Calendar - May 10, 2014

Deadline: Submissions due Thursday
(10 days before each issue)
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May 9-19

EVENTS
MARY OF NAZARETH, tickets remain for May 13 6:30 p.m. screening of “Mary of Nazareth” film at AMC Elmwood Theater. Seating begins at 5:45 p.m. On sale at Mule’s on David Drive, Metairie. 468-2919.

NOLA INTERFAITH PEACE INITIATIVE, monthly interfaith prayer gathering, May 13, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Temple of Praise Ministries, 1840 Commercial Drive, Harvey. Future prayer gatherings will be at: St. Anna’s Episcopal, June 10; New Kingdom Missionary Baptist Church, July 8;
St. David Catholic Church, 5617 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans, Sept. 9; First Street Peck Wesley United Methodist Church, Oct. 14; Stronger Hope Baptist Church, Dec. 9. Area faith-based congregations join forces to stop violence, murder, racism and help youth.

MARIAN MOVEMENT OF PRIESTS, Area Cenacle for Southern Louisiana, May 17, 9 a.m.-noon, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 1139 Oretha C. Haley Blvd., New Orleans. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; rosary recitation; confessions; Mass with Josephite Father Joseph Doyle and Father Stanley Klores; a reading from “To the Priests, Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”; and May crowning of the Blessed Mother (bring flowers).

ST. ANN, Men’s Club 5th Annual Crawfish Rumble May 17, 5-9 p.m., St. Ann School blacktop, 4900 Loveland St. at Transcontinental, Metairie.  Admission: $20 for those 16 and older, $10 for those 10-15 and free to those 9 and under, all-you-can-eat crawfish.  Hot dogs, soft drinks water snowballs and beer sold. Music by The Flashback Chameleons, and fun zone for children. Teams can register to compete at 329-6832. Arm bands purchased in advance at the parish office using online forms: crawfishrumble.org. Arm bands will be sold event day.

HEALING MASS, May 19, 7 p.m. Healing service follows with eucharistic exposition and benediction. Parking in schoolyard. St. Anthony of Padua, 4640 Canal St., New Orleans. 488-2651.

ST. RAYMOND AND ST. LEO THE GREAT, annual tent revival, “It’s a Love Thing III,” May 18-21, 6-8 p.m. nightly. Speakers: Redemptorist Father Maurice Nutt, May 18; Mrs. Floy Hawkins, May 19; Father Joseph Espaillat, May 20; and Josephite Father Anthony Bozeman, May 21. Hunter’s Field, 1600 North Claiborne at St. Bernard avenues. 945-8750.

SCHOOLS
ST. RITA, Home and School Association hosts “Summer Olympics” for students and faculty, May 9, 1-2:45 p.m. in the school yard.  General meeting, May 14, 7 p.m., gym. Performances by cheerleaders, Jr. Trotters, choir, recorders and display of artwork.

CITY PARK NIGHT, Home and School Associations of St. Rita and St. Christopher host City Park Night, May 22, 7-10 p.m. for students at both schools. Proceeds benefit both campuses.

ST. MATTHEW THE APOSTLE, Home and School Association general meeting, May 13 at 7 p.m. in the MBC.

COMING…
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ALUMNI WEEKEND, June 20-22. Attend classes, reminisce with alumni in class reunions, cocktail reception, honors program 30th anniversary, Alumni Association jazz brunch and dorm stay.
Register by May 31 for a chance at free, two-night stay at the Wyndham Riverfront, 701 Convention Center Blvd., New Orleans. (Winner notified by June 3.) Alumni Weekend ticket: $100 individual (includes Friday/Saturday events: alumni college sessions, field trip, breakfast, lunches, alumni cocktail reception). Sunday jazz brunch ticket: $40 single, $60 couple (includes Creole breakfast with mimosas, Bloody Marys). Visit alumni.loyno.edu/reunion-weekend.

ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS, 61051 Briar Lake Drive, Lacombe, Knights of Columbus condo raffle. Donate $5 for a chance at week’s stay in three-bedroom/three-bath Emerald Grande condo in Destin, Fla., $4,000 value. http://stjohnkc.org/condo-raffle. Dates available for condo: June 15-22, July 20-27, Aug. 3-10. (Other dates subject to availability.) Winning ticket picked May 28. (985) 640-2537, e-mail: johnalmon@bellsouth.net.

KUDOS
CABRINI HIGH SCHOOL, Nadine Pizer was named 2014 Cabrini Alumna of the Year and presented a special Mother Cabrini medal from the Cabrini shrine in New York. She teaches religion at Cabrini and has introduced several service and social justice programs to the school, serving as the No Place for Hate Club moderator and an active member of the New Orleans Chapter of the Anti-Defamation League. Pizer is a Fair Trade ambassador and was instrumental in Cabrini becoming a Catholic Relief Service Partner School and initiated the sale of fair trade items at Cabrini and collaborated with a local coffee shop to provide fair trade coffee to students during exam days. She helped create the annual Global Solidarity Week at Cabrini and has coordinated religion students to prepare and serve lunch to the poor at St. Joseph Rebuild Center for the several years. She is also a volunteer at St. Jude Community Center as a part of Cabrini’s Feed the Poor Programy. In 2010, she was selected to attend the Rudin Family Bearing Witness Advanced Summer Program in Israel for Catholic school educators.

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS, three mass communication graduates were inducted in the Mass Communication Den of Distinction May 9. Russell H. Myerson ’76, Veronique Niles Spruill ’80, and Reid I. Steinberg ’94, were recognized for a lifetime of accomplishments. Myerson is executive vice president of affiliate relations and technology for The CW Television Network. He has worked in communication sales, programming, marketing, distribution, production, finance, technology and spearheaded the 1997 launch of “The WB Television Network,” and the Game Show Network in 1994. He is former chairman and CEO of NATPE International. Spruill is president and CEO of the Council on Foundations, a national nonprofit of philanthropic organizations and corporations; served as president and CEO of the Ocean Conservancy and founded and led SeaWeb, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing ocean issues. She had a 15-year career in public relations, including five years as senior vice president of Ruder Finn. At Loyola she studied communications and religious studies. She received a master’s in communications from the University of West Florida. Steinberg is senior vice president and media director at ICON International, Inc., a company specializing in corporate barter that is part of the Omnicom Group. He is a member of the Association of National Advertisers. Steinberg, a member of the class of 1994, studied marketing and advertising at Loyola. He was a member of the first Loyola Ad Team to advance to the finals of the American Advertising Federation’s National Student Advertising Competition.