MASS & CONFESSION SCHEDULE

Saturday (Anticipated)

Belaire Cove Chapel – 4 p.m.
Sacred Heart – 4 p.m.

Sunday

Sacred Heart – 7 a.m.

10 a.m.

5 p.m.

Weekdays

Sacred Heart
Monday-Friday – 6:30 a.m.
Saturday – 8 a.m.

Confessions:

Sundays & Weekdays

30 minutes before Masses

Saturdays 2:30-3:45 p.m.
30 minutes before all weekday Masses

Devotions at Sacred Heart

Sacred Heart Parish has several devotions that take place each week in church.

  • The Holy Rosary is prayed every Saturday morning at 7:30 a.m. for the intentions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and for peace in our world & families.
  • The Holy Rosary is prayed each Tuesday morning at 9 a.m.
  • The Pro-Life Rosary is prayed each Wednesday morning at 6 a.m.
  • The Pro-Life Rosary is prayed on the first Saturday of each month after 8:00 a.m. Mass. 
  • The Divine Mercy Chaplet is prayed each Thursday morning at 6:10 a.m.
  • Thursday before the first Friday of each month a Eucharistic Holy Hour with Exposition of Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
  • The litany of the Sacred Heart is prayed each First Friday after Holy Mass at 6:30am.

PARISH BULLETIN

Here you will find the most recent bulletin as well as bulletin archives. All bulletins are published in Adobe Reader Format.

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Liturgical Ministries

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If you discern that God is calling you to serve Him in the Sacred Liturgy and would like to assist Sacred Heart Church in one of the following liturgical ministries, please contact the parish office.

Readers

Readers are commissioned to proclaim the various readings from Sacred Scripture and the Prayers of the Faithful during Mass. Readers must have a strong personal faith and good voice skills.

Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion

Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion are commissioned to assist the Priest-celebrant in the distribution of Holy Communion as needed. Those who are interested in serving in this ministry should be confirmed Catholics in good standing, with a strong Eucharistic faith, who are willing to be trained in this important service. All Extraordinary Ministers are also commissioned to bring the Holy Eucharist to the sick and the homebound as needed.

Altar Servers

The practice of having young men assisting Priests when they celebrated the sacraments is centuries old. Originally, young men studied for the Holy Priesthood under the tutelage of an experienced Priest and learned how to offer the Holy Mass and celebrate the other sacraments by assisting him. Later, when seminaries were established and young men seeking Holy Orders were sent away for studies, other young men of the parish took the seminarians’ places in serving at the altar. Many of them would go on into the seminary and become Priests themselves. Sacred Heart has had altar boys from the start; today, young men continue to be invited to become part of this noble tradition. We also accept young women as altar servers. 

Parish Choir

Those with musical talent who contribute to the Sacred Music of the Liturgy exercise a very important role of helping the People of God assembled for Mass to sing the praises of God.

Ushers

Ushers serve Mass by helping to take the collection and prepare the gifts of bread and wine to be brought forward for the Offertory procession.

 

Parishioner Registration

We have mailed out census forms to all of our registered parishioners.

Please fill out the form and return it to the rectory! You can mail it, drop it in the collection basket, drop it off at the rectory, email or fax it.

If you receive more than one mailing, please let us know so we can consolidate the information.

If you did not receive one in the mail, then you are not registered with us or we do not have your current mailing address.

Forms are available at the doors of the church, in the church office or just click on the link below!

Click here to download our Parishioner Registration form! 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!!

What’s Happening Around the Diocese?

+ Divorce Recovery – Are you or someone you know suffering or has suffered from the breakdown of their marriage and family? Our Lady of Fatima Church will provide a 12 week series of the Catholic Divorce Support program. Topics that will be discussed are shock, denial, anger, grief, forgiveness, money, dating, remarriage, and so much more. For more information, please contact our facilitator Greg Broussard at 337-412-0349.

+ Natural Family Planning classes: Please contact Leslie Johnson to sign up at Jljohnson786@gmail.com or (337)331-5598.

+ New Life Pregnancy Center: Support the Center, buy a yard sign and help advertise the Center! Signs are $10.00 each — 100% goes to support the Center
Your generous donation will help the most helpless in our society, the unborn. Help us lighten the burden of an unexpected pregnancy.
(337) 468-2312
P.O. Box 194, Mamou, LA 70554

Religious Education Program

If you have any questions or concerns regarding CCD, please contact the Director of Religious Education: Tiffany Tate Alfred  Phone: 363.5167  Email: olqasdre@centurytel.net

Click on the link below to download the CCD registration form:

+ Grades 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

+ 2nd Grade/First Communion

+ Grades 9, 10, 11/Confirmation

 

Welcome Fr. Alex Lancon!

Rev. Alex Lancon 

Fr. Lancon was ordained on June 11, 2022, at the age of 28. Similar to an upbringing in Ville Platte, Fr. Lancon grew up in the small-town environment of Franklin, LA, and is one of five children. He attended St. John Elementary and graduated from Hanson Memorial High School in 2012 where he was heavily involved in student life. Fr. Lancon then attended Louisiana State University where he received a bachelor’s in business with a concentration in human resource management.

Responding to a years-long call to discern the priesthood, Fr. Lancon entered St. Joseph Seminary College in Covington, LA immediately after graduation from LSU. There, he studied philosophy and theology for two years.

He has finished his fifth year at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas in Rome where he received a licentiate in moral theology with a concentration in bioethics. He is incredibly excited to return to Louisiana and serve the good people of the Diocese of Lafayette and our parishes. We welcome him with open arms!

 

Parish Announcements

Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish Announcements

+ Church Office Hours:

8:00am -4:00pm Monday – Thursday

8:00am – 12:00 noon on Fridays

(closed 12:00-1:00pm for lunch)  

 

 

 

Venmo

Sacred Heart Church now has a Venmo account!

You can easily make your donations using your phone anytime and anywhere!

Just scan the QR code below!

 

 

 

 

 

Then put how much you want to donate. In the comment section, you can specify what the donation is for (Ex: 1st collection, 2nd collection, ACTS, etc.). You can also put your envelope number in the comment section.

If you have any questions, please call the office!

Parishioners For Life

Parishioners For Life—Motivating Members to Help End Abortion

The Pope on Life

“Every life is sacred! Let us go forward with the culture of life to counter the logic of waste and the declining birth rate; let us be close and together let us pray for the babies who are threatened by the termination of pregnancy, as well as for the people who are at the end of life — every life is sacred! — so that no one may be left alone and that love may defend the meaning of life. Let us recall the words of Mother Teresa: “Life is beautiful, admire it; life is life, defend it!”, be it a baby who is about to be born, or a person who is close to death: every life is sacred!”

– Pope Francis, Message for Day of Life, February 5, 2017

 

Resource Recommendations

The following are resource recommendations from the Diocese Office of Marriage & Family Life:

Divorce & Annulment:

+Catholic Divorce Survival Guide: diolaf.org/divorcerecovery

+Office of Tribunal: diolaf.org/tribunal

+Beginning Experience: beginningexperience.org

Grief/Bereavement:

+ Red Bird Ministries:  Red Bird Ministries is a Catholic grief support ministry that focuses on couples who have experienced the loss of a child of any age by loving them through their loss. Our goal is to help couples living this nightmare to not just survive their loss, but to love them through it by sharing our own experiences and healings, in hopes of helping them to survive and thrive in their marriages and in life. Please contact Kelly Breaux at (337) 223-2019 or at kelly@redbird.love for more information. Visit our website at www.redbird.love.

+ A Catholic Journey Through Grief: diolaf.org/grief

+ Companions Along the Journey (support group, Scott area): (337)654-8917

+ Grief Share (support group, Broussard area): (337)837-1864

+ LA Grief Support Group (New Iberia area): (337)367-8003

+ St. Monica’s Society (support group for widowed women, Lafayette area): (337)235-0465

+ Healing House (Hope for Grieving Children): healing-house.org; (337)234-0443

+ Hospice of Acadiana (support group): (337)232-1234

Infertility/NFP:

+ diolaf.org/nfp

+ USCCB webpage on infertility: usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage-and-family/natural-family-planning/resources/infertility

+ catholic-fertility@yahoogroups.com

Marriage Enrichment:

+ World Wide Marriage Encounter: wwwme.org

+ For Your Marriage: foryourmarriage.org

Mental Illness:

+ National Alliance for the Mentally Ill: name.org

Pregnancy & Infant Loss:

+ elizabethministry.com

+ aplacetoremember.com

+ nationalshare.org

+ maddiesfootprints.org

Struggling Marriages:

+ Retrouvaille Weekend: A program for troubled marriages. The weekend provides a safe setting; encouraging couples to learn communication in marriage in a respectful manner. Visit the website for more information and to register www.helpourmarriage.com.

+ Codependents Anonymous (a fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop health relationships: (337)261-5607

Suicide Survivors:

+ diolaf.org/suicide-survivors

+ Jacob Crouch Foundation: injacobsmemory.org

+ American Association of Suicidology: suicidology.org

+ American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: afsp.org

+ Suicide Awareness Voices of Education: save.org

+ Yellow Ribbon Program (Prevention of Teen Suicide): yellowribbon.org