St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

Zachary, Louisiana

 

 

Our Lady of the Assumption Mission

Clinton, Louisiana

 

Bringing more than 1,300 families closer to Christ

~A Parish since 1964~

Mind. . .Body. . .Heart. . .Soul ~ The Faith Communities of St. John the Baptist and Our Lady of the Assumption

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Saturday Vigil Mass

5:00PM - St. John's

 

Sunday Morning

7 & 11AM-St. John's

9:00AM-OLA, Clinton

  

OLA

Tuesdays-6:30PM

 

St. John's

Wednesday-7:00AM

Thursday-7:30AM

Friday-7:30AM

 

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Reconciliation

  Saturdays

4 PM-St. John's

Tuesdays

6:15PM-OLA

 

Click Here for a guide to Examination of Conscience and Steps for Confession

 

Holy Rosary

Tuesdays

6:15 pm-OLA

Sundays

10:00 am-SJB 

 

Confession

On Wednesdays, confession may be scheduled  by appointment with Father Bayhi

Adoration

The Adoration Chapel at St. John's is open from Noon until 6 PM, Monday-Friday.

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for details

 

 

Prayer of the Holy Rosary is held at St. John's

every Sunday,

beginning at 10:00 AM, and on the 1st Sunday of each month at Our Lady, beginning at 8:30 AM.

Click here to learn more about the Staff of St. John's, Our Lady and the Sisters of St. Joseph Convent

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The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother

Saturday - August 15, 2009 at Our Lady of the Assumption

Please plan to celebrate this feast day of our Patron Saint, in Clinton

VIGIL MASS at 4:00 PM, celebrated by Monsignor Gerald LeFebvre

There will be a Parish Social following, with Meals, Games and Fellowship

*Note: There will be NO Mass on Sunday, August 16th

Making an

 

 

"Extra! Extra!  Read All About it!  Youth Ministry Makes a Difference in Jackson." Click here.

 

Replenishment Blood Drive for

Sheila Joyner

(Date of Surgery July 27, 2009)

Zachary Police Department

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

10:00am – 2:00pm

Sign up online @ www.bloodhero.com

and enter sponsor code: “SHEILA”

 

You can also donate at two other locations in Sheila’s name:

 

First Baptist Church of Zachary

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

9:00am – 1:00pm

Or

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

8:30am – 12:15pm

 

Parish Families of St. John's and Our Lady

Number of Families:  1306

Number of Members: 3636

 

 

Living Rosary Planned for October 10th

Click here for Flyer and Details

 

Update:

Sr. Eugenia came to Zachary on April 25 and spread her message throughout the community until May 4th when she returned to Rome.

Sister Eugenia, our "Angel of the Streets" sends her unending gratitude for making her mission appeal a huge success.  Local efforts raised more than $70,000 to help women and children imprisoned as sex slaves.

Sister Eugenia Bonetti with

Father Bayhi and Amy Roth

at the Women's Morning of Prayer

held at St. John's on Saturday, May 2

 

"I returned to Rome and was

immediately homesick for 'my Zachary,' were her remarks when

she called to thank our community."

 

Sister Eugenia Bonetti is on the streets nightly, rescuing women and children who have been imprisoned for human trafficking through organized crime.

"No one was born to be a prostitute."

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  Want to make a general donation to help Sister Eugenia? Click "Donate" below.

Your contribution saves and rebuilds the lives of so many nameless, faceless women and children considered, in many cases, unwanted by society. Thank you!

 

For a copy of the Vatican's "Top Ten Women of 2007," featuring Sr. Eugenia Bonetti, Click Here

 

 

The Big Fish at St. John's!

"It only took me 84 1/2 years to win a fishing trophy but it's mine!" - Clarence Bueche

See more pictures of the Knights of Columbus 2009 Fishing Tourney on our Organizations Page

Say "NO!" To

 

FOCA

The Freedom of Choice Act

The Beginning of the End?

Clearly FOCA will not make abortion safe or rare – on the contrary, it will actively promote abortion and do nothing to ensure its safety – so, abortion advocates’ unrelenting campaign to enact FOCA is a “wake-up call” to all Americans. If implemented, FOCA would invalidate common-sense, protective laws that the majority of Americans support. It will not protect or empower women. Instead, it would protect and promote the abortion industry, sacrifice women and their health to a radical political ideology, and silence the voices of everyday Americans who want to engage in a meaningful public discussion over the availability, safety, and even desirability of abortion.  Click here to jump to our FOCA page for details on this horrific possibility.

 

NOTE:  If you would like to download and/or print a copy of Deacon Ronnie LeGrange's touching Eulogy:  Beyond Greatness, click here

IN MEMORIAM

OUR PARISHIONER, OUR BROTHER,

OUR FRIEND

 

George Joseph Charlet, Jr.

(January 28, 1944 - February 9, 2009)

 

"To all my friends, family, and loved ones: I was able to love because you let me love!!  Spread it daily.  Never let a day go by that you don't tell someone who needs it that you love them.  I am alright with my God.  He knows my heart.  I bet my life on Him. I ain't worried.  May that peace be all of yours.  And never forget that service to humanity is the best work of life.  And that today is the first day of the rest of your life."

We Celebrate the Life and Legacy of George Joseph "Uncle George" Charlet, Jr.

Lay Professional to the Diocese of Baton Rouge for Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church

 

George Joseph Charlet, Jr. was a second generation funeral director and embalmer.  Along with his brother, Donald "Pete" Charlet, he learned his life's trade from his father, George Charlet, Sr. and his uncle "CA" Charlet.  He was a graduate of Clinton High School in Clinton, LA, where he played football and ran track.  He was proud of his many state track records.  He received his mortuary training at the Dallas Institute of Gupton Jones.  He was a member of the National Funeral Directors Association and the Louisiana Funeral Directors Association, which he served as president of in 2005.  He was a charter member of the Clinton, LA Jaycees.  In 1975, he was selected as the Outstanding President of the Year of the Jaycees.   In 1976, he was selected as the Outstanding Jaycee of the Year.  He was also a member of the Zachary Jaycees and the Jackson Jaycees.

 

George served on the East Feliciana Parish School Board Committees for several years.  When the East Feliciana school system was in dire need of new facilities, he organized the Citizens for Better Schools Committee, which helped pass a bond issue that allowed state-of-the-art schools for the parish.  He was a member of the Clinton High Quarterback Club.  He was an organizer and member of the Bon-Temps Social Club.  He was a member of the Clinton Volunteer Fire Department, where he risked his life countless times to protect the lives and property of his beloved community.  He was selected at the Citizen of the Year by both the Watchman newspaper and the Clinton Lions Club.  George was a "cultivated leader by God's hand"; he was never just a member of any organization, but the undisputed leader.  No newspaper is large enough to list the countless organizations to which he was a "charter member", President, or Director, but his life was always centered on celebrating life in Christ, and saving lives regardless of the time of day or convenience.

 

 Next to his family and his church, the International Scouting Program was the love of his life.  He was a member of the Avondale District of the Istrouma Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America.  He served as the Scoutmaster for Troop 60 in Clinton, Louisiana, where he guided hundreds of Scouts to the highest rank of Eagle Scout.  This achievement is one of the proudest of his lifetime.  He was a Vigil Honor Member of the Quinipissa Lodge of the Order of the Arrow, where he also served for many years as the Lodge Advisor.  He served on the Advisory Board of Cub Scout Pack 60, and also served as a leader and advisor to the local Girl Scouts Troop.  He received the Silver Beaver award for outstanding leadership in Boy Scouting and for his commitment to Scouting's highest ideals.  He was the Leader of the Istrouma Area Council's first Tiger Cub Den. He served as a Scoutmaster to the National Boy Scout Jamboree in 1989, 1993, and 1997, and as a Scoutmaster to the World Boy Scouting Jamboree in Holland in 1995.  In 2001, he was the Scoutmaster to one of the only Co-Ed Explorer Posts to the World Jamboree in Chile.  He was an assistant Scoutmaster to the World Jamboree in London in 2007.  He also attended many Scouting Camporees, Conclaves, NOACs, and National Leadership Seminars.  He was known worldwide to Scouts as "Uncle George."  George Joseph Charlet, Jr. contributed both his resources and his time to thousands of philanthropic interests, both local and abroad.  

 

Click here for an awesome photo slideshow from this year's March for Life:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/youthmarchforlife/show/

 

In Memoriam

Father Matthew John Faschan

January 29, 1915 - January 3, 2009

 

  The Reverend Matthew John Faschan, an ordained priest of 62 years and former Pastor of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church-Zachary, and Our Lady of the Assumption Mission-Clinton, died at 12:08 AM on Saturday, January 3, 2009 at Lane Regional Medical Center in Zachary.  He was 93 years old.

  Fr. Faschan was educated in Stanhope, NJ.  He attended St. Michael’s School, Netcong, NJ, Seton Hall Prep and three years of college at Seton Hall University.  He was ordained at Marist College, Washington, DC, on June 9, 1950.  His assignments included: St. Joseph’s Church, Buckhannon, WV, as Assistant, August, 1946 through June 1950; St. Joseph’s Church, Buckhannon, WV, as Pastor, June, 1950 through August, 1956; Sacred Heart Church, Atlanta, GA, Assistant, August 1956 through October, 1959; St. Joseph’s in Algiers, LA, as Assistant, October, 1959 through May, 1962; St. Francis Xavier, Georgia Missions at Brunswick, GA and Darien, Jessup, GA, May 1962 through August, 1963; St. Joseph Church in Paulina, LA, as Pastor, August, 1963 through August, 1969; Sacred Heart Church, Baton Rouge, LA, as Administrator, August, 1969 through May, 1970; St. John the Baptist, Zachary, LA and its Mission church, Our Lady of the Assumption, from May, 1970 until January, 1981

 

 

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Welcome to St. John's

The family of faith at St. John the Baptist began as a mission

of Sacred Heart Parish in 1924 and was officially chartered, with out Mission Church, Our Lady of the Assumption, in 1964.

 

  Throughout our 84-year history, we have been blessed by the guidance of seven pastors including the late Monsignor Cage Gordon, the late Father Matthew J. Faschan, Father Robert Stein, Father Henry C. Vavasseur, Father Tom Duhe, Father Kenneth Laird, Father Victor Messina, Father Christopher Roussell, Monsignor Gerald LeFebvre, and our present pastor, Father M. Jeffery Bayhi.

 

 

 

Mind

 

Body

SJBCC-Mind, Body, Soul & Heart

Heart

 

Soul

 

       Our Mission

            To provide a unified, Catholic community striving to maintain, promote and continue

            the legacy of faith begun by our forefathers.

     

       New to Our Parish?

            All families should complete a parish census form through the parish office to be formally

            registered at St. John the Baptist Church or Our Lady of the Assumption Mission.  You

            may come by or phone the parish office, or fill out a registration form located in the

            vestibule of the church.


Telephone Numbers

           

Main Office:

Religious Education:

 

Prayer Lines:

   225-654-5778

   225-654-5885 (St. John's)

   225-603-3870 (Our Lady of the Assumption)

   225-654-5958 or 225-654-4186 (St. John's)

   225-683-3697 (Our Lady of the Assumption)

Fax Number:    225-654-5796
Postal Address:

   4727 McHugh Drive

   Zachary, Louisiana  70791-3935

Electronic Mail:

   info@sjb-ola.org (general correspondence)

   webmaster@sjb-ola.org (web related issues)

   rsmith@sjb-ola.org (Ric Smith, Asst. to Father Bayhi) 

                       

         

The Blessed Sacraments

  

                   SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM-Baptism is celebrated six times throughout the year after Sunday Mass. 

                    Registration of parents in the parish is required.  Call the parish office to register for required

                    preparation for parents.  Parents must be active, confirmed Catholics in good standing with

the church.  Please notify the office prior to the birth of your child.

Note: to download and print a Baptism Candidate Profile, click here.

 

                    SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION-Confirmation is celebrated with students in the eleventh grade

                    who have been enrolled in Catholic secondary school or the Religious Education Program in

                    grades nine through eleven and who complete sacramental preparation in the parish.

 

                    SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY-Couples must contact Father Bayhi at least four to six months prior

                    to the proposed wedding date.  A preparation program is required.  Note:  to download a list

of items for consideration in planning your wedding, click here.

 

                   CARE OF THE SICK-Emergency calls are answered immediately, when possible.  Visits to homebound

                    parishioners will be conducted on a regular basis.  Please notify the parish office when confined

                    to hospital or home.

 

                    CHRISTIAN BURIAL-Families should contact the parish office for funeral arrangements.

 

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