August 9, 2020: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Volume 90, Number 31 August 9, 2020: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Per the directives of Governor Edwards and Bishop Michael Duca, we ask that everyone wear face masks at all times. The Sunday Mass obligation continues to be dispensed for all Catholics indefinitely. Mass Schedule Saturday 4 p.m. Sunday 9 & 11 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday 8 a.m. Thursday and Friday 9 a.m. In Phase II, we are able to accommodate 50% capacity per Mass on a first come, first serve basis. Fr. Walsh’s weekly homily can be found on the website. Sign up for emails on the website and receive his weekly homily. 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./50% Capacity Tuesday & Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. • 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 Parish Office for More Information) Please call or e-mail your prayer requests to Clare Coulon at 387-6671 or [email protected] Page 2 August 9, 2020 First Reading: 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a They are Israelites; theirs the adoption, the glory, the covenants, A reading from the first Book of Kings. the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; theirs the patriarchs, and from them, At the mountain of God, Horeb, according to the flesh, is the Christ, Elijah came to a cave where he took shelter. who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen. Then the LORD said to him, “Go outside and stand on the mountain before the LORD; The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God the LORD will be passing by.” A strong and heavy wind was rending the mountains and crushing rocks before the LORD— Gospel Acclamation: Ps 130:5 but the LORD was not in the wind. R. Alleluia, alleluia. After the wind there was an earthquake— but the LORD was not in the earthquake. I wait for the Lord; After the earthquake there was fire— my soul waits for his word. R. but the LORD was not in the fire. After the fire there was a tiny whispering sound. When he heard this, Gospel: Mt 14:22-33 Elijah hid his face in his cloak and went and stood at the entrance of the cave. The Lord be with you. R. And with your spirit The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew R. Glory to you, O Lord. Responsorial Psalm: Ps 85:9, 10, 11-12, 13-14 After he had fed the people, Jesus made the disciples get into a boat and precede him to the other side, while he dismissed R. Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your the crowds. After doing so, he went up on the mountain by salvation. himself to pray. When it was evening he was there alone. I will hear what God proclaims; the LORD—for he proclaims peace. Meanwhile the boat, already a few miles offshore, was being tossed about by the waves, for the wind was Near indeed is his salvation to those who fear him, against it. glory dwelling in our land. R. During the fourth watch of the night, he came toward them walking on the sea. Kindness and truth shall meet; When the disciples saw him walking on the sea they were justice and peace shall kiss. terrified. Truth shall spring out of the earth, “It is a ghost,” they said, and they cried out in fear. and justice shall look down from heaven. R. At once Jesus spoke to them, “Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid.” Peter said to him in reply, The LORD himself will give his benefits; “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the our land shall yield its increase. water.” He said, “Come.” Justice shall walk before him, Peter got out of the boat and began to walk on the water and prepare the way of his steps. R. toward Jesus. But when he saw how strong the wind was he became Second Reading: Rom 9:1-5 frightened; and, beginning to sink, he cried out, “Lord, save me!” A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand and caught Peter, and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” Brothers and sisters: After they got into the boat, the wind died down. I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie; Those who were in the boat did him homage, saying, my conscience joins with the Holy Spirit in bearing me “Truly, you are the Son of God.” witness that I have great sorrow and constant anguish in my heart. The Gospel of the Lord. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from R. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. Christ for the sake of my own people, my kindred according to the flesh. Page 3 August 9, 2020 BAPTISM SUNDAY NURSERY: Seminar required. Please visit the website or call the Closed until further notice. CONFESSIONS Parish Office for information. Tuesday & Wednesday, 7:30 a.m. NOVENA TO OUR MOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELP Thursday & Friday 8:30 a.m CARE OF THE SICK Follows 8:00 a.m. Mass on Tuesday Saturday 2:30—3:30 p.m. and by appointment. Visits made regularly to hospitalized and homebound. Contact the Parish Office for Anointing of the Sick or NOVENA TO THE SACRED MARRIAGE to receive Holy Communion. HEART OF JESUS Couples should contact the Parish Office at least six (6) EVERY 1ST FRIDAY OCTOBER - JUNE months prior to the desired date and must complete the FUNERAL PLANNING CONFESSIONS: 11 a.m. MASS: 12 noon Marriage Preparation Program. Please call the Parish Office prior to scheduling NOVENA: 12:30 p.m. with the funeral home. Page 4 August 9, 2020 Sunday, August 9: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Thursday, August 13: : Sts. Pontian, Pope, and Monday, August 10: St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr: Hippolytus, Priest, Martyrs: Pontian was a Roman who Lawrence was a Roman deacon under Pope Saint Sixtus II. served as pope from 230 to 235. During his reign he held a Four days after this pope was put to death, Lawrence also synod in Alexandria which confirmed the excommunication of suffered martyrdom. Most of what we know of this man the great theologian Origen. Pontian was banished into exile comes from legend. The most famous legend tells the story by the Roman emperor in 235, and resigned so that a that, as deacon, Lawrence oversaw the material goods of his successor could be elected in Rome. He was sent to the Church and the distribution of alms. Knowing arrest was “unhealthy” island of Sardinia, where he died that same year of imminent, he sought out the poor and gave them all the harsh treatment. money and treasure he had. The Prefect of the city demanded Lawrence give him the Church’s wealth. Lawrence agreed. Hippolytus. Hippolytus was a Roman priest in the mid-3rd Three days later he gathered the blind, lame, maimed, leprous, century. When Callistus was elected pope, Hippolytus accused orphaned, and widowed persons together. When the prefect him of being too lenient with penitents, and had himself arrived, Lawrence told him, “These are the treasure of the elected antipope by a group of followers. He felt that the Church.” The Prefect condemned Lawrence to death. He Church must be composed of pure souls uncompromisingly had a great gridiron prepared with coals beneath it, and had separated from the world. He remained in schism throughout Lawrence’s body placed on it. After the martyr had suffered the reigns of three popes. In 235, he was banished to the the pain for a long time, he made his famous cheerful remark, island of Sardinia. At this time he was reconciled to the “It is well done. Turn me over!” Church, and died in exile with Pope Pontian. Tuesday, August 11: : St. Clare, Virgin: St Clare Friday, August 14: St. Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and encountered Francis of Assisi at a young age and longed to Martyr: Maximilian entered the seminary in Poland and was follow his spiritual way. At 18, she ran away from her ordained at age 2. He considered religious indifference as the comfortable home, and in the poor little chapel called the deadliest poison of the day. His mission was to combat it. He Portiuncula received a rough woolen habit, exchanged her founded the Militia of the Immaculata, whose aim was to fight jeweled belt for a common rope with knots in it, and sacrificed evil with the witness of a holy life; he then founded Knight of the her long tresses to Francis= scissors. She and the women who Immaculata, a religious magazine under Mary’s protection to gathered around her lived a simple life of poverty, austerity, preach the Good News to all nations. He established a “City and complete seclusion from the world. Like their Franciscan of the Immaculata” which housed 700 of his Franciscan brothers, they possessed no property, even in common, brothers, and later founded a second house in Nagasaki, Japan.