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Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux

Pilgrimage to Rome

Featuring Assisi, Florence and Sienna For the upcoming Year of Mercy, the diocesan Office of Stewardship and Development along with Very Rev. Jay Baker, V.G. as the spiritual guide, would like to invite all for a trip to Rome January 20, 2016

Highlights of the tour will include: • Walking through the Holy Doors of Rome’s four Basilicas • Attending the Papal Audience given by Pope Francis • Daily Mass in some of Rome’s most beautiful churches • Scavi Tour - A tour of the excavations under St. Peter’s Basilica • Overnight in Assisi • Two nights in Sienna • One day trip to Florence • Superior Four Star Hotel Accommodations two block froms St. Peter’s Square • Airfare, daily breakfast, at least 3 dinners and much more Price for the trip is $3,400* based on a double occupancy including all airport taxes and fuel surcharges. * Price subject to change due to fuel surcharges.

Reservations should be made by August 15, 2015; space is limited.

Please contact Jeremy Becker Director of Stewardship and Development 985-850-3155 jtbecker@htdiocese.org

Contents FEATURES

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24 St. Rosalie Chapel

By Janet Marcel

COLUMNS

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Comfort For My People

By Bishop Shelton J. Fabre

12 Pope Speaks

By Pope Francis I

13 Question Corner

By Father Kenneth Doyle

14 Readings Between The Lines

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By Father Glenn LeCompte

28 Seeing Clairely

By Claire Joller

52 Overtime

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By Ed Daniels

IN EVERY ISSUE

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6 Editor’s Corner 16 Scripture Readings 22 Heavenly Recipes 24 Our Churches 26 Diocesan Events 29 Book Reviews GUEST COLUMNS

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18 Seven deadly sins: Part VII

By Father Michael Bergeron

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54 Welcome back to school

By Marian Fertitta

56 Getting a fresh start for a

successful school year

By Suzanne Troxclair

58 Role of parents in the faith

formation of their children

By Dr. Faith Ann Spinella

60 Co-curricular activities:

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The classrom of life

By Michelle Chiasson

ANNOUNCEMENTS

20 Adult Faith Formation classes

By Dr. Faith Ann Spinella

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On Our Cover Father Alex Gaudet, at left, and Father Jacob Lipari were ordained by Bishop Shelton J. Fabre at the Cathedral of St. Francis de Sales in Houma Saturday, May 30.

Cover Photo by Lawrence Chatagnier

Where to find your Bayou Catholic Bayou Catholic magazine can be found at all Catholic churches in the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, at the three Catholic high schools in Houma, Morgan City and Thibodaux, as well as the ten elementary schools throughout the diocese. You may also visit the merchants listed in the Advertisers’ Index to pick up your copy. Those wishing to receive the magazine by mail can call Pat Keese at (985) 850-3132 or write to Bayou Catholic, P.O. Box 505, Schriever, LA 70395. Subscription price is $35 annually. For the online edition, go to www.bayoucatholic.com

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BY E-MAIL: bayoucatholic@htdiocese.org The Bayou Catholic is published monthly, for the people of the Roman Catholic Diocese of HoumaThibodaux by the H-T Publishing Co., P.O. Box 505, Schriever, LA 70395. Subscription rate is $35 per year.

The Bayou Catholic is a member of the Catholic Press Association, the National Newspaper Association and an associate member of the Louisiana Press Association. National and world-wide news service and photos by National Catholic News Service.

Louis G. Aguirre

editor and general manager

Index to Advertisers Acadian Total Security ...............45 Advanced Eye Institute ..............41 Asbestos Hazard Notice ...........65 Bueche’s Jewelry........................39 Cannata’s....................................31 Cardinal Place.............................33 Catholic Schools Annual Fund Drive ................67 Catholic Schools .......................63 Channel 10 ................................11 Daigle, Himel, Daigle ................64 Diocesan Outreach Line ...........19 Diocesan Website .....................23 Fabregas Music ........................66 Family Vision Clinic ...................57 Felger’s Footwear .....................59 Haydel Memorial Hospice ........47 Haydel Spine, Pain and Wellness ..........................15

Headache & Pain Center ..........52 Houma Digestive Health Specialists ..................50 Houma Orthopedic Clinic ..........46 HTe News ..................................27 KEM Supply House, Inc. ...........57 Lafourche Ford Lincoln .............68 Landmark Home Furnishings ...65 LeBlanc & Associates, LLC .......50 Pilgrimage to Rome ....................3 Re-Bath .....................................29 Rod’s Superstore ......................35 Seminarian Eduation Burses .....21 Spotlight ....................................37 St. Joseph Manor ......................39 Synergy Bank ............................66 Terminix .....................................37 Thibodaux Physical Therapy ....62 Vision Communications ..............2

Lawrence Chatagnier managing editor

Glenn J. Landry, C.P.A. business manager

Peggy Adams

advertising manager

Anna C. Givens

advertising accounts executive

Janet Marcel staff writer

Pat Keese

secretary and circulation

Lisa Schobel Hebert graphic designer

Meridy Liner

accounts receivable/payable assistant

First Place Winner 2013-2014 General Excellence

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Editor’s Corner Louis G. Aguirre Editor & General Manager

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The long-awaited encyclical on the ecology has arrived and is being praised, debated and berated. A great majority, I believe, have and will find it beneficial in their daily lives and as they go about being good stewards of God’s creation.

The day before the encyclical was released, the Holy Father asked that it be read with an “open heart.” He urged everyone to read his message on care of creation and to better protect a damaged earth.

Entitled “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” the pope used his message to appeal for people to recognize their “responsibility, based on the task that God gave human beings in creation: ‘to cultivate and care for’ the ‘garden’ in which he settled us.”

Pope Francis said the encyclical is part of the church’s social teaching; the social doctrine of the church takes Gospel principles and applies them to concrete situations in society and public life.

The encyclical’s title, which translates into “Praised be,” comes from the introductory phrase to eight verses of St. Francis of Assisi’s “Canticle of the Creatures,” a prayer thanking God for the gifts of creation.

The encyclical is not a theological treatise or a technical document about environmental issues, but a pastoral call to change the way people use the planet’s resources so they are sufficient not only for current needs, but for future generations, observers say.

The encyclical is available in a number of languages online at: http://w2.vatican.va/ content/francesco/en/encyclicals/index.html.

Please take time to read it, to digest it, to implement it. Also, take time to pray St. Francis’ Canticle of the Creatures: Most High, all-powerful, good Lord, all praise is yours, all glory, all honor, and all blessing. To you, alone, Most High, do they

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belong. No mortal lips are worthy to pronounce your name. All praise be yours, my Lord, through all you have made, and first my lord Brother Sun, who brings the day; and through whom you give us light. How beautiful is he, how radiant in all his splendor; Of you, Most High, he bears the likeness. All Praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens you have made them, bright, and precious, and fair. All praise be yours, my Lord, through Brothers wind and air, and fair and stormy, all the weather’s moods, by which you cherish all that you have made. All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Water, so useful, humble, precious and pure. All praise be yours, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom you brighten up the night. How beautiful is he, how cheerful! Full of power and strength. All praise be yours, my Lord, through our Sister Mother Earth, who sustains us and governs us, and produces various fruits with colored flowers and herbs. All praise be yours, my Lord, through those who grant pardon for love of you; through those who endure sickness and trial. Happy are those who endure in peace, By You, Most High, they will be crowned. All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Death, From whose embrace no mortal can escape. Woe to those who die in mortal sin! Happy those she finds doing your will! The second death can do them no harm. Praise and bless my Lord, and give him thanks. And serve him with great humility.

Church Life

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In preparation for the Year of Mercy, the doors that will serve as Holy Doors were closed by Bishop Shelton J. Fabre at the Cathedral of St. Francis de Sales in Houma and St. Joseph Co-Cathedral in Thibodaux. The faithful will be able to acquire an indulgence by fulfilling the spiritual requirements which involve a pilgrimage to and a journey through a Holy Door at a cathedral church, during the Year of Mercy which begins Dec. 8, 2015.

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Bishop Shelton J. Fabre

As we are all aware, growing through the stages of life can be classified roughly as growing from infancy to childhood, from childhood to adolescence, from adolescence to young adulthood, from young adulthood to mature adulthood.

Progression through these stages physically is simply called aging, but progression through these stages also involves the necessary components of advancing psychologically, emotionally and spiritually.

One of the most beneficial and yet difficult aspects of growing through the stages of life is learning lessons that only human experience can teach us. The insight gained in the realms of psychological, emotional and spiritual growth through these stages of life is often classified as attaining knowledge or, better yet, wisdom. As we all know, wisdom is a good virtue to acquire.

One way of defining wisdom is to see wisdom as the result of connecting all of our growth experiences together, reflecting on them, and putting into practice the fruit of this reflection on our lived experience.

For many reasons lately, both peaceful and demanding, I have been reflecting again on the gift of wisdom. Maybe with the ‘slowdown’ (does life ever really slow down?) that the summer months bring, I have more time to allow my mind to wander off

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in reflection and prayer, and the gift of wisdom has again captured my focus in reflection and prayer.

The attainment of wisdom references our overall and complete experience of growing through these stages of life in all ways. However, attaining wisdom is a quest made up of many individual experiences at different times in life when we made a decision to do one thing and not do another, when we made a decision to react in one way and not to react in another way, and all of these individual experiences teach us lessons about life.

Reflection on all of these lessons

so damaged or bruised that we will not be able to eventually recover from the experience, and that we will integrate the lesson learned, and with time and reflection be wiser because of all such experiences.

Each one of us has undoubtedly learned many lessons through the good experiences in life and through the school of hard knocks.

If we further reflect on these experiences, however, our minds and hearts turn to those who have made the journeys through the stages of life with us. These people are our parents, spouses, siblings, friends, co-workers, counselors, clergy, religious or simply lifetime confidants. We ran to them for advice and counsel.

After seeking their advice, sometimes we may have acted on the advice in the manner in which it was suggested or sometimes we have veered off in our own direction, acting against the advice offered.

Nonetheless, these people in our lives are the ones who celebrated with us when things went our way, or comforted us when things fell apart.

Regardless of whether we accepted their advice or not, we can be grateful for those who were willing to listen to us, to empathize with us, and to offer good counsel.

Hopefully through it all, we grew in wisdom.

In the end, the source of all wisdom is the living God and he has revealed himself to us in Jesus Christ, who is the Holy Word of God, our Hope and our Wisdom.

As we continue to seek wisdom, may we always remember the role that faith and prayer play in our quest to find it.

A blessed July to you, and Happy Birthday to our beloved country, the United States!

m o Wisd can in time bring us wisdom. The individual lessons learned through these experiences are both positive and negative, and the negative experiences may simply be called learning lessons from the school of the hard knocks of life. While the attainment of wisdom is always a noble and good thing, I think that we can all agree that the lessons learned through the school of hard knocks in life are sometimes really difficult to integrate into our lives.

When we learn lessons through the school of hard knocks, after the lesson is learned it is our hope and prayer that our lives are not

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Sabemos que el desarrollo humano en las etapas diferentes de la vida puede ser clasificado según los siguientes grupos de crecimiento: de infancia a niñez, de adolescencia a joven adulto, de joven adulto a plena madurez. El crecimiento a través de estas etapas físicas es lo que llamamos envejecimiento, pero el crecimiento en cada una de estas etapas también requiere los componentes necesarios para crecer de manera psicológica, emocional y espiritual.

Uno de los beneficios mayores y más difíciles que se obtiene durante el proceso de crecimiento en las diversas etapas de la vida es el vivir las experiencias que solamente la existencia humana nos enseña.

Las experiencias que se obtienen en los campos psicológicos, emocionales y espirituales a través de estas etapas de la vida son considerados conocimiento, o aún mejor, sabiduría.

Todos sabemos que la sabiduría es una buena virtud que es difícil de obtener. Podemos definir la sabiduría como la conexión de todas nuestras experiencias, reflexionando sobre estas y ejerciendo el fruto de esta reflexión en nuestras vidas.

Por varias razones, pacíficas y exigentes, he estado reflexionando nuevamente sobre el don de la sabiduría. Tal vez con el «relajamiento» de la vida (pero, ¿es que hay relajamiento en la vida?) durante los meses de verano puedo encontrar más tiempo para permitir que mi mente reflexione, ore y deje que la sabiduría guíe mi reflexión y oración.

Recibir sabiduría requiere nuestra experiencia completa de desarrollo a través de las etapas de la vida. Sin embargo, recibir sabiduría es un don compuesto por muchas experiencias individuales durante diversos tiempos en la vida, como cuando

tomamos una decisión sobre otra o tomamos una decisión de reaccionar de cierta manera sobre otra y todas estas experiencias individuales nos enseñan lecciones sobre la vida.

Reflexionando sobre todas estas lecciones con el tiempo suelen traernos sabiduría. Las lecciones aprendidas en la vida pueden ser positivas o negativas y las experiencias negativas suelen ser simplemente las experiencias duras de la escuela de la vida.

Mientras que recibir sabiduría es siempre bueno y noble, pienso que todos estamos de acuerdo que las experiencias duras que se

la vida. Si reflexionamos aún más sobre estas experiencias, nuestras mentes y corazones se vuelven hacia aquéllos que han vivido estas experiencias con nosotros y que han recorrido la vida con nosotros. Estas personas son nuestros padres, esposa/esposo, hermanos, amigos, compañeros de trabajo, consejeros, clérigos, religiosos o simplemente personas de confianza. Recurrimos en ellos cuando necesitamos consejo.

Después de recibir este consejo, a veces habremos actuado según el consejo que recibimos o tal vez nos desviamos y tomamos nuestra propia dirección actuando de manera diferente al consejo que se nos ha sugerido.

No obstante, estas personas en nuestras vidas son las que celebraron junto a nosotros cuando las cosas iban bien o nos consolaban cuando las cosas se desmoronaban.

Hayamos aceptado este consejo o no, podemos estar agradecidos por aquéllos que nos escucharon, nos demostraron compresión y nos ofrecieron buen consejo.

La esperanza es que a través de todas estas experiencias nuestra sabiduría ha aumentado.

En fin, la fuente de toda la sabiduría es Dios viviente y Él se ha manifestado a nosotros por medio de Jesucristo, que es la Santa Palabra de Dios, nuestra Esperanza y nuestra Sabiduría.

En nuestra búsqueda de sabiduría, siempre recordemos el papel que la fe y la oración desenvuelven en su búsqueda. ¡Tengan un mes de julio lleno de bendiciones y un Feliz Cumpleaños a nuestro país amado, los Estados Unidos!

Traducido por Julio Contreras, feligrés de la iglesia católica Annunziata en Houma

a í r u d i aL Sab viven en la escuela de la vida son difíciles de incorporar en nuestras vidas. Después de vivir duras lecciones en la escuela de la vida, nuestra esperanza y oración es que nuestras vidas no hayan sido dañadas o lastimadas al grado de no poder recuperarnos de estas malas experiencias y que, al contrario, podamos integrar todas las experiencias vividas de manera colectiva para que con el tiempo reflexionemos y lleguemos a ser más sabios.

Sin duda cada uno de nosotros ha aprendido de tantas experiencias buenas y malas en

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Như chúng ta đã am tường, sự tăng trưởng qua những giai đoạn cuộc đời có thể được phân chia một cách tương đối như sau: tăng trưởng từ khi mới sinh đến lúc tuổi thơ, từ tuổi thơ đến thời niên thiếu, từ niên thiếu đến thời thanh niên, từ thanh niên đến lúc trưởng thành. Sự tiến triển qua những giai đoạn này gọi một cách đơn giản về thể lý là tuổi đời, nhưng sự tiến triển qua những giai đoạn này cũng liên quan đến những thành phần thiết yếu của việc tiến triển về mặt tâm lý, cảm xúc, và tâm linh.

Một trong những khía cạnh lợi ích nhưng khó khăn nhất của việc tăng trưởng qua những giai đoạn cuộc đời là việc học biết những bài học mà chỉ có kinh nghiệm của con người mới có thể dạy cho chúng ta được. Sự hiểu biết có được từ những lãnh vực của sự tăng trưởng về tâm lý, cảm xúc, và tâm linh qua những giai đoạn cuộc đời thường được xem như việc lãnh hội kiến thức hoặc nói khác đi là có được sự khôn ngoan. Như chúng ta đã biết, sự khôn ngoan là một nhân đức tốt để chiếm hữu.

Một trong số các định nghĩa của sự khôn ngoan là xem sự khôn ngoan như kết quả của việc nối kết tất cả những kinh nghiệm tăng trưởng của chúng ta lại với nhau, suy nghĩ về chúng, và đem ra áp dụng những hoa quả của sự suy tư này vào trong kinh nghiệm cuộc sống của chúng ta.

Qua nhiều lý do gần đây, cả những lúc thanh thản cũng như đòi hỏi khắt khe, tôi đã đang suy gẫm lại về sự khôn ngoan. Có thể với sự “chậm lại” (mà cuộc đời có bao giờ chậm lại không?) của những tháng hè đem lại, nên tôi có thêm thời gian để tâm trí của tôi bỏ lãng việc suy gẫm và cầu nguyện, nhưng sự khôn ngoan đã kéo lại sự tập trung của tôi vào việc suy gẫm và cầu nguyện.

Sự chiếm đoạt của sự khôn ngoan đòi hỏi kinh nghiệm toàn diện và trọn vẹn của việc tăng trưởng qua những giai đoạn cuộc đời dưới mọi hình thức. Tuy nhiên, sự khôn ngoan có được là sự truy tìm được hình thành từ nhiều kinh nghiệm cá nhân vào những lúc khó khăn trong cuộc đời khi chúng ta quyết định làm việc này

hay không làm việc nọ, khi chúng ta quyết định phản ứng bằng cách này hay không phản ứng bằng cách kia, và tất cả những kinh nghiệm cá nhân này sẽ dạy chúng ta những bài học về cuộc đời.

Suy tư về tất cả những bài học này có thể đến một lúc nào đó đem lại cho chúng ta sự khôn ngoan. Những bài học cá nhân được học biết qua những kinh nghiệm này vừa tích cực lại vừa tiêu cực, những kinh nghiệm tiêu cực đơn giản có thể được gọi là học biết những bài học từ trường lớp va chạm của cuộc đời. Trong khi đó sự chiếm hữu của sự khôn ngoan thì luôn luôn là một điều cao quý và tốt đẹp, tôi nghĩ rằng tất cả chúng ta có thể đồng ý với nhau về những bài học đã được trau luyện qua

chúng ta suy nghĩ sâu xa hơn về những kinh nghiệm này, tâm trí chúng ta sẽ hướng tới những người đã có những cuộc hành trình qua những giai đoạn cuộc đời với chúng ta. Những người này là cha mẹ, vợ chồng, anh chị em ruột thịt, bạn hữu, bạn đồng nghiệp, những vị cố vấn, các Linh mục Tu sĩ, hay đơn giản là những người bạn tri kỷ thân thiết. Chúng ta chạy đến với họ để xin những lời khuyên và dạy bảo. Sau khi tìm kiếm lời khuyên của họ, đôi lúc chúng ta có thể hành động theo những lời khuyên trong cách thức mà nó được đề nghị hay có khi chúng ta thay đổi theo hướng của riêng mình, hành động ngược lại với những lời khuyên dạy của họ.

Dù sao những người này trong cuộc sống của chúng ta đều là những người đã cùng vui với chúng ta khi mọi việc trôi chảy, hay an ủi chúng ta khi mọi việc không theo như ý muốn.

Bất chấp dù chúng ta đón nhận lời khuyên của họ hay không, chúng ta cũng phải biết ơn những người đã sẵn sàng lắng nghe chúng ta, cảm thông với chúng ta, và cho chúng ta những lời khuyên tốt đẹp.

Hy vọng qua tất cả những điều này, chúng ta sẽ lớn lên trong sự khôn ngoan.

Sau hết, nguồn mạch của mọi sự khôn ngoan chính là Thiên Chúa hằng sống và Người đã mặc khải chính mình cho chúng ta trong Đức Giêsu Kitô, là Ngôi Lời của Thiên Chúa, là niềm hy vọng và là sự khôn ngoan của chúng ta. Khi chúng ta tiếp tục tìm kiếm sự khôn ngoan, chớ gì chúng ta luôn nhớ tới vai trò mà đức tin và lời cầu nguyện thực hiện trong sự tìm kiếm của chúng ta để tìm được nó.

Xin kính chúc ông bà, anh chị em tháng 7 tốt lành, và xin chúc mừng sinh nhật của đất nước thân yêu của chúng ta, nước Hiệp Chủng Quốc Hoa Kỳ!

Dịch thuật do Lm. Francis Bui, SDD và Thầy Paul Vu, SDD. Tu Đoàn Tông Đồ Giáo Sĩ Nhà Chúa.

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trường lớp va chạm của cuộc đời đôi lúc thật khó để hoà nhập vào cuộc sống của chúng ta. Khi chúng ta học được những bài học qua trường lớp va chạm, sau khi bài học được tiếp nhận thì niềm hy vọng và lời cầu nguyện của chúng là cuộc đời mình không bị hư hỏng hay bầm dập quá đến nỗi rốt cuộc chúng ta không thể phục hồi lại kinh nghiệm, hay đến độ chúng ta sẽ hoà nhập bài học đã được tiếp nhận, và với thời gian cùng sự suy tư để trở nên khôn ngoan hơn, bởi vì tất cả những kinh nghiệm như vậy.

Mỗi người chúng ta rõ ràng đã học biết nhiều bài học qua những kinh nghiệm tốt trong cuộc sống và qua trường lớp va chạm. Tuy nhiên, nếu

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christian hope and faith in the afterlife mean the sting of losing a loved one does not have to leave behind a poisonous venom in our lives, Pope Francis said.

“Our loved ones have not disappeared into dark nothingness: Hope assures us that that they are in God’s good and strong hands. Love is stronger than death,” he said at his general audience June 17.

As part of a series of talks about the family and problems they face, the pope looked at death, particularly the loss of a close family member.

When a loved one dies, especially a child or a parent of young children, “death is never able to appear as something natural,” he said.

It is “heart-rending” when a mother and father lose a child: “It’s as if time has stopped. An abyss opens that swallows up the past and the future,” he said.

Losing a child seems to go against everything life is supposed to be about, he said. “It’s a slap in the face to all the promises, gifts, and sacrifices of love joyously given to the life we have given birth to,” he said.

Just as traumatic is when a child loses one or both parents, he said.

They ask, “Where is daddy? Where is mommy?’” or “’When will mommy come back home?’ Oh, what do you say? The child suffers” and he or she lacks the experience or understanding “to give a name to what has happened,” the pope said.

These experiences of death are particularly distressing -- “like a black hole that opens in the life of a family and for which we don’t know how to give any explanation.”

Sometimes family members will blame God. “I understand.

They get mad at God, they curse him,” or begin to question or doubt his existence, the pope said.

“This anger is a bit of what comes from the heart of huge heartache” of losing a family member, he said.

Unfortunately, death has a number of evil “accomplices, who are even worse” and their names are hatred, envy, pride, greed, indifference -- basically “the sin of the world that works for death and makes it even more painful and unjust.”

Death’s “auxiliary forces” render so many families helpless and, so often, such horror in some parts of the world starts to seem like an “absurd normality.”

“May the Lord free us from getting used to CNS PHOTO/COURTESY U.S. CONFERENCE OF this” kind of loss of life, CATHOLIC BISHOPS he said.

This is the cover of the English edition of Pope Francis’ For the people of God, encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.” The long-anticipated death never has the last encyclical was released at the Vatican June 18. word, the pope said.

However, it still takes view of death as well as false worldly an enormous amount of consolation,” myths or superstition, he love to face “the darkness of death.” said.

He asked that today’s priests and all The pope reminded people that June Christians find ways to better express 20 marked World Refugee Day, and he what the faith means when facing the asked people pray for all those forced death of a loved one. to flee as they search for a new home People need to mourn, “you must “where they can live without fear.” never deny people the right to cry,” he He asked that the dignity of refugees said. always be respected and encouraged the Christians must become “accomplices” international community to cooperate of love, armed with the faith and able to and work effectively to “prevent the help families navigate the “very difficult causes of forced migrations.” path of death as well as the sure path of “I invite everyone to ask forgiveness the Lord, crucified and risen, with his for the people and institutions that irreversible promise of resurrection.” close the doors to these people who are The Lord will reunite everyone once again, and it is this Christian hope and seeking a family, who want to be cared faith that will “protect us from a nihilistic for,” he said to applause.

Christian hope does not let sting of death poison your life

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Question Corner Father Kenneth Doyle

Rosary while driving?

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Q. Recently, at a parish discussion group, several people suggested that a good time to pray the rosary is while you are driving your car. I, though, have two questions: a) Is that a good prayer practice? And, b) Is it prudent and safe? (Albany, New York) A. Different people will give you different answers -- and logically, because of the spiritual value of the practice and the safety of the driver. It depends a lot on the particular individual: How much am I able to concentrate on prayer, while staying attentive to safety?

The ideal, of course, is to pray when you are free to focus fully on the Lord, but I don’t believe God is offended if you break the boredom of an isolated highway by speaking with him. Here’s the way I’ve worked it out in practice. If I’m driving in the city -- surrounded by traffic and watching for turns -- I don’t complicate that by adding a rosary to the mix.

But on a country road -- or even a superhighway that is virtually empty -- I sometimes do put a “ring rosary” on my index finger and pray it as I drive. (But even with that simple 10-beaded help, I tend to lose count and wind up saying a couple of extra Hail Marys just to be safe. Perhaps when I reach heaven, I’ll get credit for the “overage”!)

Abuse victim still loves church

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Q. I have read countless stories of those abused sexually by priests. I was abused by a priest who also drugged me. I took my faith seriously then, and I still do. I think there should be a way to connect with victims who love the church despite what happened. But most victims’ groups I have read about seem to heal by hating the church. Do you have any advice? (City of origin withheld)

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A. As you indicate, many victims do bear deep anger toward the aggressor, extend that resentment to the church as a whole and carry it for the rest of their lives. I understand that.

I can’t even begin to imagine how it must feel to have trusted someone you considered a visible representative of God in your life -- and to have had that trust so violated. It doesn’t surprise me that, in the wake of this, a person could lose faith in the church (or even in God) and find that faith difficult to regain.

But there are other victims such as yourself who are able to make distinctions, to separate in

their minds the offender from the church. They realize how far that offending priest strayed from what he was ordained to do: to image the compassion of Jesus, especially to the vulnerable.

These victims still love the church; they want simply to be heard, to be healed and to be made whole -- and they desire deeply to continue to be nourished by the church’s services and its sacraments.

Fortunately, there are some dioceses where retreats are offered 13 specifically for those who were sexually abused by representatives of the church. There you would find, I’m sure, others who feel the way you do and are able to support you by sharing both their stories and their faith.

Perhaps you might inquire from your diocese (specifically, from the victims assistance coordinator) whether such opportunities might be available nearby.

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Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@ gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, N.Y. 12208 www.bayoucatholic.com

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We are well into yet another hurricane season, and as is the case for many of my readers, that is a reality I have had to deal with for most of my life.

Hurricanes are part of God’s creation. In many ways I perceive the manifestation of God in the majesty of creation. There is the order of the universe, the intricate beauty and complexity of life on earth, the fact that we live in a spot in the universe that, as far as we know, has rare conditions which can sustain life.

But how do we understand the destructive forces of nature within the scheme of God’s good creation? Before I answer that question, I want to take you on a journey of reflecting on the symbolism of the storm in the Bible.

There are two words in Hebrew for “storm”: suphah and se’arah.

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Having researched these terms in the Old Testament I found that storms serve as symbols of God’s power, because humans cannot control them. Moreover, God was understood to be the master of all creation. Most often the storm serves as a symbol of divine dominance over those who persecute his people. Consider, for example, Isaiah 17:13, “The people (=Damascus) (are) like a roar of great waters; they will be laid waste. And he will rebuke them, and he will put them to flight from a distance and they will be pursued like chaff in the mountains before the wind and like the whirling dust before the storm.” This oracle probably comes from the time when Syria (Damascus) had allied itself with Israel (the Northern Kingdom) to launch a military attack against Judah (the Southern Kingdom).

Isaiah prophesies that Yahweh, the warrior god of Judah, will exercise his might against Damascus and when he does they will be like chaff, the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain. When the wheat grains were threshed, the chaff was carried off in the wind.

The prophet also likens the warriors of Damascus to dust scattered by a storm wind. Both the chaff and the dust are subject to the force of the wind, especially a storm wind. Unable to resist the wind, they simply go where it takes them. We have here a contrast between the powerless dust or chaff and the dominant power of the wind. For Isaiah to tell Judah that Damascus is like chaff or dust is to suggest that there is no need to fear their attack, for in the face of Yahweh’s might they are

powerless.

But a similar image can be applied to Judah, when they are subject to chastisement by God. “By the Lord of Hosts you will be visited with thunder and with an earthquake and a great sound of a storm and a tempest, and a flame, a consuming fire” (Isaiah 29:6). Here, Isaiah prophesies the siege of Jerusalem by the superior Assyrian army. Fortunately, due to probably a plague among the Assyrian soldiers, the siege was averted.

The image of the storm is also used to demonstrate the instability of the wicked. “And they (the wicked) are as straw before the wind and as chaff the storm stole away” (Job 21:18). Here again we see the symbolism of chaff helplessly driven away by a strong gale. The wicked cannot persist in their wickedness, for such a life has no foundation when faced with the righteousness of God. Psalm 29 uses the image of a mighty storm to praise the omnipotence of God. “Ascribe to the LORD the glory of his name; worship the LORD in holy array.

The voice of the LORD is upon the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD, upon many waters. The voice of the LORD is powerful, the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon” (Psalm 29:2-5). The “voice of the Lord” here probably refers to thunder. The “voice of the Lord” is also envisioned as a mighty breath which issues from his mouth and breaks the cedars of Lebanon. Those cedars were renowned for their strength; only the force of a storm could snap

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those majestic timbers. The flashing of flames of fire probably refers to lightning, and the language of the psalmist indicates a sense of awe at the wonder of lightning.

The Lord is also enthroned over the mabbul, the flood, which represents an untamable chaotic force. The Lord’s ability to control the flood waters is an image of his sovereignty over creation and its sometime disordering forces.

This psalm celebrates God’s allpowerfulness, an attribute that moves the psalmist to praise God. In other words, the psalmist advocates that reverence and worship be given to Israel’s God, whose majesty is incomparable.

In Psalm 107, God is depicted as the one who can “tame the storm,” that is, master the forces of chaos that threaten his people.

Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the great waters; they saw the deeds of the LORD, his wondrous works in the deep. For he commanded, and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea.

They mounted up to heaven, they went down to the depths; their

when they are in trouble.

While we lament the devastation hurricanes often cause, they serve as symbols of God’s omnipotence and mastery over the forces of chaos and wickedness. The fact that we experience tempests as temporal forces beyond our control suggests to us that there is a power that transcends our world. Faith tells us that that power is not an impersonal one, but rather is wielded by a personal God who intervenes into our world benevolently.

courage melted away in their evil plight; they reeled and staggered like drunken men, and were at their wits’ end. Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress; he made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed (Psalm 107:23-29).

The psalmist here models the idea of depending upon God when people face forces beyond their control that throw them into chaos.

To trust in God’s power to save is wisdom, and the God of Israel is a god who desires to rescue his people

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Aquila and Prisca first century feast - July 8

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Aquila and Prisca, also called Priscilla, were among the Jews forced to leave Rome by imperial edict around 50. In Corinth they met and became disciples of Paul. Aquila also was a tentmaker, and he and Paul worked together in Corinth, where Paul lodged with them. They left Corinth together, with Prisca and Aquila stopping in Ephesus and Paul going on to Syria. The couple seems to have lived two different times in both Rome and Ephesus, where house churches met in their homes. They are mentioned in Acts of the Apostles and several Pauline letters. Paul calls them “co-workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their necks for my life.” Separate traditions put their martyrdom in Asia Minor and Rome.

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Henry II 972 - 1024 feast - July 13

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Politics. That political responsibility may be lived at all levels as a high form of charity.

After succeeding his father as duke of Bavaria in 995, he succeeded his cousin, Emperor Otto III, in 1002. To defeat a rival for the imperial crown, Henry led his army into Italy. In 1014 he was crowned holy Roman emperor by the pope in Rome. Local German bishops opposed Henry’s efforts to extend his power by establishing new monasteries and cathedrals, but his authority was upheld by Rome.

Henry drew more criticism for warring with Christian Poland, and for not forcing pagan tribes under his control to convert to Christianity.

But he and his wife, St. Cunegund, are seen as generous church patrons who supported Clunaic monastic reform. He was canonized in 1152 and is the patron saint of Benedictine oblates.

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Christopher third century feast - July 25

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Evangelization The poor in Latin America. That, amid social inequalities, Latin American Christians may bear witness to love for the poor and contribute to a more fraternal society.

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Though removed from the universal calendar in 1969, this feast may be celebrated locally. An early Christian martyr named Christopher (“Christ-bearer” in Greek) had a cult following in both the East and West. According to the Roman Martyrology, he was martyred in Lycia about 250. Early legends painted him as tall, fearsome and chaste in the face of an attempted seduction. Medieval legends added to the lore: He switched allegiance from the devil to Christ, becoming a Christian who helped travelers ford a river. He is often pictured carrying the Christ Child on his shoulders. One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, Christopher is the patron saint of travelers and sailors who also in invoked against epidemics, pestilence and sudden death.

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Special

Seven deadly sins Guest Columnist

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Father Michael Bergeron

Sloth is an almost pathological laziness which hinders productivity and good health.

Sloth is having no desire to make any physical sacrifice or doing anything for others. It is an aversion to work, whether it is physical, mental or spiritual.

Sloth is more prevalent in modern times and exhibits itself in a far stronger way than in past cultures. That is because in the past if you were slothful, you probably would starve to death.

Philosopher Dr. Peter Kreeft explains sloth as “joylessness when faced with God as our supreme joy.” Slothfulness robs us of our hunger for God – it is a sin of indifference which keeps us from seeking God. This sin is the inclination to being lazy or to abhor the work ethic. Being idle is a contradiction to God’s command. “When hands are lazy, the rafters sag; when hands are slack, the house leaks” (Ecclesiastes 10:18). “Laziness (slothfulness) plunges a man into deep sleep, and the sluggard (idle soul) must go hungry” (Proverbs 19:15).

When we slack off in our attempts to become a better person or do a better job, we become slothful. Many people just resign themselves to get through each day in the “rat race.” So they ignore God’s call to grow in their relationships, faith, prayer life and spirituality. They will just settle for mediocrity.

Sloth is a roadblock to growing

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in holiness and happiness. God desires to shower us with gifts, but we have to make an effort on our end as well.

Sloth can also be a kind of spiritual laziness in which we do not prioritize what we should do or change what we should in ourselves. It can be a sort of apathy.

We can slothfully lie in bed and say, “God heal me.” But God asks us to go to the doctor where he can use the doctor’s hands and voice to bring us healing. We can become couch potatoes who cry out, “God find me a job.” And God cries out, “Get up and apply for one!” Sloth damages our relationship with God because we expect everything to be handed to us. “When the sense of God is lost, there is also a tendency

to lose the sense of man, of his dignity and his life” (St. Pope John Paul II).

From the sin of sloth comes an array of other things such as despair, depression, boredom, restlessness and spiritual indifference. Trust in the mercy and love of God dwindles and the soul begins to become indifferent to its own salvation. As we get older, we can become more slothful. It becomes easier to just lie in bed than to get going and move those old muscles. I’ve seen people with injuries that give up because it hurts to use that limb to walk. They fight their physical therapists. As a result, they simply never walk again. As the old saying goes, if you don’t use it, you lose it.

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Diocesan Outreach Line

In response to the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux is offering an Outreach Line (formerly known as the Child Protection Contact Line). The Outreach Line is an effort to continue the diocesan commitment to support healing for people who have been hurt or sexually abused recently or in the past by clergy, religious or other employees of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux.

The Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux Outreach Line operates from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. A trained mental health professional responds to the line. Individuals are offered additional assistance if requested.

The Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux Outreach Line Telephone number is (985) 873-0026.

For detailed reporting procedures see: www.htdiocese.org.

Click on the Safe Environment tab, then on S.E. Forms and Links.

Línea de Comunicación Diocesana

they are not hungry, refusing to accept the very nourishment that will help them to recover.

Therefore, they waste away. The sin of sloth can become a slow death.

Sloth robs us of joy and adventure in life. It is often disguised as virtues such as calmness, serenity, keeping a level head, open mindedness and so forth. And people often do not recognize it until it is too late. Zeal is the way to combat sloth.

It is difficult to face our own sins honestly and even more difficult to share them. Perhaps that is why the confessionals are empty. It takes heroic virtue to overcome the Seven Deadly Sins. Most of us are afflicted with at least one or two of them. Once we give in to those, the spirits of the others will be delighted to come into our souls as well. “Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud” (1 Corinthians 13:4).

“God is love” (1 John 4:8).

Con el fin de cumplir con las Políticas de Protección de Niños y Jóvenes de la Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de Los Estados Unidos, la Diócesis de Houma-Thibodaux ofrece una Línea de Comunicación (antes Línea de Contacto para la Protección de los Niños). La Línea de Comunicación es parte del esfuerzo diocesano de comprometerse con el mejoramiento de aquéllos que han sido lastimados o abusados sexualmente recientemente o en el pasado por miembros del clero, religiosos u otros empleados de la Diócesis de Houma-Thibodaux.

El horario de la Línea de Comunicación de la Diócesis de Houma-Thibodaux es de 8:30 a.m. a 4:30 p.m., de lunes a viernes. El encargado de esta línea es un profesional capacitado en salud mental. Se ofrece asistencia adicional al ser solicitada.

Línea de Comunicación de la Diócesis de Houma-Thibodaux Número de teléfono (985) 873-0026.

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Church Life The following is a list of the Faith Enrichment Level of classes with the dates and instructors, followed by courses offered at a master’s level entitled Proclaiming and Living Our Faith. The second level of courses usually consists of six sessions; therefore, the instructors are able to go deeper into the subject matter.

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Sept. 10 Sept. 17 Sept. 24 Oct. 8 Oct. 15 Oct. 22 Nov. 5 Dec. 3 Jan. 7, 2016 Jan. 14 Jan. 28 Feb. 25 March 17 April 7 April 21

Here I Am Lord, Please Help!

The Call to Holiness Revelation, Tradition and Magisterium God and the Human Person The Old Testament Jesus in the Gospels The Trinity Baptism and Confirmation Eucharist, Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick Matrimony and Holy Orders The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Church Freedom, Law, and the Beatitudes The Commandments 1-3 The Commandments 4-10

John Collins Father Simon Peter Engurait Father Simon Peter Engurait Father Mitch Semar Deacon John Pippenger Deacon John Pippenger Father Jules Brunet Father Robert Rogers Father Robert Rogers Father Robert Rogers Father Jules Brunet Father Clyde Mahler Deacon Vic Bonnaffee Deacon Vic Bonnaffee Distribution of Certificates and Prayer Service

Proclaiming and Living Our Faith Level 20

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Speaker

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Aug. 5, 12, 19; Sept. 2, 9, 16 Sept. 30; Oct. 7, 14, 28; Nov. 4, 11 Jan. 27, 2016; Feb. 3, 17, 24; March 2, 16 April 13, 20, 27; May 11, 18, 25

Jimmie Danos Very Rev. Josh Rodrigue

Spirituality Liturgy

Very Rev. Josh Rodrigue Father Jules Brunet

Sacred Art and Architecture Trinity

Adult Faith Formation 2015-16

By Dr. Faith Ann Spinella The catechetical mission of the church aims to help individuals grow in the faith as it permeates one’s life with the Gospel message.

Our own diocese has an Adult Faith Formation program that strives to take an adult from his or her call to holiness, revelation, tradition and the magisterium, through the Scriptures, the church and the Trinity, to the basic understanding of the sacraments and commandments. Needless to say, we all learned these tenets of the faith as children; however, a refresher is valuable as we mature. In our early years our understanding of the faith was that Bayou Catholic • Houma, LA • July 2015

of a child and now we need for it to be that of an adult.

Anyone who wishes to be enriched in the faith may want to take the courses offered by knowledgeable and spiritual people during 20152016.

Any changes in the dates of these courses will be noted in church bulletins, in Bayou Catholic, and on the diocesan website at www.htdiocese.org.

Individuals who complete each level of the Faith Formation program receive certification. If you would like to register for these sessions, please contact the Office of Religious Education at (985) 850-3144 to request a registration form or download one from the new

diocesan website.

With the wealth of knowledge acquired through the Adult Faith Formation program, we can make a conscious and firm decision to live fully the gift and choice of faith through membership in the Christian community. According to Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us: A Pastoral Plan for Adult Faith Formation in the United States, these faith formation sessions can help each adult become “more willing and able to be a Christian disciple in the world.” The face of the earth will be renewed if we all take our place as “salt of the earth and light for the world” (Matthew 5:13-16).

Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux Seminarian Education Burses

What is a seminarian burse fund?

A seminarian burse fund is an invested sum of money where the interest is used in perpetuity to help fund the education of men to the priesthood in the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux.

How does someone establish a seminarian burse fund?

Very simply, a burse may be established and named for anyone you choose, be it family, friend, bishop, priest, deacon, religious, etc.

When is a seminarian burse complete?

A seminarian burse fund is complete once it reaches $15,000.

If you choose to continue to contribute, a new burse will be created for you.

Who do I contact to contribute to or establish a burse fund?

To contribute or establish a burse, send funds to Pastoral Center, Attn: Seminarian Burse, P. O. Box 505, Schriever, LA 70395 or call Jeremy Becker, Director of Stewardship and Development, at 985-850-3155 for more information.

Completed Burses of $15,000 each

Note: those wtih a number stipulates the number of completed burses* - Anonymous - Mr. & Mrs. C. Thomas Bienvenu - Harry Booker - Bishop Warren L. Boudreaux (3)* - Mr. Eledier Broussard - Rev. Adrian J. Caillouet - Rev. James Louis Caillouet - Bishop L. Abel Caillouet - Judge/Mrs L. P. Caillouet - Msgr. Lucien J. Caillouet - Abdon J. & Ada B. Callais - Harold & Gloria Callais Family - Paul A. Callais - Peter W. Callais - Vincent & Fannie Cannata - Minor Sr. & Lou Ella Cheramie - Maude & Edith Daspit - Mr. & Mrs. Caliste Duplantis family (3)* - Clay Sr. & Evelida Duplantis

- C. Remie Duplantis - Marie Elise Duplantis - Warren J. Harang, Jr. - Msgr. Raphael C. Labit - Msgr. Francis J. Legendre - Rev. Charles Menard - Dr. & Mrs. M.V. Marmande & Fly - Donald Peltier, Sr. (3)* - Harvey Peltier (30)* - Richard Peltier - The Peltier Foundation (3) - Orleans & Louella Pitre - Msgr. Joseph Wester - Robert R. Wright, Jr. - Rev. Kermit Trahan - St. Bernadette Men’s Club - Diocesan K of C - Endowment Fund - $119,136.90

May 2015 Burse Contributions Msgr. Francis Amedee .................................... $1,025.00 Anawin Community .......................................... $400.00 Brett Lapeyrouse Brett recently graduated from St. Joseph Seminary, and will be attending Notre Dame Seminary this fall.

His home parish is St. Joseph Church in Chauvin.

This will be his fifth year of seminary formation.

Please keep Brett and all of our seminarians in your prayers.

Open Burses with Balance as of 5/31/15 Sidney J. & Lydie C. Duplantis ........... $13,000.00 Donald Peltier, Sr. #4 ............................ $13,000.00 Joseph Strada Memorial ...................... $12,642.63 Msgr. Raphael C. Labit #2 .................. $11,080.00 Harvey Peltier #31 .............................. $10,486.91 Clay Sr. & Evelida Duplantis #2 .......... $10,000.00 C. Remie Duplantis #2 ........................ $10,000.00 Marie Elise Duplantis #2 ..................... $10,000.00 Maude & Edith Daspit #2 .................... $10,000.00 Msgr. George A. Landry ...................... $10,000.00 Elie & Dot Klingman .............................. $8,680.00 Mr. & Mrs. George C. Fakier ................. $8,200.00 Rev. Victor Toth ..................................... $7,000.00 Mrs. Shirley Conrad ............................... $7,000.00 Brides of the Most Blessed Trinity ......... $6,165.00 Rev. Peter Nies ..................................... $5,810.00 Msgr. William Koninkx ........................... $5,200.00 Mr. & Mrs. Love W. Pellegrin ................. $5,000.00 Anonymous #2 ...................................... $5,000.00 Mr. & Mrs. Caliste Duplantis Fmly.#4..... $5,000.00 Rev. William M. Fleming ........................ $5,000.00 Mrs. Ayres A. Champagne ..................... $5,000.00 Rev. Kasimir Chmielewski ..................... $4,839.00 Rev. Gerard Hayes ................................ $4,786.00 Rev. Henry Naquin ................................. $4,251.00 Rev. Guy Zeringue ................................ $4,200.00 Joseph “Jay” Fertitta .............................. $4,150.00

Harry Booker #2 .................................... $4,138.00 Catholic Daughters ................................ $4,080.00 Msgr. Francis Amedee ........................... $3,720.00 Kelly Curole Frazier ............................... $3,610.96 J. R. Occhipinti ...................................... $3,400.00 Anawin Community ............................... $3,100.00 Msgr. James Songy ............................... $3,075.00 Mr. & Mrs. Galip Jacobs ........................ $3,060.00 St. Jude ................................................. $3,000.00 Diocesan K of C #2 ............................... $2,894.62 Rev. Peter H. Brewerton ........................ $2,600.00 Willie & Emelda St. Pierre ...................... $2,000.00 St. Joseph Society ................................. $2,000.00 Rev. H. C. Paul Daigle ........................... $1,900.00 Warren J. Harang, Jr. #2 ......................... $1,900.00 James J. Buquet, Jr. ............................... $1,650.00 Alfrances P. Martin ................................. $1,650.00 Msgr. Francis J. Legendre #2 ................ $1,645.00 Rev. Robert J. Sevigny .......................... $1,600.00 Msgr. Emile J. Fossier ........................... $1,545.00 Dr. William Barlette, Sr........................... $1,525.00 Msgr. Stanislaus Manikowski ................ $1,525.00 Mr. & Mrs. John Marmande .................... $1,500.00 Deacon Robert Dusse’ ........................... $1,450.00 Msgr. John L. Newfield .......................... $1,200.00 Rev. John Gallen .................................... $1,100.00 Rev. Anthony Rousso ............................. $1,100.00

Rev. Hubert C. Broussard ...................... $1,050.00 Rev. Clemens Schneider ....................... $1,000.00 Bishop Warren L. Boudreaux #4 ........... $1,000.00 Msgr. John G. Keller .............................. $1,000.00 Preston & Gladys Webre ........................ $1,000.00 Jacob Marcello ....................................... $1,000.00 Deacon Willie Orgeron ............................. $800.00 Ruby Pierce .............................................. $800.00 Deacon Roland Dufrene ........................... $750.00 Juliette & Eugene Wallace ......................... $700.00 Ronnie Haydel .......................................... $685.00 Deacon Edward J. Blanchard ................... $660.00 Deacon Connely Duplantis ........................ $625.00 Judge Louis & Shirley R. Watkins .............. $600.00 Deacon Raymond LeBouef ...................... $550.00 Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Cannata .................... $500.00 Deacon Harold Kurtz ................................ $300.00 Richard Peltier #2 ..................................... $300.00 Anne Veron Aguirre ................................... $280.00 Claude Bergeron ...................................... $250.00 Bernice Harang ......................................... $200.00 Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Naquin .......................... $150.00 Deacon Pedro Pujals ................................ $100.00 Joseph Waitz, Sr. ...................................... $100.00 Deacon Eldon Frazier .............................. $ 50.00 Deacon Nick Messina .............................. $ 50.00 Rev. Warren Chassaniol ........................... $ 50.00

Overall Seminarian Burse Totals: $1,496,186.02 www.bayoucatholic.com

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This month’s heavenly recipe comes from Jenelle Foret, a native of the St. Charles community. She is sharing her peaches and cream cheesecake recipe. It is a recipe that she has used and passed down to friends for almost 20 years. Jenelle is on the committee which prepares meals for the shut-ins at St. Charles Borromeo Church parish in the St. Charles community. “I prepare everything for the meals and we have a team who cooks the meals, bakes cakes and delivers the meals to the shut-ins.” She began

working in this ministry in 2010 after her husband passed away.

Jenelle recalls watching her mother cook when she was a young girl and learning a little from her, but it was basically after she was married that she learned how to cook out of necessity.

“I love to cook seafood any kind of way. I also enjoy cooking white beans with fried fish, stews, red beans and sausage, and seafood gumbo. Seafood okra gumbo is my favorite thing to cook. I also like to experiment with recipes and make

Peaches and Cream Cheesecake

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1 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese softened (Philadelphia) 1/2 cup sugar 3 tsp. reserved juice When beaten, spoon to within one inch of edge of batter in pie plate.

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1 tbsp. sugar 1/2 tsp. cinnamon Bake at 350 degrees for 3035 minutes until crust is golden brown. Filling will appear soft.

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the dishes my own by adding what I like to the ingredients,” she says.

The ministry to the shut-ins is something that she holds dear in her heart. “It is important that we remember the elderly. It is good that we are doing something for the elderly in our church parish. Last month we prepared 50 meals. It is evident there is a need to help the elderly in our community,” says the cook.

Over the years Jenelle has gotten to know many of the priests who have served at St. Charles Borromeo. She has very fond memories of Father Carlos Talavera, and how he was there for her and her family when she lost her oldest son and her husband in the span of one year. “Father Carlos helped me through a very difficult time. I really had to rely on my faith to pull me through some dark days,” she says.

Although Father Carlos has moved on to another assignment they keep in touch. About six months ago Jenelle fell at her home and injured herself. She says it has slowed her down a little but she continues to minister to the elderly of the parish. She loves the St. Charles community. “The St. Charles community is close knit. Many families help each other when the need arises.” She attributes that to the reason so many families who grow up in St. Charles stay to call it home.

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Rev. Clyde Mahler Pastor

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St. Rosalie Chapel, located in the quiet, peaceful fishing community of Stephensville, is a mission of Holy Cross Church parish in Morgan City. The quaint little wooden chapel is situated just a few steps from Bayou Melhomme behind it and swampland across the road in front of it.

In the 1850s, the Chapel of St. Rosalie, which at the time was known as Sacred Heart Mission, was located in Belle River. According to its history, the building was moved by barge to Bayou Long (Stephensville) and in August 1928 was established as Bayou Long Church parish for the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

Father Mat Cramers, who was retired, served as pastor there from 1973 until his death in 1980.

Upon the arrival of the Viatorians Religious Community in 1977, the chapel became a mission of

‘Many come to Mass by boat’ Holy Cross. In 1980, the mission was renamed the St. Rosalie Chapel by (the late) Bishop Warren L. Boudreaux, honoring its longtime sacristan Rosalie Crochet. At this time, priests serving Holy Cross Church parish assumed the ministerial duties of the chapel with various administrators working there daily until 2001.

Father Clyde Mahler, pastor of Holy Cross Church parish, and Father Noas Kerketta, associate pastor, alternately celebrate Mass at the chapel on Saturdays at 4 p.m., while volunteers have taken responsibility for the chapel’s maintenance and upkeep. Father Mahler says between 60 and 80 people attend Mass there during the offseason, and during the summer time, attendance triples.

The mission serves the small community of Stephensville, however people from places as far away as Labadieville, Napoleonville and Baton Rouge attend Mass there. “It’s a very picturesque area.

There are many nice homes and camps all along the bayou as you drive to the chapel. People live in the community, but there are also those who just own camps and summer homes there,” says Father Mahler. “One unique feature of the chapel is that there is place for people to dock their boats behind the church. During the summer many members of the congregation come to Mass by boat.”

The chapel has its own CCD program with about 30 students in grades K-6. Students do make their first Communion there; however no funerals or weddings take place at the chapel.

Father Mahler says visiting St. Rosalie Chapel is almost like stepping back in time. “Walking into the chapel, you are struck by the smell the wood paneling and the simple décor of this charming classic chapel.” www.bayoucatholic.com

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A different business topic will be discussed each week. Anyone who is interested in participating may call Brooks Lirette at (985)876-0490 to schedule an orientation appointment. n Food for the Journey, Tuesday, Aug. 4, Quality Hotel,

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Speaker, Father Andre’ Melancon. n Spirituality, Wednesdays, Sept. 2, 9 and 16, diocesan Pastoral Center Conference Hall, 6-8:15 p.m. Speaker, Jimmie Danos. n Blue Mass, Sept. 10, Cathedral of St. Francis de Sales,

Institute, July 15-19, Lumen Christi Retreat Center’s Souby Building. n 76th Annual Tekakwitha Conference, July 22-26, Alexandria, LA. Anyone is welcome to attend. Additional information is available online at

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Speaker, Father Joseph Pilola. n Spirituality, Wednesdays, Aug. 5, 12 and 19, diocesan Pastoral Center Conference Hall, 6-8:15 p.m. Speaker, Jimmie Danos. n Acadian Mass, Friday, Aug. 14, St. Hilary of Poitiers, Mathews, 6 p.m. n Institution of Acolyte, Saturday, Aug. 15, Cathedral of St. Francis de Sales, Houma, 11:30 a.m. n Married Couples Date Night, Saturday, Aug. 15, Courtyard

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Meal served at 6 p.m.; events begin at 6:30 p.m. Free event, all women over 18 years of age are invited. n RCIA Workshop, Saturday, Aug. 22, diocesan Pastoral Center, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. n Adore, Wednesday, Aug. 26, diocesan Pastoral Center Conference Hall, 7 p.m.

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Thursday, Sept. 10, diocesan Pastoral Center Conference Hall, 6-8:15 p.m. Speaker, John Collins. n The Call to Holiness, Thursday, Sept. 17, diocesan Pastoral Center Conference Hall, 6-8:15 p.m. Speaker, Father Simon Peter Engurait.

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Speaker, Father Simon Peter Engurait. n Liturgy, Wednesday, Sept.

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Speaker, Very Rev. Joshua Rodrigue.

tekconf@gmail.com. n The Gift of Love and Life,

Friday, July 31, diocesan Pastoral Center Conference Hall, 6:30-8 p.m. Speaker, Dr. Susan Caldwell.

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My dear nephew, I am writing to you from a distant country. Your recent high school graduation has prompted, much more than I anticipated, these thoughts of how far away we are from you.

Here in our country, the terrain has been worn level. No great peaks and no deep valleys anywhere around. Nothing much to block the steady sunlight or to hinder the refreshing showers.

Our days, too, reflect this equilibrium for the most part.

I remember when we lived in your country long years ago. That was during the culture clashes and unrest of the 1960s and the next decade or so. Trying to keep our bearings in that land was a bit challenging, but we remained intact and made our way back to our familiar homeland. This place has had its own hurdles, but we have grown into life here. We have learned to be quite satisfied with where we reside.

We do not have to struggle with trying to see beyond the next ridge, because troubling hillocks no longer present themselves where we live. The paths in our domain are well worn, with few puzzling intersections or tempting offshoots.

Our town is as you probably remember it from growing up here, although the length of your childhood seems now to have been very brief. Our downtown has not changed its face much since you were just a boy here.

We drive down old residential streets so familiar that I could still point out to you where one of my friends broke her leg falling out of that old oak tree when she was eight. The same auditorium where we attended Friday night dances as sixth graders. The

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space “behind the pit,” really a reservoir, where as teenagers we used to watch classmates cavorting on water skis in the Intracoastal Canal’s cafe au lait waters.

Unlike ours, your motherland is practically vibrating with beckoning mountains, ranges wide and long. I’ve seen those pinnacles, and I know they will not present an obstacle to you. I know you cannot wait to scale those summits to see the view from the heights. To see the mysterious realm that lies on the other side.

Because of the rises and falls of your land’s geography, the roads you have to maneuver are more circuitous, more confusing. Merges and intersections, S curves and toll roads are there to interfere with your progress. Interesting byways present alternatives to the primary highways.

Travelling in your world needs vigilance and discernment.

But the challenges your routes present are compensated for in the scenery along the way and the people you meet along the roads. Wondrous woodlands, vast expanses of grasslands, and placid blue lakes will provide your soul

with refreshment. The glittering cities will offer stimuli to your imagination. Both will become fodder for your thoughts.

Oh, and the thoughts that await you in that great commonwealth you now live in. Philosophies to be explored, histories to be relished, literature to be absorbed into your very being, music to be played with abandon.

There is no lack of diversity in your land, in both actuality and potentiality. Your new country’s teachers, classmates, friends and colleagues will present you with all manner of human experience to embrace or to reject. Your character has had its foundations firmly undergirded so far in the country in which you grew up. It will be formed even more fully in that flourishing realm of your current residing.

My dear boy, we may live only around the corner and down the block from you, but the country we live in is as distant from yours now as is Boise from Kathmandu.

Your uncle and I live in a land made of more memories than anticipations. You inhabit an energizing land of dreams.

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Dorie, anxious to meet her sister, is shocked to find she is a cloistered nun with a vow of silence who refuses to meet her or to display or discuss her paintings, a talent she inherited from their father. Dorie is not so easily deterred and poses as an aspiring nun in Catherine’s convent to get and publish her sister’s story. The two eventually share their biological past but clash over the purpose of art. Catherine’s continued refusal to go public with her paintings and Dorie’s determination to publish her story make for a conflict that is finally resolved in the surprising conclusion.

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If you live in south Louisiana you know that June 1 is the start of hurricane season. Matthew 25 Disaster Preparedness and Response Ministry training sessions will be held in four locations around the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux this summer.

If you are a Matthew 25 volunteer or you would like to be one, please attend one of these sessions: Sacred Heart Church, Morgan City Monday, June 29 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

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*** Annunziata Church, Houma Saturday, July 18 9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. *** Sacred Heart Church, Cut Off Saturday, July 25 9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. *** St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Thibodaux Saturday, Aug. 1 9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

For some who have experienced a disaster it’s a level of fear that is ingrained in us, though we know that we are to trust in God and not allow fear to overcome us. It is difficult to enjoy the summer months when you are constantly looking at the weather forecast each day hoping that you won’t see a wave coming off the African coast or a storm system forming in the Gulf. A bright light in all this fear is knowing that family, friends, neighbors and our church community is there to lend you a helping hand if needed.

Churches of all denominations have been responding to human suffering caused by natural disasters, both large and small, for centuries – historically serving those who would have otherwise Bayou Catholic • Houma, LA • July 2015

fallen through the cracks of other helping systems.

The Matthew 25 Disaster Preparedness and Response Ministry is the church parish disaster response program for our diocese. However, we must remember that it is first a ministry and an opportunity for evangelization of God’s people. The name of the ministry is taken from Matthew 25:31-40: “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assembled before him. And he will

What is the Matthew 25 Disaster Preparedness and Response ministry? separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me. ‘Then the righteous will answer him and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed

you, or thirsty and give you drink?

When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, naked and clothed you? When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?’ And the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers or sisters of mine, you did for me.’”

The purpose of the Matthew 25 Disaster Preparedness and Response Planning Guide, available on the Catholic Charities website (www.htdiocese.org/ ccht), is to assist diocesan staff, church parishes and the Catholic community to be well prepared for a disaster and to guide collaborative relief efforts in response to whatever calamity may occur. This guide is also intended to serve as a tool that church parishes, schools, institutions and parishioners can use to assist in preparing, developing, implementing and monitoring Disaster Response Plans specific to each church parish’s needs.

Disaster planning is a collaborative effort and a continuous process of assessment, evaluation and preparation. It is a process that requires research, analysis, decision-making, teamwork, implementation and updating. A disaster plan is not a single document and is never “finalized.” It is, rather, a “living” document.

Unfortunately, the question, “Why is disaster planning so important?” has become easier to answer in the immediate aftermath of recent events. Anyone who personally felt the effects of the hurricanes before and after Katrina and Rita can provide an “if only list.” If only we had, if only they had, if only the storm had ... hindsight tells us proper planning would have been helpful.

We know how great it is to live in south Louisiana, but we also know we must always be prepared come June 1. For more information about the Matthew 25 Disaster Preparedness and Response Ministry call Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux at (985) 876-0490.

(Margie Duplantis is the associate director for Catholic Charities Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux’s Parish Social Ministry.)

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Two ordained to priesthood

The Cathedral of St. Francis de Sales in Houma was filled with priests, deacons, family and friends for the ordination of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux’s newest priests, Father Alex Gaudet and Father Jacob Lipari. Bishop Shelton J. Fabre was the ordaining prelate of the Mass which was concelebrated by Bishop Emeritus Sam G. Jacobs and priests from the diocese.

Bishop Shelton J. Fabre lays his hands upon the heads of the elect for the Order of Priests as he prays in silence. After all the priests present wearing stoles lay hands upon the elect the bishop prays the prayer of ordination.

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Five men were ordained to the permanent diaconate and one was ordained as a transitional deacon recently at St. Joseph Co-Cathedral in Thibodaux. Pictured with Bishop Shelton J. Fabre are, front row from left, permanent deacons Daniel Blake and Joseph Bourgeois. Back row from left, transitional deacon Cody Chatagnier and permanent deacons Joey Lirette, Lee Crochet and Jeff Pitre.

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Food for the Journey is Aug. 4

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The diocesan Office of Religious Education sponsors a monthly lunchtime speaker series on the first Tuesday of the month at the Quality Hotel on Hollywood Road in Houma across from Vandebilt Catholic High School.

The speaker for Aug. 4 is Father Joey Pilola.

Father Pilola, pastor of Maria Immacolata Church parish in Houma since June 2014, attended St. Joseph Seminary in St. Benedict, Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. He was ordained to the priesthood May 30, 1987.

He has served as associate pastor of the following church parishes: St. Joseph Co-Cathedral, Thibodaux; Our Lady of the Rosary, Larose; Sacred Heart, Cut Off; Holy Savior, Lockport; Holy Family, Grand

Caillou, and St. Eloi, Theriot. He has also served as pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Church parish, Thibodaux; St. Andrew, Amelia; St. Genevieve, Thibodaux, and St. Eloi, Theriot, and as diocesan director of the Office of Vocations from June 2007 until June 2010.

Those who plan to attend the Aug. 4th event should RSVP with their name, phone number and church parish by Thursday, July 30. To RSVP, email FoodForTheJourney@ htdiocese.org or call (985) 8503178.

Doors open at 10:45 a.m. Lunch begins at 11:30 a.m. The program begins at Noon with the speaker’s presentation from 12:10-12:45 p.m.

Cost is $17 and includes meal, drink and tip. Only cash or checks will be accepted.

All are invited to come “eat and be fed.”

Mother & Daughter program Aug. 1

The diocesan Office of Family Ministries is sponsoring a Mother & Daughter program for 10-13 year old girls (must be accompanied by a parent or guardian) and their mothers Saturday, Aug. 1 from 10 a.m. until Noon at the Pastoral Center Conference Hall on 2779 Hwy 311 in Schriever.

This educational program provides an atmosphere of love and learning to discuss the important topic of growing up and to establish a foundation for continued communication between parent and child. Mothers are given the opportunity to help their daughters discover God’s gift of human sexuality and fertility, and to reflect on how to be an authentic woman.

Presenters for the event are Dr. Tara Berner and Dr. Susan Caldwell who emphasize respect, understanding and appreciation of God’s gifts. Topics include the changes in a young woman’s body as it prepares for motherhood, the onset of ovulation and subsequent Bayou Catholic • Houma, LA • July 2015

menstrual periods, the function of the female reproductive system, the sacredness of human life, the virtue of chastity and a confidential question and answer segment.

Cost is $20 for mother and one daughter; add $5 for each additional daughter attending.

Seating is limited, please register

by July 24. For more information, contact the diocesan Office of Family Ministries at (985) 8503129 or visit www.htdiocese.org/fm for a detailed flyer and registration form.

St. Anne novena July 17-26 On July 17, the St. Anne Association will celebrate their 132nd novena at the St. Anne Grotto located in the St. Joseph Cemetery in Thibodaux. Rain or shine – sometimes in blistering heat – the faithful have gathered every year for 10 days since 1884.

The novena begins on July 17 with a Mass celebrated in the grotto at 6:30 p.m. This will be the 20th year that Father Michael Bergeron celebrates the Mass.

Each day the novena is prayed at 6:30 pm. On the 10th day, which is the feast day of Sts. Anne and Joachim (July 26) a closing Mass

is celebrated along with the novena to Thibodaux’s patron saint, St. Valerie. For the first time in its 132 year history, the bishop, Bishop Shelton J. Fabre, will celebrate the closing Mass. St. Anne is the patron saint of mothers, grandmothers, women who desire pregnancy, women in labor and women who want husbands, to name a few.

Countless miracles have been reported in the past which members attribute to the intervention of St. Anne, including women who have found husbands and couples who conceived children.

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Hispanic confirmation fills cathedral Bishop Shelton J. Fabre recently administered the sacrament of confirmation to 29 Hispanic Catholics at the Cathedral of St. Francis de Sales in Houma. The candidates were from the five Hispanic communities of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, Sacred Heart, Morgan City; St. Andrew, Amelia; Christ the Redeemer, Thibodaux; Annunziata, Houma; and Sacred Heart, Cut Off. Sister Eufemia Santiago, M.C.S.H., called each candidate by name during the ceremony.

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Corpus Christi A eucharistic procession was held celebrating the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ or Corpus Christi at the Cathedral of St. Francis de Sales in Houma recently.

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Encyclical: All creation sings God’s praise; people silence it

By Cindy Wooden

Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The earth, which was created to support life and give praise to God, is crying out with pain because human activity is destroying it, Pope Francis says in his long-awaited encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.”

All who believe in God and all people of good will have an obligation to take steps to mitigate climate change, clean the land and the seas, and start treating all of creation -- including poor people -with respect and concern, he says in the document released at the Vatican June 18.

A lack of respect for creation is a lack of respect for God who created all that exists, the pope says.

In fact, he continues, a person cannot claim to respect nature while supporting abortion, nor can one claim to be pro-life without a commitment to reversing damage to the environment.

With unusually blunt language for a papal document, the pope decries centuries of exploiting the earth, exploiting other people and acting as if the point of human life is to buy and consume as much as possible.

“The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth,” the pope writes in the document.

While acknowledging science is not the Catholic Church’s area of expertise, Pope Francis says “a very solid scientific consensus” points to global warming and indicates “human activity” has seriously contributed to it, threatening the planet and all life on it.

Situating ecology firmly within Catholic social teaching, Pope Francis not only insists that wealthier nations -- who contributed more to despoiling the earth -- must bear more of the costs of remedying the damage, he also calls for their soli-

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darity with the poorest of the earth.

He urges generosity in transferring clean technology, protecting small farms, opening access to markets and protecting people’s jobs.

Quoting St. John Paul II and a constant theme of the church’s social doctrine, Pope Francis says the church recognizes the “legitimate right” to private property, but that right is never “absolute or inviolable,” since the goods of the earth were created to benefit all.

Regarding pollution and environmental destruction in general, he says it is important to acknowledge “the human origins of the ecological crisis,” and while ecology is not only a religious concern, those who believe in God should be especially passionate on the subject because they profess the divine origin of all creation.

Pope Francis singles out for special praise Orthodox Ecumenical

Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who has made environmental theology a key topic of his research and teaching since the early 1990s. Before the encyclical’s release, the pope told a group of priests that he had asked the patriarch to join him for the public presentation of the encyclical, but the patriarch had a scheduling conflict and so sent one of his top theologians, Metropolitan John of Pergamon.

People are fooling themselves, Pope Francis says in the document, if they think “things do not look that serious, and the planet could continue as it is for some time.”

Such people in all honesty are giving themselves permission to carry on with their current lifestyles and habits; their attitude is “self-destructive,” he says.

In large sections of the encyclical, Pope Francis’ language is

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Encyclical poetic, echoing the tone of St. Francis of Assisi’s “Canticle of the Creatures,” which is the source of the “laudato si’” (praised be you) in the encyclical’s title. He quotes a large section of the hymn of praise in a section on the place of each creature in the harmony of creation.

The canticle is most famous for its references to “Brother Sun,” “Sister Moon” and “our sister, Mother Earth.”

But, the pope says, “sister earth” is crying out, “pleading that we take another course” marked by healing and protecting the earth and all its inhabitants.

While Christians cannot “put all living beings on the same level nor ... deprive human beings of their unique worth and the tremendous responsibility it entails,” St. Francis’ hymn expresses the truth that God is creator of all things, that every part of creation speaks of God’s love and power and that every cre44 ated being is part of interdependent whole, the pope writes.

“Everything is related,” the pope says, “and we human beings are united as brothers and sisters on a wonderful pilgrimage, woven together by the love God has for each of his creatures and which also unites us in fond affection with brother sun, sister moon, brother river and mother earth.”

In the document, Pope Francis calls on national governments and the leaders of international institutions to be serious and courageous in adopting strict measures to slow and reverse global warming, protect the rain forests and ensure the availability of clean water for all.

Courage will be needed, he says, to adopt policies that initially may slow the pace of economic growth, but which will be farsighted in ensuring a future for their voters, their voters’ grandchildren and all humanity.

“We know that technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels -- especially coal, but also oil and, to a lesser degree, gas -- needs to be progressively replaced without delay,” he says.

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As bishop of a diocese keenly aware of the ecology, I heartily welcome Pope Francis’ encyclical. It is the right message at the right time. Our Holy Father urges us to cultivate simplicity. He presents us with a vision of an “integral ecology” that highlights not only the interconnectedness of all created life, but recognizes how political, economic, social and religious values and decisions are interrelated and impact the way people live with one another on the planet and use its resources.

I especially love how Pope Francis tells us that “a sense of deep communion with the rest of nature cannot be real if our hearts lack tenderness, compassion and concern for our fellow human beings.” I encourage all of our people to become familiar with the encyclical and to apply its messages to their daily lives.

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lic and all people of good will to do their part by, for example, using only non-polluting detergents, recycling paper, using public transportation and putting on a sweater instead of raising the heat in the winter.

And he urges Catholics to return to the practice of saying grace before meals, a habit that reminds them regularly that the food they are about to eat is a gift that comes from the earth and from God. At the end of the document, Pope Francis offers two prayers he composed himself: “A Prayer for Our Earth” and “A Christian Prayer in Union with Creation.”

The first prayer includes asking God to “bring healing to our lives that we may protect the world and not prey on it, that we may sow beauty, not pollution and destruction.”

The second prayer includes the petition, “O Lord, seize us with your power and light, help us to protect all life, to prepare for a better future, for the coming of your kingdom of justice, peace, love and beauty.”

In the encyclical, Pope Francis urges Catholics to cultivate simplicity; it is good for the soul and for the planet, he says. “A constant

flood of new consumer goods can baffle the heart and prevent us from cherishing each thing and each moment,” the pope writes.

The encyclical presents the vision of an “integral ecology” that highlights not only the interconnectedness of all created life, but recognizes how political, economic, social and religious values and decisions are interrelated and impact the way people live with one another on the planet and use its resources.

“A sense of deep communion with the rest of nature cannot be real if our hearts lack tenderness, compassion and concern for our fellow human beings,” Pope Francis insists.

For example, he says, “it is clearly inconsistent to combat trafficking in endangered species while remaining completely indifferent to human trafficking, unconcerned about the poor, or undertaking to destroy another human being deemed unwanted.”

“Everything is connected,” the pope writes. “Concern for the environment thus needs to be joined to a sincere love for our fellow human beings and an unwavering commitment to resolving the problems of society.”

What to do?

By Carol Glatz

Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home” is a call for global action as well as an appeal for deep inner conversion.

He points to numerous ways world organizations, nations and communities must move forward and the way individuals -- believers and people of good will -- should see, think, feel and act.

Here are some of the pope’s suggestions, with references in parentheses to their paragraphs in the encyclical: -- Do not give in to denial, indifference, resignation, blind confidence in technical solutions. (14, 59) -- Have forthright and honest debates and policies; issues cannot be

Pope’s practical tips for the environment

dealt with once and for all, but will need to be “reframed and enriched again and again” by everyone with plenty of different proposals because there is no one way to solve problems. (16, 60, 185) -- Reduce, reuse, recycle. Preserve resources, use them more efficiently, moderate consumption and limit use of non-renewable resources. (22, 192) -- Slash pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions. Transition to cleaner and renewable energies and replace fossil fuels “without delay.” (26, 165) -- Promote green construction with energy efficient homes and buildings. (26, 180)

-- Protect clean, safe drinking water and don’t privatize it with market-based fees for the poor. (27-29, 164)

-- Keep oceans and waterways clean and safe from pollutants; use biodegradable detergents at home and business. (30, 174) -- Be aware that synthetic pesticides and herbicides will hurt birds and insects that are helpful for agriculture. (34) -- Leave room for wandering and migrating species by creating “biological corridors;” don’t let dams, highways and construction lead to their extinction. (35) -- Protect biodiversity, especially wild forests, wetlands, coastal areas, mangrove swamps. (39) -- Promote smart growth. Create livable communities with beautiful design and plentiful green spaces for everyone, especially the poor.

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What to do? connect and trust each other. (4445, 113, 143, 147) -- Put an end to “mental pollution.” Think deeply, live wisely, love generously. (47) -- End the tyranny of the screen, information overload and distractions. Watch out for media-induced melancholy and isolation. Cultivate real relationships with others. (47) -- Get down from the ivory tower and stop the rhetoric. Get to know the poor and suffering; it will wake up a numbed conscience and inspire real action. (49) -- Stop blaming problems on population growth. The real threat is excessive consumerism and waste.

(50) -- For genuine change, put the common good first. Special interests manipulate information, offer “superficial rhetoric, sporadic acts

of philanthropy and perfunctory expressions of concern.” (54) -- Sweat it out. Increasing use and power of air-conditioning seems “self-destructive.” (55) -- Even if it doesn’t fix the world, beautification and goodwill gestures inspire and remind people that “we were made for love.” (58, 113, 212) -- Get back to nature -- “the caress of God” -- to recharge. Be more attentive to its beauty and wonder and revisit places that left you with happy memories. (84, 97, 215, 233) -- Be consistent. Pro-life, environmental and social justice movements are all connected. Protecting vulnerable species must include the unborn, endangered animals and the exploited. (91, 120) -- Use technology to solve real problems and serve people, helping them have more dignity, less suffering and healthier lives. (112) -- Believe in a happy future, a better tomorrow. Slow down, recover values and the meaning of life. Putting the brakes on “unrestrained delusions of grandeur” is

not a call to go back to the Stone Age. (113-114, 225) -- “Business is a noble vocation.”

Create jobs that allow for personal growth, stability, living out one’s values. (124-128) -- Listen to, protect lands of and involve indigenous peoples. The disappearance of cultures is even more serious than losing a species.

(145) -- Create neighborhood networks and improvement programs. Create welcoming spaces that help people connect and trust each other. Do something nice for your community. (148-150, 152, 219, 232) -- Make public transportation a priority and a more pleasant experience. (153) -- Provide essential services to rural areas. (154) -- Accept and care for the body God gave you. Value sexual differences and your own gender. (155) -- Join, implement and police global agreements on sustainable development, caring for the ecosystem, limiting greenhouse gases, handling hazardous

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wastes, ozone protection. Nix the “ploy” of trading carbon credits.

(164, 167-171) -- Politicians: don’t be afraid of long-term goals and upsetting people with measures that affect levels of consumption, financial risks.

Citizens: put pressure on your representatives. (177-180) -- Less is more. Stop needless consumption. (193, 203, 222, 211) -- Harness purchasing power. Examine what you buy and know that boycotts make a difference. (206) -- Plant a tree. Take mass transit.

Car pool. Turn off the lights when you leave the room. Chilly? Wear a sweater. Little things add up. (211) -- Moms and dads: teach kids to use things properly; to respect, take care of others; to ask permission politely; to say, “Thank you;” to control temper; to ask forgiveness; share. (213) -- Find happiness in simple things: get-togethers, helping others, honing a talent, enjoying art and music, praying. (223-224, 226) -- Say grace before meals. (227) -- Love your enemies. (228)

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South America Details of Pope’s July 5-12 visit released

By Cindy Wooden

Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis’ July 5-12 visit to Latin America will not take him to his native Argentina, but it will put him closely in touch with his Jesuit roots and with one of the main characteristics of his ministry as archbishop of Buenos Aires: direct contact with the poor, the sick and those striving to bring the Gospel to bear on social inequalities.

The pope will begin his three-nation South America tour in Ecuador before moving on to Bolivia and Paraguay, the Vatican announced May 8 when it published a detailed itinerary for the visit.

Although local Jesuit communities have enjoyed Pope Francis’ 48 special attention on several of the seven foreign trips he already has made as pope, the South American trip is the first time the Vatican has listed the encounter on the official schedule. He will have lunch July 6 with the Jesuit community at Colegio Javier in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

The next evening, he will pay a “private visit” to Quito’s Church of the Society of Jesus, known as “La Compania,” a jewel of Spanish Baroque architecture. The first Jesuits reached Ecuador in 1574, just 34 years after the society was founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola.

Work on the church in Quito began in 1605.

Pope Francis will spend less than four hours in Bolivia’s capital, La Paz. Vatican sources said the city’s high elevation made it advisable for him to visit only briefly. The same evening he arrives in Bolivia, July 8, he will fly on to Santa Cruz after the welcoming ceremony, a visit with the president and a meeting with civil authorities.

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as dictated by protocol; in addition, the pope will meet “civil society” leaders in Ecuador, government officials in Bolivia and members of the diplomatic corps in Paraguay.

But the heart of the visit is expected to be his public Masses and the time he spends with people often on the margins of society. On

July 8, he will visit a home for the aged run by the Missionaries of Charity in Quito; in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, he will address participants in the second World Meeting of Popular Movements, a group of grass-roots activists, and will visit a prison; and in Asuncion, Paraguay, he will visit both a

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pediatric hospital and the residents of one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, Banado Norte.

Here is the pope’s itinerary as released by the Vatican. Times listed are local, with Eastern Daylight Time in parentheses. Bolivia and Paraguay are on Eastern Daylight Time.

Sunday, July 5 (Rome, Quito) -- 9 a.m. (3 a.m.) Departure from Rome’s Fiumicino airport.

-- 3 p.m. (4 p.m.) Arrival at Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito. Speech by pope.

Monday, July 6 (Quito, Guayaquil, Quito) -- 9 a.m. (10 a.m.) Departure by airplane from Quito for Guayaquil.

-- 11.15 a.m. (12:15 p.m.) Mass outside the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Guayaquil. Homily by pope.

-- 2 p.m. (3 p.m.) Lunch at Colegio Javier with the Jesuit community and members of the papal entourage.

-- 5.10 p.m. (6:10 p.m.) Departure by plane for Quito.

-- 6 p.m. (7 p.m.) Arrival in Quito.

-- 7 p.m. (8 p.m.) Courtesy visit to the President Rafael Correa at Carondelet Palace.

-- 8:10 p.m. (9:10 p.m.) Visit to the Quito cathedral. Greeting by pope.

Tuesday, July 7 (Quito) -- 9 a.m. (10 a.m.) Meeting with the Ecuadorean bishops in the convention center at Bicentennial Park.

-- 10:30 a.m. (11:30 a.m.) Mass in Bicentennial Park. Homily by pope.

-- 4:30 p.m. (5:30 p.m.) Meeting with representatives of schools and universities at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. Speech by pope.

-- 6 p.m. (7 p.m.) Meeting with representatives of civil society in the Church of St. Francis. Speech by pope.

-- 7:15 p.m. (8:15 p.m.) Private visit to the Church of the Society of Jesus.

Wednesday, July 8 (Quito, La Paz, Santa Cruz) - 9:30 a.m. (10:30 a.m.) Visit to a home for the aged run by the Missionaries of Charity.

-- 10:30 a.m. (11:30 a.m.) Meeting with clergy, religious men and women, and seminarians at the El Quinche National Marian Shrine.

Speech by pope.

-- Noon. (1 p.m.) Departure by airplane from Quito to La Paz, Bolivia.

-- 4:15 p.m. Arrival at El Alto International Airport in La Paz. Arrival ceremony. Speech by pope.

-- 6 p.m. Courtesy visit to President Evo Morales in the Palace of Government.

-- 7 p.m. Meeting with civil authorities in the La Paz cathedral.

Speech by pope.

Pope’s trip will put him in direct contact with the poor, the sick and those striving to bring the Gospel to bear on social inequalities -- 8 p.m. Departure by airplane for Santa Cruz.

-- 9:15 p.m. Arrival at the Viru Viru International Airport in Santa Cruz.

Thursday, July 9 (Santa Cruz) -- 10 a.m. Mass in Christ the Redeemer Square. Homily by pope.

-- 4 p.m. Meeting with priests, religious men and women, and semi-

narians in the Don Bosco school.

Speech by pope.

-- 5:30 p.m. Participation in the second World Meeting of Popular Movements at the exposition grounds. Speech by pope.

Friday, July 10 (Santa Cruz, Asuncion) -- 9:30 a.m. Visit to the Palmasola prison. Speech by pope.

-- 11 a.m. Meeting with the bishops of Bolivia in Holy Cross Church.

-- 12:45 p.m. Departure ceremony at Viru Viru International Airport.

-- 1 p.m. Departure by plane for Asuncion, Paraguay.

-- 3 p.m. Arrival at Silvio Pettirossi International Airport in Asuncion. Welcoming ceremony.

-- 6 p.m. Courtesy visit to President Horacio Cartes at Lopez Palace.

-- 6:45 p.m. Meeting with authorities and members of the diplomatic corps in the garden of Lopez Palace. Speech by pope.

Saturday, July 11 (Asuncion) -- 8:30 a.m. Visit to the Ninos de Acosta Nu General Pediatric Hospital. Greeting by pope.

-- 10:30 a.m. Mass outside the Caacupe Marian shrine. Homily by 49 pope.

-- 4:30 p.m. Meeting with representatives of civil society at the Leon Condou Stadium at St. Joseph’s School. Speech by pope.

-- 6:15 p.m. Vespers with bishops, priests, deacons, religious men and women, seminarians and members of Catholic movements at Assumption Cathedral. Homily by pope.

Sunday, July 12 (Asuncion, Rome) -- 8:15 a.m. Meeting with the people of the Banado Norte neighborhood in the Chapel of St. John the Baptist. Speech by pope.

-- 10 a.m. Mass in the field at Nu Guazu Park. Homily by pope.

-- 1 p.m. Meeting with the bishops of Paraguay in the Cultural Center of the apostolic nunciature.

-- 1:30 p.m. Lunch with the bishops of Paraguay and members of the papal entourage.

-- 5 p.m. Meeting with youths along the Costanera riverwalk.

Speech by pope.

-- 7 p.m. Departure by plane for Rome.

Monday, July 13 -- 1:45 p.m. (7:45 a.m.) Arrival at Rome’s Ciampino airport. www.bayoucatholic.com

Watkins praised; Walker welcomed Kenneth Watkins, left, who has been serving as diocesan attorney since the establishment of the Diocese of HoumaThibodaux in 1977, has recently retired.

Danny Walker, who has also assisted the diocese, is now the new diocesan attorney. They are members of the law firm of Watkins, Walker and Eroche in Houma. Bishop Shelton J. Fabre thanked Watkins for his many years of service and welcomed Walker, saying: “I want to thank Mr. Watkins for his dedicated and outstanding work as our primary attorney for the past 38 years. At the same time I welcome Mr. Walker, with the knowledge that his vast experience in diocesan operations will continue to serve us well now and into the future.”

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Overtime Ed Daniels

Can Saints rebound, make playoffs?

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The Saints offseason is in the books. Next stop: year two of training camp at the Greenbrier in West Virginia.

Can the Saints rebound and make the playoffs?

The numbers say, absolutely.

As poorly as the Saints performed last season, their 7-9 record was only one half game behind division winner Carolina.

Media isn’t allowed to see much of the on field work in the offseason. But, here are five things I like, and don’t as the Saints head to camp in late July.

Bringing back Dennis Allen as senior defensive assistant will pay dividends. Allen will spend much of his time working with the secondary. A stickler for detail, he will help patch a leaky pass defense.

Last season, the Saints allowed 4,019 yards in the air, including 7.7 yards per completion.

Just on ability alone, the Saints secondary has made a huge jump. Adding Brandon Browner and Delvin Breaux make the Saints better. Then they drafted

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cornerbacks PJ Williams and Damian Swann.

The Saints first pick, offensive tackle Andrus Peat, looks like a good pick. Peat has powerful legs.

With experience, he could be the Saints right tackle for the next decade.

CJ Spiller is the edge running back/receiver the Saints were missing last season.

If the Saints use Spiller sparingly in the running game and a lot in the passing game, he could put up huge numbers.

Rookie quarterback Garrett Grayson appears to be a solid pick.

Grayson will likely get at least a two year redshirt. But, his accuracy fits what the Saints do on offense.

And, he was one of the few college quarterbacks running a pro-style offense. That should speed his development.

Some things I am not so sure about.

Among those would be tight end. Ben Watson will turn 35 in December. Josh Hill is being counted on, a lot. But, there’s only one Jimmy Graham.

And, he will definitely be a huge boost to Seattle’s red zone offense.

Wide receiver looks like a huge question mark. Head coach Sean Payton is convinced he can piece it together, much like 2006. But, that was when Marques Colston was a standout rookie, and Drew Brees was entering the prime of his career.

Brees by the way, will be 37 in January. Time is ticking on the greatest quarterback in franchise history. In nine seasons, he has thrown a staggering 311 regular season touchdown passes for the Saints.

Pass rush is another big question, especially with the probable loss of Junior Galette with a pectoral injury. Galette had 10 of the Saints 34 sacks. New Orleans is counting on draft picks, including second rounder Hau’oli Kikaha of Oregon to generate heat on the passer.

And, then there’s the kicker’s spot. Dustin Hopkins and Zach Hocker will battle for the spot.

Neither has attempted a field goal in an NFL game.

Choosing the wrong guy can cost you games in the NFL, quickly.

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