Due to the fact that there will be a HUGE football game on TV, we will NOT be having Life Night on Sunday. Go team!

What are the things about the Church that you question? The things that make you “wipeout” and check out? That’s what this Sunday’s Life Night is all about – those questions. So bring your questions this Sunday to the Life Night. You’ll have an opportunity to ask them, and hopefully get some answers.

Parents and Teens,

This year has been going great! God is totally transforming hearts and lives through the movement of our ministry.

The past two Sundays, we’ve been talking with the parents and the teens about the upcoming changes to the Liturgical Missal that will be implemented on November 27th of this year. If you’ve not attended for whatever reason, we didn’t want you to miss this Sunday’s gathering.

We are meeting in the Parish Hall, immediately following the 5:30 pm Mass.

Parents and teens will be together this Sunday. Around 7:15 pm, we will transition from the Hall to the Church for Adoration, Praise & Worship and Benediction. Please make it a priority to attend. We want to provide an opportunity for you and your family to have some time to pray together as a family!

Veni Sancte Spiritus! (Come Holy Spirit!)

Tonight’s Life Night focused on God’s power to heal and cure through the Sacraments of Healing (Reconciliation & Anointing).  God desires to make His children whole, both spiritually and physically. In a way, we are the paralyzed man in the Gospel of Mark (Mark 2: 1-12) seeking healing from Jesus.

Don’t forget to make it a point to go to Confession this week. We have confessions 30 minutes before each Mass. Click here for the Mass Schedule.

Parenta l Notice

Tonight’s Life Night focused on the power of the Sacraments of Healing and God’s desire to heal us, both physically and spiritually. God is not only our loving Father but also the Divine Physician that desires to heal our brokenness and make us whole.

Here are a few discussion questions that you and your teenager can talk about:

1. Why is spiritual healing more important than physical healing?

2. How did the Paralyzed Man experience both kinds of healing?

References:
CCC# 1422-1484 & 1499-1525
Scripture: Luke 15:32; James 5:14-15

Tonight we looked at the 3 Sacraments of Initiation (Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist)! These Sacraments give us the grace to fully know Christ and live out our faith! We ended the night in Eucharistic Adoration. Spending time with the greatest lover the world has ever known!

The Eucharist is the “sacrament of sacraments.” Every other sacrament points to and flows from the Eucharist!

This Sunday’s Life Night is all about Initiation - the Sacraments of Initiation that is.

Tonight the Life Night was amazing! Not only did we have our baby item drive, but we were joined by Fr.Ledoux’s old youth group from Krotz Springs. We collected 375 baby items, which will be brought to the New Life Center in Opelousas tomorrow. Thank y’all.

Don’t forget to talk to your families this week, and name your baby that y’all will spiritually adopt. Conception date is next Sunday, October 2nd. We will begin praying for the next 9 months for that baby and his mom!

Here’s a link to a couple of pro-life websites:

40 Days for Life

Virtue Media

Stay tuned to www.lifeteen.com to see photos from Life Nights around the world and to find out how many baby items we collected as a whole.

Tonight’s Life Night was epic! This semester we’re unpacking the awesomeness of the Sacraments! Tonight we learned that it is important that the Sacramental rituals take place in a certain way (the form) and that they have certain things (the matter). Check out CCC (Catechism of the Catholic Church) paragraph #1123, 1125, 1127-1129, 1131, 1997, 1999. Also, pray with Matthew 28:19, 1 Corinthians 11:26 and 2 Peter 1:3-4.

The 7 sacraments (Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Reconciliation, Anointing, Holy Matrimony and Holy Orders) each have  defined matter (water, oil, light, etc.) and form (the words spoken; “I Baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, etc.) that make the Sacrament valid. The matter and form of the Sacraments are what help the invisible realities become visible realities.

Parental Notice

Follow up after the Life Night by comparing the list to what is learned and see how well you do!

Here are some discussion questions for this week:

1. Why do you think Jesus uses matter in the sacraments instead of letting us just simply pray words?

2. Why do you think the form (spoken word) cannot be changed in a sacrament?

3. What are the invisible realities that are made visible to us in each sacrament?

Next weekend, September 24th and 25th, our High School Ministry will once again join LIFE TEEN Parishes around the world for a drive to help those in need. This year we are hosting a Baby Item drive. At all the door next weekend we will have collection bins to collect baby items. We want to invite you to join us and LIFE TEEN Parishes around the world to be Pro-Life and help women who find themselves in a crisis pregnancy.

All items that are collected will be to the New Life Center in Opelousas, LA. The New Life Center is run by the Lafayette Catholic Service Centers. Please help us help moms in need.

Type of Items we are looking for:

• Baby Bottles
• Diapers (all sizes)
• Wipes
• Pacifiers
• Baby Soap
• Baby Shampoo
• Baby Powder
• Desitin (Ointments)
• Etc.

This will be the 4th year our Parish joins a Global Drive. Last we helped collect change to build clean water drinking wells in Africa. The goal was to collect $50,000 to build 4 wells. To-date, we helped collect over $200,000 and helped to build 18 clean water drinking wells. Please help once again! Thank you for your continued generosity.