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Note - Schedule change Dec 10th @ 6:00 pm Advent penance Service Phase I & 2 in Church

2018 Giving Tree Project sponsored by St. Peter Catholic Community and Msgr Eyraud Knights of Columbus. Wrapped gifts with ornament tags must be returned to the rectory no later than December 11.

Senior Catholic sisters, brothers, and religious order priests ministered for years, for little or no pay.  Their sacrifices now leave their religious communities without adequate retirement savings.  Your gift to today’s second collection for the Retirement Fund for Religious helps provide medications, nursing care, and more for tens of thousands of elderly religious.             The second collection this weekend is for the RETIREMENT FUND FOR RELIGIOUS.  I ask for your generosity.

Winner of the Ladies Altar Society Raffle of the 12 piece Nativity Figure Set is Sandra Lasseigne!!

Ladies Altar Society Trip - The annual bus trip will be a Retreat Day, at St. Helena, Amite, La on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. This should be a good day of prayer and reflection during Lent. Fr. Mark will speak for an hour. The cost of the trip is $50.00, which includes retreat, bus and lunch. A down payment of $20.00 per person is due when you sign up and is non-refundable. (This is the cost of the bus) Departure is at 8:00 am and returning is at 4:00 pm. The deadline for the Altar Society members is January 15, 2019. On January 16, 2019 it will be opened to the public. The public deadline is January 29, 2019. full payment is due February 19, 2019

OFFERING ENVELOPE SETS for 2019 are available for pickup at the back of the church (by the cry room). It is especially important that parents of St Peter School students pick up and use their offering envelopes – it affects your tuition rates...

The Knights of Columbus & the Christ in Christmas Committee are selling yard flags. The attractive flag is printed in red, gold & green and has the words Keep Christ in Christmas emblazoned across the bottom. The actual size of the flag is 13” x 18”. Msgr. Eyraud KC Council will be selling the flags after masses next weekend in the front portico. The cost of the flag is $15.00 All proceeds generated will be utilized in the PRO-LIFE campaign. If you have any questions or would like to purchase additional flags, please contact Grand Knight Garland J. Remondet Jr. at (985) 536-7891.

Welcome to a new liturgical year! The liturgical year begins with the First Sunday of Advent. During the Advent season, we prepare for Christ’s coming in three ways: as an infant who came into this world over two thousand years ago, as our Lord and Savior coming into our hearts right here and now, and as the Son of Man who will come into this world again at the end of time. We do not know when the last of these will occur, as this Advent season is a good opportunity to focus on preparing our hearts for Jesus now, perhaps by looking for His face in those we encounter.  

Our Mass Intentions Book for 2019 is now open.

Today, we celebrate the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, acknowledging that Jesus the Christ is above all temporal rulers, past, present, or future.  We also recognize that Jesus the Christ should reign in our lives, guiding us in our thoughts, our decisions, and our conduct.  In both the universe that is the entire world and the universe that is our own heart, Jesus is Lord. With this celebration, we come to the end of the liturgical year.  Next weekend we will begin the new liturgical year with the First Sunday of Advent.

With Thanksgiving upon us, we know that Christmas is soon to follow; however, before Christmas is the beautiful season of Advent. I’d like to invite you to join me and your fellow parishioners for BEST ADVENT EVER, a free email program from Dynamic Catholic. All you have to do is sign up at BestAdventEver.com. Each day you will receive an email with short inspirational videos, practical tips for your everyday life, and real-life stories to encourage you in your faith journey. I hope you will sign up today. Remember, it’s free!

Nativity Raffle sheet The Ladies Altar Society is raffling a 12 piece Nativity figure set with stable, 6” figures are made of polymer resin $1.00 per chance (Drawing to be December 2, 2018) See one of the Ladies Altar Society members for raffle sheet

GARDEN is an original musical play written by Joey Martineck, featuring the music of Greg&Lizzy, produced by Dumb Ox Ministries. A full-stage retelling of the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, adapted from the book of Genesis, inspired by the writings of St. John Paul II. The play features a dialogue that balances humor and drama with a plot that is creatively surprising while being dynamically familiar. Themes of authentic love, relationship, and struggle inspire the audience with the truth of what it means to be human. GARDEN invites us to revisit what it means to be created from love, consider our need for God’s mercy and answer the call to live in true freedom.

The newly established Vocation Committee of St. Peter Parish will be introducing The Traveling Vocation Crucifix over the next few weeks.  Please read the information in the bulletin and on the website for further information.

This weekend, Catholic church parishes will take up a collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).  In the United States, one in seven people lives in poverty.  With this collection you support programs that address the causes of poverty and provide a sustainable future for those who are struggling across the country.  In addition, twenty-five percent (25%) of funds collected remains in the Archdiocese of New Orleans  to fund local anti-poverty projects.    Please prayerfully consider how you can support this collection and work on the margins.  More information about the Catholic Campaign for Human Development can be found at www.usccb.org/cchd/collection.

Today, November 11th, we celebrate Veterans Day, which celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans who have served in the United States Armed Forces.  I thank all men and women who throughout the years served the United States in the military.  Your service is to be commended.  May God continue to watch over all military personnel both in the United States and those in foreign countries.             Today is also a special day for us at St. Peter Parish.  It’s Monsignor Eyraud’s birthday.  May he continue to intercede on our behalf.

   November 4th -10th is National Vocation Awareness Week.  During this week, I ask that you pray for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life.  Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, in his message for the 2018 World Day of Vocations, emphasized that it is at the loving initiative of God, and by His personal encounter with each of us, that one is called.  He  says, “Even amid these troubled times, the mystery of the Incarnation reminds us that God continually comes to encounter us.  He is God-with-us, who walks along the often dusty paths of our lives.  He knows our anxious and longing for love and He calls us to joy.  In the diversity and the uniqueness of each and every vocation, personal and ecclesial, there is a need to listen, discern  and live this word that calls to us from on high, and while enabling us to develop our talents, makes us instruments of salvation in the world and guides us to full happiness.”

       Every Sunday we are invited to follow Jesus. No matter what our limitation or impediments may be, Jesus calls us to follow Him. Sometimes even when we don’t realize it, we are being called. In today’s Gospel, we hear Jesus cure Bartimaeus, the blind man who begged at the side of the road; but, Jesus also calls Bartimaeus as well. After receiving the gift of sight, Bartimaeus responds to Jesus’ call and follows Him. May our own faith and determination give us sight as well, that we may also know and follow God in our daily lives.

Today is WORLD MISSION SUNDAY.  The theme this year is “Together with young people, let us bring the Gospel to all.”   In his 2018 message, Pope Francis reminds us that “we are not in this world by our own choice,” and hence there is “an initiative that precedes us and makes us exist.”  Pope Francis says, “each one of us is called to reflect on the fact that ‘I am a mission on this Earth,’ which is why we are here in this world.”  By our prayers and financial support, mission priests, religious Sisters and Brothers as well as lay catechists are Christ’s witnesses to a world so in need of His healing love and peace.