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Deadline: Submissions due Thursday (10 days before each issue) [email protected] (504) area code unless noted Dec. 22-Jan. 11 EVENTS BREAKFAST WITH SANTA, Dec. 22 8:30 a.m.-11 a.m. Kids of all ages to eat breakfast, visit Santa.

Congratulations to our 2013 winners! The Council of Catholic School Cooperative Clubs sponsors the annual Keep Christ in Christmas poster, essay and poetry contest. The Office of Catholic Schools selected winners in three divisions: grades 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12.

Father Michael J. Flynn, 57, a priest of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Fla., and associate professor of theology at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, has been named executive director of the Secretariat  for Divine Worship of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).

Como nos preparamos para la Navidad, es muy fácil ser inundados por las múltiples tareas que deben realizarse. La semana pasada, pregunté a los Católicos de la Arquidiócesis de Nueva Orleáns a hacer un esfuerzo consciente, para dedicar más tiempo de calidad el uno al otro durante el Adviento para orar juntos como una familia, durante los domingos de Adviento, y para reconciliarse con familiares, y amigos que pueden haber sido lastimados o por haber crecido distante de nosotros.

Having just celebrated “Gaudete Sunday,” we witnessed the joy associated with Christmas, the joy of Christ’s birth. Young adults in college, too, have experienced the joy as they return home to their families from a successful semester.

Three major awards were bestowed on Lasallian volunteers at the annual  Christian Brothers’ Huether Lasallian Conference. The award winners are in the front row: Christian Brother Nick Gonzalez, principal of Cathedral High in El Paso, Texas  (community award); Christian Brother Tom Ward of the Christian Brothers School Community of New Orleans (faith award) and Daniel and Sarah Maher of De La Salle North Catholic High in Portland (service award).

Damien Williams, the Outstanding Player Award winner of the 2012 Class 5A football championship game, sent a congratulatory message to the office of his alma mater, Archbishop Rummel. It read, in part: “One of the best decisions of my life was to go to Rummel.

The Bible is full of verses pertaining to perseverance. Galatians 6:9 is a personal favorite: “Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” On a Saturday at the Superdome, East Jefferson’s Warriors had finally reaped their harvest.

Pope Francis prayed that Catholics throughout the Americas would open their arms to the poor, to immigrants, to the unborn and to the aged just as Mary opens her arms to all. Anticipating the Dec. 12 feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas, Pope Francis said, “I ask all the people of the Americas to open wide their arms, like the virgin, with love and tenderness.” Speaking in Spanish during his audience Dec. 11, the first pope from the Americas explained that “when Our Lady appeared to St. Juan Diego, her face was that of a woman of mixed blood, a ‘mestiza,’ and her garments bore many symbols of the native culture.” “When the image of the Virgin appeared on the tilma (cloak) of Juan Diego,” the pope said, “it was the prophecy of an embrace: Mary’s embrace of all the peoples of the vast expanses of America – the peoples who already lived there, and those who were yet to come.” Mary’s embrace, the pope said, was a sign that North and South America were called to be “a land where different peoples come together; a land prepared to accept human life at every stage, from the mother’s womb to old age; a land which welcomes immigrants and the poor and the marginalized in every age.

➤ Age: 25 ➤ Seminary year: My first year, Pre-Theology II, Notre Dame Seminary ➤ Home Parish: St. Peter, Covington ➤ Elementary School: Homeschool (primarily using Seton Home Study) ➤ High School: Homeschool (Seton Home Study) ➤ College/university: B.A.

“God has a plan for you, but you have to be ready to listen and do good things so God can point you on the right path,” Rwandan genocide survivor Immaculée Ilibagiza told more than 700 teens and young adults attending her first-ever teen retreat Dec. 13 at Mount Carmel Academy.

More than 25 years ago, St. Francis Xavier Parish in Metairie wanted to start a program that would offer activities and socialization for its older members. Parishioner Jane Sabrio, who happened to be a nurse, was on a committee back then to establish such a program.

Boston’s Frank Kelly, who has had a full-time healing ministry since 1990, wants everyone in New Orleans to know that he is improving and recuperating from a serious automobile accident. “I am doing a lot better,” he said in a telephone interview from his son’s home in Boston.

Very soon we will celebrate the birthday of our Lord and brother Jesus Christ, God’s greatest gift of love. God sent his son to bring us the Father’s love and mercy and to show us how to love as he loves us.

Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans is putting the last coats of paint and the finishing touches on its new Daughters of Charity Health Center East at the former Pendleton Memorial Methodist Hospital campus on Read Boulevard and will be ready to see the first patients on Jan. 6.

Father Patrick J. Williams, the pastor of St. Pius X Church in New Orleans and executive director of the Department of Clergy, has been named vicar general of the Archdiocese of New Orleans by Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond.

The School Leadership Center of Greater New Orleans (SLC) invites principals and assistant principals from public, private, charter and parochial schools to submit applications for the 2014-15 Fellows Program, a job-embedded professional development program limited to only 30 applicants.

Cuarto Domingo de Adviento Diciembre 22, 2013 Mt. 1: 18-25 Jesus no es el fruto de cohabitacion Este Evangelio de Mateo nos entrega de una manera simple y directa una admirable revelación acerca de la conception y nacimiento de Jesus.

Tercer Domingo de Adviento Diciembre 15, 2013 Mat. 11: 2-11 El Evangelio del domingo Nos dice el Evangelio que Juan envió desde la cárcel a dos discípulos suyos a preguntarle a Jesus si era el Mesías o tendrían que esperar otro.

U n sacerdote celibe prepara el camino del senor. En estos días de Adviento la iglesia nos presenta aquellas personas que prepararon  la venida del Mesías: Maria en primer lugar, y San Juan Bautista en segundo.