Volume 91, Number 27 July 4, 2021: Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 11, 2021: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

14TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 15TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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 Mass 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 Parish Office for More Information)

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Page 2 July 4 & July 11, 2021 Sunday: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time; Serenelli, attacked her. When she refused to submit to Independence Day him he began to stab her with a long dagger. She survived the attack. While in the hospital her last hours Monday: St. Anthony Zaccaria, Priest; St. Elizabeth were marked by compassion: concern for her mother and of Portugal forgiveness of her murderer. She died about 24 hours St. Anthony Zaccaria: Among the earliest of the after the attack. Alessandro was sentenced to 30 years in Counter-Reformation was Anthony Zaccaria. He prison. For a long time he was unrepentant and surly. received a medical doctorate at 22, and while working One night he had a vision of Maria gathering flowers and among the poor of his native in , was offering them to him. His life changed. When he was attracted to the religious life and was ordained a priest at released after 27 years, his first act was to go to beg the the age of 26. Called to in a few years, he laid the forgiveness of Maria’s mother. Devotion to the young foundations of three religious congregations, one for martyr grew and in less than half a century she was men, one for women, and an association of married canonized. At her in 1947, a 66-year-old couples. Their aim was the reform of the decadent Alessandro Serenelli knelt among the quarter-million society of their day, beginning with the clergy, religious, people present and cried tears of joy. and lay people. Anthony preached with great vigor in church and in the streets. He conducted popular Wednesday: Weekday missions, and was not ashamed of doing public penance. He encouraged frequent Communion, and the Forty Thursday: Weekday Hours devotion. While on a mission of peace, he became seriously ill. He died at Cremona at the age of 36. Friday: St. Augustine Zhao Ro n g, Pri est , an d St. Elizabeth of Portugal was born in 1271 into the Companions, Martyrs royal family of Aragon. At the age of 12 she was married Augustine Zhao Rong was a to Denis, the king of Portugal, a man who had lived a life Chinese soldier who helped of serious sinfulness and whose acts of marital infidelity lead Bishop John Dufresse to were well known throughout the court. Elizabeth helped his martyrdom in Beijing. bring her husband closer to God. Throughout her life in He was moved by the Portugal she was a mediator between her husband and Bishop’s courage and sought his sons. She was a woman known for her love of God baptism. Shortly after he and neighbor. She helped anyone who came to her entered the seminary and notice, especially the sick, the poor, and strangers. Upon Augustine was ordained a priest. He was martyred in the death of her husband, she retired to a Poor Clare 1815. His 120 companion martyrs, beatified at various monastery where see remained until her death. times, were canonized together in 2000. They ranged from 9 to 72 years of age and lived between 1648 and Tuesday: St. Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr 1930. Maria was the daughter of a poor Italian tenant farmer. She had no chance to go to school, and never learned to Saturday: Weekday read or write. One afternoon Maria was at home mending when a neighbor, 18-year-old Alessandro Next Sunday: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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 prior 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 3 July 4 & July 11, 2021 Sunday, July 4 Tuesday, July 6 Thursday, July 8 Saturday, July 10 Ez 2:2-5/Ps 123:1-2, 2, 3-4 Gn 32:23-33/Ps 17:1b, 2-3, 6- Gn 44:18-21, 23b-29; 45:1-5/Ps Gn 49:29-32; 50:15-26a/Ps [2cd]/2 Cor 12:7-10/Mk 6:1-6a 7ab, 8b and 15 [15a]/Mt 9:32-38 105:16-17, 18-19, 20-21 [5a]/Mt 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7 [cf. Ps 69:33]/ 10:7-15 Mt 10:24-33 Monday, July 5 Wednesday, July 7 Gn 28:10-22a/Ps 91:1-2, 3-4, 14 Gn 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a/Ps Friday, July 9 Sunday, July 11 -15 ab [cf. 2b]/Mt 9:18-26 33:2-3, 10-11, 18-19 [22]/Mt Gn 46:1-7, 28-30/Ps 37:3-4, 18- Am 7:12-15/Ps 85:9-10, 11-12, 10:1-7 19, 27-28, 39-40 [39a]/Mt 10:16- 13-14 [8]/Eph 1:3-14 or 1:3-10/ 23 Mk 6:7-13

MON No Daily Mass Date Mass Intention(s) 5 Parish & School Offices Closed for Independence Day Holiday Tuesday 8 a.m. Louis Prejean Knight’s of Columbus Rosary/Meeting, 6:30 p.m., Parish 7-06-21 Martha B. Haase Hall Sam, Mary & Joanne Politz TUE Daily Mass/Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Thursday 9 a.m. Agnes & Lydia Prejean 6 8 a.m., Church 7-08-21 George & Octavia P. Foret Church Open For Prayer 12 noon - 4 p.m. Friday 9 a.m. Lindley Spaht Dodson Baptism Seminar, 6 p.m., AC-Fr. Gauci Rm. 7-09-21 WED No Daily Mass Saturday 4 p.m. Parishioners of Sacred Heart 7 Church Open For Prayer 12 noon - 4 p.m. 7-10-21 THU Daily Mass, 9 a.m., Church Sunday 9 a.m. Cecilia & Shelley Tramonte 8 Church Open For Prayer 12 noon - 4 p.m. 7-11-21 Lindley Spaht Dodson FRI Daily Mass, 9 a.m., Church 11 a.m. Michael DiVincenti, III 9 Church Open For Prayer 12 noon - 4 p.m. Special Intention of Rose Brian SAT SVdP Visitation Meeting, 8:30 a.m., AC-Fr. Dugas Rm. Frank Culotta 10 Confessions, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Gary & Kevin Keyser Vigil Mass, 4 p.m., Church Davis Rhorer SUN 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time 11 Masses, 9 & 11 a.m.

July 3-4, 2021: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Mass Readers Saturday, 4:00 PM Phyllis Territo (1) Clare Coulon (2) Sunday, 9:00 AM Marilyn Kelley (1) Bill Bryan (2) Sunday, 11:00 AM Jackie Culotta (1) Holly Coleman (2)

Page 4 July 4 & July 11, 2021 Sunday: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time doctrines of the Church. Pope Gregory X made him a Cardinal and appointed him bishop of Albano. But a Monday: Weekday little over a year later, while participating in the Second Council of Lyon, St. Bonaventure suddenly died on July Tuesday: St. Henry: As German king and Holy Roman 15, 1274. He left behind a structured and renewed Emperor, Henry was a practical man of affairs. He was Franciscan Order and a body of work all of which energetic in consolidating his rule. He crushed rebellions glorifies his great love for Jesus. and feuds. On all sides he had to deal with drawn-out disputes so as to protect his frontiers. His ultimate purpose was to establish a stable peace in Europe. He and his wife, St. Cunegunda, assisted the poor. He fostered ecclesiastical and monastic reform in his lands and founded the See of Bamberg as a center for mission outreach to the Slavs. Henry died in 1024 and was canonized in 1146.

Wednesday: St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin: St. Kateri was the first Native American to be declared a “Blessed” in 1980; she was canonized in October of 2012. A member of the Mohawk Friday: Our Lady of Mount Carmel: Hermits lived on nation she became a Christian and Mount Carmel in northern Israel beginning in the 12th lived a life of holiness and austerity century and dedicated a chapel to Our Lady there. By the even as she faced ridicule and 13th century they became known as the Brothers of Our abuse from those she lived among. Lady of Mount Carmel (the Order of Carmelites’ formal She died in 1680 at the age of 24. beginning). They soon celebrated a special Mass and Her holiness inspired others after Office in honor of Mary which, in 1726, became a her death, and she has come to be celebration of the universal Church under the title of Our known as the Lily of the Mohawks. Lady of Mount Carmel. There is a tradition that Mary appeared to St. Simon Stock and gave him a scapular, telling him to promote devotion to it. The scapular is a Thursday: St. Bonaventure, modified version of Mary’s own garment. It symbolizes Bishop and Doctor of the her special protection and calls the wearers to consecrate Church: Born in 1221, themselves to her in a special way. Bonaventure became a Franciscan at the age of 22. He began his life Saturday: Weekday in the Franciscan order as a teacher, but this ended when the Next Sunday: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Friars elected him to serve as their General Minister at a time when the Order was embroiled in conflicts over the meaning of poverty. Bonaventure resolved the issue. He offered the Friars an organized spirituality based on the vision and insights of St. Francis. A true Franciscan as well as a mystical writer, Bonaventure united the pastoral and practical aspects of life with the

Page 5 July 4 & July 11, 2021 Sunday, July 11 Tuesday, July 13 Thursday, July 15 Saturday, July 17 Am 7:12-15/Ps 85:9-10, 11-12, Ex 2:1-15a/Ps 69:3, 14, 30-31, Ex 3:13-20/Ps 105:1 and 5, 8-9, Ex 12:37-42/Ps 136:1 and 23- 13-14 [8]/Eph 1:3-14 or 1:3-10/ 33-34 [cf. 33]/Mt 11:20-24 24-25, 26-27 [8a]/Mt 11:28-30 24, 10-12, 13-15/Mt 12:14-21 Mk 6:7-13 Wednesday, July 14 Friday, July 16 Sunday, July 18 Monday, July 12 Ex 3:1-6, 9-12/Ps 103:1b-2, 3-4, Ex 11:10—12:14/Ps 116:12-13, Jer 23:1-6/Ps 23:1-3, 3-4, 5, 6 Ex 1:8-14, 22/Ps 124:1b-3, 4-6, 6-7 [8a]/Mt 11:25-27 15 and 16bc, 17-18 [13]/Mt 12:1 [1]/Eph 2:13-18/Mk 6:30-34 7-8 [8a]/Mt 10:34—11:1 -8

MON No Daily Mass Date Mass Intention(s) 12 Tuesday 8 a.m. Gary Keyser TUE Daily Mass/Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help, 7-13-21 Michael O. Bourgeois 13 8 a.m., Church Joseph, Marian, & Connie Politz Church Open For Prayer 12 noon - 4 p.m. Thursday 9 a.m. Zachary Michael Leopold WED No Daily Mass 7-15-21 14 Church Open For Prayer 12 noon - 4 p.m. SVdP Meeting, 6:30 p.m., AC-Fr. Dugas Rm. Friday 9 a.m. Winnfield Jeansonne 7-16-21 THU Parish Office Closed for Calendar Planning 15 Daily Mass, 9 a.m., Church Saturday 4 p.m. Bradley Smith & David Smith; Roy Joseph Church Open For Prayer 12 noon - 4 p.m. 7-17-21 Dupuy, Sr.; Michael DiVincenti, III.; Fred & Hilda Moreland; Hilda, Clarence & Jewel FRI Daily Mass, 9 a.m., Church LeBlanc; Michael O. Bourgeois; Cathy 16 Church Open For Prayer 12 noon - 4 p.m. Cangelosi; Roy & Helen Cangelosi SAT Confessions, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Sunday 9 a.m. Parishioners of Sacred Heart 17 Vigil Mass, 4 p.m., Church 7-18-21 SUN 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time 11 a.m. Michael DiVincenti, III.; Special Intention of 18 Masses, 9 & 11 a.m. Sam Sances; Frank Culotta; Lindley Spaht Dodson; Henry William Bellows; Bradley & David Smith

July 10-11, 2021: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Mass Readers Saturday, 4:00 PM John Shoptaugh (1) Joell Keller (2) Sunday, 9:00 AM Perry Key (1) Lisa Gardner (2) Sunday, 11:00 AM Sandra Holmes (1) Elizabeth Culotta (2)

July 17-18, 2021: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Mass Readers Breaking Bread Missalettes are located at the front doors of the church, Saturday, 4:00 PM Mark LeBlanc (1) Jacquelyn Dawson (2) as well as the east doors by the Parish Hall.

Sunday, 9:00 AM Greg Upton (1) PLEASE RETURN YOUR HYMNALS TO Paxton Hester (2) THE BOOK CART/TABLE Sunday, 11:00 AM Sid Bowden, Sr. (1) AFTER MASS! Cecilia Methvin (2)

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Pastoral Associate Facilities Services Manager Wedding Coordinator Deacon Clayton Hollier Mr. Jonathan Olivier Mrs. Ashley Coleman

Business Manager Maintenance Assistant Sunday Nursery Mrs. Tiffany Dykes Ms. Latasha Reed Mrs. Sara Smith

Director of Religious Education Youth Coordinator Contribution Accounting Ms. Clare Coulon Mrs. Nicole Salassi Mrs. Mary Eggart

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