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2018 Giving Tree Project sponsored by St. Peter Catholic Community and Msgr Eyraud Knights of Columbus. Eligibility for this year’s program is limited to parishioners of St. Peter and residents of Reserve recommended by a parishioner. Applications are available in the church rectory. Deadline for applications is Wednesday, November 21. All information received will be handled as strictly confidential. The Giving Tree will be in church the weekend of November 24 & 25. Wrapped gifts with ornament tags must be returned to the rectory no later than December 11.

The American Legion Auxiliary Unit 383 will be holding their Poppy Drive on Sunday, November 18th, at all masses. The red poppy has become a nationally recognized symbol of sacrifice to honor those who served and died for our country in all wars. It reminds Americans of the sacrifices made by our veterans while protecting our freedoms. One hundred percent of the donations collected directly support the needs of veterans, military, and their families.

I invite all parishioners to Thanksgiving Day Mass on Thursday, November 22nd at 8:00 A.M. We all can come together as a community of faith to Thank God for the graces and blessings He has bestowed upon us this past year. Please note that there will be no 6:30 A.M. Mass on Thanksgiving Day.

Our Book of All Souls will be in the sanctuary from All Saints’ - Thanksgiving for you to write the names of your departed ones in the book. They will be remembered at Masses during the month of November (the month of All Souls).

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

Our Mass Intentions Book for 2019 opens Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 9:00 am.

KC Senior Citizen Lunch & Bingo is on Friday, November 30, 2018 For tickets please call: Fern Stein - 985-536-3666 Joel Ocmand - 985-536-3389 Randy Aucoin - 985-536-2665

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.

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.

   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.

  “All things are possible for God.”  Jesus follows a series of challenging pronouncements with this line—some of the most consoling words that He utters in the Gospels. As we celebrate Mass today, recall the times that you have had to rely on God because you didn’tknow if you could manage on your own.  For us humans beings on our own, it may well be impossible, but for God, all things are possible.

Please consider bringing 1 can/donation each week to Mass to be placed in the Food Box. Donations will be used for food baskets and the Ministry of Care. If enough parishioners participate we can make a delivery of donations from St. Peter’s Church every month. If you prefer to leave your can good item at the doors of church, someone from the committee will place it in the food wagon for you. Hunger knows no season and it doesn’t take a vacation. Thank you for helping us fight it.

  Today is Respect Life Sunday.  The theme this year is Every Life:  Cherished, Chosen, Sent.  All life, everyone’s life is a gift from God—a gift given out of love by our Creator.  All life is precious in God’s eyes.  If all life is precious, all life is worthy of our love.  Pope Francis said, “All of us must care for life, cherish life, with tenderness, warmth…to give life is to open our heart , and to care for life is to give oneself in tenderness and warmth for others, to have concern in my heart for others.  Caring for life from the beginning to the end.  What a simple thing, what a beautiful thing…So, go forth and don’t be discouraged.  Care for life.  It’s worth it.”

Family Day was a huge success!!  I want to thank all who were responsible for organizing the day, especially the Evangelization Committee. It was amazing to see so many people at the Family Day picnic—the young and not so young of our parish family.  We came together as one to celebrate our church family.  Once again THANK YOU for all that you do for St. Peter Parish.

Family Day was a huge success!!  I want to thank all who were responsible for organizing the day, especially the Evangelization Committee. It was amazing to see so many people at the Family Day picnic—the young and not so young of our parish family.  We came together as one to celebrate our church family.  Once again THANK YOU for all that you do for St. Peter Parish.

Today is FAMILY DAY!  The theme this year is Joy in the Family.  The purpose of Family Day is to promote and strengthen all families and the parish family.  The Trinity—Father-Son, and Holy Spirit—gives us the strength and graces to know that our family is sacred, especially in the details of our ordinary lives.  We are the Body of Christ, the Family of God,  but it is often difficult to understand the giftedness and importance of family life without guidance in how to experience and grow in the grace and beauty that God makes available in each family.

St. Peter Choir will resume Choir practice after 8:00 am Mass on Sundays for half an hour