Our Lady of the Lake

In order to help you celebrate Holy Week, please note the schedule of video postings.

• Palm Sunday: Mass will be posted by 8 AM on Sunday, April 5th.  Note that blessed palms will be available for pickup in the Church (outside weather permitting)
• Daily Masses Monday-Wednesday: Masses will be posted by 8 AM each day
• Holy Thursday: Mass will be posted around 7 PM
• Good Friday: Service will be posted at 3 PM; Stations of the Cross is available to use as well
• Holy Saturday: The Easter Vigil Mass will be posted at 8 PM
• Easter Sunday: Easter Sunday Mass will be posted by 8 AM

Dear Parishioners and Friends,
 
I know that the current pandemic has caused economic hardship for everyone.  It has also profoundly affected Our Lady of the Lake Church.  Please consider your support for OLL Church to your ability.  Online giving is a secure and easy method for continuing your donations.  Access online giving with the button on the homepage of our website at www.ollparish.info. 
With God’s grace, we will all see this through together.
 
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Fr. Mark Lomax
 

TAN Books, a Catholic publisher, is offering a "fundraiser" to get some "stimulus" into the parish.  By use of a parish code they're offering that all parishioners will get a 30% discount off all purchases through the end of April.  At the end of April, TAN will mail Our Lady of the Lake Parish a check, donating a matching 30% savings from all of the sales made using the Parish Code!
 
The sale applies to the entire TAN website, accessible by clicking on the small box in the upper left hand corner.  It also includes Story of Civilization, a program used for homeschooling.  It does not apply to adult study programs, Love Ed, or First Communion Bibles.  But it does for everything else.  If you have any questions, there is a "chat with us" box on the right side of the screen which is manned from 8-5 Eastern time.  What a great way to keep your faith strong and engaged during this difficult time.
 
We simply go to their website, www.tanbooks.com, and use the code LAKE70448 at checkout to receive our discount.  Our purchases become a donation to our parish, and we receive something of great spiritual value in return.
 

In light of measures being taken to contain the outbreak and avoid further spread of the coronavirus, OLL has taken the following measures:

• OLL will record and make available for viewing every daily and weekend mass starting at 8:00 AM, Wednesday, 18 March.  We will have the link here on our webpage.
• PLEASE, send a picture of yourselves and/or your family so that you can join me in my daily mass! Send it to: intentions@ollparish.info.
• I encourage you to read the Gospels (www.usccb.org/bible/readings/), pray with your families, and join yourself to the Eucharist—the source and summit of our Catholic faith—by making an act of spiritual communion like the one recommended by Archbishop Gomez: "I wish, my Lord, to receive you with the purity, humility, and devotion with which your most holy Mother received you, with the spirit and fervor of the saints."
• All other Church-related events (Reconciliation Wednesdays, Stations Fridays) are cancelled.
• Mass Intentions, as currently scheduled with the main office and programmed for daily and Sunday Masses, will continue to be honored.
• Please, send me any prayer intentions that you may have at intentions@ollparish.info.
• In this time of limited gathered activity, this does not mean the Church is inactive. If there is sickness or trial that would benefit from counsel or the sacraments, please let us know (985-626-5671).
• More precisely to the previous point: if there are members of the parish or community -- particularly the elderly -- who do not feel comfortable shopping or getting needed items, volunteers have already come forward to help with that purpose. Please let us know (985-626-5671).

We remain a community of prayer and action. May this time allow us to grow close spiritually and stay safe physically. Please help us communicate these messages by sharing them -- especially with those who do not use digital technology.

May Our Lady of Prompt Succor hasten to help us; Our Lady of the Lake pray for us.

Samaritan Center informed us that they are in need of donations.  We have containers available in the hallway outside of the office in the Parish Life Center for donation drop off. We will bring these items to the Samaritan Center.  Most needed items are: Cereal (Cold), Canned Green Beans, Mac & Cheese, Meal Mixes, Canned Pasta, Dry Pasta, Rice (1 or 2 lb. bags), Canned Meat.  Thank you in advance your your help!