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OUR LADY OF PROMPT SUCCOR CATHOLIC CHURCH 2120 Elliott Street, Alexandria, Louisiana Tel: (318) 445-3693 Fax (318) 445-8471

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FEBRUARY 12, 2012

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Vol. XVII No. 12

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DEACON TODD MARYE, a native son of OLPS parish, has been assigned to ministry in our parish by Bishop Herzog, effective March 1. Todd and his wife Mary Beth have been active for years in serving the Lord and our parish in ministry.

Now we welcome their service to the community on an even deeper level. Congratulations, Todd and Mary Beth! – Father Dan WWWWWWW ANNUAL DIOCESAN APPEAL: In today’s second reading, St. Paul urges the Corinthians to “do all for the glory of God.” A great way to be a good steward is by supporting the work of the diocesan church and contributing to the 2012 Annual Diocesan Appeal. Our parish goal this year is $83,300.00.

FATHER STEPHEN SOARES, associate pastor at Sacred Heart Church in Pineville, is assisting us with Masses while we wait for a new associate pastor to be assigned. Father Stephen is a native of India and a member of the Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales. We thank Father Stephen for his service and thank Father Bruce Miller, pastor of Sacred Heart, for sharing Father Stephen with us. – Father Dan OUR MONTHLY SENIOR CITIZEN MASS will be celebrated this Wednesday in the Church at 2:00 P.M. We consider it a privilege to have you join us and sincerely hope that sharing in the Eucharist will enrich your spiritual life. You are invited to the reception that will follow in the Madonna Room.

– Sister JoAnn DeLoach JOIN THE OLPS COMMUNITY for the Courageous Movie Night on Friday, Feb. 17. Doors open at 6:30 P.M. in Olinger Hall. Make it a fun night out! Married couples, singles, families with children 12 years and older (child care will be available for kids under 10 at the Life House). RSVP by Feb. 14 to reserve your spot for the movie and childcare. Contact the Church office at 445-3693 or email jessicaviator@gmail.com. Dinner will be served. Movie details at www.courageousthemovie.com.

CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS will meet Monday, Feb. 13 at 11:30 A.M. in the Madonna Room. The Court is trying a new time for its meeting. All ladies are encouraged to come for prayer and a luncheon meeting (don’t forget to bring a bag lunch). Refreshments will be served. For more information please call Donna at 473-0444.

WEEKLY PARISH EVENT CALENDAR Monday, Feb. 13 10:00 A.M. Outreach Prayer Group (L) 11:30 A.M. Catholic Daughters (MR) 6:00 P.M. Rosary (Church) Tuesday, Feb. 14 3:00 P.M. St. Cecilia Choir (Music Room) 6:30 P.M. RCIA Pre-catechumenate (Life House) 7:00 P.M. Adult Choir (Music Room) Wednesday, Feb. 15 2:00 P.M. Senior Citizen Mass (Church); Reception (MR) 4:00 P.M. Youth Band (ND) 5:00 P.M. Parish Supper (OH) 5:45 P.M. Joyful Noise Choir (Music Room) 6:00 P.M. Buildings and Maintenance Commission (MR) 6:15 P.M. Junior High (Life House) 6:30 P.M. CCD (School) Thursday, Feb. 16 10:00 A.M. Rosary (Church) 1:45 P.M. OLPS School Pre-K Mardi Gras Parade 6:00 P.M. Hospitality Commission (L) 6:30 P.M. Knights of Columbus Council 8029 (OH) Friday, Feb. 17 9:00 A.M. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (Church) 6:30 P.M. Family Dinner and a Movie (OH) Saturday, Feb. 18 10:00 A.M. Mass at Matthews Memorial Nursing Home Sunday, Feb. 12 9:15 A.M. ‘Sunday Morning Lagniappe’ Bible Study (L) 10:30 A.M. Children’s Liturgy (L) 2:30 P.M. Divine Mercy Chaplet and Rosary (Church) 4:15 P.M. ‘Sunday Evening Lagniappe’ Bible Study (L) 5:30 P.M. Children’s Liturgy (L) 7:00 P.M. High School Youth (OH)

Madonna Room (MR) Lourdes (L) Fatima (F) Olinger Hall (OH) Notre Dame (ND)

LENTEN COUPLE PRAYER SERIES BEGINS MARCH 2: You and your spouse or fiancé(e) are warmly invited to join us on Friday evenings, beginning on March 2, from 6:15 to 7:45 P.M., for a special six week “Couple Prayer Series” (www.coupleprayer.org). Experience for yourselves why couples who not only attend church together weekly, but who also pray together daily, have a divorce rate of less than 1 divorce in every 1,000 marriages. Please contact Deacon Todd and Mary Beth Marye at 448-3617 or Dirk and Beth Erickson at

442-4875 to register. Preregistration is requested to attend and for babysitting needs.

OLPS SCHOOL

BULLDOG BYTES 2012 OLPS Magazine Drive

protest of this action which forces Catholics to violate their consciences. Go to www.usccb.org/conscience to watch Archbishop Dolan’s video and then click on the “Take Action Today” link which will allow you to send an email to our U.S. representative and senators, encouraging them to vote for a bill which would reverse this decision.

OLPS YOUTH

The OLPS Home & School Association Magazine Drive is underway. The final turn-in date is Feb. 15. Please take a few minutes to visit the on-line link at www.promptsuccor.org and order your favorite magazine/s or check out the additional items available for purchase. All funds raised through the Magazine Drive help the OLPS H&S Association provide valuable educational materials and equipment that directly benefit our students. For more information or to volunteer to help with the drive, please contact Katherine Monceaux at 229-8097.

HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH BAND rehearses on Wednesdays from 4:00 to 5:00 P.M. The band is open to anyone in ninth through twelfth grades. Come join us in the Lourdes Room.

OLPS Pre-K Mardi Gras Parade Mark your calendar to join the OLPS student body to watch the annual OLPS PRE-K MARDI GRAS PARADE next Thursday, Feb. 16 at 1:45 P.M. in front of school. If you have any beads you would like to donate to the parade, please send them to the school’s front office.

YOUTH GROUP: High School youth meet after the 5:30 P.M. Mass this Sunday. Contact John Lyons at 445-8473, ext. 213 or youth@olpschurch.org.

Popeye’s Chicken, Outlaw’s BBQ and Taco Bueno Dinner Night

Dine-in or out on Thursday, Feb. 16 at any location of Popeye’s Chicken, Outlaw’s BBQ or Taco Bueno and OLPS will receive 15 percent of the OLPS-generated proceeds. So enjoy the night out of the kitchen while supporting OLPS. Please give your server the OLPS Dinner Nite form found at www.promptsuccor.org under Forms & Letters when you order.

THE FLOWERS BY THE TABERNACLE are given FOR THE INTERCESSION OF THE BLESSED MOTHER FOR MARY TOMPKINS AND IN THANKSGIVING OF HER BEAUTIFUL FAITH by Kelly Sansing.

THE FLOWERS BY OUR LADY OF PROMPT SUCCOR are given this week in loving memory of MARY NECK by Cindy Hawthorne.

THE ALTAR CANDLES will burn this weekend FOR THE INTENTION OF DAVID SCHEXNYDER. bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb FIGHT COERCIVE GOVERNMENT MANDATE: Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference, sharply criticized the recent decision by the federal government which orders employers and insurers to provide sterilization and contraceptives, including some abortion-inducing drugs, in their health plan – and require almost all Americans to pay for this coverage. Speak out in

JUNIOR HIGH: Our Junior High group (seventh and eighth graders from all schools) meets on Wednesday from 6:30 to 7:30 in the Life House. For more information, contact Kristine Antoon at 445-8473 or jrhigh@olpschurch.org.

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‘CHILDREN OF HOPE’: The next First Friday holy hour will be Friday, March 2 from 3:00 to 4:00 P.M. in church. The program includes Eucharistic Adoration, prayers, music, rosary and meditations for children especially in grades two through six.

OUR SEMINARIANS: Brian Seiler, Pontifical College Josephinum, Columbus, OH; Dutch Voltz, Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans, LA PLEASE PRAY for all our service men and women serving in Afghanistan and other parts of the world, and here at home, among them Peyton Abbott, Bill Aldridge, Paul Arbour, Chris Armstrong, Jesse Barth, Chad Bordelon, Beau Bradford, Chaplain Father John Brocato, Shawn D. Bryant, Gregory Carbo II, Orlando Carnales, Ray Constantino, Thomas Cooper, John V. Daigle, Mike Deville, Scott Deville, Dirk Erickson, David Fields, Chaplain Father John Gabriel, Shaun Gordon, Christian Griffiths, Joseph Anthony Gonzales, Jr., Jesse Karinsny, Derrick Kozielski, Stephen Lee, Brandon McNamara, Christopher Nuss, Ledena Piper, Seth Sibley, Jared Slay and Francis Jerome Vanderlick. If you know someone serving whose name is not on our list, please contact the church office.

OLPS PARISH SUPPERS are held every Wednesday from 5:00 to 6:30 P.M. in Olinger Hall. The Knights of Columbus Council 8029 hosts and prepares the suppers. Meals are $4.00 per plate. Eat in or take out; you are encouraged to stay and eat in the Hall and visit with other members of our church family.

You may check the bulletin online at www.olpschurch.org for weekly updates on the parish supper.

Feb. 15 Menu: Spaghetti and meatballs, salad, French bread, and dessert.

THE CHURCH TODAY: A special collection will be taken next weekend for The Church Today, our diocesan newspaper.

The proceeds will help defray the cost of printing and mailing the paper free to all Catholic households in the diocese. – Bishop Herzog

Maci Callahan; Theresa Cataldie; Sophie Chestovich; John Finley; Delores Gauthier; Eloise Hall; Chuck Hardy; Josey King; Tiffany Lora; Robert Maddox V; Mary Beth Marye; Maxine Meadows; Linda Pratt; Willard Price; Geneva Scarbrock; Hazel Schmolke; Leroy Seaux; Steve Tatum; Barbra Vincent; Ruth Wallace; Steven White; Katherine Wood; Father Bernard Zagst; and all the homebound of our parish.

OUR LADY OF PROMPT SUCCOR

Mailing Address: 401 21st Street, Alexandria, La. 71301

Church Office/Rectory Telephone: 445-­‐3693 Choir Director/Organist Telephone: 487-­‐8528 Life House Telephone: 445-­‐8473 Fr. Daniel P. O’Connor, V.F., Pastor Fr. Chris Nayak, In Residence Mary Floyd, Parish Manager Annette Curley, Accountant/Margaret Shiver, Receptionist Sr. Virginia Lee Vanderlick, C.D.P., President of OLPS School Jo Tassin, Principal of OLPS School Sr. JoAnn DeLoach, M.S.C., Pastoral Associate Paul Hood, Director of Religious Education Linda Perot, Director of Music Ministry Josh Blakesley, Associate Director of Music Ministry John Lyons, Coordinator of High School Ministry Kristine Antoon, Coordinator of Junior High Ministry Sarah Duncan Mealer, Church Nursery Coordinator Brandon Callahan, Maintenance Supervisor Michael Upton, Finance Council Chair + Bill Aldridge, Pastoral Council Chair Mark Lemaire, School Council Chair SACRAMENTS/LITURGY/DEVOTIONS Mass: Saturday 4 PM Sunday 7, 9 & 10:30 AM; 5:30 PM (Nursery Available for 9, 10:30 AM & 5:30 PM for Newborns through 3 yrs.)

Weekdays: 6:30 AM & 5:30 PM Holy Day of Obligation: Vigil -­‐ 5:30 PM Holy Day: 6:30 AM; 12:05 P.M. & 5:30 PM Children’s Liturgy of the Word (For ages 4 -­‐ 8 yrs.)

Sundays at 10:30 AM Sacrament of Penance: Saturdays 3:00 -­‐ 3:50 PM and Weekdays before Mass Sacrament of Matrimony: Please contact the Priest no less than four months in advance in order for marriage preparation to begin.

Sacrament of Baptism: Baptismal Preparation Class quarterly.

Register in advance by calling the Church Office (445-­‐3693).

Baptisms are ministered by appointment.

Sacrament of Holy Eucharist: For the sick and homebound.

Contact Sister JoAnn DeLoach, M.S.C. at 445-­‐3693.

Anointing of the Sick: Please contact our Parish Priests at 445-­‐3693.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: The Blessed Sacrament is exposed from 9:00 AM -­‐ 5:00 PM every Friday in the Church.

RELIGIOUS FORMATION PROGRAMS CCD -­‐ Wednesdays during the School year, 6:30 -­‐ 7:30 PM Junior High -­‐ Wednesdays during the School year, 6:15 -­‐7:30 P.M.

READINGS FOR FEB. 12: Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46; Psalm 32; 1 Corinthians 10:31 – 11:1; Mark 1:40-45 SUNDAY LAGNIAPPE TOPICS ON FEB. 12: Lourdes Room, 9:15 A.M. – Apologetics Lourdes Room, 4:15 P.M. – The Book of Acts of the Apostles IN MEMORY: STELLA B. DEJOIE Please pray for Mrs. Dejoie (mother of Mr. Ronald Dejoie) and those of our parish who have recently died and for the consolation of their families.

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK: Charles Anderson; John Aymond; Ruth Bergeron; Keith Brewster; Larry Carbo; Verna Carbo;

MASSES OF THE WEEK SUN., FEB. 12: 7:00 A.M. 9:00 A.M.

Lee and Inez Jeansonne Peter Lorio; Mrs. D. J. Gremillion; Al Beach; Tony Fiorenza; In Honor of Bea Jones; Mary E. Wilber; Archie Brodnax; Ensign Keith N. Bonnette; Gordon Ducote; Myrthlee Vanhoof; Living and Deceased Members of the Gueringer/Gagnard Families; Kenneth W. Heldt, Mary E. Heldt, Patricia A. Heldt Herman Sykes Our Parish Family

10:30 A.M. 5:30 P.M. MON., FEB. 13: 6:30 A.M. Helena St. Romain 5:30 P.M. Intention of Msgr. Steve Testa TUES., FEB. 14: 6:30 A.M. Sam and Lois Campo, Leslie DeSelle 5:30 P.M. Paddy Champagne WED., FEB. 15: 6:30 A.M. James Steven Hellweg 5:30 P.M. Bertha Bonnell (anniv.)

THURS., FEB. 16: 6:30 A.M. Lorraine Normand (anniv.)

8:00 A.M. Dick and Femy van Dillen 5:30 P.M. David Ezernack FRI., FEB. 17: 6:30 A.M. Dena Flynn 8:00 P.M. Intention of Mason Deville 5:30 P.M. Priscilla Tooley SAT., FEB. 18: 8:00 A.M. Marie A. ‘Molla’ Carey (anniv.)

4:00 P.M. C. L. Michiels, Virgie and Cornelius Michiels, Alma and Cleveland McCauley; Intention of Michael Young; Joseph J.Bellais, Eastlyn Bellais McGinnis, James McGinnis; Ernestine Loden SUN., FEB. 19: 7:00 A.M. Josie, Marilyn and Benton Bordelon, Jr. 9:00 A.M. Al Beach; David Ezernack; Tony Fiorenza; Rose Marie Curley Connor (anniv.); Myrthlee Vanhoof; Intention of Father Dan O’Connor; Living and Deceased Members of the Gueringer/Gagnard Families; Kenneth W. Heldt, Mary E. Heldt, Patricia A. Heldt 10:30 A.M. Our Parish Family 5:30 P.M. Mike Hussey

OLPS M INISTRY COM M ISSION OPPORTUNITIES BUILDINGS/MAINTENANCE: Chair – Steve Gauthier, 487-0309.

COMMUNICATIONS: Chair – Katie Flynn Vanderlick, 792-1939.

COMMUNITY SERVICES: Chair – Susan Harrison, 201-1177.

HOSPITALITY: Chair – Jenny Tassin 792-3953.

LITURGY: Chair – Chris Armstrong, 641-9916.

PARISH AND FAMILY LIFE: Chair – Stacey Besselman, 794-5807.

SPIRITUALITY/EDUCATION: Chair – Paul Mathews, 619-9406.

STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE: Michael Young, 308-3004.

GIFTS REPORT – CHURCH SUPPORT Income needed for Feb. (four Sundays) 70,000.00 Gifts on previous weekends in February .00 Gifts given last weekend 22,595.00 Amount still needed for February 47,405.00 THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY ‘WHERE WE BELONG’ CAPITAL CAMPAIGN Campaign Goal 5,300,000.00 Pledged to Date 3,381,690.00 Collected to Date 1,806,785.00