THEBEGINNING

OFEVERYTHING

Everyonerecognizes thetruth of good

proverbs, and sothey endure from

generation togeneration. TheRussians have asurprisingly boldone that fits thisSunday's Gospel:

"Bread is thebeginning of

everything." Judging from the first reading, Elijah mighthave felt that it was too late for bread--too late for lifeitself. This great prophet was at the end of his rope andendurance. Then, not one, but two angels visit him. One

offers food and drink. The other gives startlingdirections. For Elijah, this food from the angels is breadfor his journey. On the strength of the heaven-sent gift of

food, he walks to the mountain of God. In today'sGospel, Jesus offers himself, not just as bread for the

journey, but as bread for life itself. He gives his flesh aslife for the world. "I am the bread of life" (John 6:48).

He is the beginning of everything.

READINGS FOR THE WEEKMonday: 2 Cor 9:6-10; Ps 112:1-2, 5-9; Jn 12:24-26Tuesday: Dt 31:1-8; Dt 32:3-4ab, 7-9, 12;

Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14Wednesday: Dt 34:1-2; Ps 66:1-3a, 5, 8, 16-17;

Mt 18:15-20Thursday: Jos 3:7-10a, 11, 13-17; Ps 114:1-6;

Mt 18:21 — 19:1Friday: Jos 24:1-13; Ps 136:1-3, 16-18, 21-22, 24;

Mt 19:3-12Saturday: Vigil: 1 Chr 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2; Ps 132:6-7,

9-10, 13-14; 1 Cor 15:54b-57; Lk 11:27-28 Day: Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; Ps 45:10-12, 16; 1 Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56

Sunday: Prv 9:1-6; Ps 34:2-7; Eph 5:15-20; Jn 6:51-58

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCESMonday: St. LawrenceTuesday: St. ClareWednesday: St. Jane Frances de ChantalThursday: Ss. Pontian and HippolytusFriday: St. Maximilian KolbeSaturday: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

MAKING DEPOSITS: Relationships are like a bank account. You can’t continue to draw on it without making deposits.

WEEKLY COLLECTION 08/02/2015St. John the BaptistIdentified Contributions (184Families) $ 10,550.00Unidentified Contributions $ 557.00Building Maintenance Fund (22) $ 928.00Youth Ministry (9) $ 151.00Legacy of Faith / Capital Camp (92) $ 8,150.08Legacy of Faith / Capital Camp TOTAL $ 5,179,959.98ONLINE GIVINGRegular Contributions (27) $ 1,228.00Building Maintenance Fund (5) $ 158.00Legacy of Faith Capital Camp. (31) $ 2,355.00Campaign Total $ 5,182,314.98

Our Lady of AssumptionIdentified Contributions (41 Families) $ 2,596.20Unidentified Contributions $ 445.00Building Maintenance (2) $ 35.00ONLINE GIVINGRegular Contributions (4) $ 350.00

NO SPECIAL COLLECTIONS IN AUGUST

SANCTUARY LIGHTAUGUST 8TH - AUGUST 14TH

The Sanctuary Light at St. John will burn

in memory of Mark Rioux.

The Adoration Chapel Light will burn

in memory of John Guillory.

The Sanctuary Light at Our Lady will burn

in memory of Aubrey Little.

Our Communities of Faith

extend our sympathy andprayerful support

for the families of :

Louis Ard, parishioner of SJB, husband of Carolyn,father of Deacon Donald Ard

and

Glenn Sonnier, brother of Joan Carmouche.

May the Lord grant comfort and peace to these familiesand may they and all who sleep in Christ, find in His

presence, light, happiness, and peace.

WE NEED YOU To Make Our Pictorial Complete!

This is OUR CHURCH FAMILY DIRECTORY!

Please register your sitting

in one of two ways:

1. Visit our website and look for the logo on the top right of the home pageand click on your parish

2. Call or visit the Parish Office.

Marvin Ashford, Jr., Army James A. Benning, USMCMatthew Boyd, Army Eugene Cazedessus, USMCLeLand Crochet, III, USM Matthew Charlet Dart, USN Patrick Deslatte, USN Jacqueline Deslatte, USNStephen DiLorenzo, Army Adam Foster, USNBrad Gautreaux, USMC J. Michael Head, USMCJoseph N. Jones, Jr., Army Sabrina Jones, LaNGMarkus Kippers, USN Dustin Knight, USNJoseph L. LeBlanc Jr., Army Stanley Mays, USAFBen Gordon Morseth, USCG Gordon Newman, ArmyRobert Brett Parker, LaNG Brian Plauche, USAFAndrea Byrd Prosser, USCG Mike Prosser, USCGJesse B. Richard, Army Nicholas Richards, USNMichael Roberts, USCG James Rouchon, USMCDavid Welch, LaNG Gordon M. White, USAF Tyler Wigger, USN Christopher Williston USAF

Attention: All Current Altar Servers

Please contact Dale Myrick at235-6509 to update your records

if you have not done so already.

If you are interesting inbecoming an Altar Server, pleasecontact Dale Myrick at 235-6509.

Next Baptismal Seminar

Saturday, August 22nd

at 9:30 a.m. in the Church.

Reminder

Jr. High Retreat

in Rosaryville

September 11th - 13th

For more information please contact Katie Myrick

in the Youth Ministry Office.

PARENTS - If available, we need chaperones !!!

For your convenience

the Religious Ed Office will be open

this Sunday following 11:00 a.m. Massto register your child/children.

All students must be registered by theend of August to be placed in a class forthe 2015-2016 school year.

✞ ~ ✞ NEXT WEEK AT A GLANCE ✞ ~ ✞ Sunday, August 9th Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time-7 a.m. Mass / Coffee & Pastries-10 a.m. Chaplet of Divine Mercy / Rosary-11a.m. Mass -OLA -8:30 a.m. Rosary / Choir -9 a.m. MassMonday, August 10th -6:30 p.m. Intercessory Prayer Group-6:30 p.m. Scouts-7 p.m. N.A. MeetingTuesday, August 11th -4 p.m. Homeless Shelter-6 p.m. Adult Choir-OLA-6 p.m. Rosary -6:15 p.m. Confessions -6:30 p.m. Mass -7 p.m. Altar Society Meeting & Potluck Wednesday, August 12th -7 a.m. MassThursday, August 13th -7:30 a.m. Mass-6:30 p.m. Men’s Club Friday, August 14th -7:30 a.m. Mass/Divine Mercy/Coffee & BiscuitsSaturday, August 15th

Our Lady of the Assumption -8 a.m. Mass for Solemnity -4 p.m. Confessions -5 p.m. Vigil MassSunday, August 16th Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time -7 a.m. Mass / Coffee & Pastries-10 a.m. Chaplet of Divine Mercy / Rosary-11 a.m. Mass-OLA-8:30 a.m. Rosary / Choir -9 a.m. Mass-10 a.m. Feast Day Celebration

SOLEMNITY OF OUR LADY OF ASSUMPTION

next Saturday, August 15th is not an holy day of obligationthis year. There will be a 8:00 a.m. Mass at St. John.

Children and Youth Choirs resume practice on

Tuesday, August 25th:

Children (K-5th): 5:00 p.m.

Youth (6th-12th): 5:30 p.m.

Check out the new website at: sjb-ola.orgFind out about our parish and our faith

with the newly designedwebsite

with improved navigationand more information.

TO MAKE OUR PARISH PICTORIAL DIRECTORY COMPLETE!

This is OUR church family directory

and

it WILL NOT be complete without YOU!

PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW!

Remember this...there is NO obligation to buy any of the pictures. You actually get a FREE 8X10 portrait and a copy of the directory just for participating.

The dates the photographers will be here were carefully selected to exclude dates where there is a HOME LSU footballgame.

Schedule for SJB~ Zachary

Tuesday-Friday September 8 - 11, 2015 2:30 to 8:30Saturday September 12, 2015 10:00 to 4:00

Tuesday-Friday September 22-25, 2015 2:30 to 8:30 Saturday September 26, 2015 10:00 to 4:00

Tuesday-Friday Sept.29-Oct. 2, 2015 2:30 to 4:30 Saturday October 3, 2015 10:00 to 4:00

Schedule for OLA~ Clinton

Wednesday September 2, 2015 3:00 to 9:00 Thursday September 3, 2015 3:00 to 9:00 Friday September 4, 2015 3:00 to 9:00

We have not published a parish pictorial directory since 2011.There are a lot of changes and new members in our church family.

PLEASE do your part to be included!A family portrait will make a great Christmas gift for your loved ones.

To schedule your appointment,

visit our website and look for this logo and ☞ click on your parish, or call or drop by the Parish Office.

Saint of the Week

St. Maximilian Kolbe

His name wasn’t always Maximilian. He was born the second of three sons to a poor but piousCatholic family in Russian occupied Poland and given the name Raymond.Raymond was known as a mischievous child, sometimes considered wild, and a trial to his parents.However, in 1906, at age twelve and around the time of his first Communion he received a vision of theVirgin Mary that changed his life.

“I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me. Then she came to me holding two crowns, onewhite, the other red. She asked if I was willing to accept either of these crowns. The white one meantthat I should persevere in purity and the red that I should become a martyr. I said that I would acceptthem both.” –Saint Maximilian

He entered the Franciscan junior seminary in Lwow, Poland in 1907 where he excelledin mathematics and physics. For a while he wanted to abandon the priesthood for the military, buteventually relented to the call to religious life. He took the name Maximilian, made his first vows onSeptember 5, 1911, his final vows on November 1, 1914.

Maximilian went to Japan where he built a monastery and then on to India.In 1936 he returned home because of ill health. After the Nazi invasion in 1939, he was imprisoned andreleased for a time. But in 1941 he was arrested again and sent to the concentration camp at Auschwitz.

On July 31, 1941, in reprisal for one prisoner's escape, ten men were chosen to die. Maximilianvolunteered to take the place a one man who was a husband and father, and Maximilian died as he hadalways wished – in service.

Motto for us this week: SEEK TRUTH AND SERVE IT!

Resolution for this week: I will begin every day this week with PRAYER, seeking God’s will for me.

Patron Saint of: Addicts and Drug AddictionsFeast Day: August 14

“No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve itwhen we have found it.” ~ St. Maximilian Kolbe

Sources: catholic-pages.com, catholicsaintsinfo.com & ewtn.com