Mary, Mother of Jesus Catholic Church 9323 Highway 165 South, Woodworth, Louisiana
Rev. John Pardue, Pastor
Church Mailing Address: P. O. Box 408
2120 Coulee Crossing, Woodworth, LA
Office Hours: TWTh 8:00-noon (318) 487-9894 or 767-6508 Secretary/Bookkeeper: Laura Callico, mmjwoodworth@att.net Cantor/Music Director: Priscilla Gadel, priscilla.s@prodigy.net
Rev. Blake Deshautelle, In Residence Mailing Address: P.O. Box 408, Woodworth, LA 71485 Telephone: (318) 445-7554 frjohnpardue@gmail.com
Third Sunday of Easter, April 22, 2012
CALENDAR Saturday, April 21 4:00 pm Mass - Mark Gagnard + Sunday, April 22 8:00 am Mass - Linda Roshto + 3:30-5:00 pm - Girl Scout Meeting - Hall 5:30 Mass - For the People Monday, April 23 No Mass 6:00-7:00 pm - Cub Scout Meeting - Hall Tuesday, April 24 7:00 am Mass - Elise Parish Wednesday, April 25 7:00 am Mass - Carl Bess, Jr. + Thursday, April 26 7:00 am Mass - Eloise Florence 5:30-6:30 pm - Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Friday, April 27 7:00 am Mass - William W. Floyd, Sr. + Saturday, April 28 4:00 pm Mass - Col. Goldie Ladner + Sunday, April 29 7:30 am - Rosary 8:00 am Mass - Cue Domingues + 5:30 pm Mass - For the People
Sanctuary Candle burns in memory of Mark Gagnard
Dear Parishioners, I need to clear up some misunderstanding about stipends for Mass intentions. Sometimes people will give a priest a single check, say, for $100, for a Mass stipend. There will be a note attached that reads for Masses or for a Mass and there will be only one intention listed. What that individual may not realize is that the standard Mass stipend is $5. What does the priest do with all that extra money? Diocesan policy is that when the wish of the donor is unclear, then he must take the amount of money, divide it by $5, and say that number of Masses for that same intention, or 20 Masses in the above example. Simple, problem solved. No, not really. Sometimes the check could be as much as $500 or 100 Masses. The problem is that at MMJ we say only 6 Masses per week for stipend or about 24 per month. That $500 would absorb almost one-third of the annual intentions. Normally we are not allowed to offer more than one intention per Mass and accept the stipend and no priest is ever allowed to accept more than one stipend per day. Moreover, a priest is not allowed to accept more intentions than he can fulfill in one year. Scheduling large numbers of Mass intentions for anyone is not fair to everyone else. The diocesan policy for this common dilemma is that those remaining intentions are mailed to the diocese. They are then allocated to another priest to satisfy. Please understand if you offer a large sum of intentions to the parish office for Masses that there is no certainty that those Masses will be celebrated here in this parish. They may be celebrated somewhere else by another priest. I don’t mind sending them off, but I thought that you should know. Sincerely yours,
2nd Sunday Breakfast will be held on the first Sunday in May
Father John
May 6, 2012 after 8:00 am Mass This will be our last breakfast before the summer break.
READINGS FOR NEXT WEEKEND Acts 4: 8-12; Jn 3: 1-2; Jn 10: 11-18 World Day of Prayer for Vocations