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St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church
401 South Adams Ave.
Rayne, La 70578
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Parish Office: 337-334-2193
Parish Email: stjoseph1872@diolaf.org
Weekly Mass Times
Saturday Anticipated: 4pm
Sunday: 7am, 10am, 5:30 pm
Monday: 6:30 am
Tuesday: 12:05 pm
Wednesday: 6:30 am
Thursday: 12:05 pm
Friday: 6:30 am
First Saturday: 9:00 am
The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.” “The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch.”
– CCC 1324
All gather together. Christians come together in one place for the Eucharistic assembly. At its head is Christ himself, the principal agent of the Eucharist. He is high priest of the New Covenant; it is he himself who presides invisibly over every Eucharistic celebration. It is in representing him that the bishop or priest acting in the person of Christ the head (in persona Christi capitis) presides over the assembly, speaks after the readings, receives the offerings, and says the Eucharistic Prayer. All have their own active parts to play in the celebration, each in his own way: readers, those who bring up the offerings, those who give communion, and the whole people whose “Amen” manifests their participation. -CCC 1348