Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 29, 2010

“When invited to dine, take the lowest place. Those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
- Luke 14:1, 7–14

Mass Intentions
Sunday Vigil (August 28th):
5pm Easton Kidder, Nancy Rollins, Peggy & Terry Duhon, A.C. & Chris Tisdale, Sr., Elphege & Odile Giroir, Mazie Champagne, Davis Portier, Lajaunie & Lee Families, Lucinda & Lionel Loupe, Sr., Jr., & III, Olive & Nick Arcemont, Jr., Eula Mae Cheramie, Jamie, Daniel, & Elma Pennison, Nolan, Margaret, & Travis Rhodes, Jeremy Arceneaux, Antoine Bernard, Doris Aucoin

Sunday (August 29th):
7:30&10:30am Velma & Sylvester J. Verret, Sr., Alice Walters, Noble Benoit, Santoy Sr. Family, Tom A. Santoy, Jr., Dewey & Thelma Landry, Lillian & Stanley Aucoin, Sr., James Arnette, Florence Menard Landry, Deceased Members of Hoffman & Koski Families, Horace Barras, Harry & Magnolia Verrette & Deceased Family Members, Ulysse & Clara Leger & Deceased Family Members, Walter & Verna Gagliano, Doris Aucoin, Eula Mae Cheramie, Terrance J. Aucoin, Sr., Joseph P. Ruiz, Sr., Villier J. Aucoin, Hildred Elizabeth Aucoin, Allen Dupre

Sanctuary Light in memory of:
A.C. & Chris Tisdale, Sr., Odile & Elphege Giroir

Readings for the Week
Monday: 1 Cor 2:1-5; Lk 4:16-30
Tuesday: 1 Cor 2:10b-16; Lk 4:31-37
Wednesday: 1 Cor 3:1-9; Lk 4:38-44
Thursday: 1 Cor 3:18-23; Lk 5:1-11
Friday: 1 Cor 4:1-5; Lk 5:33-39
Saturday: 1 Cor 4:6b-15; Lk 6:1-5
Sunday: Wis 9:13-18b; Ps 90; Phlm 9-10, 12-17; Lk 14:25-33

Server Schedule

This Week in our Parish

8/30 Monday Money Counters Group 3
8/31 Tuesday 6:00pm Mass & Novena
9/1 Wednesday 8:00am Mass
CCD K-8 5:45 – 7:00pm
9-11 5:45 – 7:15pm
9/2 Thursday 8:00am Mass
9/3 Friday 8:00am Mass
~ Janet & Robert Marcell
Home Visitations – Elise Landry
9/4 Saturday 8:00am First Saturday Devotions
9/5 Sunday 9:00am Baptism Seminar
12:30pm Spanish Mass

2nd Collection This Weekend
Nigeria Mission Appeal

We would like to thank all our parishioners for your generous contributions. Your donations greatly support the ministry of our parish.
May God continue to be gracious to you.

Vocation Chalice

The Vocation Chalice will be visiting the home of Dat & Tien Nguyen this week. If you are interested in taking the Chalice for a week, please call Pat & Sterling Fryou @ 631-2792.
(Next Week: Sterling & Pat Fryou)

CCD Mass
Sunday, August 29th, 10:30 a.m.
Sponsored by the 11th Grade Students

Special thanks to August LAS church cleaners Evelyn Sellers, Rosetta McLaren, Cynthia Massicotte, Sandra Savant, and Kathy Aucoin.
September LAS church cleaners are Artie Mae Tabor and Betty Vicknair.

Thanks to Buck Tabor for constructing and donating the bookstand and bookshelf in church.

Eucharistic Ministers
The September 11th and October 30th Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion Workshops are at maximum capacity for attendance. For all Extraordinary Ministers who have not yet attended a workshop, Saturday, December 4th at St. Luke’s in Thibodaux is the last workshop. Also, please note that no one will be allowed to walk-in without being previously registered.

Spanish Mass
On September 5th, we will begin our first Mass in Spanish at St. Andrew’s. This comes from a great need for the large Hispanic community in Amelia that does not have transportation or cannot get to Mass in Morgan City. It is important to understand that we are not separating the Amelia community from the community in Morgan City. Our only purpose is to provide a service for those people who want to attend the Holy Mass. Spanish Mass will be celebrated on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays of the month at 12:30pm. Please pray with us for the success of this new endeavor.

2nd Collection Next Weekend
As the national university of the Catholic Church in the US located in Washington, D.C, it provides an academically rigorous education guided by Catholic intellectual tradition to 6,000 students every year. Every dollar given directly supports financial aid for students from diocese across the country, including ours. Please be generous.
Is God calling you?
We are in need of commentators and lectors, particularly for the 5:00 p.m. & 7:30 a.m. masses. Contact Sheri in the parish office if you are interested in becoming a lector, commentator, minister, usher, or altar server or if you would like to receive a box of contribution envelopes.
St. Andrew’s CCD program is in need of a few more substitute teachers for the 2010 – 2011 school year. Please contact the parish office if interested.

Knights of Columbus News

• Thanks to all the parishioners who came out and supported the KC dinner last Sunday.

• KC members not traveling to Thibodaux for the First Degree Initiation on September 7th, please remember to attend the Novena.

• KC Meeting – Wednesday, September 8th, at 7:30 p.m.

Garry May II, Debbie Pennison, Shirley Verdin,
Patricia Kennedy, Keith Kennedy,
Frances Hilderbrand, Ecton Theriot, Jr.,
Dwight Clements, Dana Theriot, Jr., Judy Rink, Teresa Theriot, Chad Manuel

Thank you for your constant prayers for those in our community who are sick. If you need prayers or know of someone who does, please call the rectory at 631-2333 to add their name to the list. Please get permission from the person before adding their name to the prayer list.

PRAYER FOR HURRICANE SEASON

O God, Master of this passing world, hear the humble voices of your children. The Sea of Galilee obeyed your order and returned to its calmness. You are still the Master of land and sea. We live in the shadow of a danger over which we have no control – the Gulf of Mexico. Like a provoked and angry giant, it can awake from its seeming lack of energy, overstep its conventional boundaries, invade our land, and spread chaos and disaster.

During this hurricane season, we turn to You, O loving Father. Spare us from past tragedies, whose memories are still so vivid, and whose wounds seem to refuse to heal with the passing of time.

O Virgin, Star of the Sea, Our Beloved Mother, we ask you to plead with your Son on our behalf, so that, spared from the calamities common to this area, and animated with a true spirit of gratitude, we will walk in the footsteps of your Divine Son to reach the heavenly Jerusalem, where a storm-less eternity awaits us. Amen.

If you have family members who are ill and wish to be visited by our pastor or a family member who would like to be added to our homebound visitation list, please contact the parish office or Father Toto.

A r o u n d t h e D i o c e s e

Healing Mass & Services
Thursday, August 19th
6:30 p.m. Rosary
7:00 p.m. Mass & Service
Our Lady of Prompt Succor in Thibodaux

Home Mass
Anyone interested in having a mass in their home should call the parish office or speak to Fr. Toto.

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Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 22, 2010

“Strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees. Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be disjointed but healed.”
- Hebrews 12:12–13

Mass Intentions
Sunday Vigil (August 21st):
5pm Easton Kidder, Nancy Rollins, Peggy & Terry Duhon, A.C. & Chris Tisdale, Sr., Elphege & Odile Giroir, Mazie Champagne, Davis Portier, Lajaunie & Lee Families, Lucinda & Lionel Loupe, Sr., Jr., & III, Olive & Nick Arcemont, Jr., Eula Mae Cheramie, Jamie, Daniel, & Elma Pennison, Nolan, Margaret, & Travis Rhodes, Jeremy Arceneaux, Antoine Bernard, C.J. & Mary Doiron, Doris Aucoin

Sunday (August 22nd):
7:30&10:30am Velma & Sylvester J. Verret, Sr., Alice Walters, Noble Benoit, Santoy Sr. Family, Tom A. Santoy, Jr., Dewey & Thelma Landry, Lillian & Stanley Aucoin, Sr., James Arnette, Florence Menard Landry, Deceased Members of Hoffman & Koski Families, Horace Barras, Harry & Magnolia Verrette & Deceased Family Members, Ulysse & Clara Leger & Deceased Family Members, Kathleen & Nick Gagliano, Doris Aucoin, Eula Mae Cheramie

Sanctuary Light in memory of:
Agnes John

Readings for the Week
Monday: 2 Th 1:1-5, 11-12; Mt 23:13-22
Tuesday: Rv 21:9b-14; Jn 1:45-51
Wednesday: 2 Th 3:6-10, 16-18; Mt 23:27-32
Thursday: 1 Cor 1:1-9; Mt 24:42-51
Friday: 1 Cor 1:17-25; Mt 25:1-13
Saturday: 1 Cor 1:26-31; Mt 25:14-30
Sunday: Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29; Ps 68; Heb 12:18-19,
22-24a; Lk 14:1, 7-14

This Week in our Parish

8/22 Sunday Spaghetti Dinner
8/23 Monday Money Counters Group 2
8/24 Tuesday 6:00pm Mass & Novena
8/25 Wednesday 8:00am Mass
CCD K-8 5:45 – 7:00pm
9-11 5:45 – 7:15pm
8/26 Thursday 8:00am Mass
8/27 Friday 8:00am Mass
8/28 Saturday Home Visitations – Kathy Acosta
8/29 Sunday 10:30am CCD Mass

We would like to thank all our parishioners for your generous contributions. Your donations greatly support the ministry of our parish.
May God continue to be gracious to you.

Vocation Chalice

The Vocation Chalice will be visiting the home of Mary Ann Giroir this week. If you are interested in taking the Chalice for a week, please call Pat & Sterling Fryou @ 631-2792.
(Next Week: Dat & Tien Nguyen)

CCD Mass
Sunday, August 29th, 10:30 a.m.
Sponsored by the 11th Grade Students

Spaghetti Dinner
Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus
Sunday, August 22nd
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
$6 per plate, includes salad & drink

Wedding Anniversary Information
THIS IS THE LAST WEEK TO REGISTER!
Anniversary couples celebrating 25, 40, 50, 60 and beyond years of marriage from January 2010 – December 2010 will be honored at a diocesan prayer service and reception on Sunday, October 24th. This event begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph. If you wish to particpate in this program, contact the parish office before August 27th to register. All registered anniversary couples will receive an inscribed diocesan certificate at the 10:30 a.m. mass on Sunday, November 14th at St. Andrew Church.

Marian Devotion of Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Knights of Columbus councils of District 21 invite you to attend the Marian Devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe. This celebration will be held at Holy Cross Church on Thursday, August 26th, with a rosary at 5:00 p.m. and Mass at 5:30 p.m. We will have on display a copy of the image that appeared on Juan Diego’s cloak. The image is actual size and is displayed on a 4’ x 2’ framed print.

PRAYER FOR HURRICANE SEASON

O God, Master of this passing world, hear the humble voices of your children. The Sea of Galilee obeyed your order and returned to its calmness. You are still the Master of land and sea. We live in the shadow of a danger over which we have no control – the Gulf of Mexico. Like a provoked and angry giant, it can awake from its seeming lack of energy, overstep its conventional boundaries, invade our land, and spread chaos and disaster.

During this hurricane season, we turn to You, O loving Father. Spare us from past tragedies, whose memories are still so vivid, and whose wounds seem to refuse to heal with the passing of time.

O Virgin, Star of the Sea, Our Beloved Mother, we ask you to plead with your Son on our behalf, so that, spared from the calamities common to this area, and animated with a true spirit of gratitude, we will walk in the footsteps of your Divine Son to reach the heavenly Jerusalem, where a storm-less eternity awaits us. Amen.

Is God calling you?
We are in need of commentators and lectors, particularly for the 5:00 p.m. & 7:30 a.m. masses. Contact Sheri in the parish office if you are interested in becoming a lector, commentator, minister, usher, or altar server or if you would like to receive a box of contribution envelopes.
St. Andrew’s CCD program is in need of a few more substitute teachers for the 2010 – 2011 school year. Please contact the parish office if interested.

Eucharistic Ministers
The September 11th and October 30th Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion Workshops are at maximum capacity for attendance. For all Extraordinary Ministers who have not yet attended a workshop, Saturday, December 4th at St. Luke’s in Thibodaux is the last workshop. Also, please note that no one will be allowed to walk-in without being previously registered.

We are Growing!
On September 5th, we will begin our first Mass in Spanish at St. Andrew’s. This comes from a great need for the large Hispanic community in Amelia that does not have transportation or cannot get to Mass in Morgan City. It is important to understand that we are not separating the Amelia community from the community in Morgan City. Our only purpose is to provide a service for those people who want to attend the Holy Mass. Spanish Mass will be celebrated on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays of the month at 12:30pm. Please pray with us for the success of this new endeavor.

Garry May II, Debbie Pennison, Shirley Verdin,
Patricia Kennedy, Keith Kennedy,
Frances Hilderbrand, Ecton Theriot, Jr.,
Dwight Clements, Dana Theriot, Jr., Judy Rink, Teresa Theriot, Chad Manuel

Thank you for your constant prayers for those in our community who are sick. If you need prayers or know of someone who does, please call the rectory at 631-2333 to add their name to the list. Please get permission from the person before adding their name to the prayer list.

If you have family members who are ill and wish to be visited by our pastor or a family member who would like to be added to our homebound visitation list, please contact the parish office or Father Toto.

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