Clergy Pastor: Rev. Mark Lomax Parochial Vicar: Rev. Chris Zavackis Deacons: Steve Cohan, Jay Frantz, Our Lady of the Lake Andrew Raspino Sunday Mass Schedule Roman Catholic Church Saturday Vigil March 18, 2018 4:00 PM Church Sunday Fifth Sunday of Lent 7:30 AM Church 9:00 AM Chotin Center with Children’s Liturgy (ages 3-6) 10:30 AM Chotin Center with Children’s Liturgy (ages 3-6) 12 Noon Church 6:30 PM Church LENT with Interpreter for the Deaf Weekday Mass Schedule Monday-Friday 9:00 AM Church Monday-Thursday 5:15 PM Church Saturday 8:00 AM Church Reconciliation Times Monday-Thursday 4:30 - 5:00 PM Saturday 3:00 - 3:45 PM or by appointment A Time Of Parish Life Center Hours Regular Hours Monday-Friday: 9 AM-4 PM Prayer, Fasting Summer (Memorial Day-July) Monday-Friday: 9 AM-1 PM and Almsgiving Adoration Chapel Open 24 hours next to the Church Connect with us Phone: (985) 626-5671 Fax: (985) 626-5422 Our Lady of the Lake Mission Statement Web: www.ollparish.info Email: [email protected] Bound by a unifying love of Christ and one another, Twitter : @ollparish we share the Good News of the Gospel Instagram: @ollparish through prayer, Eucharist, education and service. Facebook: OurLadyoftheLake RomanCatholicChurch www.ollparish.info 312 Lafitte Street, Mandeville, LA 70448 March 18, 2018 5th Sunday of Lent Saved By God’s Love Today’s Readings Because the people broke the old covenant, God promised a new First Reading: I will place my law covenant, not in the blood of oxen and other animals, but in the blood of within them and write it upon their the Son, Jesus Christ. This new covenant, foreseen from afar by Jeremiah hearts (Jeremiah 31:31-34). and the prophets, was not to be engraved on stone, or written on paper, but carved on our hearts, so that we might know God intimately. Not by Psalm: Create a clean heart in me, keeping many laws are we to be saved, but by the love of God, living and O God (Psalm 51). real in our hearts through the sacrifice of Christ. Second Reading: Christ became Our Eucharist is the pledge of that indwelling of Christ, and of our the source of eternal salvation for response of praise and thanksgiving to God for the mercy, love, and all who obey him (Hebrews 5:7-9). kindness shown to us in forgiving our sins and cleansing our hearts of Gospel: If a grain of wheat falls to everything evil. God issues this invitation to intimacy by offering us the the ground and dies, it produces chance to have our sufferings transformed into the perfect love of the much fruit (John 12:20-33). Savior, who first loved us. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, Treasures From Our Tradition 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. Over the next two weeks, as we hear of the interior anguish of Jesus, we are led to the Garden of Gethsemane, the scene of a night of suffering, failure, and loss. In Hebrew, the word means “olive press,” and it was an olive grove, although only a few trees remain. Olives can’t be eaten off the Readings for the Week trees, they need to be cured—knocked from the trees at harvest time, Monday: 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16; scooped into a stone basin, and cracked open by a heavy millstone. The Ps 89:2-5, 27, 29; Rom 4:13, 16-18, crushing stone weight was itself called a “gethsemane,” and once it was 22; Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a lowered onto the olives, oil from the fruit and the inner stone would drip Tuesday: Nm 21:4-9; Ps 102:2-3, into a groove and flow into jars. The night before his death, Jesus 16-21; Jn 8:21-30 experienced such anguish that scripture says his own blood perspired Wednesday: Dn 3:14-20, 91-92, from him, an image no one who understands olive oil production could 95; Dn 3:52-56; Jn 8:31-42 miss. Thursday: Gn 17:3-9; Ps 105:4-9; Today, the Mount of Olives is within the city of Jerusalem and the site of Jn 8:51-59 the Church of All Nations, also known as the Basilica of the Agony. It was built in 1924, funded by Catholics in twelve different countries. An open- Friday: Jer 20:10-13; Ps 18:2-7; Jn air altar on the grounds is used by Anglicans on Holy Thursday every year. 10:31-42 Nearby is the Russian Church of Mary Magdalene, built by the czar in Saturday: Ez 37:21-28; Jer 31:10, 1888, its magnificent golden domes a distinctive landmark. There is also 11-13; Jn 11:45-56 another tiny Catholic Church, called Dominus Flevit, or “The Cry of the Sunday: Jn 12:12-16 (procession); Lord,” built in a teardrop shape in the mid-1950s. For centuries, the Is 50:4-7; Ps 22: 8-9, 17-20, 23-24; Franciscan order has had the care of the shrines of the Holy Land, and our Phil 2:6-11; Mk 14:1 — 15:47 Good Friday collection helps sustain these precious sites. Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. I Will Place My Law Within Them and Write It Upon Their Hearts; I Will Be Their God, and They Shall Be My People. ~ Jeremiah 31:33 Sacraments, Liturgy and Prayer Sacrament Information Mass Intentions Sanctuary Candles Infant Baptisms: A Baptismal Saturday, March 17 These votive candles in Church have seminar and completed paperwork 8:00 AM Int. of OLL parishioners been memorialized as follows: is required prior to the Sacrament. 4:00 PM All souls in Purgatory Main Altar Sanctuary Lamp Deceased members of KC’s See the website for details and and their families For the intentions of forms. Geraldine Adams Elise Angelette Sacrament of Marriage: See our James Edward Kraus, Jr. Main Altar Sanctuary Lamp website for information. Call Beth Herbie Hahn In loving memory of at x116 for an appointment at least Joyce Weisler Judy Hotard six (6) months prior to the proposed Dr. Ernest E. Deshautreaux wedding date. Sunday, March 18 Blessed Mother Altar Lamp Sacrament of the Sick: For 7:30 AM Stephen Lazo & Edna In loving memory of emergencies only, call 626-5671 or Sepulvado Geraldine Adams 727-7760, day or night. Call x107 Int. of Cindy Garrett during office hours for communion Farris Thomas St. Joseph Altar Lamp to the sick, shut-ins, and those in Alvin P. Gernard, Jr. In thanksgiving for the Int. of Bede Frank intercession of St. Joseph hospitals. Anointing of the sick is Int. of Rose Frank as we celebrate his feast available upon request. Int. of Marianna Dosch Annulments: Contact Deacon Jay Sacred Heart of Jesus Altar Lamp Edna Gannon Treuting and Nancy Frantz at 789-0293 for Mary Siess Garcia In memory of information and guidance on Roman Puls Joyce Weisler applying for an annulment. Jacqueline L’ Hoste St. Benedict Altar Lamp Honore Oubre For the intentions of Sanctuary Candles Emile Corne, Sr. & As you look around the front of Keller Hebert on his birthday Richard Corne, Jr. the Church, you will notice the 9:00 AM Elsie Johannesen candles that hang from the ceiling 10:30 AM Irene Armand in front of the main and side altars. 12:00 PM Lucille & Jay Westerhaus Addressing These candles are available to be 6:30 PM Edna Gannon Treuting memorialized for the week for a Monday, March 19 Pornography 9:00 AM Rusty Ricks • The Chastity Project: Chastity $15 stipend. We post these 5:15 PM Betty Munster Project is a ministry of Jason memorials in the bulletin. Tuesday, March 20 and Crystalina Evert that Mass Intentions 9:00 AM Linda Nunez promotes the virtue of chastity All of our Masses are offered for 5:15 PM Richard Lind through seminars, resources, specific intentions that have been Wednesday, March 21 clubs and social media. Visit requested in advance. In 9:00 AM Int. of Christopher Crovetto chastityproject.com. accordance with Canon Law, each Thursday, March 22 • 9:00 AM Sean M. Gaudet & Zane H. Protect Young Eyes uses a Mass is for a single intention; with Poole constantly updated website the exception of 2 weekend 5:15 PM Wildeth “Chris” Wilson and engaging, in-person Masses that accommodate Friday, March 23 presentations to educate multiple intentions. Mass 9:00 AM Judy Hotard concerned, but busy parents donations are $5. We post these and hyper-connected kids intentions in the bulletin. about how to use technology in Flowers a God-honoring way. Visit Flowers enhance our worship Stations of the Cross protectyoungeyes.com. environment in both the Church Join us for Stations of the Cross • Common Sense Media is a and Chotin Center. Altar Flower with Adoration and Benediction of secular organization that donations are $100. We the Blessed Sacrament on Fridays reviews popular movies, acknowledge these donations in of Lent starting at 6:30 PM in the games, and apps that kids use the bulletin. Church. today. Visit commonsensemedia.org. Sacraments, Liturgy and Prayer Father, Forgive Them Liturgical Ministers The promise made by the Lord in the first reading is very bold. He says March 17-18 March 24-25 that all people shall know him, 4:00 PM Vigil Mass 4:00 PM Vigil Mass without having to be taught by Liturgical Coordinator: Leon Crist Liturgical Coordinator: Marc Fluitt others.