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ALL SAINTS, Ash Wednesday, March 6, 11 a.m., continuing every Friday through April 19. Menu on Ash Wednesday: fried fish, macaroni and cheese, potato salad, bread, cake, a drink. March 8, 15, 22: fried fish or eggplant casserole, macaroni and cheese, potato salad, bread, cake, a drink. March 29, April 5, 12: choice of fried fish or eggplant casserole or stuffed crab and macaroni and cheese, potato salad, bread, cake, drink. April 19: choice of fried fish, eggplant casserole, crawfish balls, crawfish jambalaya or stuffed crab, macaroni and cheese, potato salad, bread, cake, drink. 300 Ptolemy St., New Orleans (Algiers) behind church. Place orders: 368-0335.

Queridos hermanos:  el evangelio de este domingo nos invita a poner en práctica las palabras de Jesús. Antiguamente, y también hoy día, en los pueblos pequeños había que tener mucho cuidado con lo que se hacía y con las apariencias. 

In a formal sense, Father Henry H. Engelbrecht, who died Feb. 18 at the age of 77, was a monsignor – a priest who in 1999 received from St. John Paul II the title of “prelate of honor.”

Ascension of Our Lord, Knights of Columbus, Council 9623, sponsored a Substance Abuse Poster Contest at their parish in LaPlace through January.Youth parishioners who won the contest are pictured. They will advance to the Archdiocesan of New Orleans Substance Abuse Poster Contest.

St. Paul’s School administration recently recognized  the 22 legacy graduates of the class of 2019. Single generation legacy families of 2019 include: Jack  and father Dr. Thomas Anzalone, ’80; Joseph Brown and grandfather, Wayne Pratts, ’66; Charles Chitwood and grandfather, Eddie Villere, ’64; Julian Contreras and grandfather Dr. Julio Contreras, ‘41; Quinn Cooney and grandfather Nolan Haro, ’64; Jacques and father Carey Cutrer, ’81; Francis Durio and grandfather Addison Graham; Evan Hendry and grandfather Charlie Wheeler,  ‘57; Mason Impastato and father Sal Impastato, ’66; Blake and father Fred Lewis, ’80; Cade  and father James Manint, ’91; Stephen and father Stephen Millet,’86; Jace and father Kevin Moore, ’91; Hale Neitzschman and grandfather Lloyd Gautreaux, ‘58; Luke and father John Paille, ’91; Jack and father Greg Pellegrini, ’86; Brandon and father Jeff Stein, ’87; Todd Taranto and grandfather William Barnett, ’71; and Rivers Torres and great grandfather Robert Fitzsimons. Jack Blossman III, Jay Blossman Jr., ’82, and Jack Blossman, ’57; and Rhett Ibos, Jeff Ibos ’85, and John (JB) Ibos ’58 are families with three generations at St. Paul’s. Jacob Mott and his family have had four generations of young men educated at St. Paul’s; Jacob’s father Daniel, ‘87, grandfather Gary, ’59, and Gerard Mott.

St. Mary’s Dominican High inducted 22 students into Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica, Chapter Las Adelitas. Spanish teacher and moderator Claudia Vallejo said Las Adelitas was selected by the students in honor of the women who participated in the Mexican Revolution as commanders, soldiers and nurses.

Academy of Our Lady students in the Art Graphics I elective class utilized 3D printing technology to create Christmas cookie cutters. Each student crafted their own design. Back row (left to right): senior Kaitlyn Gegenheimer, freshman Carissa Shirk, sophomores Stefani Monfra and Linh Luu, freshman Emma Palmisano, sophomore Carlie Coleman and freshman Amber Nguyen.

Brian LeBlanc, Archbishop Rummel Class of 1978, was sitting with his wife in a Pensacola, Florida, neurologist’s office on Oct. 28, 2014, when the manila folder opened and a man in a white coat started reading.

For the past month, the students at Mount Carmel Academy have been shooting for the stars in their third annual school-wide Design Cycle Challenge. 

St. Mary’s Dominican High School’s 20th annual, one-week food drive collected 15,186 cans of food for the Second Harvest Food Bank, representing an estimated 13,380 pounds of donations. 

VATICAN CITY (CNS) –  Pope Francis will issue a document on “young people, faith and vocational discernment” five months after the world Synod of Bishops gathered in October to discuss the topic.

Minor league baseball in New Orleans will soon be long gone, and it may be gone longer than any home run ever hit at Zephyr Field. The Baby Cakes are headed for Wichita, Kansas, likely at the end of the 2019 season, and there appears to be no replacement club warming up in the bullpen.

On Ash Wednesday, we will begin our 40-day Lenten journey. During this time, God will call us to look carefully at ourselves and identify our weakness and sin. We are reminded that God loves us even in our weakness and calls us to a change of heart to draw closer to him.

El Miércoles de Ceniza, comenzaremos nuestro viaje de Cuaresma de 40 días. Durante este tiempo, Dios nos llamará a mirarnos cuidadosamente, e identificar nuestra debilidad y pecado. Se nos recuerda que, Dios nos ama, incluso en nuestra debilidad y, nos llama a un cambio de corazón para acercarnos más a él.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The time has come for an “all-out battle” against the abuse of minors, erasing this abominable crime from the face of the earth, Pope Francis said, closing a global four-day summit on child protection in the Catholic Church.

The call didn’t exactly come out of the blue, but it was unexpected. Msgr. Christopher Nalty was attending the annual Priests’ Convocation of the Archdiocese of New Orleans last September when he received a phone call from his former seminary classmate in Rome, Scot Landry, a native of Lowell, Massachusetts, who works in Catholic evangelist Matthew Kelly’s “Dynamic Catholic” ministry.

March 9-29 EVENTS; ST. NICHOLAS OF MYRA BYZANTINE CATHOLIC MISSION, Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts every Wednesday during Lent at 7 p.m. 2435 S. Carrollton Ave., New Orleans.

Will this be the year another member of the Catholic League takes home a Division I basketball championship? Through almost nine decades, local Catholic schools have found much success on the hardwood.

There is an indelible, 320-year connection between Mardi Gras and the local Catholic church. The first Mass on Louisiana soil was celebrated on Shrove Tuesday, March 3, 1699, for explorers Iberville and Bienville and their crew by Father Anastase on the banks of the Mississippi River at a spot called “La Pointe di Mardi Gras.” Read on to see how Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday and the 40 days of Lent are interrelated.

Don’t get me wrong, I love gift-giving. But there have been times where I want to say, “the heck with it!” and default to Amazon gift cards. Boom. Done. Tie a ribbon around it and call it a year. Or, better yet, send it electronically, so that I don’t even have to waste time wrapping.