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The Coconut Beach Sand Volleyball Complex will host the annual high school Slam-N-Jam volleyball tournament on April 7. The event is a collaboration of 26 student councils from local Catholic and public high schools to benefit Camp Friendship (children with spina bifida) and Camp Pelican (children with cystic fibrosis and other pulmonary diseases).

St. Augustine’s track and field team appears to be well on the road to recovery, as indicated by the Purple Knights’ second-place finish at the March 23-24 Allstate Sugar Bowl Track and Field meet. Led by double winner Donovan Rolland, who placed first in the 100- and 200-meter dashes and ran a leg of the second-place 400-meter relay team, St. Augustine scored 45 points to finish second in team scoring to Edna Karr (55 points). Once a state power on the oval, St. Aug has been slowly rebuilding its program since its post-Katrina demise in 2005.

With aspirations for medical careers, students from Academy of Our Lady (AOL) are regular fixtures at Our Lady of Wisdom Healthcare Center in Algiers. Academic health science majors at the all-girls’ Marrero high school begin slowly as interns at Our Lady of Wisdom –  making beds, helping dress residents, getting them in and out of their rooms for meals and other tasks such as baths and weigh ins.

When people confuse the Serra Club, the international Catholic vocations awareness group, with the Sierra Club, an environmentalist organization, Joe Dicharry has a ready response. “We’re not the tree-huggers; we’re the vocations huggers,” Dicharry says.

Pope Francis welcomed the beginning of spring with an impromptu lesson about gardening and how to grow into being better Christians. “Does a tree or plant that is diseased bloom well? No! Does a tree or a plant that isn’t watered ... bloom well? No. And does a tree or plant with no roots bloom?” he said before delivering his general audience talk March 21.

In the last decade of the 18th century, when Anglo-Americans started migrating to Louisiana, the first exiles from the Haitian Revolution made New Orleans their home. In the next two decades, between 15,000 and 20,000 of them came to Louisiana, with 80 to 90 percent settling in the Crescent City.

A list of Divine Mercy liturgies across the Archdiocese.

Throughout Lent, Mass-goers at Loyola University’s Ignatius Chapel are invited to turn their gaze upon a stunning wall banner that traces the season’s ideal movement from sinful brokenness to wholeness with God.

Patrick “Concrete” Pierre, 35, earned his nickname in Brooklyn, where he grew up playing handball, steadily ascending in the Golden Gloves amateur boxing ranks and driving a cement truck for Stillwell Ready Mix into some of the toughest, cash-on-the-barrel construction sites on the planet – or at least in the Five Boroughs of New York.

Msgr. Andrew Taormina, who will retire this summer as pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church, receives a portrait of the parish’s St. Joseph Altar from Jack Siciliano, longtime altar coordinator. Archbishop Gregory Aymond, left, looks on.

When Stephen Frei, the grandson of the man who founded Emil Frei Art Glass in St. Louis in the late 19th century, begins waxing rhapsodic about the art and science of stained-glass windows, it’s best to remain silent and just look up. And never ask him, at least publicly, to identify his favorite window.

May God’s abundant blessings be with you as we celebrate this great feast of Easter, the resurrection of Christ. “Jesus is risen! He is not here!” Those are the words that the women heard when they went to the tomb on that Sunday morning. They were looking for the body of Jesus to anoint it.

The people of New Orleans bade farewell to New Orleans Saints and Pelicans owner Tom Benson on March 23 at St. Louis Cathedral.

Que las abundantes bendiciones de Dios estén con ustedes, mientras celebramos esta gran fiesta de Pascua, la resurrección de Cristo. “¡Jesús ha resucitado! ¡Él no está aquí!” Esas son las palabras que escucharon las mujeres, cuando fueron a la tumba ese domingo por la mañana. Estaban buscando el cuerpo de Jesús para ungirlo.

EVENTS ST. ANGELA MERICI, SALA ladies club meeting “April Showers,” April 3, 7 p.m., Kern Center (gym). Refreshments, bonco, Mardi Gras beads collected for ARC of Greater New Orleans. CATHOLICS RETURNING HOME, six-week session of listening and learning about the Catholic faith, on Thursdays at 7 p.m. beginning April 5. St. Edward the Confessor, 4921 West Metairie Ave., Metairie. 888-0703....

It was two of the most intriguing weeks in recent Saints history, and it had nothing to do with football. Saints owner Tom Benson was laid to rest last Friday, but not before a three-day celebration of his life. The Who’s Who of national sports figures came to pay their respects, but it was the people who knew Benson best who shined.

Please convey to Tamara Labat that people she doesn’t know will now be praying for her to conceive and carry a healthy baby. I’ve been in a Bible study for over six years, and we’ve been prayer warriors for a number of local women who struggled with infertility, multiple miscarriages, etc. Jesus answered our prayers and they all have babies now. One even has twin baby girls on Christmas Day a few years ago. So we will take on Tamara to pray for now. Tell her God’s timing is perfect, and it will happen in his perfect time.

The St. Joseph Altar at St. Mary’s Dominican High School drew students, alumnae and visitors during its viewing on campus in celebration of the Feast of St. Joseph. Students gathered around the altar during a morning blessing by Father Joseph Palermo.

Cindy Pazos’76, Cabrini High School’s 2010 "Alumna of the Year," hosted the annual Leadership in Giving Luncheon March 9 at Commander’s Palace, something she has done since its inception in 2012. Alumnae who share her love for Cabrini and its mission and give $500 or more to Cabrini High School's Alumnae Annual Giving Drive are invited.

Imagine a fictitious employer, Sgt. Sourpants, who opposes giving his employees a holiday every year on Memorial Day! After all, his company loses opportunities, and potential profits are squandered!  He sees no reason to honor the dead if they’re already dead – much less to take the living away from their job-focused lives.