AUGUST 18, 2019 TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Our Lady of Divine Providence Church

1000 N. Starrett Road, Metairie, LA 70003

Voice of Providence Rev. Mike Mitchell

Pastor Mr. Roberto Angeli, Mr. Dan Cordes,

Mr. Roberto Garcia Deacons

Steve Morris Business Manager

Kathleen O’Rourke Administrative Assistant

Earl Gervais Director of Religious Education

Jared Croal Youth Minister

Rosie Doll Outreach Director

Jim Young Facilities Manager

Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday - Friday

Church Office 466-4511

Church Fax 466-4858

Website: www.oldp.org

email: oldpparish@archdiocese-no.org

SICK & HOMEBOUND: Call for a priest to visit or for Commun-ion to the homebound.

INFANT BAPTISM: English: Call Church Office to schedule Seminar and Baptism at least 2 months in advance.

MATRIMONY: Consult with parish priest first, at least six (6) months prior.

WEEKEND SCHEDULE

Saturday 9:00 a.m. 1st Saturday of every Month

4:00 p.m. English 6:00 p.m. Español

Sunday 8:00 & 10:00 a.m. 12:00 & 6:00 p.m.

English

WEEKDAY SCHEDULE

Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m. Mass

Tuesday Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena

follows 9:00 a.m. Mass

RECONCILIATION Saturday

3:00 – 3:45 p.m. English 5:15 – 5:45 p.m. Spanish

Sunday 5:15 – 5:45 p.m. English

Anytime by request DID YOU KNOW? You can visit Jesus 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in

our Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel

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THOUGHT OF THE DAY

OCCUPANCY The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon

how we occupy that place. —St. Thérèse of Lisieux

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This Week in Our Parish

SUNDAY, AUGUST 18 • Masses, 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 12 Noon,

6:00 p.m., Church • 2nd Collec on - Building & Maintenance

Fund

MONDAY, AUGUST 19 • “Emmaus” Come, Lord Jesus, 7:00 p.m.,

St. Lawrence Room • Come Lord Jesus, 7:00 p.m., Church Office

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20 • “Truth”, Come, Lord Jesus, 10:00 a.m.,

Alice Perrien House • “Bread of Life”, Come, Lord Jesus, 12:00-

2:00 p.m., Ki y Klaus House • Knights of Columbus Mee ng, 7:00 p.m.,

Bahan Center

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21 • Pastoral Council, 7:00 p.m., Church Office

THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 • Boy Scouts, 7:30 p.m., Youth Building

FRIDAY, AUGUST 23 • Witness, Come Lord Jesus, 10:00 a.m.,

St. Lawrence Room • Ven Senor Jesus, 7:00 p.m., Providence

Hall

SATURDAY, AUGUST 24 • Come, Lord Jesus, 9:00 a.m., Cuccia Cen-

ter • Vigil Masses 4:00 p.m.. & 6:00 p.m.

Spanish, Church • Knights of Columbus Installa on of Offic-

ers, 5:00 p.m., Bahan Center

This Week in Our Parish (Con nued)

SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 • Masses, 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 12 Noon,

6:00 p.m., Church

25th, 50th, 55th, 60th, or more, Wedding Anniversary ~ Our Lady of Divine Providence would like to honor all couples who are celebrating their 25th, 50th, 55th, 60th, or more, Wedding Anniversary in 2019! This

special celebration will be held Sunday, September 8, at the 10:00 a.m. Liturgy. A reception will follow the Mass in the Bahan Center. Please call the Church Office (466-4511) or email: korourke@archdiocese-no.org with your names, ad-dress, phone number and the date of your marriage before September 3 to register.

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Saturday August 17 4:00 p.m. Lawrence & Robert Bauer

Lucille & William Bauer Eufrosina & Vicente Bregente Zack Dubose, Carlin Joseph Gervais Joseph Klaus, Linda Lemoine Kenny Margavio, Shirley Gervais Ory Emmy Lynn Swink, Roger Tassin Intention of Emma Davis

Sunday August 18 8:00 a.m. Kathleen Blakley, Althea Cantanese

Zack Dubose, Joseph McCullough Kate McCullough, Audrey Oswald Mr. & Mrs. Edward M. Volk, Sr.

10:00 a.m. FOR ALL PARISHIONERS

12:00 p.m. Harold G. Federer, Sr. Ron Shannon, Sr., Ron Shannon, III Intention of Sr. Enda Eileen Byrne 6:00 p.m. Ruth & Bim Phillips Matt Ventura

Monday August 19 9:00 a.m. Healing of Douglas Plauché

Tuesday August 20 9:00 a.m. Healing of André Intentions of Helen Cyprian Byrne

Wednesday August 21 9:00 a.m. Thelma Ann Lee

Intentions of Helen Cyprian Byrne Intentions of Tanya Thomasie

Thursday August 22 9:00 a.m. Intentions of Helen Cyprian Byrne

Intention of Kathleen Susie Byrne Friday August 16 9:00 a.m. Mortimer Branighan, Sr. Timmy Pat Kempe

PARISH MINISTRY

Garden Ministry ~ Maintains our gardens. Team members are scheduled for 3 hours eve-ry other month. Contact Lynn Drewes at 467-2253 or Allison Fresneda 464-6253.

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - August 18, [Jesus] endured the cross, des-pising its shame, and has taken his seat at the right of the

throne of God. — Hebrews 12:2

The flowers on the Altar for this weekend, August 17 & 18, are in celebration of the birthday of

Carol Ann Boovy

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Are you interested in be-coming a member of Our Lady of Divine Providence Choir? We would like to wel-come parishioners who would

like to praise God through song as a member of the OLDP Choir. The choir will resume practice on Mon-day, August 19 at 7:00 p.m. in the Church. Please come, get to know us and consider joining this won-derful ministry. We look forward to seeing you!

ATTENTION Extraordinary Ministers of

Holy Communion Our parish is in great need of Minis-ters of Communion for our Home-bound Parishioners. Homebound re-fers to those who are no longer able physically get to church because they may be on hospice, recovering from an illness, surgery or an accident, but would like to receive communion on a weekly basis. This is a very special ministry for both the homebound and the minister. Please give this some prayer and consideration. If you are interested, please call Kathleen at the church office 466-4511.

We offer our sincere condolences to the family of Matt Ventura

Our Lady of Divine Providence Food Pantry would like to thank all Parish-ioners who donated generously to our recent food drive. A special thanks to OLDP Boy Scouts Troop 172 for their collection of food during the weekend of July 27 & 28. Our Food Bank would

not be able to assist the number of families in need if not for your overwhelming donations. We would like also to thank our wonderful food bank volunteers. They give of their time twice a week to serve those who visit our pantry and they do it with a smiling face and a loving attitude. Thank you and God bless you all. Outreach Ministry

It’s School Time Please be aware of School Zones, remember not to use you cell phones in a school zones and espe-

cially watch out for children in cross-walks, etc. When visiting the church or school during school hours, please do not park in the school yard. You may park next to grassy lot facing West Metairie. Thanks in advance for your cooperation.

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Twentieth Sunday in Ordi-nary Time

FAMILY VALUED?

Listening to Jesus describe the divided households that would result from following him is somewhat startling in our society, where the Chris-tian church is seen as one of the last great refuges of the family. And yet we know that in many ways religion still divides families, when one spouse is observant and another is not, when children choose or reject the beliefs of their parents, when lifestyles of a loved one do not conform to Church teachings, when a marriage or remarriage occurs outside of the sanctuary, when a non-believing yet baptized child merely goes through the religious motions to satisfy a grandparent . . . the list goes on. Centuries ago, Jesus knew that deeply held and honestly followed religious convictions could often be a source of division, in spite of the fact that what he and his Father in heaven wanted most deeply was unity.

TYPICAL TEENAGER In the days when Luke’s Gospel was writ-

ten, Christianity was in its adolescence. In its in-fancy it was a branch or sect of Judaism. Ongoing dissension within the Jewish faith about the nature of Jesus and his messianic role created a rift. So-cial and political situations aggravated by the de-struction of the Jerusalem temple deepened it. Luke was preaching and writing to many people who, day by day, were living through the kinds of household divisions that Jesus was describing. Anyone who has lived through a child’s teenage years knows that “son against father, daughter against mother” is a common situation. It was no different for Christianity as it wrested itself away from its parent religion. The followers of Christ in Luke’s day were learning that sometimes a house-hold divided was the price paid, in the words of the Letter to the Hebrews, for keeping their eyes “fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfecter of faith” (Hebrews 12:2).

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¿VALORAR LA FAMILIA?

El escuchar a Jesús describir los hogares divi-didos como consecuencia de seguirlo a Él, resulta un tanto sorprendente para nuestra sociedad, donde la Iglesia cristiana se ve como uno de los más grandes refugios que le quedan a la familia. No obstante, sa-bemos que la religión todavía divide a las familias de muchas maneras: cuando un cónyuge practica su reli-gión y el otro no, cuando los niños escogen o recha-zan las creencias de sus padres, cuando los estilos de vida de un ser querido no se conforman a las en-señanzas de la Iglesia, cuando una pareja se casa o se casa de nuevo fuera de la Iglesia, cuando un niño bautizado pero no creyente finge ser religioso sólo para complacer a sus abuelos … y así sigue la lista. Ya desde hace siglos, Jesús sabía que las conviccio-nes profundas vividas honestamente podrían ser a menudo causa de división, a pesar de que Él y su Pa-dre en el cielo lo que más profundamente desean es la unidad.

EL TÍPICO ADOLESCENTE En los tiempos en que se escribió el Evangelio

de Lucas, el cristianismo ya estaba en su adolescen-cia. Durante la infancia del cristianismo, éste era una rama o secta del judaísmo. La disensión dentro de la fe judía acerca de la naturaleza de Jesús y su misión mesiánica fue causa de desavenencia, la cual fue in-tensificada debido a las situaciones sociales y políti-cas, y agravada por la destrucción del templo de Je-rusalén. Lucas estaba predicando y escribiendo a mu-chas personas que día a día vivían la clase de divisio-nes familiares que Jesús describía. Alguien que ha vivido junto a un adolescente sabe bien que "el hijo en contra del padre" y "la hija en contra de la madre" son situaciones comunes. No fue diferente para el cristianismo al separarse de su religión de origen. Los discípulos de Cristo en tiempos de Lucas iban descu-briendo que a veces un hogar dividido era el precio que se pagaba, como dice la carta a los Hebreos, por permanecer “fijos los ojos en Jesús, autor y perfeccio-nador de la fe” (Hebreos 12:2).

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Saints of the Week

Monday St. John Eudes, Priest; died 1680; founded the Congregation of Jesus and Mary [C.I.M.] (“Eudists”, today numbering about 450 religious) for training the clergy; also founded the Sisters of the Good Shepherd to assist morally endangered women, especially prostitutes; prompted cult to the Hearts or Jesus and Mary. Tuesday St. Bernard, Abbot, Doctor of the Church; died 1153; Cistercian abbot of Clairvaux; reformer and spiritual author (e.g., On Loving God; 86 sermons on the Canticle of Canticles); preached against Albigensians; found- ed 6 monasteries; preached the Second Crusade; denounced injustice and worked for peace; known as Doctor mellifuus; patron of Gibraltar. Wednesday St. Pius X, Pope; died 20 August 1914; undertook liturgical and canonical reforms, especially communion for children and frequent communion for adults; condemned Modernism in Lamentabili and Pascendi dominci gregis (1907); wished “to renew all things in Christ”; patron of sick pilgrim. Friday St. Rose of Lima, Virgin; Isabel de Oliva, died 1617 at age 31; Peruvian mystic; nicknamed “Rosa” because of her beauty; O.P. tertiary who lived a life of penance and solitude, caring for the homeless, elderly, and sick, first de- clared saint of the new World (1672); patroness of the Philippines and of South America, especially Peru; also of florist and gardeners. Saturday ST. BARTHOLOMEW, APOSTLE; died 1st century; probably a surname in the synoptic gospels, meaning “son of Tolmi”; known as Nathaniel in John’s gospel; associated with St. Philip (3 May); said to have preached the gospel in India and Armenia where, according to tradition, he was flayed alive.

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READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Jgs 2:11-19; Ps 106:34-37, 39-40, 43ab, 44; Mt 19:16-22 Tuesday: Jgs 6:11-24a; Ps 85:9, 11-14; Mt 19:23- 30 Wednesday: Jgs 9:6-15; Ps 21:2-7; Mt 20:1-16 Thursday: Jgs 11:29-39a; Ps 40:5, 7-10; Mt 22:1- 14 Friday: Ru 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22; Ps 146:5-10; Mt 22:34-40 Saturday: Rv 21:9b-14; Ps 145:10-13, 17-18; Jn 1:45-51 Sunday: Is 66:18-21; Ps 117:1-2; Heb 12:5-7, 11- 13; Lk 13:22-30

With compassion and concern we pray for those in need of our prayers: Lori Alfano, Michael Alfano, Karl Barker, Con-nie Bassemeir, Phyliss Begault, Harold

Bologna, Bradley Boovy, Willie Boye, Renee Bergeron, Dan Bristol, Robbie Brown, Reid Butler, Judy Bush, Jeneen Cal-lais, Rev. Ronnie Calkins, Kaylee Campo, Nancy Campeaux, Adele Canova, Claire Carbo, Janice Childress, Carson Coen, Casey Coen, Pearl Coli, Carolyn Crowall, Robert Crumley, Adam Cusimano, Quinn Dantagnan, Emma Davis, Jerry Da-vidson, Adam Delaune, Carol Dogan, Gary DeSalvo, Nancy & Denis Eschmann, Sue Estapa, Jeraldine Fast, Brandon Foto, Jude Foto, Sr., Marilyn Fekete, William Fekete, Linda Forta-do, Leon Giaccone, Bob Gaudet, Darlene Gravis, Donald Gray, Emily Gray, Anna Guale, Jim Halibut, Wyatt Hawley, Harold Heller, Marie Harrell, Trudy Hodgson, Larry Hymel, Joshua Ivy, Harold Juneau, Larry Kangas, Christine Kennedy, Jeanne Kennedy, Shannon Lambert, Catherine Landry, Baby Elijah David Landry, Steve Lemoine, Eddie Mahne, George Mazzeno, Patricia Matherne, Margarite Michel, Brian Mills, Richard Minton, Kenny Molony, Paulette Motely, Jacob Lopez-Nunoz, Rita Olivio, Doug Plauché, Charlene & Marlon Parris, Darryl Patton, Anthony ‘Bubby” Pellittere, Patricia Rachel, Jeanne Ricard, Marsha Robert, Robert Rockvoan, Melanie Rogers, Manuel Rotolo, Garland Ruiz, Chris Sa-chatano, Gina Salito, David Slatinsky, Steve Samrow, Rose Maria Santos, Charlie Sapia, Cheryl Schaff, Peter Schaff, Susan Schaff, John Schultz, Luca Scocerria, Erma Scudari, Antoinette Silver, Jackie Sison, Pat Slate, Evan, Karen & Sean Smith, Mary Smith, Seth Smith, Rita Slaney, Joyce Son-nier, Jude Soto, Angela Spencer, Linda Speziale, Jim Sten-net, Don Turley, Jr., Nicholas Dale Tynes, Sherry Vicknair, Toni Wahl, Rock Whitfield, Foster Wimberly.

Prayer line: Joan 237-5760

Enthronement of the Sacred Heart ~ Would you like to have the En-thronement of the Sacred Heart in your Home? Every Catholic Home should have this devotion. It will help to make your home a place of prayer and bring your fam-ily closer together with each other and with Jesus. To find out more about the En-

thronement contact the Church Office 466-4511.

TITHES & OFFERINGS

August 4, 2019 Envelopes ……………………………… $ 7,595.00 Loose …………………………………… $ 1,117.62

Total……………………………………… $ 8,712.62

Online Offerings……………………… $ 283 .00

Grand Total…………………………… $ 8,995,62

Weekly Assessment to Archdiocese……………………… ($ 2,052.14)