St. Isidore the Farmer

Bishop Duca asks that we give generously to Hurricane Laura relief efforts, including through the diocese. Please continue to pray for all those affected and those who are helping them.

Monetary Donations

• Give online at the diocesan website:  www.diobr.org
• Give online to Catholic Charities:  www.ccdiobr.org
• Give a gift card by bringing it to the office at St. Isidore.

• St. Isidore is accepting items as part of a diocese-wide collection. See list of needed items below.
• No food, no clothes, no hygiene items at this time, please.
• Drop off your donations at St. Isidore during office hours. Come by the office to get a key to the donation room.

• If you can help with sorting, loading, and transporting donated items from St. Isidore to St. Alphonsus on Thursdays, please call Kara at 775-8850.
• If you can help as part of a work crew for tasks including transportation & distribution of items, cooking & serving, tarping, using a chainsaw, or demolition/ mucking out, please go here to learn how to volunteer through the diocese:  Helping Hands for the Diocese of Lake Charles

Attending Mass

• If you have any symptoms that could be Covid-related, or have been around anyone recently with such symptoms or who has tested positive, please do not come to Mass.
• If you are in a vulnerable group (over 60, compromised immune system, pre-existing health conditions) or live with or care for anyone in those groups, we strongly encourage you to stay home.
• Bishop Duca has suspended our Sunday Mass obligation indefinitely, and he has emphasized that no one should have any pangs of conscience about staying away from Mass at this time. Consider attending a weekday Mass, which has fewer people.
• Everyone must wear a mask and practice social distancing while they are inside the building. The only exceptions are that masks are not required for infants in arms or baby carriers, or for those who cannot wear a mask due to asthma or similar breathing problems.
• If you have it, please bring a personal bottle of hand sanitizer with you. Please sanitize your hands as you enter and leave the church. Hand sanitizer stands are available in the narthex, along with alcohol wipes for cleaning the pew surfaces in the area where you sit.
• Every other pew is closed. Family groups (those who live in the same household) should sit together. All other individuals should maintain a minimum distance of 6 feet from anyone else, whether standing or in the pews.
• There are no Mass coordinators, lectors, commentators, altar servers, or Eucharistic ministers. Father and the deacons read the Scriptures and administer Communion.
• A collection basket is in the back of the center aisle. We do not pass the baskets to take up the offering.
• Please do not hold hands during the Our Father, other than within family groups.
• The cry room, gathering room, and daily Mass chapel are closed. The bathrooms are open.

• The Body of Christ will be administered, but not the common chalice.
• As you leave your pew for Communion, continue to wear your mask and maintain social distancing.
• We encourage you to receive the Host in your hand. You may not wear gloves to receive the Host.

In Christ,

 Father Frank Bass, Pastor

Corner of Plank Road & Thomas Road in Baker/Brownsfield

5657 Thomas Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70811

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Please be aware of the Mass guidelines in effect during the pandemic. (To read them, scroll down in the column to the left.)

Saturday   Vigil 4 PM
Sunday   7:30 AM & 10:30 AM
Monday  Communion Service 8:30 AM
Tuesday   6 PM
Wednesday   7:15 AM
Thursday   6 AM
Friday   7:15 AM

Confessions will be heard in the daily Mass chapel, not in the reconciliation room. Please wear a mask and wait in the narthex.

Tuesday   4:45 to 5:45 PM
Saturday  2:45 to 3:45 PM

5657 Thomas Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70811

(225) 775-8850
fax (225) 775-7072

Office Hours
Monday through Thursday:
8 AM to noon, 1 to 4:30 PM
Friday:  8 AM to noon

When possible, please conduct any business by phone, mail, or email. Anyone entering the office should wear a mask.

Our office is the single-storey building down Thomas Road, across from the nursing home.

Adoration is in the main church on Friday mornings from 8 to noon, with no Rosary or Benediction at the end.
Friday   8:00 AM to Noon

Visit The Veil Removed to watch a 7-minute movie that depicts what's really happening on the altar at each Mass. Jesus is truly present as our Eternal High Priest, as the Sacrificial Victim, and in His Real Presence in the Eucharist -- bringing with Him the saints and angels, united with us in adoring Him! Explore that website for explanations and reflections on the miracle that happens at every Mass.