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During February and March 2019, we will have registration for CCD students for the next school year. If you have a child leaving the Catholic school in grades 1st - 10th and entering public school, that child must attend CCD classes in his/her church parish. If you have any questions and are registering a child for the first time, please call Diane at 985.537.6002. The registration deadline is March 30, 2019.

All ablebodied men and women are invited to join in digging out the parameters of our Prayer Garden beside the Parish Office. Please join us at the office at 8 AM Saturday 26th January. If you can, bring a shovel, work gloves, wheel-barrow and any other implement, which will help. It will be a fun morning and we will end up with a beautiful meditation/prayer garden by Easter, please God. I thank you in advance and pray a blessing on your labors. God bless, Fr. PJ

The following person is wanted for the January 23, 2019 break-in of the money boxes in the candle room that took place around 12:58 in the morning. Anyone having information on this should contact the Lafourche Sheriff Office at 985-532-2808 or 985-448-2111.

A gathering with Bishop Fabre will be held on Saturday, January 26th at 6PM in St. Hilary Church to address any concerns or questions in our people's hearts arising from the recent release of priests' names.

Fr. PJ, Fr. Noas, Deacon Tim, the Parish Staff and Pastoral Council wish all our parishioners every blessing of the Christ Child throughout the New Year. We sincerely thank ALL of you for your faithful participation in, and generosity to our parish. New Year's Day Mass schedule: Monday, December 31st, St. Hilary 5:15PM; Tuesday, January 1st, St. Hilary 8AM. St. Anthony 9AM.

On Sunday, December 9th, St. Hilary hosted a children's Christmas Party in the multipurpose building. Games, food, and fun projects were provided for the kids. Santa Claus and Mickey and Minnie Mouse even stopped by to visit! (Click to see photo)

Christmas Eve Tuesday, December 24, 4pm, 6pm and Midnight , Christmas Day Wednesday, December 25, 7am & 9am

Christmas Eve Tuesday, December 24, 6pm , Christmas Day Wednesday, December 25, 9am

8:00 A.M. Saturday (12/8/18) Holy Day of Obligation

On behalf of Father PJ, Father Noas, Diane, and Gretchen, thank you to all of the parishioners that gave to St. Hilary and St. Anthony yesterday for #igivecatholic. We raised over $1500!! Your generosity is overwhelming. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

Advent Mission will be on December 19th & 20th from 7-8PM; speaker, Fr. John David Matherne.

St. Hilary: Christmas Eve 4PM (Children's Mass), 6PM and Midnight; Christmas Day 7AM and 9AM. St. Anthony: Christmas Eve 6PM; Christmas Day 9AM. St. Hilary: Confession "The Light is On for You", December 19th, 6-8:30PM; 9-11AM Christmas Eve Morning at St. Hilary

Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in piercing cold. In that hour, vouchsafe O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires, (mention intentions) through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ, and of His blessed Mother Mary. Amen

#iGiveCatholic November 27th is #GivingTuesday. It is an annual giving day for Catholic Parishioners to give to their parish. Please consider giving a gift of thanks to St. Hilary/St Anthony. Gifts will be used for the Youth Group and the construction of this beautiful prayer garden (see the picture of the proposed Prayer Garden that will be constructed at St. Hilary with benches, outdoor lighting and Stations of the Cross). Advanced Day Giving ends tonight at 11:59 pm, and the online giving begins at midnight for 24 hours! If you cannot be around your computer to give on Giving Tuesday, please consider giving an advanced day gift today. Call Gretchen at the office for more information. Thanks to all of our parishioners for what you do to keep the Light of Christ ALIVE in our community. Here is the link to give to St. Hilary’s iGiveCatholic campaign! https://houma-thibodaux.igivecatholic.org/organizations/st-hilary-of-poiters-catholic-church #iGiveCatholic

CHRISTMAS FLOWERS Anyone wishing to make a donation for Christmas flowers in memory of your loved one may do so by placing the names and donation in an envelope marked “Flowers” and place it in the collection. The deadline to turn in names will be December 10th. Please get your names in as soon as possible and please include your phone number. Thanks for your cooperation.

CHRISTMAS GIVING St. Hilary is again inviting anyone who is interested in purchasing Gift Cards from Rouse’s, CVS or Wal-Mart to help our elderly and homebound at Christmas to please bring them to the Parish Office or place them in a sealed envelope marked “Gift Cards” and place them in the collection basket. Remember, no gift is too small and all are greatly appreciated.

THANKSGIVING MASS SCHEDULE Wednesday, November 21 6pm Vigil Mass Thursday, November 22 8 am Mass Friday, November 23 7 am Mass Our Thanksgiving Vigil Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, November 21st at 6:00 pm. We invite you to join us as we thank God for the many blessings he has bestowed on us. The Parish Office will close at noon on Wednesday, November 21st and reopen on Monday, November 26th at 8 am.

Good Afternoon! My name is Norris Cantrelle. I am grateful for the privilege of visiting with you today. You’ll be happy to know that my presentation should only take about six minutes. Many of you received a letter this week from St. Hilary containing a brochure entitled “Enrich Your Faith, Strengthen Your Church” together with a commitment card. If you did not receive this mailing, it means that you have not officially registered as a parishioner of St. Hilary. We have extra copies of the brochure and commitment cards at the end of each pew and in the back of the church. All adults are encouraged to fill out the commitment card so we can have your names and contact information. Couples should provide contact information for both of you. The commitment cards have a provision for your telephone number and email address. Your contact information will enable us to provide you with important and sometimes urgent communications quickly and without cost to St. Hilary. Our ability to effectively communicate with you will draw us closer as a loving, caring church community. Please take time to carefully review the brochure. The brochure has a list of services St. Hilary provides and many of its ministries. Over the years I have been privileged to serve as an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, a Lector, on the Pastoral Council, the Finance Council, the Lay Support Committee for the Diaconate Internship of Father Paul Birdsall, the OSV Increased Offertory Giving Program, the St. Hilary Parish Implementation Committee for Strategic Planning, and the St. Hilary Legacy Committee. In all humility, I recite this litany not to impress but only to encourage you to come forward and offer yourself in service to the Lord and his church. I assure you that any time I offered to serve, I always received more than I ever gave. Being in the presence of such generous and joyful men and women who love the Lord and serve St. Hilary, always inspired me to be a better person. St. Hilary is blessed with an abundance of people who do amazing work transforming the lives of the people they serve. They are true missionary disciples. Now, I would like to challenge some of you. Have you thought about how you could serve others? What gifts and talents have you received that Jesus is asking you to share with us? Ask Jesus to show you what he wants. Listen to his voice. As you well know, Jesus usually speaks to us through others, through his disciples, like you and me. Actually, most of the time, he speaks to us through Father PJ who’ll ask us to do things we might not otherwise want to do unless we get a personal invitation. The brochure also includes a beautiful letter from Father PJ. Please read it. Father reminds us that “through prayer and the gifts of the Holy Spirit, we are able to further our mission ‘engaging others as missionary disciples’ to love God and neighbor as Jesus taught.” He explains, “Stewardship is about doing the work of Christ, engaging our many resources to further the ministry and mission of Jesus Christ.” The Parish Brochure provides a summary of our latest Statement of Income and Expenses, showing that we ended the year with our first surplus in seven years. Our deficits of recent years have resulted primarily from our need to deal with long-delayed major repairs and essential improvements to our parish facilities, which thankfully are now in good condition. Because of your generosity, St. Hilary is not in debt and we are fortunate to have substantial savings on deposit. We pledge to continue this prudent stewardship of all of our resources. Having managed to pay our bills and fixing up our buildings, we want to do more. As Father PJ states in his letter in the Parish Brochure, “We now also want to focus on the “new evangelization” with programs and services to welcome and grow new disciples and engage others to meet the varying needs of our community.” He invites you to “Enrich Your Faith, Strengthen Your Church.” Please review and fill out the Commitment Card. If you are interested in electronic giving, please check that provision on the Commitment Card. If a significant number of you are interested in electronic giving, we will explore options to make this available to you. The Commitment Card also provides helpful suggestions for calculating your weekly sacrificial offering. In closing, the first and most important request we ask of you is to prayerfully consider sharing your gifts, your time and talents, in service to the Lord and St. Hilary, helping each other along the way to our eternal and heavenly home living always as we are called to be missionary disciples to our neighbors and to the world. To achieve our mission as a community of believers, we secondly ask you to also re-examine your stewardship of your treasure and with the help of God consider increasing your weekly sacrificial financial offering, so that it will be an offering that truly reflects your financial ability to give. Thank you for your kind attention to my remarks. Thank you for your warm and loving support throughout the years. I am grateful and proud to be a member of our St. Hilary Parish family.

Practice: Saturday, November 3rd, 2018, @9:00 A.M. (In the Church) Mass: Sunday, November 4th, 2018, @11:00 A.M.

You will be receiving brochures in the mail in the next week detailing the Enrich Your Faith Strengthen Your Church Program at St.Hilary and St.Anthony. Prayerfully discuss and pray with your family reflecting on the parish's needs and your current level of giving. Commitment Weekend: November 4, St.Hilary and St.Anthony Masses