Reconciliation
The Sacrament of Reconciliation is offered before and after each each Mass or by appointment.
Holy Communion
Please call the Parish Office if you need communion to be brought to your home or hospital.
Matrimony
Please contact Fr. Satish at the Parish Office 228 864-2272 at least six months prior to setting a wedding date.
Anointing of the Sick
Please keep us informed so that we might minister to those who are ill at home, in the hospital or in a nursing home by contacting the Parish Office 228 864-2272. Confirmation
"Confirmation , like every sacrament, is not the work of human beings but of God, who cares for our lives as to mold us in the image of his Son, to make us capable of loving as he loves." Pope Francis
Confirmation, together with Baptism and Eucharist, form the Sacraments of Initiation that are all intimately connected. In the Sacrament of Confirmation, the baptized person is "sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit" and is strengthened for service to the Body of Christ. Jesus' entire mission occurred in communion with the Spirit. Before he died, Jesus promised that the Spirit would be given to the Apostles and to the entire Church. After his death, he was raised by the Father in the power of the Spirit. Those who believed in the Apostles' preaching were baptized and received the Holy Spirit through the laying on of hands. The Apostles baptized believers in water and the Spirit. Then they imparted the special gift of the Spirit through the laying on of hands. "'The imposition of hands is rightly recognized by the Catholic tradition as the origin of the sacrament of Confirmation, which in a certain way perpetuates the grace of Pentecost in the Church'" (CCC, no. 1288, citing Pope Paul VI, Divinae Consortium Naturae, no. 659). By the second century, Confirmation was also conferred by anointing with holy oil, which came to be called sacred Chrism. "This anointing highlights the name 'Christian,' which means 'anointed' and derives from that of Christ himself whom God 'anointed with the Holy Spirit'" (CCC, no. 1289, citing Acts 10:38). |