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Our Patron
St.
John Berchmans




St. John Berchmans (1599 - 1621). As a young student,
John was eager to learn and naturally endowed with a bright
intellect and a retentive memory, devoting much time to study.
What distinguished him most from his companions, however,
was his piety and faith. John
performed ordinary actions with extraordinary perfection, purity,
obedience and admirable charity.
Fourteen years after he was canonized a
saint,
the Jesuit community in Shreveport established, in 1902,
our parish and a high school (now Loyola College Prep)
and had the church consecrated in memory of their newly
canonized saint, St. John Berchmans.
He is the patron saint of altar servers
and an ideal patron for our students
who are eager to learn and deepen their faith.
Litany
to St. John Berchmans

In St Joseph Cathedral, Macon Georgia.

Our
Pastor, Fr. Peter B. Mangum,
standing in front of
the tomb of St John Berchmans
in Sant' Ignatio Church in Rome.
He is holding two relics of our patron,
which he brought back to Shreveport!

Fr. Peter standing in the room
of St John Berchmans, in Rome.
St John Berchmans carrying a
man
stricken by the plague in Rome, 1621.

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Litany
to Saint John Berchmans
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Feast
Day:
November 26th. Patron of altar boys and youth
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Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
Response: pray for us.
Holy Mary,
St. John Berchmans, whom the Lord preserved from evil,
St. John Berchmans, who did all things well,
St. John Berchmans, faithful in little things,
St. John Berchmans, devoted server at Holy Mass,
St. John Berchmans, obedient to your parents,
St. John Berchmans, submissive to your teachers,
St. John Berchmans, model for your companions,
St. John Berchmans, who from the earliest childhood chose the
Blessed Virgin as guardian of your chastity,
St. John Berchmans, who so tenderly called Mary your Mother,
St. John Berchmans, zealous promoter of devotion to Mary,
St. John Berchmans, mirror of the religious life,
St. John Berchmans, lover of the Blessed Sacrament,
St. John Berchmans, lover of the missions,
St. John Berchmans, lover of mortification,
St. John Berchmans, faithful to your holy Rule,
St. John Berchmans, faithful imitator of St. Aloysius,
St. John Berchmans, ornament of the Society of Jesus,
St. John Berchmans, model of students,
St. John Berchmans, patron of youth,
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world,
Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world,
Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
V. Pray for us, Saint John Berchmans,
R. That we may be worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let Us Pray
Grant, we beseech You, O Lord God, that we Your servants may
follow, in Your service, the example of innocence and fidelity
by which the angelic St. John Berchmans consecrated to You the
flower of his youth, through Christ Our Lord.
R. Amen.
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