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We are Hiring!!

We are looking for a part-time Secretary for St. Anne/Assumption Church Office. If you are interested in this position or have any questions, call the church office at 985-369-6656. 

Corpus Christi Procession

The Feast of Corpus Christi is on June 11, 2023. To honor the Lord in the Eucharist, we will have a procession with the Blessed Sacrament starting 3:00 pm at St. Joseph the Worker Church in Pierre Part. At every location there will be the Rosary recited half an hour prior to the Benediction. Please find below the location and the time of the Rosary and Benediction.

We are in need of volunteers to lead the rosary at St. Anne, Assumption & St. Philomena. We are also in need of volunteers to follow the Blessed Sacrament in the Eucharistic Procession from one location to the next. If you can help with any of these, please contact Charlie Bailey at 985-413-2475.

 

Benediction Station I – St. Joseph the Worker Church - 3:00 pm

Rosary starts at 2:30 pm with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction to follow.

Take Hwy 70 to Hwy. 1, turn right on Hwy. 1, proceed to Hwy 403. (30 minutes)

Priest Carrying Blessed Sacrament – Father Al Davidson

 

Benediction Station II – St. Elizabeth Church - 3:30 pm arrival

Rosary starts at 3:00 pm

Take Hwy 1 South to Franklin Street (red light in Napoleonville), turn right. (15 minutes)

  Priest Carrying Blessed Sacrament – Father Tomi Thomas


Benediction Station III – St. Anne Church - 3:55 pm arrival

Rosary starts at 3:25 pm

Take Franklin St. to Hwy. 1 and turn right onto Hwy 1 South (20 minutes)

  Priest Carrying Blessed Sacrament – Father Eddie Martin


Benediction Station IV – St. Philomena Church - 4:30 pm arrival

Rosary starts at 4:00 pm

Cross the Labadieville Bridge to Hwy 308, turn left onto Hwy 308 North (30 minutes)

 Priest Carrying Blessed Sacrament – Father Eddie Martin


Benediction Station V – Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church - 5:10 pm arrival

Rosary starts at 4:40 pm

Take Hwy 308 to Belle Rose Bridge (Hwy. 998), turn right onto Hwy 1 North (20 minutes)

  Priest Carrying Blessed Sacrament – Father Tomi Thomas


Benediction Station VI – St. Jules Church - 5:45 pm arrival

Rosary starts at 5:15 pm

Take Hwy. 1 North to Donaldsonville to LA 3089 (Marchand Drive), turn left onto St. Patrick St.

Priest Carrying Blessed Sacrament – Father Raphael Asika


Benediction Station VII – St. Catherine of Siena Church- 6:10 arrival

Rosary starts at 5:40 pm

Steubenville South Conference

All 8th - 12th Graders

We will be attending Steubenville South Conference on Friday, June 23 - Sunday, June 25th in Alexandria, LA

There will be a $50 deposit due at registration and $75 due in May

If you would like to register, please contact Kathy Landry or Jackie Bailey at the church offices


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From the Pastor: May 28, 2023; Pentecost


Today we celebrate both the coming of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the Church.  The gifts of knowledge and wisdom infused by the Holy Spirit served as the ink that connected all the dots Jesus had left the disciples, but which they were previously unable to connect.  Now they understood His Bread of Life Discourse of John 6 and the meaning of the Last Supper.  The Church was off and running!


Jesus uses many analogies to illustrate the Holy Spirit: fire, water, and wind.  We will hear all three of them being used in our readings this weekend.  But I’d like to focus on the analogy of water here. 


Water is necessary for all living things, every plant and animal.  Without it, life ceases and the earth itself becomes a vast dust bowl; a cruel desert.  Likewise for us, without God.

Jesus promises the woman at the well a living water that will “become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life” (Jn 4:14).  God illustrates and prefigures the Holy Spirit to Ezekiel as water flowing out of the temple from which all life is sustained (Ez 47:1-12).


I find it a most illustrious analogy.  Just as rain falls down in one unchanging form, the results it produces are entirely different as it is assimilated by the different life forms it sustains.  To a pecan tree, it produces pecans.  To others, grapes, cucumbers, bananas, etc.  Likewise, it adapts to different people to produce different fruits.  To one the gift of interpreting scripture, to another prophecy, another receives the gift of healing.  Some flourish in compassion, others are strengthened to endure great trials; some develop a missionary spirit, and others develop the will to embrace martyrdom.


We have to acknowledge a special gift of wisdom, knowledge, and discernment promised by Christ himself to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church at the Last Supper:

“I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.  When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth…” John 16:12–13


Let us never forget, that special gift: the ability to define the morality of all life choices and especially towards the issues that didn’t exist in the first century was promised to them and not each of us as individuals.  May we have the humility and wisdom to live by the Church’s teachings.


Happy Birthday!


Blessings,

Fr. Eddie

The Diocese of Baton Rouge, in conjunction with all Dioceses in the United States, will be taking part in the National Eucharistic Revival, which began on The Feast of Corpus Christi (June 19, 2022) and go until June 2025. 

The Revival is a grassroots movement of Catholics, each responding to the gift of the Eucharist in their own way. 

To learn more about the Revival and how you can take part in it, visit https://diobr.org/eucharisticrevival or eucharisticrevival.org

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St. Anne/Assumption Staff

Julie Adolph, Office Manager

Marci Melancon, Bookkeeper

Kathy Landry, Director of Religious Education

Elvin Ponvelle, Maintenance

Brenda Landry, Director of Music

Wendy Gros, Housekeeper

St. Philomena Staff

Merry Arceneaux, Bookkeeper

Jackie Bailey, Director of Religious Education

Trunell Landry , Secretary

Elvin Ponvelle, Maintenance

Amy Good, Director of Music

Donna Naquin, Housekeeper