Community Life Ministries

Community Life Ministries serve the need for fellowship, hospitality and social support.  Please contact the Church Office to volunteer and get more information about each ministry:

Ministers of Hospitality - Coffee, milk, juice and donuts are provided for parishioners to gather after 7:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. Masses on Sundays in the Parish Hall and visit with each other. Volunteers needed to pick up donuts, prepare the coffee and clean up afterwards.

Lay Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist bring communion to those who are unable to attend Mass. They may be ill, confined to their homes, in the hospital or care facilities.

Prayer Blankets and Rosaries for the Sick - Blessed prayer blankets and rosaries are provided to parishioners and others who may be associated with our parishioners who are suffering from serious illness or injury as a gesture of our love and our prayers for God's mercy. Volunteers make the lap blankets and the rosaries.

Fishes & Loaves Committee – this ministry assists the families who have lost a loved one and need the Parish Hall after a funeral. To request the use of the Parish Hall, please contact the Parish Office. This committee provides assistance to the family by setting up, receiving the food, serving the food and cleaning up afterwards. There are monthly teams with a team captain.

Christmas Giving Tree - Each Christmas, parishioners volunteer to purchase gifts for over 200 children in the Plaquemine area who might not otherwise enjoy the giving and receiving of gifts during this holy season of Jesus Christ's birth. Candy canes with the children’s names adorn a Christmas tree in the Church for first Sunday in Advent. Parishioners take the candy canes, purchase gifts appropriate for the age and gender of the child and return the gifts to the Church. Volunteers then bring the gifts to the respective schools in Plaquemine.

Angels for Angels – as social responsibility, our parishioners donate items needed for preK – 6th graders in the local public schools such as underwear, socks, stocking hats, jackets, shorts, uniforms as identified by key staff contacts in the local schools.

Advent Visits to Homebound – visits to those parishioners that are homebound or in nursing homes is doneduring Advent, bringing them a poinsettia and prayers.

GEMS (Golden Eagle Members) is a social organization of senior citizens who usually meet twice a year at Christmas and in the spring for visiting and a meal.

St. Joseph's Altar - In honor of St. Joseph, a beautiful altar is prepared each year, blessed and shared on the Sunday in March closest to St. Joseph's Day. Meatless spaghetti is prepared along with Italian vegetable casseroles, Italian cookies, Italian bread in many shapes and sizes, cakes and Fava beans. Cookies on the altar are packaged and shipped to soldiers deployed from our area through Baton Rouge Outreach organization. Volunteers are needed to prepare and experience this holy event.

Annual Outdoor Mass - A gathering is held in the spring for the congregation at the Bayou Plaquemine Waterfront Park Pavilion to celebrate 11:00 a.m. Mass, have lunch together and enjoy games and activities.