CRHP Men’s Retreat

August 20th and 21st Fr. Engels Hall

What if….you desired to draw closer to and make a deeper connection with the Christian Community around you? What would you do? Where would you go? The Christ Renews His Parish Men’s Retreat is coming. Several members of the parish who have attended previous retreats and who have spent many weeks in preparation will share stories of how Christ’s love has worked in their lives. You will also have an opportunity to share and talk with others as the Holy Spirit moves you. Come and share. The Christ Renews His Parish retreat program has been providing a greater connection to the Christian Community for over 40 years in parishes all over the world. It is a two day overnight retreat given by your fellow parishioners just for you. It requires only your presence yet provides benefits that last a lifetime. Go to the parish website at www.stjvchurch.org to sign up and for more information. You may also contact Art Barrios (751.9238), Greg Hassenboehler (753.6569) or email crhp@stjeanvianney.org .

MASS TIMES Saturday 4:00 PM Vigil Sunday 7:30 AM, 9:30 AM 11:30 AM & 5:30 PM Weekdays Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:30 AM Tuesday & Wednesday 6:15 AM SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Monday & Friday 8:15 AM Tuesday & Wednesday 6:00 AM Saturdays 2:45 PM—3:30 PM All others times by appointment only. BAPTISMS Please call the parish office in the early months of pregnancy. WEDDINGS Contact parish priest at least six months prior to anticipated date of wedding. CARE OF THE SICK Notify the parish office of homebound and hospitalized. PRAYER REQUESTS Contact Mrs. Theresa Himel at 755.3709 or email at sjvprayerline@aol.com

PARISH OFFICE Phone 753.7950 Fax 753.7965 Website www.stjeanvianney.org E-Mail churchinfo@stjeanvianney.org Hours Monday thru Thursday 8:30 AM—6:00 PM Friday 8:30 AM—4:00 PM RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OFFICE Phone 751. 2926 Hours Monday thru Friday 9:00 AM—4:00 PM SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OFFICE Phone 751. 0502 Hours Monday thru Friday 9:00 AM—4:00 PM SJV PAROCHIAL SCHOOL Phone 751.1831 Hours Monday thru Friday 8:00 AM—4:00 PM PRESCHOOL Phone 752.5356 Hours Monday thru Friday 9:15 AM—2:00 PM

16166 S. Harrell’s Ferry Road

PARISH STAFF Pastor Rev. Tom Ranzino Deacon Rev. Mr. Brent Duplessis Deacon Rev. Mr. Dan Borne Director of Religious Education Mrs. Denise Louviere Religious Education Assistant Mrs. Betty Wright Director of Youth Ministry Mr. Craig Baker Receptionists/Secretaries Ms. Belinda Smith Mrs. Mickie Marchiafava Director of Social Responsibility Mrs. Lori Aucoin Facilities Manager Mr. Terry Blackwell Music Director Mrs. Karen Ullo SJV School Principal Ms. Wendy Gilmore Assistant Principal Ms. Dana Murray Assistant Principal Mrs. Linda Tate Director of Preschool Mrs. Amie Williams Asst. Dir. of Preschool Mrs. Dana Sunseri

LAGNIAPPE Sexteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 17, 2011

PARISH MISSION STATEMENT Our mission as the Body of Christ in the parish of St. Jean Vianney is to model the love of Jesus by discerning and doing God’s will, consciously Sharing the Word and Eucharist at worship, educating in faith all ages, evangelizing our parishioners for Christ’s mission, and serving justly God’s people, our sisters and brothers within our parish boundaries, our larger Baton Rouge community, and into the world.

LIFE TOGETHER Dear Friends, Beginning this weekend in the Lagniappe Bulletin you will find articles on Ministry Stewardship. Along with prayer and finance. Ministry makes up the three pillars of Catholic life at St. Jean Vianney Parish. Later in August you will be asked to be generous in ministry as a Christian Catholic in some manner. Thanks to those who have helped us with the annual House-in-a-Box drive. The families who will benefit thank you so much. This Wednesday evening, at 6:30pm in the Library, Mr. Bernard DuMond will give the results of the Feasibility study regarding the Parish Master Plan project. Mr. DuMond represents the Institute of School and Parish Development who have partnered with us during these past months to work on this project and to determine if our parish can conduct a capital campaign. You are invited to attend Mr. DuMond’s reporting meeting. I am looking forward to hearing the results. This Friday the 22nd, at 9:00am under Christ Court at the Catholic Life Center, the diocesan 50th Anniversary Time Capsule will be blessed and sealed. Our Parish and Schools contributed to the Time Capsule with information about our founding and significant events. The prayer service is open to all so I encourage you to consider attending. There is a Blood Drive next weekend on Sunday the 24th. If you have signed up on ministry stewardship to give blood, please fulfill your commitment. All are encouraged who can to give blood next Sunday. This helps our parishioners access blood when in need through the Blood Bank. Looking ahead, on the weekend of August 6-7 we will welcome Fr. Joy from Kerala, India who will speak on behalf of the Diocese of Kerala as part of the diocesan cooperative missionary plan. Please be generous in welcoming Fr. Joy that weekend and in your financial support of his diocese. I am leaving this coming Sunday, July 24th on vacation. I will be in Rochester, NY and in Florida. I will pray for you daily and ask the same. Thank you for being so faithful to me and to the parish. Love,

BAPTISMS We welcome the following children to our parish family through the Sacrament of Baptism:

Patrick Thomas Busekist son of Kyle & Adrien Busekist.

Landon Robert Melvin son of Carey & Leslie Melvin.

We extend our sympathy to the following parishioners who recently lost a loved one:

Catherine & Philomena Valentine on the death of Catherine’s husband and Philomena’s father, John.

HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES ATTENDING SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY If you will be attending Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond this fall, look for the tent of St. Albert Chapel & Catholic Student Center on campus at your summer orientation session this summer, and sign up to join Southeastern’s Catholic Association (CSA)! St. Albert Catholic Student Center is operated by the Diocese of Baton Rouge and is located on the southern perimeter of the campus at 409 W. Dakota Street. Let us be “your home away from home” while you are at Southeastern! See our website for more information, to join our Southeastern’s Catholic Student Association, or to contact us: www.stalbertselu.org.

2011-2012 SCHOOL YEAR HELP NEED Training will begin in August of 2011. Looking for mature dependable person to work part-time with St. Jean Vianney Extended Care. Moms are welcome and may bring their children. Extended Care hours are from 3pm-6pm, Monday through Friday. Care givers are usually scheduled to work 3 or 4 afternoons a week, however it is possible to work fewer days or to be available as an ‘on call’ substitute. Duties consist of preparing snacks, calling roll, supervising home work, and supervising play. Interested persons may contact Charlyn Bliss at 753.7644, or 752.2458 as well as pick up an employment application from the Preschool office. We will begin interviewing June 30, 2011.

A CALL TO THE SERVANTS OF GOD: Born in the Spirit of Faith Use Your Spiritual Gifts in Ministry Our anniversary Stewardship of Ministry emphasis begins in the next few weeks. You can expect to receive introductory material in the mail. You will learn more

about this aspect of our Total Stewardship program and have the chance to indicate your preferences, as you consider the min-istries of our Parish church and those in which you’d most like to participate. “Born in the spirit of faith,” you have been granted gifts by a loving Heavenly Father who has called us to serve him by serving others. Please pray about your response to the Lord’s invitation.

Due to the 4th of July holiday, your weekly offertory will be in next weeks bulletin.

June Special Collections: Building and Improvement Fund $12,675.66 Communications Campaign $ 1,073.00 Peter’s Pence $ 1,159.00

You taught your people that those who are just must likewise be kind (Wisdom 12:13, 16-19).

The St. Jean Vianney Catholic Preschool has openings in the three year old program for the 2011-2012 school year. Applications may be picked up in the preschool office Tuesday

through Thursday between the hours of 8:30am and 12:00 noon. Should you need further information, or if you would like a tour please contact the preschool office at 752.5356

Goal Amt. Rec’d

Year to date Offertory

46,489.00 54,976.00

Weekly Offertory

23,245.00 18,516.63

Now that we have gone over some key concepts about what is remaining the same in the liturgy, it is important to begin a reflection about what really is changing and

why that change is necessary and even helpful. We have been talking about a document called the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, which was a result of the Second Vatican Council convened in 1963 by Pope John the 23rd. This document along with the decision by Pope Paul the 6th [who followed Pope John the 23rd] gave us the use of the “vernacular” in the liturgy and sacraments. The vernacular is the mother tongue of a given place. Being able to speak the language of the people during Mass proved to be a great advantage in helping people express and learn their faith. In 1965, Pope Paul VI said that using the mother tongue in the celebration of the liturgy and sacra-ments helps each one of us to fully unite ourselves more closely to the Church’s prayer, and allows us to cross over from simple spectators to active participants. As such, in our country, what had been done up to this point entirely in Latin could now be done in English. This required a translation from Latin to English of all prayers and words associated with the liturgy. This year, we are getting ready to welcome a new translation of some of that same Latin that was translated in the first attempt in 1965 and following. What has changed is not the Latin, but the way in which Church understands translation from Latin into other languages. The new translation, which is just that…a new translation of the same Latin, is a nuanced and more faithful translation so that our expression of our Catholic faith is also more seamless. Remember, the Mass isn’t changing, just a few words that are being changed in order that we can better understand what our faith is telling us about liturgy and about our lives.

SJV GUIDEBOOK AND DIRECTORY If your parish record [name, address, telephone #, etc] has changed, please call Mickie in the Parish Office at 753.7950 or email her at mmarchiafava@stjeanvianney.org. Updates must be received no later than 7/15 to ensure inclusion in the Guidebook.

VOCATION Thinking about life as a religious; priest, sister or brother, come to Life Awareness, a weekend of discerning about a religious vocation. Open to SINGLE Catholics between the ages of 17 to 45, September 16-18, 2011 at St. Charles Center, Diocese of Lake Charles, 2151 Sam Houston Jones Parkway, Lake Charles, Louisiana. The fee is $25.00 for the weekend. (Scholarship funds are available.) For more information contact: Fr. Matt Lorrain, Vocation Director 225.336.8778 or 225.387.0561 or email, vocations@diobr.org or got to www.diolaf.org/lifeawarness to register on line.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Ex 14:5-18; Mt 12:38-42 Tuesday: Ex 14:21 — 15:1; Mt 12:46-50 Wednesday: Ex 16:1-5, 9-15; Mt 13:1-9 Thursday: Ex 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20b; Mt 13:10-17 Friday: Ex 20:1-17; Jn 20:1-2, 11-18 Saturday: Ex 24:3-8; Mt 13:24-30 Sunday: 1 Kgs 3:5, 7-12; Ps 119; Rom 8:28-30; Mt 13:44-52 [44-46]

SCHOOL APPLICATIONS Applications for prospective students for the 2011-2012 school year are being accepted in the school office. They are also available on our website, www.stjeanvianneyschool.org. St. Jean Vianney School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, nationality or ethnic origin.

Youth Ministry High School Softball All high school students, if you are interested in playing softball this summer (every Monday evening) contact Craig @ 504.383.3130. Summer Schedule - Middle and High School June 5 - July 24 Every Sunday after 5:30pm mass.

DOING GOOD WORK Congratulations to the following Cub Scouts who received their Religious Award: Light of Christ: Joshua Allen cooper Andrew Michael NcNabb Benjamin Jacob Messina Steven Michael Reed Emerson Louis Ricketts Michael Andrew Seelbach Eric Paul Thibodeaux Parvuli Dei: Nicholas Michael Hebert Daniel Joseph McLean Ian Chandler McLean

REMEMBER ST. JEAN VIANNEY PARISH IN YOUR WILL

If this parish has meaning to you and your Family then please consider remembering St. Jean Vianney Parish in your will. Call Fr. Tom for information. (753.7950)

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY NEWS

“JustFaith” What is my responsibility toward the poor? How do I become someone who really cares for and act on behalf of the poor and the vulnerable? This fall, a program called JustFaith will be offered for the 4th year in our parish. The program is designed to empower and transform participants so they can become voices for the voiceless and agents of God’s good news to the poor. Be ready for a demanding, challenging thirty weeks! We invite you to an information gathering on August 25th at 6:30 p.m. in the parish office. The program runs from October 2011 to May 2012. For more information, call Pat Callies, 362.2816 or Cindy Tracy, 752.6232; as well as, www.justfaith.org.

RECYCLING WHITE COPY PAPER Please remember that we are now able to recycle white copy paper in our newspaper and magazine recycling bins located in the east parking lot near Fr. Engels Hall. We hope this added weight in our bins will increase our revenue for our Social Responsibility ministries. You may now mix with the newspapers and magazines white copy paper. Please remember that paper wrapped in string, or put into plastic bags are not acceptable. Also, please do not put cardboard or phone books in our recycling bins. Thank you for your support in our recycling efforts!

Monday, July 18 6:30pm Youth Softball 7:00pm RCIA Team Meeting Tuesday, July 19 7:00pm CRHP Men’s Retreat Mtg. 7:00pm CRHP Women’s Retreat Mtg. 7:00pm Adoration Wednesday, July 20 Bulletin Article Due for July 30 & 31

6:30 ISPD Feasibility Report 7:30pm RCIA Thursday, July 21 Friday, July 22 Saturday, July 23 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Sunday, July 24 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:00am OLOL Blood Dr. 6:45pm Life Teen Monday, July 25 6:00pm Youth Softball

SJV CALENDAR

Monday, July 18 8:30am Leona Shirley Tuesday, July 19 6:15am Wednesday, July 20 6:15am Molly Langlois 8:30am Thursday, July 21 6:15am Communion Service Friday, July 22 8:30am Viry Fontenot

Saturday, July 23 4:00pm Ron Henzen Sunday, July 24 7:30am For Parishioners of SJV 9:30am Donald Arceneaux 11:30am Maudrey LeBlanc 5:30pm Ella Broussard Creoli

MASS INTENTIONS

SANCTUARY LAMP (07/18– 24/11)

Viry Fontenot

AUTOMATIC BANK DRAFT Automatic Bank Draft is available as an option for your weekly or monthly tithing and building fund contribution. Please call 753.7950, or come by the parish office for more information.

Religious Education Classes (2011-12)

“Let us respond to God’s call by educating our youth with the message of Jesus Christ.” If you are interested in volunteering to teach in our parish school of religion we would welcome an opportunity to meet with you. At present we have limited teacher openings in our lower elementary classes. Teacher assistants are needed in grades 1st – 8th. Please call Denise or Betty at 751.2926.