Our Lady of Prompt Succor bulletin 2-26-12

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 26, 2012

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Vol. XVII No. 14

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DAILY MASSES DURING LENT 6:30 A.M. and 5:30 P.M., Monday through Friday 8:00 A.M. Thursday, Friday and Saturday STATIONS OF THE CROSS Thursday 1:15 P.M.; Friday 6:00 P.M. LENTEN PENANCE SERVICE Wednesday, March 28, 6:30 P.M. WWWWWWW FAST AND ABSTINENCE DURING LENT: Please be reminded that the Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence from meat for Catholics 14 years of age and older. Good Friday is a day of abstinence from meat for Catholics 14 years and older, and a day of fast (one full meal and two smaller meals) for Catholics ages 18 through 59. These regulations are given by the Church as a minimum of Lenten penance in preparation for Easter.

THE COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMISSION will sponsor a collection of Easter gifts for Catholics residing at Matthews Memorial Nursing Home, the local nursing home served by our church parish. We will have baskets placed in the front of the church during the four Sundays in March for donated items. Suggested donations include unscented lotions and soaps, toothbrushes, combs, shampoo, Kleenex, chapstick, socks, lap blankets, prayer cards, and pictures or wall decorations for rooms.

ANNUAL DIOCESAN APPEAL: The waters of baptism make us part of the new covenant in Christ. But the U.S. bishops’ pastoral letter on stewardship reminds us that “there is a fundamental obligation arising from the Sacrament of Baptism… that people place their gifts, their resources – their selves – at God’s service in and through the Church.” Gifts to the 2012 Annual Diocesan Appeal serve the laity and parishes of the Diocese of Alexandria. Our parish goal this year is $83,300.00.

CATHOLIC HEART WORK CAMP GARAGE SALE will be this Saturday from 6:30 A.M. until 12:00 noon in Olinger Hall. Money raised will go to support the 80 High School and Junior High youth going on a mission trip this summer. Please support this effort. Donations will be accepted all day on Friday, March 2 at Olinger Hall. Please contact Carol Hirchak at 7302336 or Renee Aldridge at 542-1966 if you have items to donate.

WEEKLY PARISH EVENT CALENDAR Monday, Feb. 27 10:00 A.M. Outreach Prayer Group (L) 6:00 P.M. Rosary (Church) Tuesday, Feb. 28 12:00 P.M. Central Louisiana Interfaith (MR) 3:00 P.M. St. Cecilia Choir (Music Room) 6:00 P.M. Education and Spirituality Commission (F) 6:15 P.M. Pastoral Council (Rectory) 6:30 P.M. RCIA Pre-catechumenate (Life House) 7:00 P.M. Adult Choir (Music Room) Wednesday, Feb. 29 4:00 P.M. Youth Band (ND) 5:00 P.M. Parish Supper (OH) 5:45 P.M. Joyful Noise Choir (Music Room) 6:15 P.M. Junior High (Life House) 6:30 P.M. CCD (School) Thursday, Mar. 1 10:00 A.M. Rosary (Church) 1:15 P.M. Stations of the Cross (Church) 4:00 P.M. Bear Cub Scouts (OH) Friday, Mar. 2 9:00 A.M. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (Church) 9:00 A.M. Altar Society (L) 3:00 P.M. Children’s Holy Hour (L) 6:00 P.M. Stations of the Cross (Church) 6:15 P.M. Lenten Couple Prayer Series (MR) Saturday, Mar. 3 6:30 A.M. Catholic Heart Work Camp Garage Sale (OH) 8:30 A.M. Parish Donut Social sponsored by ACTS (L) Sunday, Mar. 4 9:00 A.M. Rite of Sending for RCIA (Church) 9:15 A.M. ‘Sunday Morning Lagniappe’ Bible Study (L) 10:00 A.M. Coffee and Donuts (MR) 10:30 A.M. Children’s Liturgy (L) 11:30 A.M. Coffee and Sandwiches (MR) 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) 6:30 P.M. Sandwich Social (MR) 7:00 P.M. High School Youth (OH)

Madonna Room (MR) Lourdes (L) Fatima (F) Olinger Hall (OH) Notre Dame (ND) PILGRIMAGE TO THE National Shrine of Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, MA is being offered Aug. 23-25. A deposit of $350 is due now. Call Anna Ryland at 443-7715 for more information.

OLPS SCHOOL BULLDOG BYTES The Magazine Drive was once again a fun, trouble-free success!

Together, we raised over $10,000. The Magazine Drive is the OLPS Home & School Association’s second largest fund-raiser – with the lease amount of effort. Enjoy your magazines and don’t forget to renew with OLPS next year! Remember, orders may be placed on-line anytime during the year from the link at www.promptsuccor.org. OLPS students will receive order credit for all on-line orders. Katherine Monceaux and her Magazine Drive committee did a wonderful job.

OLPS ‘Trek for Tech’ 5K Run Mark your calendar and get your running shoes ready for May 19 for the second annual OLPS “Trek for Tech” 5K Run. All proceeds will benefit the OLPS technology fund. Last year the event raised over $25,000 and enabled us to equip several classrooms with Promethean boards. Consequently, every classroom Pre-K through grade six now has an electronic whiteboard. For more information on how to get involved through planning or sponsorship of the race, please contact Tonya at 449-9073, ext. 210.

LENTEN COUPLE PRAYER SERIES BEGINS THIS WEEK: You and your spouse or fiancé(e) are warmly invited to join us on Friday evenings, beginning this week (March 2), from 6:15 to 7:45 P.M., for a special six week “Couple Prayer Series” (www.coupleprayer.org). 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 YOUTH 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.

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.

HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH NEW S 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.

‘CHILDREN OF HOPE’: The next First Friday holy hour will be this 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

RESPECT FOR RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and many other Catholic leaders have sharply criticized the federal government’s imposed mandate that violates religious liberty. The president’s Feb. 10 compromise continues to provide a lack of protection for this liberty and must be corrected, the Bishops say. At issue is the mandate which orders insurers and self-insuring employers to provide free sterilization and contraceptives, including some abortion-inducing drugs, in their health plan. Speak out in protest of this action which forces Catholics to violate their consciences. Go to www.usccb.org/conscience to watch Timothy Cardinal 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 the “Respect for Rights of Conscience Act” which is now before Congress.

BEGINNING EXPERIENCE: Hope for a new beginning for divorced, widowed, or separated people. Registration is being taken now for a weekend away toward a lifetime of change at Maryhill Renewal Center for the weekend of March 23-25. Cost is $185.00 which includes two nights’ lodging and meals. To register or for more information, call Anna at (318) 452-2678 or Rose at (504) 920-0770.

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. 29 Menu: Baked chicken, rice dressing, cole slaw, bread, and dessert.

THE SPECIAL COLLECTION this weekend is for the U.S. Black and Indian Missions. Some of the money collected comes to our own diocese in the form of grants for programs to help our brothers and sisters in the faith. Please be generous. – Bishop Herzog

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK: John Aymond; Ruth Bergeron; Keith Brewster; Larry Carbo; Verna Carbo; Maci Callahan; Theresa Cataldie; Sophie Chestovich; John Finley; Eloise Hall; Chuck Hardy; Josey King; Tiffany Lora; Robert Maddox V; Mary Beth Marye; Irene Mathews; Maxine Meadows; Cecil Normand; Linda Pratt; Willard Price; Geneva Scarbrock; Hazel Schmolke; Leroy Seaux; Don Smith; Steve Tatum; Mary Nassif Tompkins; Barbra Vincent; Ruth Wallace; Steven White; Rodney Williams; 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 MARCH 4: Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18; Psalm 116; Romans 8:31b–34; Mark 9:2-10 SUNDAY LAGNIAPPE TOPICS ON MARCH 4: Lourdes Room, 9:15 A.M. – Apologetics Lourdes Room, 4:15 P.M. – The Book of Acts of the Apostles IN MEMORY: CASSIE CARBO; DELORES GAUTHIER Please pray for Cassie (daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Carbo); Mrs. Gauthier; and for those of our parish who have recently died and for the consolation of their families.

MASSES OF THE WEEK SUN., FEB. 19: 7:00 A.M. 9:00 A.M.

10:30 A.M. 5:30 P.M. MON., FEB. 20: 6:30 A.M. 5:30 P.M. TUES., FEB. 21: 6:30 A.M. 5:30 P.M. WED., FEB. 22: 6:30 A.M. 8:00 A.M.

Josie, Marilyn and Benton Bordelon, Jr. 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 Our Parish Family Mike Hussey David Ezernack and Jay Carruth (anniv.)

Gus Voltz Jr., Ulma and Gus Voltz Sr.; David Voltz, Kathleen and John Hooe Milton Daigre Jay Herrington ASH WEDNESDAY Tony Fiorenza Living and deceased members of the Abe LaHood Family Joey, Spubby and Katie Giordano Poor Souls in Purgatory

12:05 P.M. 5:30 P.M. THURS., FEB. 23: 6:30 A.M. In Thanksgiving for prayers answered 8:00 A.M. Kirby Moras, Jr. 5:30 P.M. James Steven Hellweg FRI., FEB. 24: 6:30 A.M. Joseph Messmer (anniv.)

8:00 P.M. Femy van Dillen 5:30 P.M. James Nelson SAT., FEB. 25: 8:00 A.M. Dena Flynn 4:00 P.M. Howard B. Gist Jr.; Deacon Charles Jones; Mary E. Wilber; Joseph J.Bellais, Eastlyn Bellais McGinnis, James McGinnis; Intention of Rodrick ‘Benny’ Broussard SUN., FEB. 26: 7:00 A.M. Jay Herrington 9:00 A.M. Lorraine Normand; Al Beach; Gordon Ducote;Pete and Lottie Vallery; Myrthlee Vanhoof; Living and Deceased Members of the Gueringer/Gagnard Families; Kenneth W. Heldt, Mary E. Heldt, Patricia A. Heldt; Living and deceased members of the Clarence Flynn Family 10:30 A.M. James Nelson 5:30 P.M. Our Parish Family

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 38,661.00 Gifts given last weekend 13,094.00 Amount still needed for February 18,245.00 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 1,811,786.00