Crusade for the Conversion of Greater New Orleans
9:00 a.m.—12:00 p.m. Eucharistic Adoration, Rosary, Confession, Novena and Holy Mass. All are invited.

Father Klores will lead a pilgrimage to the Catholic Shrines of England, departing Thursday, May 2 and returning Friday, May 17, 2013. Our prayers and best wishes for a successful pilgrimage go with the group!
Please, no phone messages during this time.

The Catholic Home Missions Appeal primarily supports diocese in the United States and its territories that are unable to offer their people the basic pastoral ministries of word, worship and service without outside help. Please be generous in this Appeal and strengthen the Church at home.

Twenty-fifth Annual Healing Mass
Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.
St. Mary’s Assumption Church; National Seelos Shrine
919 Josephine St., corner of Constance St.
Father John Kingsbury, C.Ss.R.; Homilist and Presider
Telephone: 504-525-2495; website: www.seelos.org

Saturday, May 11th, 2013 from 8 to 9:30 a.m.
Causeway Medical Clinic, 3044 Ridgelake Dr., Metairie.
The 20 decades of the Rosary will be led by Archbishop Aymond, priests & deacons followed by Benny Littel’s testimony of his participation in an abortion. This prayer event is sponsored by the Archdiocesan Sidewalk Counseling and Prayer Ministry, a ministry of the Respect Life Office of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.  Please invite your friends & relatives to participate. For more information, please call Pam Richard at (504) 460-9360 or (985) 809-0773.

The Archdiocese of New Orleans is truly blessed by the service of many holy and dedicated priests, especially out retired priests who have served our Archdiocese faithfully. This weekend the second collection will be dedicated to the support and benefit of our retired priests. Your participation in this collection is a way to say “thank you” for their many years of service. Please be generous.

St. Patrick’s Respect Life Group will pray a rosary in front of Louisiana’s largest abortion facility, on the corner of Ridgelake Drive and 20th Street in Metairie, Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 9:00 A.M. Everyone is invited!

Click here for the April 14 music insert.

Click here for the April 21 music insert.

The choir from Jesuit High School in Tampa, Florida, directed by Father Patrick Hough, S.J., will sing at the 4 o’clock Mass on Saturday, April 13, 2013.

In case you missed the comment, this will actually now take place at St. Stephen’s at 4pm.

St. John the Baptist Church; 1139 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
6:30 p.m.—Rosary; 7:00 p.m.—Mass
Parking on premises; enter through the gate on South Rampart Street. Everyone is invited. SECURITY PROVIDED

Father Klores extends a sincere “thank you” to all the priests, servers, acolytes and readers whose participation deepened the full meaning of the liturgies during the Easter Triduum, and to St. Patrick’s Choir whose choral presentations added to the beauty of the solemnity. Gratitude is also extended to everyone who helped make this Solemnity of solemnities a truly prayerful and joyous occasion at St. Patrick’s Church.

On Sunday, April 14, at 4:00 p.m., world-renowned concert organist Gail Archer will present a recital here at St. Patrick’s, featuring music by Bach, Buxtehude, Mendelssohn, and Reger, Don’t miss this very special musical event! Please plan to join us, and bring your friends. Admission is free, and a reception will follow the concert.