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Good morning from the blog of St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana.

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Our main website is located at http://www.stlandrycatholicchurch.org/. There, you will find all sorts of contact information, copies of the parish bulletin, a photo gallery, information about current events happening, and you can even listen to the homilies from each Sunday ... sometimes called podcasts. There is a calendar there listing events and masses throughout the year. There are also prayers and prayer intentions. We even have a section devoted to Lt. Father Verbis Lafleur, a great priest who gave his life following Christ and serving his fellow man.

Our blog is located at http://stlandrycatholicchurch.blogspot.com/. There, you will find updates about things happening in our parish as well as events happening in our Catholic Church around the world.

You can also follow us via Twitter: http://twitter.com/StLandryCath. Twitter allows us the opportunity to update folks interested in our parish life on a very timely basis.

These updates ... website, blog, Twitter, podcasts ... are all part of our answer to the challenge from the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI to make use of new technologies to evangelise. We hope you find the information we send useful, enjoyable, and helpful in your spiritual growth.

Homily for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Homilies are now available to download and listen to!

As part of our answering the challenge of the Holy Father to go out and evangelize utilizing new technologies, we're now offering the homily each week for download. Clicking the link to the homily should download it and automatically start it playing in whatever music player your computer is set up with.

On the technical side, the file sizes are about 5 megs which means it may a minute or two to download on slower internet connections. It is also an MP3 formatted file which means that these are essentially podcasts. Don't worry if all the technical words don't mean much to you. It means we're using the latest in technology in order to make sure our church parish can reach the most people.

The current week's homily is available on a link on the front page of the website next to the link for the current week's bulletin. On the page with the prior bulletins, the corresponding homily will be sitting side by side with its bulletin. We started on the anniversary of the start of the Catholic Church, Pentecost Sunday. This week, The Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, is our thirteenth homily to be posted. This week, the homily is given by Monsignor J. Robert Romero.

So, take a listen and let us know what you think. Click here to download the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time homily from St. Landry Catholic Church, Opelousas, Louisiana.

Readings and Themes for the Week of August 30, 2009

Readings for Faith Sharing
Week of August 30, 2009,
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reading I Deuteronomy 4: 1-2, 6-8

Keep the commands of the Lord.

Psalm 15

“The one who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord.”

Reading II James 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27

Be doers of the word, not hearers only.

Gospel: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

You ignore God’s commandment and cling to human tradition.

THEME:
Your heart must be full of faith

Today’s scriptures call us to conversion of heart. Echoing the words of Isaiah, the Lord Jesus summons us to avoid honoring God solely with our lips. We need to honor God with our hearts as well. Saint James tells us precisely how to do that in today’s second reading. We are to become, in his word, doers of the word. As the sacred word is proclaimed, let us ask for strength to honor God with our whole hearts by becoming doers of the word.

Question for Children:

What steps can you take to more humbly welcome Christ into your heart?

Question for Youth:

Jesus warns about the things that will lead us away from God.

What tempts you away from being the person that God created you to be?

Question for Adults:

Based on this reading from James, what is the sign in one’s life that faith is present?

Bulletin for the weekend of August 30, 2009

The bulletin for the weekend of August 30, 2009 has been posted. Click here to see it.

The calendar on the website has been updated with all events for the coming week along with prayer intention information and information on the second collection for all of the masses. Take some time to look at our calendar here.

Updates are also being made to our St. Landry Catholic Church blog. You can get to the blog from the church home page under the Bulletins and News section or you can just click here to go to it.

Don't forget, we're also sending out live updates via Twitter. Our Twitter name is StLandryCath. You can see updates by clicking here.

Year for Priests - What we can receive and what we can do

YEAR FOR PRIESTS

What we can receive and do

During this “Year for Priest”, our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, has declared that the faithful may receive an indulgence on the following day:

1st Thursdays of the month until 19 June 2010.

What We Can Do

1) Attend Mass faithfully.
2) Receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession)
3) Pray for all priests.
4) Do not talk disparagingly about your priests, (especially behind their backs). Bring your problems to him and work it out in charity and peace.
5) Pray for the Intentions of the Holy Father.
6) Build parishes, DO NOT tear them down.
7) Be patient.
8) Make visits to church
9) Respect your pastor and understand that they have a life outside of the parish.

Rosary today at the Father Lafleur Monument

We'll be having our weekly rosary at the Father Lafleur Monument in front of St. Landry Catholic Church. We begin at 6 PM. The weather should be very nice.

We use the Father Verbis Lafleur Rosary Meditations as part of our prayer. These brochures can be found at the church office in Valentin Hall or you can get there on our parish website.

Click here for the one side of the brochure.

Click here for the opposite side.

Below is the meditation we'll use today, Monday, the Joyful Mysteries. If you cannot attend, use them to pray at home.

Father Verbis Lafleur Rosary Meditations
The Joyful Mysteries

The Annunciation of Our Lord

The Angel said to Mary, "You shall conceive and bear a Son and give him the name Jesus, and he will be called 'Son of the Most High'" (Luke 1:32-32).

Like Mary, Father Lafleur answered God's call to become a priest and a chaplain in the U.S. Army Air Corps. May we also respond to God's call for us.

The Visitation

"Blessed are you among women and blessed is she who trusted in the Lord's words." (Luke 1:42-45)

Father Lafleur had a great trust in the Lord; may we trust as well.

The Nativity of Jesus

"While Mary and Joseph were in Bethlehem, she gave birth to her first born son and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes and laid Him in a manger." (Luke 2:6-7)

Father Lafleur cherished 'his boys' with love and took them under his care. Like Father Lafleur, may we love all people.

The Presentation in the Temple

"When the day came to purify them according to the law of Moses, Mary and Joseph brought Jesus up to Jerusalem so that He could be presented to the Lord." (Luke 2:22)

Like Mary and Joseph, Father Lafleur presented 'his boys' to the Lord in the sinking ship. May we have an attitude of presenting the Lord to each person we meet.

The Finding in the Temple

"They came upon Him in the temple sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. All who heard Him were amazed." (Luke 2:46-47)

Father Lafleur amazed many people with his teaching and compassionate love, and many conversions occurred. May our lives rest in God's teaching. May others respond to God's presence in us.

Year for Priests - Thoughts for the Week

YEAR FOR PRIESTS

Loving the Priesthood

To love the priesthood is to love one of the sacraments that Christ instituted for our sanctification and salvation. It is to love a most necessary sacrament, for without the priesthood, there would be no Eucharist, no sacramental forgiveness of sins.

Priests must love and reverence the priesthood that is theirs. The priest cannot give in to self-loathing, apologetically lamenting the fact that he is set apart and is positioned as teacher, sanctifier, and leader of those entrusted to his care.

As he loves the good work that Christ has begun in him, the priest must see that good work through to its completion. The consummation of Christ’s priesthood is His self-oblation on the cross, where He willingly laid down His life that we might have new life through His death.

By conforming himself to Christ the Victim, the priest has a spiritual remedy against any temptation to lord it over the others. By freely dying to himself, the priest stirs up in his soul the sacramental grace of his ordination, which then frees him to love and to live as one who has come to serve and not be served.

While no priest is perfect, while the man may be lacking in some respect, the sacred office - -the sacramental dignity that is his - - is always there. It is precisely this that we venerate in the priest, that he has been marked by Christ for all eternity.

To love the priesthood we must respect the priest. And if we are to love the priest, we must venerate his priesthood.

Fr. Joshua Guillory

The Eucharist and the Compendium

Today, during his homily, Monsignor Romero referenced the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Compendium is a wonderful reference to Catholic teaching that, in turn, references back into the more detailed Catechism of the Catholic Church. Both books are wonderful reference texts to have.

The Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church is available by clicking here for the Vatican website.

And the Catechism of the Catholic Church is available by clicking here for the Vatican website.

Both are also available in printed form locally at:

The Catholic Bookshoppe
2364 Larkspur Lane
Opelousas, Louisiana 70570
(337) 948-8050

During the homily, Monsignor Romero referenced paragraph 276 in the Compendium.

276. Where does the Eucharist fit in the divine plan of salvation?

1333-1344

The Eucharist was foreshadowed in the Old Covenant above all in the annual Passover meal celebrated every year by the Jews with unleavened bread to commemorate their hasty, liberating departure from Egypt. Jesus foretold it in his teaching and he instituted it when he celebrated the Last Supper with his apostles in a Passover meal. The Church, faithful to the command of her Lord, “Do this in memory of me” (1 Corinthians 11:24), has always celebrated the Eucharist, especially on Sunday, the day of the Resurrection of Jesus.

The Compendium references paragraphs 1333 thru 1344 in the Catechism:

III. The Eucharist in the Economy of Salvation

The signs of bread and wine

1333 At the heart of the Eucharistic celebration are the bread and wine that, by the words of Christ and the invocation of the Holy Spirit, become Christ's Body and Blood. Faithful to the Lord's command the Church continues to do, in his memory and until his glorious return, what he did on the eve of his Passion: "He took bread...." "He took the cup filled with wine...." the signs of bread and wine become, in a way surpassing understanding, the Body and Blood of Christ; they continue also to signify the goodness of creation. Thus in the Offertory we give thanks to the Creator for bread and wine,152 fruit of the "work of human hands," but above all as "fruit of the earth" and "of the vine" - gifts of the Creator. the Church sees in the gesture of the king-priest Melchizedek, who "brought out bread and wine," a prefiguring of her own offering.153

1334 In the Old Covenant bread and wine were offered in sacrifice among the first fruits of the earth as a sign of grateful acknowledgment to the Creator. But they also received a new significance in the context of the Exodus: the unleavened bread that Israel eats every year at Passover commemorates the haste of the departure that liberated them from Egypt; the remembrance of the manna in the desert will always recall to Israel that it lives by the bread of the Word of God;154 their daily bread is the fruit of the promised land, the pledge of God's faithfulness to his promises.
The "cup of blessing"155 at the end of the Jewish Passover meal adds to the festive joy of wine an eschatological dimension: the messianic expectation of the rebuilding of Jerusalem. When Jesus instituted the Eucharist, he gave a new and definitive meaning to the blessing of the bread and the cup.

1335 The miracles of the multiplication of the loaves, when the Lord says the blessing, breaks and distributes the loaves through his disciples to feed the multitude, prefigure the superabundance of this unique bread of his Eucharist.156 The sign of water turned into wine at Cana already announces the Hour of Jesus' glorification. It makes manifest the fulfillment of the wedding feast in the Father's kingdom, where the faithful will drink the new wine that has become the Blood of Christ.157

1336 The first announcement of the Eucharist divided the disciples, just as the announcement of the Passion scandalized them: "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?"158 The Eucharist and the Cross are stumbling blocks. It is the same mystery and it never ceases to be an occasion of division. "Will you also go away?":159 The Lord's question echoes through the ages, as a loving invitation to discover that only he has "the words of eternal life"160 and that to receive in faith the gift of his Eucharist is to receive the Lord himself.

The institution of the Eucharist
1337 The Lord, having loved those who were his own, loved them to the end. Knowing that the hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father, in the course of a meal he washed their feet and gave them the commandment of love.161 In order to leave them a pledge of this love, in order never to depart from his own and to make them sharers in his Passover, he instituted the Eucharist as the memorial of his death and Resurrection, and commanded his apostles to celebrate it until his return; "thereby he constituted them priests of the New Testament."162

1338 The three synoptic Gospels and St. Paul have handed on to us the account of the institution of the Eucharist; St. John, for his part, reports the words of Jesus in the synagogue of Capernaum that prepare for the institution of the Eucharist: Christ calls himself the bread of life, come down from heaven.163

1339 Jesus chose the time of Passover to fulfill what he had announced at Capernaum: giving his disciples his Body and his Blood:

Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the passover lamb had to be sacrificed. So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the passover meal for us, that we may eat it...." They went ... and prepared the passover. and when the hour came, he sat at table, and the apostles with him. and he said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; for I tell you I shall not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.".... and he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." and likewise the cup after supper, saying, "This cup which is poured out for you is the New Covenant in my blood."164

1340 By celebrating the Last Supper with his apostles in the course of the Passover meal, Jesus gave the Jewish Passover its definitive meaning. Jesus' passing over to his father by his death and Resurrection, the new Passover, is anticipated in the Supper and celebrated in the Eucharist, which fulfills the Jewish Passover and anticipates the final Passover of the Church in the glory of the kingdom.

"Do this in memory of me"
1341 The command of Jesus to repeat his actions and words "until he comes" does not only ask us to remember Jesus and what he did. It is directed at the liturgical celebration, by the apostles and their successors, of the memorial of Christ, of his life, of his death, of his Resurrection, and of his intercession in the presence of the Father.165

1342 From the beginning the Church has been faithful to the Lord's command. of the Church of Jerusalem it is written:

They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.... Day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they partook of food with glad and generous hearts.166

1343 It was above all on "the first day of the week," Sunday, the day of Jesus' resurrection, that the Christians met "to break bread."167 From that time on down to our own day the celebration of the Eucharist has been continued so that today we encounter it everywhere in the Church with the same fundamental structure. It remains the center of the Church's life.

1344 Thus from celebration to celebration, as they proclaim the Paschal mystery of Jesus "until he comes," the pilgrim People of God advances, "following the narrow way of the cross,"168 toward the heavenly banquet, when all the elect will be seated at the table of the kingdom.
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152 Cf. ⇒ Ps 104:13-15.


153 ⇒ Gen 14:18; cf. Roman Missal, EP I (Roman Canon) 95.


154 Cf. ⇒ Deut 8:3.


155 ⇒ 1 Cor 10:16.


156 Cf. ⇒ Mt 14:13-21; ⇒ 15:32-39.


157 Cf. ⇒ Jn 2:11; ⇒ Mk 14:25.


158 ⇒ Jn 6:60.


159 ⇒ Jn 6:67.


160 In 6:68.


161 Cf. ⇒ Jn 13:1-17; ⇒ 34-35.


162 Council of Trent (1562): DS 1740.


163 Cf. ⇒ Jn 6.


164 ⇒ Lk 22:7-20; Cf. ⇒ Mt 26:17-29; ⇒ Mk 14:12-25; ⇒ 1 Cor 11:23-26.


165 Cf. ⇒ 2 Cor 11:26.


166 ⇒ Acts 2:42, ⇒ 46.


167 ⇒ Acts 20:7.


168 AG 1; cf. ⇒ 1 Cor 11:26.

Homily for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 23, 2009

Homilies are now available to download and listen to!

As part of our answering the challenge of the Holy Father to go out and evangelize utilizing new technologies, we're now offering the homily each week for download. Clicking the link to the homily should download it and automatically start it playing in whatever music player your computer is set up with.

On the technical side, the file sizes are about 5 megs which means it may a minute or two to download on slower internet connections. It is also an MP3 formatted file which means that these are essentially podcasts. Don't worry if all the technical words don't mean much to you. It means we're using the latest in technology in order to make sure our church parish can reach the most people.

The current week's homily is available on a link on the front page of the website next to the link for the current week's bulletin. On the page with the prior bulletins, the corresponding homily will be sitting side by side with its bulletin. We started on the anniversary of the start of the Catholic Church, Pentecost Sunday. This week, The Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, is our twelfth homily to be posted. This week, the homily is given by Monsignor J. Robert Romero.

So, take a listen and let us know what you think. Click here to download the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time homily from St. Landry Catholic Church, Opelousas, Louisiana.

The Queenship of Mary

The photo above is a window inside of St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana.

Today is the Feast of the Queenship of Mary. Pope Pius XII's encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam, To the Queenship of Heaven, released in 1954 established this feast. In that document, the Holy Father wrote:

As We have already mentioned, Venerable Brothers, according to ancient tradition and the sacred liturgy the main principle on which the royal dignity of Mary rests is without doubt her Divine Motherhood. In Holy Writ, concerning the Son whom Mary will conceive, We read this sentence: "He shall be called the Son of the most High, and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father, and he shall reign in the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end," and in addition Mary is called "Mother of the Lord"; from this it is easily concluded that she is a Queen, since she bore a son who, at the very moment of His conception, because of the hypostatic union of the human nature with the Word, was also as man King and Lord of all things. So with complete justice St. John Damascene could write: "When she became Mother of the Creator, she truly became Queen of every creature." Likewise, it can be said that the heavenly voice of the Archangel Gabriel was the first to proclaim Mary's royal office.

To read Pope Pius XII's encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam, click here for the Vatican website.

Father Verbis Lafleur Memorial Mass

The Friends of Lt. Fr. Lafleur
request your presence to
commemorate the 65th Anniversary
of the death of
Lt. Father Joseph Verbis Lafleur
Chaplain – United States Army Air Corps
on Monday, September 7, 2009
at six-thirty o’clock pm Mass
Saint Landry Catholic Church

Celebrant will be Rev. Richard Vidrine, CHC, USNR

Readings and Themes for the Week of August 23, 2009

Readings for Faith Sharing
Week of August 23, 2009,
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reading I Joshua 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b

We will serve the Lord, for he is our God.

Psalm 34

“Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.”

Reading II Ephesians 5:21-32

This is a great mystery, regarding Christ and the Church.

Gospel: John 6:60-69

The Lord Jesus has the words of eternal life.

THEME:
Jesus - the Bread of Life Eternal

No one ever said that the Christian life would be easy. Sometimes we find the teachings of Jesus hard to follow. Just when we think we are following the ways of the Lord, he asks us to do more. We might be tempted to turn away from him. May the word of God today prompt us to respond to Jesus as Peter did. May Peter’s words become our own: “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”

Question for Children:

How does receiving communion help you grow in your faith?

Question for Youth:

Jesus promises us eternal life if we follow him and believe.

What makes it hard for you to believe?

Question for Adults:

How does your faith in Jesus nourish your own life?

How does the Eucharist nourish you?

Archbishop Aymond's Installation Mass - Archdiocese of New Orleans

Archbishop Aymond's Installation Mass to be broadcast live on TV and online

WLAE, ABC 26, WDSU and EWTN all to televise Archbishop Aymond's Installation Mass live at 2 pm TODAY Thursday, August 20; TheDailyMass.com to stream the Mass online.

WLAE Channel 32 will broadcast Archbishop Gregory Aymond's Installation Mass LIVE at 2 pm TODAY Thursday, August 20. Coverage will begin at 1:30 pm with a special in-depth interview with Archbishop Aymond and Jason Angelette, host of WLAE's Issues & Faith.

ABC 26 will also broadcast live with coverage beginning at 1:30 pm. WDSU News Channel 6 and EWTN will televise the Mass live at 2 pm.

The Mass will also be webcast online at www.TheDailyMass.com. A link to the website will be made available on the archdiocesan homepage on August 20.

Attendance at the Mass is by invitation only. Over 60 cardinals and bishops from around the country are expected in New Orleans for the celebration along with many local leaders.

For more information please refer back to www.archdiocese-no.org.

EWTN will rebroadcast the mass at 11 PM tonight as well.

EWTN is Channel 35 on the Opelousas Charter Cable system.

Bulletin for the Weekend of August 23, 2009 now posted

The bulletin for the weekend of August 23, 2009 has been posted. Click here to see it.

The calendar on the website has been updated with all events for the coming week along with prayer intention information and information on the second collection for all of the masses. Take some time to look at our calendar here.

Updates are also being made to our St. Landry Catholic Church blog. You can get to the blog from the church home page under the Bulletins and News section or you can just click here to go to it.

Don't forget, we're also sending out live updates via Twitter. Our Twitter name is StLandryCath. You can see updates by clicking here.

Opelousas Catholic School news

OC CORNER

On Wednesday, Opelousas Catholic will hold Open House for parents of students in grades K-5 from 5:15 to 6:00 pm followed by an important PTO meeting at 6 pm in the school cafeteria. There will be early dismissal on Wednesday at 1:30 pm.

Parents of OC alumni (graduates of more than 5 yrs. ago) are encouraged to send their children’s current mailing address information to the OC Development Office in order for them to receive Homecoming details to be mailed over the next few weeks.

Post Adoption Counseling

Catholic Social Services, an adoption and counseling agency, is now offering post-adoption counseling to the community, regardless of whether the adoption was through an attorney or an agency. This service is available to birth parents, adoptive parents or adult adoptive persons who want to improve their relationships, expand their understanding of adoption and its impact and build on their strengths.

For more information or to make an appointment, please call Catholic Social Services at 261-5654.

Rainy but good evening

Our rosary for hurricane season was a little rainy and so we moved inside the church to finish. We prayed the rosary using the joyful mysteries along with the Lt. Father Verbis Lafleur meditations.

Printed copies are available at Valentin Hall.

You can also download and print them. Click here for part 1. And click here for part 2.

Prayers for Hurricane Season

Hurricane season is now in full swing with multiple storms in the Gulf and Atlantic.

Join us at St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana for a rosary at 6 PM this evening. We will meet at the monument of Lt. Father Verbis Lafleur. Bring a lawn chair for comfort.

We will continue to pray the rosary at 6 PM each Monday during Hurricane Season.

A Prayer for the Hurricane Season
by Maurice Schexnayder, Second Bishop of Lafayette, Louisiana

O God, Master of this passing world, hear the humble voices of your children. The sea of Galilee obeyed your order and returned to its former quietude; You are still the Master of land and sea. We live in the shadow of danger over which we have no control; the Gulf, like a provoked and angry giant, can awake from its seeming lethargy, overstep its conventional boundaries, invade our land and spread chaos and disaster.

During this hurricane season we turn to You, O loving Father. Spare us from past tragedies whose memories are still so vivid and whose wound seem to refuse to heal with passing time. O Virgin Mary, Star of the Sea, Our Beloved Mother, we ask you to plead with your Son in our behalf, so that spared from the calamities common to this area and animated with a true spirit of gratitude, we will walk in the footsteps of your Divine Son to reach the heavenly Jerusalem where a stormless eternity awaits us. Amen.

Year for Priests - Thoughts for the week

YEAR FOR PRIESTS

Who is the Priest?

The priest is, to use the old Latin phrase, an alter Christus, meaning “another Christ.” Upon receiving Holy Orders, the soul of the priest is imprinted for all eternity with a mark, a character; his soul is forever changed – as happens at baptism and confirmation - - but now his being is reconfigured in the image of Christ Jesus the High Priest.

The priest is a man consecrated, set apart. This not his own doing, but the work of God, who has called him to be a special sign, a presence of Christ, among His people.

In the ordination rite, the new priest’s hands are anointed with the Sacred Chrism. The anointing of sacred things - - a ritual inherited from ancient Jewish religious custom - - means that they, in this case, the hands of the priest, must be used solely in service of the divine. As the priest is consecrated in his being through the sacrament, his hands become a sign and symbol of his office: to sanctify by means of the sacraments, most especially to consecrate the Body and Blood of Christ and to forgive sins in confession.

The priest is the sacramental presence of Christ Jesus. As he strives to conform his life to the life of the Lord, his prayer is that of John the Baptist: “He must increase, while I must decrease.” The more Christ increases in the soul of the priest, the more Christ like he becomes in his actions, thoughts, and words, the more an alter Christus he becomes, the more a sacramental presence of the Lord in the world and in the Church.

Fr. Joshua Guillory

Homily for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 16, 2009

Homilies are now available to download and listen to!

As part of our answering the challenge of the Holy Father to go out and evangelize utilizing new technologies, we're now offering the homily each week for download. Clicking the link to the homily should download it and automatically start it playing in whatever music player your computer is set up with.

On the technical side, the file sizes are about 5 megs which means it may a minute or two to download on slower internet connections. It is also an MP3 formatted file which means that these are essentially podcasts. Don't worry if all the technical words don't mean much to you. It means we're using the latest in technology in order to make sure our church parish can reach the most people.

The current week's homily is available on a link on the front page of the website next to the link for the current week's bulletin. On the page with the prior bulletins, the corresponding homily will be sitting side by side with its bulletin. We started on the anniversary of the start of the Catholic Church, Pentecost Sunday. This week, The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, is our eleventh homily to be posted. This week, the homily is given by Monsignor J. Robert Romero.

So, take a listen and let us know what you think. Click here to download the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time homily.