News - December 2018 RSS Feed

Visto de cerca y contextualizando, es bueno anotar fuentes de consulta o de lectura y por tanto, de formación, como un medio necesario para tener recursos al respecto. 

Quick reminder for those of us who attend Mass regularly. Many people are going to join us on Dec. 24 and 25 who don’t normally come to church. They will take our parking spots, our usual pews, our hymnals and our coat hooks.

“Am I not alone,” asks the Creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, “miserably alone?”  The lines echo throughout the novel, with varying characters lamenting their solitary existence and the need for community, or, at the very least, a friend.

The emails come well before 8 a.m. and after 5 p.m. Today, a man’s career can be all-consuming and a threat to parenting.  Sons need fathers glued to them, not to their iPhone. Our sons need time, love and discipline.  

Queridos hermanos: el Evangelio de este último domingo de Adviento tiene como protagonista a la Santísima Virgen María e inicia con estas palabras: “María se puso en camino y fue a prisa a la montaña”. El Adviento y la Navidad ya próxima, es fundamentalmente “salida”. El Hijo que sale de estar con la Santísima Trinidad para estar con nosotros, para introducirse en la historia.

Mark the dates Jan. 15 and Feb. 8, 2019 down on your games-to-see calendars. On opposite ends of the scorer’s table will stalk two of the city’s premier head basketball coaches whose teams have been in the upper echelon of the Catholic League since their rivalry began in 2012.

The Archdiocese of New Orleans has announced schedules of Masses at business district churches for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

As the saying goes, “Politics and religion don’t mix.” Although this cliché is espoused by many, you will not hear it from Pope Francis. On the contrary, the leader of the Catholic Church firmly teaches that our Gospel-based faith has a wealth of wisdom to offer the often corrupt world of politics. And that it is our duty to strive to infuse that wisdom into the body politic.

An inaugural scholarship program targeting student-leaders at St. Augustine High hopes to foster ties between the local African-American and Jewish communities.

The 2018 Boys’ Flag Football Championships were played Nov. 14 at Immaculate Conception School in Marrero. Home favorite Immaculate Conception (above) beat Our Lady of the Lake to claim the senior championship.

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. The contest is promoted by the Christ in Christmas Committee, which coordinates the placement of “Keep Christ in Christmas” billboards throughout the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Go to www.keepchristinchristmasnola.org. 

Who is Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa – the priest who will lead the United States bishops in an unprecedented, one-week spiritual retreat at Mundelein Seminary near Chicago in January?

¡Una bendita Navidad para ti y, todo lo que tienes en tu corazón! En la tranquilidad de la noche, en la oscuridad de la noche, una joven pareja no pudo encontrar un lugar para descansar, y se dirigieron a un establo.

My dad started his New Year’s Eve prediction column in the 1960s for the States-Item. He borrowed the idea from Pete Baird, dean of the city’s horse-racing writers, who each year would compile a complete Kentucky Derby “order-of-finish” chart before the race was even run. Baird suggested my dad make predictions for the entire year in sports. 

Seeking ways to cultivate unity in today’s mixed up world? Find inspiration Jan. 10-12 at the 2019 Go! Gulf Coast Faith Formation Conference at the Pontchartrain Center, 4545 Williams Blvd., in Kenner.

As a performing singer at Holy Cross High School, I have had the opportunity to learn from and experience various music conventions, concerts and competitions. None compared to my selection for the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) all-national mixed ensemble.

ST. JOSEPH ABBEY CHURCH, Christmas Eve Mass 11 p.m.; Christmas  Masses 7:30, 11 a.m. New Year’s Day Mass 11:15 a.m. Visit www.saintjosephabbey.com/prayer-schedule for regular Mass times. 75376 River Rd, St. Benedict, Louisiana.

A blessed Christmas to you and all you hold in your heart! In the quiet of the night, in the dark of the night, a young couple could not find a place to rest, and so they went to a stable.

When Gwen Carter heard her name – or at least, her initials, “G.C.” – she froze for a second and thought she must have been hearing things. A long-time parishioner at St. Peter Claver Church, Carter was holding her 30 or so raffle tickets in the parish’s capital campaign fundraiser when a youngster pulled a stub from a revolving drum filled with about 3,000 potential winners.

I’m a great grandmother whose little ones are now grown and have babies of their own. I read the November pages of Kids’ Clarion in its entirety and enjoyed it so much, especially the articles about St. Louis King of France students visiting the seminary, the Immaculate Conception School program that allows students to read to shelter dogs, and the Donut Man’s program for St. Ann children.