Calendar - January 25, 2014

Deadline: Submissions due Thursday
(10 days before each issue)
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Jan. 25-Feb. 2

SCHOOLS
    ST. ANN, open house for prospective students and parents for the 2014-15 school year,  Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m., cafeteria, 4921 Meadowdale St., Metairie. 455-8383.
    ST. ANDREW THE APOSTLE, open house, Jan. 29, 5:30-7:30 p.m. School tours on Wednesdays in January and February at 9 a.m. 394-4171.
    ST. CHARLES BORROMEO, open house for students who are 3 years old to eighth grade, Feb. 5, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. 13396 River Road, Destrehan. (985) 764-9232.

EVENTS
    LIGHT OF THE WORLD, prayer community meeting, Jan. 24, 31, with rosary at 6:45 p.m.; prayer and praise at 7:15 p.m.; Mass at 8:30 p.m. Celebrant: Sacred Heart Brother Louis Couvillion. University of New Orleans Newman Center, Elysian Fields entrance. 559-2414.
    NAIM, Archdiocese of New Orleans general meeting, Jan. 28, 6:30 p.m., St. Pius X multi-purpose room, 6666 Spanish Fort Blvd. Guest speaker: Arthur Hardy, “Mr. Mardi Gras.” All widowed persons invited.
    ANNULMENT WRITING, Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25, 7:30-9 p.m. Materials: $25. To register, call the  Family Life Apostolate office, 861-6243. Northshore Pastoral Center, 69090 Hwy. 190 East Service Road, Covington.
    ARCHDIOCESAN SPIRITUALITY CENTER, “A Retreat with Father Cedric” (using book by Father Cedric Pisegna, C.P.). Center associate director Janet Trahan facilitates six-week retreat to grow in intimacy with God and experience progression in our spiritual, emotional and moral journey. Jan. 30, Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27, March 6, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Archdiocesan Spirituality Center. Cost: $50. asc.arch-no.org, 861-3254.
    MADE IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD, A PASTORAL LETTER ON RACIAL HARMONY, series on racial harmony continues with Cultural Unity Ministry at St. Andrew the Apostle Church, Tuesdays, Jan. 28, and Feb. 4, 11, 18, 7-8:30 p.m. 3101 Eton St., Algiers. 
    THEOLOGY ON TAP, Jan. 30, 7 p.m. Topic: “Materialism vs. Sacramentality: Finding the Holy in your Everyday Life” with speaker Kurt Bindewald, who has worked in Loyola University New Orleans campus ministry for 13 years, and is currently director of university ministry and associate director of the Office of Mission and Ministry. He was a 2012 recipient of the Blessed Frassati Award. Future talks: Feb. 6, “There’s Something about Mary,”
with speaker Sarah Denny, who has a bachelor’s degree in theology from Our Lady of Holy Cross College and a master’s in theology from Notre Dame Seminary. She works at Hope Fertility Care Center as a practitioner intern with Creighton Model System. Feb. 13: “From the Other Side of the Confessional
Through the Sacrament of Reconciliation,” with Father Buddy Noel, parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Lake Parish in Mandeville. Location: La Carreta’s, 1200 W. Causeway Approach, Mandeville. Gathering/drinks, 6:30 p.m.
    FREE LECTURE, “Openness to the Whole of Reality,” with Jesuit Father James Schall, Jan. 31, 7 p.m. Part of the annual Aquinas Lecture Series at Notre Dame Seminary’s Schulte Auditorium, 2901 South Carrollton Ave. Dr. David Liberto, 866-7426, ext. 817.
    ST. VINCENT INFANT & MATERNITY GUILD, annual bingo and luncheon, Feb. 4, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., St. Dominic gym, 6326 Memphis St., New Orleans. Tickets: $20, include lunch, two bingo cards. Reservations by Feb. 1. Proceeds benefit Pro Life Services at Catholic Charities of New Orleans. 305-5141, 301-4321.
    MASS FOR SICK, Feb. 2, 11 a.m., St. Louis Cathedral Celebrant: Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond. Healthcare workers invited. Parking available in schoolyard at 820 Dauphine Street. Details: 861-6243.
    GOD’S SPECIAL CHILDREN, monthly Mass Feb. 2, 2 p.m. Celebrants: Archbishop Gregory Aymond, Msgr. Andrew Taormina and Father Mike Mitchell. St. Francis Xavier Church, 444 Metairie Road.

REUNIONS
    ANNUNCIATION, Class of 1964, 50th reunion celebration, April 5. Reply no later than Feb. 14, with money due by March 1. Graduates can bring one guest. For details, call Madeline Caruso Borrouso, 453-8245.

OUT OF AREA
    SUBIACO ACADEMY, Catholic, college preparatory boarding school for young men in sixth through 10th grade in Arkansas, free Shadow Day for prospective students with campus tours, classes, teachers and students, Feb. 7. Prospective boarders and early arrivals may spend Feb. 6 in a dormitory with parents’ accommodations provided in the guest facility on campus. Reservations: (800) 364-7824, (479) 934-1034, email admissions@subi.org.

COMING…
    SALA, (St. Angela Ladies Auxiliary), Feb. 4, 7 p.m., Msgr. Kern Center (gym), celebration of parish’s 50th anniversary with speaker Eric Broadbridge. “All That Glitters” wing ding, Feb. 7. Beads will be collected for ARC.
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, free Spring 2014 Yamauchi lecture, Displaced Christianities: Mapping Post-Colonial Theology” with speaker Dr. Judith Gruber, Feb. 6, 7 p.m., reception at 6:15 p.m. Danna Center’s Audubon Room, second floor, 6363 Saint Charles, New Orleans. Free parking in the West Road garage. 865-3943.
    MAGNIFICATE WESTBANK CHAPTER, quarterly breakfast, Feb. 8, 9 a.m.-noon. Speaker: singer/songwriter Lorraine Hess, Knights of Columbus Hall, Archbishop Blenk Council 1905, 475 Franklin St., Gretna. Donation: $15 in advance through Feb. 5 by calling Bonnie Murphy, 233-1115. Hess is a wife, mother of four boys and nationally published singer and songwriter with four Christian albums. She is director of the music ministry at Divine Mercy Parish in Kenner. 
    NOTRE DAME SEMINARY, 90th anniversary dinner, Feb. 10, 6 p.m., Schulte Auditorium, 2901 South Carrollton Ave., New Orleans. Tickets: $125 single or $1,500 table for eight with half-page ad, event signage and spring newsletter recognition. 866-7426, ext. 374, www.nds.edu.
    MARRIED COUPLES’ RETREAT, Valentine’s weekend retreat, Feb. 14-16, to help couples learn to know self and each other better. Spiritual directors and team Leaders: Robin and Easton Hebert from Lafayette. St. Mary of the Pines Retreat Center in Chatawa, Miss. (601) 783-0801, hroper@ssndcp.org.
    ST. PETER, Archdiocese of New Orleans Family Life Apostolate Father-Son Human Sexuality Program for boys ages 11-14 and their fathers Feb. 16, 5-8 p.m.  Topics: The changes in a young man’s body as he prepares for fatherhood; the functions of the male and female reproductive systems; the sacredness of human life; appreciation and reverence for our sexuality and the virtue of chastity; and a confidential question-and-answer segment. To register (985) 892-9353 or email mfl@stpeterparish.com.  Cost: $25. Boys must be accompanied by either a parent or guardian.