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Hospice Volunteers Needed

You can make a difference through volunteerism.  Provide flexible patient/family visits, calls, or bereavement support.  Choose your own hours and area of town.  Office assistance of all ages is welcomed.  Fulfill student service hours.  Please call Serenity Hospice Services, 366-3996.

 

 

 

 

 

 

DONATE WITHOUT SPENDING EXTRA?

HERE’S HOW YOU CAN!

 

www.GoodSearch.com

 

What if St. Martha Church earned a penny every time you searched the Internet?  Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support our cause?  Well, now it can?  GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate.  Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up!

 

www.goodshop.com

 

GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 37 percent of each purchase to our favorite cause!  Hundreds of great stores including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy’s and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you’ll be supporting our favorite cause.  Just go to www.goodshop.com and be sure to enter St. Martha Catholic Church, Harvey, LA, as the Charity you want to support.  Be sure to spread the word!

 

Winn Dixie

 

Use your Winn Dixie Reward Card along with St. Martha’s Community Pal Bar Code (which you can get from the Parish Office).  Have it scanned only one time with your Reward Card and after that, every time you shop with your Reward Card, a percentage comes back to St. Martha.

 

Office Depot

 

Use the St. Martha’s Office Depot Worklife Rewards Card.  Every time you shop at Office Depot, give them the Parish Office’s telephone number 504-366-1604.  The rewards will add up for St. Martha to use for office expenses.

 

Recycling Toner & Ink Cartridges & Old Cell Phones

 

Bring your old toner, ink cartridges, and old cell phones to St. Martha’s church in the gathering room.  You’ll be able to help raise money for St. Martha and help save the landfills.  Do you have a business willing to save their recyclables for St. Martha?  Let us know and we’ll arrange for collection at no expense.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bulletin Sponsors

 

May we suggest that you turn to the back page of our bulletin and check out our advertisers.  Through their generosity, our bulletin is made possible.  We would like to express our thanks to them for their ongoing support.

 

 

 

Choose Life Newspaper

 

One long ago day at a Washington, D.C. Prayer Breakfast, a tiny nun proclaimed these words to those in high positions of power; “if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?”  On that day, Mother Teresa of Calcutta captured the essence of love—respect for all human life.

We pray for all those who have been led astray by the false promises of abortion that they may turn to the Lord for comfort.

 

IRS CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS RULING

 

The IRS has issued new guidelines, effective January 1, 2007 that will require parishioners who itemize deductions on their federal tax returns to have bank records or parish receipts in order to deduct their charitable church contributions.  This means parishioners who contribute cast in the collection basket each Sunday, without using a church envelope, will no longer be able to deduct those contributions because they will have neither bank records nor receipts to verify them.

 

 

 

 

Infant Jesus of Prague/St. Martha Church

Food Bank (368-1397)

2108 8th Street, Harvey

A few parishioners of Infant Jesus of Prague Church started the Food Bank over 20 years ago. Today the Food Bank serves approximately 60 bag lunches per month to homeless street people and provides groceries to approximately 160 needy families once a month who live in the church parish boundaries. Strict records are kept to insure that the truly needy are provided food. The following are required for families requesting monthly groceries: ID, proof of address, proof of income, and social security card numbers for family members. The street people are required to sign for their lunches. Bag lunches and monthly family groceries are distributed every Wednesday and Thursday from 9:30 to noon.

 

Cash and food donations are provided to the Food Bank by parishioners of Infant Jesus and St. Martha Parishes, and various businesses on the Westbank. Second Harvest is a major contributor to the Food Bank.

 

The following are ongoing needs of the Food Bank:

• Food

• Cash

• Checks made payable to “Infant Jesus Helping Hands”

• Volunteers to serve

Some items needed:

• Rice, Sugar, Can Goods, Beans, Cereal,  Can Vegetables

• Stuffing, Cookies, Tomato Sauce, Crackers,

• Jell-O, Boxed Pasta, Dishes

• Tuna Tomato Paste Boxed Rice Dishes

• Snacks Can Soup Individual Gatorade

• Cake Mix Potted Meat Individual Bottled Tea

• Pasta Peanut Butter Individual Bottled Water

• Chips Canned Fruit Potted Meat

• Can Tomatoes, Boxed Potato Dishes, Vienna Sausage

• Razors, Mini Shaving Cream, Mini Soap, Deodorant,

• Shampoo and Feminine Products

Volunteers: Elaine Bartolo & Bertha Lapine

Sheena Berthelot & Martha Strauch

 

 

 

 

Heavenly Dusters (St. Martha)

 

What a privilege it is to clean the Lord’s house.  And that’s what we do.  We clean floors and windows, dust and vacuum, clean bathrooms and anything else that need to be cleaned.  We also take the linens home to wash and iron.  We work as a group so that no one has a heavy load.  Many hands make light work, so we are always looking for new members.

 

Altar Society (Infant Jesus)

 

We also take care of the Lord’s house, open chapel, clean church and altar, wash and prepare linens, change books in the church and chapel and set up for mass.

 

Men’s Club

 

 “Loving and Serving God Through One Another”.  We meet once a month to schedule, discuss and plan such events as the St. Martha’s Annual Golf Tournament, retreat, how we can assist other ministries, cabbage ball and bowling events against St. Martha’s Youth Group and an occasional card game among the members.

 

 

 

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The Proper Way

For Receiving Holy Communion

 

The following guidelines are based on the norms for the reverent reception of Holy Communion at Mass contained in the General Instruction of the Roman Missal from the Holy See and in Norms for the Distribution and Reception of Holy Communion under both Kinds in the Dioceses of the United States issued by the American Bishops and confirmed by the Holy See.

 

How to receive Holy Communion

 

Stand up and step out of your pew to join in the Communion Procession.  Often an usher helps to oversee this process.

 

If you are not carrying a child in your arms or a hymnal or a cane in your hand, it is appropriate to join your hands in front of you in a prayerful position (traditionally over the heart) as you process forward.

 

Remain standing for the reception of Holy Communion.  This is the standard posture for receiving Communion in the United States.

 

As you approach the minister, bow your head slightly as a sign of reverence toward Our Lord in the Eucharist.  You may receive the Sacred Host either in your hand or on your tongue.  The choice is yours.  There should be nothing (gum or cough drop) in your mouth when you receive Holy Communion.

 

If you intend to receive the Sacred Host in your hand, extend both hands palm upwards toward the minister, placing one hand directly on top of the other.  You should do this as you approach the minister so that it is obvious to the minister that you wish to receive Communion in the hand.  Do not receive the Sacred Host in the hand by extending only one of your hands.  If you are carrying a child in your arms or a cane in your hands, you should receive the Sacred Host on the tongue.

 

The minister will hold the Sacred Host in front of you and say, “The Body of Christ.”  You respond by saying, “Amen”.  Do not substitute another expression for it such as “Thank you”.  The minister in saying “The Body of Christ” and “The Blood of Christ” is making a declaration of faith about the nature of the Eucharist and the Church which you as the communicant must affirm with your “Amen” before you receive.  The word Amen from Hebrew meaning “Truly”, or “Let it be so”.

 

The minister will then place the Host on your open palm.  Do not attempt to grab the Host from the minister with your fingers.  Once the Host has been placed in your hand, immediately consume the Host in front of the minister.  You should pick up the Host from the palm of your hand with the fingers of your other hand and reverently place the Host in your mouth.  Do not begin walking back to your pew before consuming the Host, or carry the Host with the intention of dipping it into the Precious Blood. (The Lord said, take this cup and drink from it).

 

If you are going to receive the Sacred Host on your tongue, keep your hands joined over your heart, bow your head slightly as a sign of reverence toward Jesus in the Eucharist.  After the minister holds the Host in front of you and says the Body of Christ and your respond Amen, tilt your head backwards and extend your tongue far enough so there is no danger of the host falling to the floor.

 

If you wish to receive the Precious Blood – the choice is yours – bow your head slightly as you approach the minister.  The minister will hold the chalice in front of you and say, “The Blood of Christ”, to which you respond, “Amen”.  The minister will then hand you the chalice.  Grasp the chalice firmly with both hands.  Take a small sip of the Precious Blood and hand the chalice back to the minister who will wipe its rim to prepare it for the next communicant.

 

After receiving Holy Communion, return reverently to your pew and either sit or kneel for your private prayers, or to make an act of thanksgiving for the gift of the Eucharist.

 

 

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2011 

 

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FIRE COMPANY, NUMBER 2

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SECOND PARISH COURT

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FAMILY DENTISTRY

GREGORY S. STRAIN, DDS

ANGELIA K. THIAVILLE, DDS

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JUDGE HENRY G. SULLIVAN, JR.

24^TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

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