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.
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Sacred Heart Chapel, Belaire Cove
Address: 2003 Belaire Cove Road, Ville Platte, LA
On March 3, 1940, the Most Rev. Jules B. Jeanmard, Bishop of Lafayette, officiated at the dedication and blessing of the new chapel in Belaire Cove, named after the church parish to which it remains attached, Sacred Heart Chapel. According to an article in the Ville Platte Gazette of February 29, 1940, Monsignor J. M. Bourgeois, pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Ville Platte, reported that the chapel was built at a cost of $3,000. Of that amount, $2,000 was a gift from the Catholic Church Extension Society of Chicago, and the remainder was raised by donations.
Records in the Evangeline Parish Clerk of Court’s office indicate that the land for the chapel was purchased from Mrs. Marie B. Fontenot, widow of Octave P. Vidrine, Sr., on May 30, 1938. The price of the two acres was $150. Later, on April 2, 1941, another acre of land was purchased from Mrs. Vidrine for the sum of $75.
Sacred Heart Church records indicate the names of the committee “elected by the people of Belaire Cove to direct the activities in construction of their community church.” They were: Aldes Soileau, chairman, Atale Fontenot, Onile Lafleur, Horace B. Fontenot, Joseph P. Vidrine, Angelas Deville, Albert Soileau, Olin Fontenot, Dallas Fontenot, and Tanzy G. Fontenot.
To the present day, the Belaire Cove Chapel continues to serve the little country community of Belaire Cove and in April hosts an annual “crawfish cook-off” fundraiser that draws hundreds of people from the greater Ville Platte area for a day of music, food, and family fun. Over the last several years, the fundraiser has made it possible to build a church hall and pavilion and to pave the entire parking area.
Holy Mass is celebrated at Belaire Cove every Saturday at 4 p.m. Confessions are heard about one half hour before Mass. For holydays of obligation, please consult a recent schedule posted elsewhere.
Sacred Heart Church now has a Venmo account!
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