January 25, 2015 - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Baptisms Seminars are held every other month - register by calling the office. Attend- ance is suggested during pregnancy. 406 East Pinhook Road Lafayette, LA 70501-8727 Phone: (337) 237-0988 Fax: (337) 233-8868 Rev. M. Keith LaBove, Pastor Parish Website: www.stpat.org Weddings Arrangements must be made at least six months in advance to allow time for preparation Office Hours Monday – Thursday: 8:30 am – 3:00 pm; Friday 8:30 am – 12 noon Celebration of the Eucharist Saturday: 4:00 pm – Sunday: 8:30 & 10:00 am Monday through Friday: 7:30 am Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday: 3:00 – 3:30 pm and Weekdays: 7:15 am
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January 25, 2015 - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Baptisms
Seminars are held every other month - register by calling the office. Attend-ance is suggested during pregnancy.
406 East Pinhook Road Lafayette, LA 70501-8727
Phone: (337) 237-0988 Fax: (337) 233-8868 Rev. M. Keith LaBove, Pastor
Parish Website: www.stpat.org
Weddings
Arrangements must be made at least six months in advance to allow time
for preparation
Office Hours
Monday – Thursday: 8:30 am – 3:00 pm; Friday 8:30 am – 12 noon
Celebration of the Eucharist
Saturday: 4:00 pm – Sunday: 8:30 & 10:00 am Monday through Friday: 7:30 am
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Saturday: 3:00 – 3:30 pm and Weekdays: 7:15 am
Welcome to St. Patrick Church
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
January 25, 2015
MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK
Saturday, January 24--Vigil of the Third Sun-
day in Ordinary Time 4:00 PM: Mary Jane Belfie (living); Special
Intention; Mac; Wayne Hebert; Mike Guilbeau;
Herman & Betty Landry ((living); Jacque Stelly;
Monty & Pierre Montagnet;
Emily & Lannie Webb
Sunday, January 25--Third Sunday in Ordi-
nary Time
8:30 AM: Beverly Welch;
Julia Phillips
10:00 AM: Parishioners of St. Patrick’s
Monday, January 26--Saints Timothy and Ti-
tus, Bishops 7:30 AM: Brandy Letchworth
Tuesday, January 27--St. Angela Merici, Vir-
gin
7:30 AM: Carolyn Sittig
Wednesday, January 28--St. Thomas Aquinas
7:30 AM: Dr. Tommy Comeaux & Dorinne;
Col. Clark Comeaux & Catherine (living);
Thursday, January 29--Weekday
7:30 AM: Richard Gilette
Friday, January 30--Weekday
7:30 AM: Dr. Charles Stewart
Altar Flowers
In Loving Memory of:
Monty & Pierre Montagnet
The kingdom of God is at hand.
Repent, and believe in the gospel.
— Mark 1:15
Non-Liturgical Devotions
Daily Rosary: Monday - Friday 6:55 a.m.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena: Tuesday
7:15 a.m.
Rosary for Priests: Wednesday 7:00 a.m.
Chaplet of Divine Mercy: Thursday 7:15 a.m.
Pro-Life Rosary: 1st. Friday of the month 7 a.m.
Shamrocks—Friday, January 30: Jerry Bou-
dreaux; Dee Boudreaux; Andre Arceneaux; Betty
Fournet; Charlotte Privat
Following is a list of the Diocesan Collections to be taken
throughout the year.
Annual Diocesan Collections—2015
Church in Latin America January 17-18
Aid to Church in Eastern
Europe & Africa & Feb. 21-22 (combined) Black & Indian Missions
Catholic Relief Services March 21-22
Holy Land (Good Friday) April 3 Catholic Home Missions April 18-19
Peter’s Pence June 20-21
Catholic Communications July 19-20
Catholic University of America September 19-20 Bishop’s Services Appeal October 17 –18
World Mission Sunday October 24 –25
Cath. Campaign Human Dev. November 21-22 Retirement Fund for Religious December 12-13
Food for the Journey The Central Region of the Diocese of Lafayette presents
“Food for the Journey”, a monthly lunchtime speaker series
designed to help Catholics live out our faith in our daily
lives. Our speaker for February is Rev. Michael DeBlanc, Associate Pastor of St. Genevieve Catholic Church, Lafa-
yette. “Food for the Journey” will be held on Tuesday,
February 3, at Hotel Acadiana, 1801 W. Pinhook Road, beginning at 12:00 noon. An optional lunch buffet is avail-
able for purchase beginning at 11:30 a.m. All are welcome
to come “eat and be fed”- please bring a friend! Pre-registration is not required. For more information, please
call Mary Bergeron (654-8682).
Theresians Lenten Day of Reflection The Roses of Acadiana District of Theresians International
is sponsoring a “Lenten Day of Reflection” for women on
Saturday, February 21, from 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at St. Pius X Elementary School Theater, 201 East Bayou Park-
way, Lafayette. This year’s retreat, entitled “When There’s
a Calling, There’s a Cross”, features speakers Diane Alex-ander, Deacon Philip Lizotte and Rev William “Bill” Rus-
koski. A light snack and lunch are included. Please go
to www.acadianatheresians.com for information and to reg-
ister and pay on line. For additional information, please contact Gerry LeBlanc (233-0015 or gple-
This last Thursday, our morning Mass was the “Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children”, re-cently added to our Missal by the U.S. Bishops. The occasion for that Mass was of course the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, which effectively legalized abortion on demand in our nation.
In my homily that day, I recalled the great legislative victories for justice that resulted from the civil rights movement. While some of those victories have been eroded of late by legislation and court decisions, those laws are a testament to a greater level of justice achieved for so many. Today, some 50 years later, we would be naï ve however if we were to imagine that those laws eradicated racism from our midst. Tragically, racism continues to thrive in institutional structures as well as individually, sometimes quietly, sometimes more openly. Since racism is an infectious disease of the human heart, it takes much more than laws to overcome the hatred and bias and prejudice.
I offer this as simply context for the quest for the legal protection of the unborn. Certainly the goal to en-shrine in law the protection of human life from the moment of conception is a worthy one, even as we recognize that it will not happen today. Because we believe in the innate dignity of the human person, created in the image and likeness of God, the fundamental rights of that person cannot be based on the choice of this or that individual. Fundamental rights exist whether they are recognized in law or not.
Yet we would again be naï ve if we believed that changing the law, or the constitution, would resolve the problem. Much like racism, we are concerned here with attitudes of the human heart, and specifically, an attitude of respect for all human life. While working for a just society and just laws is a worthy activity for the Church, we also need to remember that our core mission is the conversion of the human heart, through the power of God’s grace.
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a talk connecting the respect for life with the need for a just society. I point-ed out that when it comes to human dignity, the devil is truly in the exceptions. Most people value life. The issue arises with the exceptions: to value life, except when the other is called enemy, or is a guilty criminal, or except when the other is old and dying, or when the other is just not yet born. It is the exceptions who are at risk.
So we continue to pray. We continue to work for laws that respect life. And we continue to strive for a more just society, where no one is the exception.