest of these, and at the same time the most Christlike 10: “Jesus said, ‘I have thrown fire on the world and, of all the prophets, was Jeremiah. behold, I am guarding it until it is ablaze’.” As we join our first reading today it is 588 B.C., the armies of and how I wish it were already blazing! 50 There is a Nebuchadnezzar have laid siege to the city of Jerusalem. baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is Jeremiah has counseled surrender, but at the instigation of my anguish until it is accomplished! the princes was thrown into prison. Set free, he attempted Jesus refers to His coming passion, into which He will be to retire to his native Anatoth (a Levitical town of Benjamin “plunged.” The image is derived from Psalm 124:4-5 and north of Jerusalem) only to be apprehended as a “deserter.” indicates the depths of sorrow and suffering that await 4 “This man ought to be put to death,” the princes said to Him in His human condition. In the case of infants or the king; “he demoralizes the soldiers who are left in this adults, martyrdom can take the place of actual baptism in city, water. The full expression is “he weakens the hands of the soldiers.” “We have, indeed, a second font, one with the former: namely, that of blood, of which the Lord says: ‘There is a and all the people, by speaking such things to them; he is baptism with which I must be baptized,’ when He had not interested in the welfare of our people, but in their already been baptized. For he had come through water ruin.” 5 King Zedekiah answered: and blood (1 John 5:6), as John wrote, so that He might After hearing the complaint of the princes, the king states be baptized with water and glorified with blood. He sent his own criticism: The true power is not in his hands but out these two baptisms from the wound in His pierced those of the princes. side, that we might in like manner be called by water and “He is in your power”; for the king could do nothing with chosen by blood, and so that they who believed in His them. 6 And so they took Jeremiah and threw him into the blood might be washed in the water. If they might be cistern of Prince Malchiah, which was in the quarters of the washed in water, they must necessarily be so by blood guard, letting him down with ropes. There was no water in (see Matthew 22:14). This is the baptism which replaces the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud. that of the fountain, when it has not been received, and Their final intention was to bring about Jeremiah’s death restores it when it has been lost.” [Tertullian (A.D. 200- without bloodshed [sort of like when Joseph was put into 206), Baptism 16,1] the cistern (Genesis 37:17-22)]. 51 Do you think that I have come to establish peace on 8 [ ] Ebed-melech the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. A Cushite (Ethiopian) eunuch in the court of Zedekiah. The Greek aithiopia (burnt face-dom) is derived from the same This doesn’t contradict Luke 1:79 or 7:50. Jesus will not Egyptian phrase from which aigyptos (Egypt) is derived. The tolerate peace at any cost. He will not bring the sobriety ancient Ethiopia was not the same region as the modern of the status quo, but the sword that will divide the eager kingdom of Ethiopia; the name designated the ancient from the contented. By resisting, through sin, the Nubia, the modern Sudan: the valley of the Nile from the redeeming work of Christ, we become His opponents. 2nd cataract to the 6th cataract. 52 From now on a household of five will be divided, three went there from the palace and said to him, 9 “My lord against two and two against three; 53 a father will be king, these men have been at fault in all they have done to divided against his son and a son against his father, a the prophet Jeremiah, casting him into the cistern.