MARCH 1, 2020 FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT 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

Director of Youth Ministry

Rosie Doll

Outreach Director

Jim Young

Facilities Manager

Pat Usner

Early Childhood Program Director

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

Church Office 466-4511

Church Fax 466-4858

Early Childhood Program 466-0591

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 9:00 & 11:00 a.m. & 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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This Week in Our Parish

SUNDAY, MARCH 1 Masses, 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 6:00 p.m.,

Church CYO, 3:00 p.m., Youth Building

MONDAY, MARCH 2 Girl Scouts, 6:30 p.m., Bahan Center/

Youth Building Lenten Mission, 7:00 p.m., Church Come Lord Jesus, 7:00 p.m., Church

Office Emmaus, Come Lord Jesus, 7:00 p.m.,

St. Lawrence Room 11:00 a.m. Choir, 7:00 p.m., St. Lawrence

TUESDAY, MARCH 3 Silver Wings Senior Ministry, 10:00 a.m.,

St. Lawrence “Truth”, Come, Lord Jesus, 10:00 a.m.,

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

p.m., Kitty Klaus House School of Religion, 6:45 p.m., Church Lenten Mission, 7:00 p.m., Church

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 Clay, Come, Lord Jesus, 10:00 a.m.,

Providence Hall Confirmation Class, 7:00 p.m., Youth

Building Lenten Mission, 7:00 p.m., Church Alhambra Darro Caravan #29, 7:00 p.m.,

St. Lawrence

THURSDAY, MARCH 5 Women at the Well, 10:00 a.m.,

St. Lawrence Room Spring Fest Committee Meeting, 7:00

p.m., Church Office Ven Senor Jesus, 7:00 p.m., Providence

Hall RCIA, 7:00 p.m., Cuccia Center

This Week in Our Parish (Continued)

FRIDAY, MARCH 6

TMIY, 6:30 a.m., St. Lawrence Room Knights of Columbus Fish Fry, 4:00 p.m.-

till, Parking Lot Stations of the Cross, 7:00 p.m., Church Witness Come Lord Jesus, 7:00 p.m., St.

Lawrence Room

SATURDAY, MARCH 7 1st Saturday Mass, 9:00 a.m., Church Vigil Masses, 4:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m.

(Spanish), Church

SUNDAY, MARCH 8 Masses, 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 6:00 p.m.,

Church CYO, 3:00 p.m., Youth Building

Golden Wedding Anniversary Celebration ~ Are you celebrating your Golden Wedding Anniversary in 2020? The Archdiocese of New Orleans invites you to celebrate your

50th and beyond Anniversary on Sunday, June 7 at 3:00 p.m. at St. Philip Neri Church. The celebration will not be a Mass, but a Prayer Service. Please call the Church Office at 466-4511 prior to March 16 to register.

Prayer line: Joan 237-5760

REMINDER Next weekend be-gins daylight saving time. We spring

forward. Set your clocks ahead one hour.

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Saturday February 29 4:00 p.m. Linda Lemoine, Maurice Manix Jerry McGuinness, Vera Paddock Mike Tarantino Sunday March 1 9:00 a.m. Mack Ackermann, Phyllis Begault Jerry Charrier, Zachary Dubose Eugene & Roxie Farve, Elaine Hale Rita Olivio, Ruth & Bim Phillips William Schilling, Mike Tarantino Intentions of Kathleen Byrne Intentions of Fr. Mike Mitchell 11:00 a.m. Frances Ackermann, Theresa Barnes Phyllis Begault, Mignon Caronna Harold Federer, Jr. Michele Mahne Lux, Shirley Gervais Ory, Ethel L. Rowls Ron Shannon, Sr., Ron Shannon, III Grace M. Wilson 6:00 p.m. FOR ALL PARISHIONERS Monday March 2 9:00 a.m. Jerry McGuinness In Thanksgiving to St. Anthony Tuesday March 3 9:00 a.m. Intentions of Helen M. Byrne Intentions of Tanya Thomasie Wednesday March 4 9:00 a.m. Earl Pelitire Intentions of Sr. Enda Eileen Byrne Thursday March 5 9:00 a.m. In Thanksgiving to St. Anthony Intentions of Sr. Enda Eileen Byrne Friday March 6 9:00 a.m. Sacred Heart Saturday March 7 9:00 a.m. In Honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

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OLDP SPRING FEST CELEBRATES THE BAYOU BENGALS

April 24, 25 & 26

We are now seeking Booth, Fence and Stage Sponsors for our Spring Fest. Please call Bubba at 442-9213 for more information.

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THOUGHT OF THE DAY

TEMPTATION Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial

endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it

was before. —William Butler Yeats

The Sanctuary Candle burns this week in memory of

Mike Tarantino

OLDP FRIDAY NIGHT FISH FRY FUNDRAISER

1000 N. Starrett Road (Drive thru)

MARCH 6, 13, 20, 27

APRIL 3 4 PM - UNTIL…

MENU:

PLATTERS, (ALL PLATTERS INCLUDE CORN, POTATOES & ROLL) FRIED FISH PLATTER $9.00 CRAWFISH PIE PLATTER $9.00

CRAWFISH PIES $4.00/EA (OR 3 FOR $10) SHRIMP ETOUFFE WITH RICE $5.00 (PINT)

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS #9347

7:00 p.m., Friday March 6, 13, 20, 27, April 3

Living Stewardship Now

A prayer for Lent: “O Lord, who has mercy upon all, take away from me my sins, and mercifully kindle in me the fire of thy Holy Spirit. Take away from me the heart of stone, and give me a heart of flesh, a heart to love and adore Thee, a heart to delight in Thee, to follow and enjoy Thee, for Christ’s sake. Amen.” —Saint Ambrose of Milan (339–397)

First Sunday of Lent March 1 “The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.”

— Matthew 4:10

1st Saturday Mass

Join us this Saturday and every 1st Saturday of the month for the

9:00 a.m. Mass in Church In Honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

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First Sunday of Lent

THE RESPONSE OF GOD This year the Sunday scriptures of Lent have their genesis in the book of Genesis. We hear the sec-ond of the two versions of the creation story that open this book. Today’s account—in which Adam receives life and Eve is created from his side—is the version filled with more folk-parable types of details, with God a much more involved character in the drama. When God wanted to change lifeless clay into a being made in the divine image, it was through breath. That breath (in Hebrew the ruach or wind or spirit of God) is the sign and source of humanity’s intimate connection with our Creator. Adam experiences con spire: a “breathing with” God. Adam and Eve are in the best sense made con-spirators with God’s plan for creation. But when he and Eve decide to conspire against the divine will and not with it, they fall out of their intimate relationship with God. At first, it seems that God’s re-sponse is punishment; but Christians believe that God’s ultimate response to this fallen state is a gift: Jesus Christ.

THE RESPONSE OF CHRIST We commonly call today’s Gospel “The Temp-tation in the Desert” but it more accurately might be called “The Triumph in the Desert.” The Gospels are filled with stories in which Jesus is triumphant, in which he faces evil, enemies, adversity. All of these prey on his human nature and seek to make him cease breathing with the spirit of God’s will. But each time Jesus prevails, and in prevailing gives glory to God. Each of these triumphs is a small prefiguring of the Resurrection. And it is the Resurrection for which Lent prepares us. It is a time when we remember that the very breath of Christ, bestowed on his followers after his resurrection, was also bestowed on us by the Spirit of baptism. It is that Spirit, that baptismal breath of Christ, that we must draw upon to strengthen us in our trials, that our temptations will be vanquished by the will of God. In our failings remembered, we ask forgiveness. In our triumphs through Christ, we give glory to God.

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Primer Domingo De Cuaresma

LA RESPUESTA DE DIOS Este año las lecturas de los domingos de Cuaresma se originan en el libro del Génesis. Escuchamos la se-gunda de las dos versiones del relato de la creación que se encuentra al inicio de este libro. El relato de hoy —en el cual Adán recibe la vida y Eva es creada de su costado– es la versión más detallada, con ese esti-lo de parábola popular que muestra a Dios como un personaje mucho más involucrado en el drama. Cuan-do Dios quiso transformar la inerte arcilla en un ser hecho al imagen divina, lo hizo soplando sobre él. Ese aliento (en hebreo ruah, viento o espíritu de Dois) es el signo y las fuente del intimo vínculo de la humani-dad con nuestro Creador. Adán experimenta un con spire, un “respirar con” Dois. En el mejor de los senti-dos, a Adán y Eva e les hace conspiradores con el plan de Dois para la creación. Pero cuando Adán y Eva de-ciden conspirar contra la voluntad divina en vez de cooperar con ella, se rompe su relación íntima con Dois. Al principio, parece que la respuesta de Dois es de castigo; pero los cristianos creen que la respuesta final de Dois ante ese estado de caída es un don: Jesucristo.

LA RESPUESTA DE CRISTO Solemos llamar al evangelio de hoy “la tentación en el desierto”, pero sería más acertado llamarlo “el triunfo en el desierto”. Los evangelois están repletos de rela-tos en los que Jesús sale triunfante, donde enfrenta al mal, a los enemigos y a la adversidad. Todos éstos acechan su naturaleza humana y buscan lograr hacer-lo cesar de respirar con el espírtu de la voluntad de Dois. Sin embargo, Jesüs prevalece una y otra vez, y al hacerlo da gloria a Dis. Cada uno de estos triunfos es una pequeña prefiguración de la resurrección. La Cuaresma nos prepara para la resurrección. Es el tiempo en que recordamos que el mismo aliento de Cristo, su Espírtu que sopló sobre sus discípulos después de su resurrección, también sopló sobre no-sotros en nuestro bautismo. Es es Espírtu ese aliento bautismal de Cristo, al que debemos recurrir para for-talecernos en nuestras pruebas, para que nuestras tentaciones sean vencidas por la voluntad de Dois. Al recorder nuestra faltas, pedimos perdón. Al reconocer nuestros triunfos, por Cristo, damos gloria a Dois. Copyright © 2007, World Library Publications. All rights reserved.

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FR. MIKE’S 65TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

More pictures in next week’s bulletin.

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With compassion and concern we pray for those in need of our prayers: Lori Alfano, Michael Alfano, Phil Babin, Karl Barker, Connie Bassemeir, Tommy

Bittel, Jr., Harold Bologna, Willie Boye, Renee, Bergeron, Carol Boovy, Jolele Canova Brignac, Dan Bristol, Robbie Brown, Reid Butler, Judy Bush, Jeneen Callais, Rev. Ronnie Calkins, Kaylee Campo, Nancy Campeaux, Adele Canova, Claire Carbo, Janice Childress, Carson Coen, Casey Coen, Pearl Coli, Carolyn Crowall, Sera Crumley, Adam Cusimano, QuinnDantagnan, Emma Davis, Jerry Davidson, Adam Delaune, Llyod Delaune, Nancy & Dennis Eschmann, Sue Estapa, Jeraldine Fast, Brandon Foto, Monique Foto, Jude Foto, Sr., Marilyn Fekete, William Fekete, Linda Fortado, Leon Giaccone, Bob Gaudet, Darlene Gravis, Donald Gray, Emily Gray, Anna Guale, Jim Halibut, Suzanne Hammel, Wyatt Hawley, Harold Heller, Marie Harrell, Rene Hernandez, Trudy Hodgson, Alexander Howell, Larry Hymel, Joshua Ivy, Harold Juneau, Larry Kangas, Christine Kennedy, Jeanne Kennedy, Shannon Lambert, Catherine Landry, Baby Elijah David Landry, Steve Lemoine, Regina Lussier, Eddie Mahne, George Mazzeno, Patricia Matherne, Lorraine Meehan, Mar-garite Michel, Rosa Millano, Brian Mills, Richard Minton, Kenny Molony, Margie Molony, Paulette Motely, Harland Northcott, Jacob Lopez-Nunoz, Charlene & Marlon Parris, Darryl Patton, Anthony “Bubby” Pellittere, George Pritchard, Michelle Pritchett, Patricia Rachel, Jeanne Ricard, Marsha Robert, Robert Rockvoan, Billy Rodriguez, Melanie Rogers, Abbey Roux, Garland Ruiz, Chris Sachatano, 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 Sonnier, Jude Soto, Angela Spencer, Linda Speziale, Jim Stennet, Kathy Stubbs, Don Turley, Jr., Nicholas Dale Tynes, Sherry Vicknair, Candy Volk, Toni Wahl, Rock Whitfield, Foster Wimberly.

TITHES & OFFERINGS

February 16, 2020

Envelopes …………………………………… $ 4,942.50 Loose ………………………………………… $ 882.48 Total…………………………………………… $ 5,824.98

Online Offerings…………………………… $ 353.00

Grand Total………………………………… $ 6,157.98

Weekly Assessment to Archdiocese…………………………… ($ 2,052.14) Casualty Insurance………………… ($ 1,113.89) Fund for Africa……………………………… $ 1,373.50

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Lv 19:1-2, 11-18; Ps 19:8-10, 15; Mt 25:31-46 Tuesday: Is 55:10-11; Ps 34:4-7, 16-19; Mt 6:7-15 Wednesday: Jon 3:1-10; Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19; Lk 11:29-32 Thursday: Est C:12, 14-16, 23-25; Ps 138:1-3, 7c-8; Mt 7:7-12 Friday: Ez 18:21-28; Ps 130:1-8; Mt 5:20-26 Saturday: Dt 26:16-19; Ps 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8; Mt 5:43-48 Sunday: Gn 12:1-4a; Ps 33:4-5, 18-20, 22; 2 Tm 1:8b-10; Mt 17:1-9

Enthronement of the Sacred Heart ~ Would you like to have the Enthrone-ment 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 family closer together with each other and with Jesus. To find out more about the Enthronement contact the

Church Office 466-4511.