Congratulations to Beyonce Malica Lafontant, Hebert Gerard Pierre, Josemyr Land-line Laguerre, Shanesha Tamara Pierre, Shetland Fedjy Mirtil, and Zelline Mondye Belizaire who received the Sacrament of Confirmation at St Joseph on Sunday September 24, 2023 by Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond.

The CYO Office is gearing up for our annual pilgrimage to Washington, D.C. for the March for Life – which will take place Tuesday, January 16th through Sunday, January 21st. This pilgrimage provides: - a unique opportunity to interact with our Archbishop, Priests, and Seminarians - an opportunity to see the sites of our nation’s capital - fellowship with young people from across our Archdiocese - inspiring special ministry events with The Vigil Project - participation in the LA Right to Life Geaux Forth Rally with young people from the Louisiana Province Each day/night is packed with historical, educational, and spiritual opportunities for our youth to experience an authentic encounter with Jesus Christ through the richness of our Catholic faith. The deadline for registration/nonrefundable deposits is Monday, October 9, 2023. Space is limited to 500 people, and we do expect the trip to fill up quickly, so we encourage school/parish leaders, and young people and their parents, to please make decisions as soon as possible. Complete details/information, including a detailed itinerary, required liability and medical release forms, a packing list, etc. will be provided to each participant after initial registration. All required paperwork will be submitted by a parent/guardian online. Each school/parish group will host individual mandatory trip meetings for their group which will take place prior to the trip. Please feel free to reach out to our office with any questions at [email protected] or (504) 836-0551.

Be a part of history by adding your personal, parish/ministry or business name to the credits as a supporter of WLAE-TV’s upcoming film: Formed: Notre Dame Seminary and the Path to Priesthood. Visit wlae.com/seminary to see the brochure and to donate online. For more info, email [email protected]. WLAE is a 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organization. Donations must be received by August 31 for inclusion at the red carpet premiere on September 15. After the local and statewide public television premieres, the film will be available on YouTube @WLAETV.

Do you know someone who has left the faith or walks through life aimless and without purpose? Most of those who leave the faith do so by the age of 24, and yet these are often our most forgotten brothers and sisters. Hi, I'm Daniel Augustin, a missionary with FOCUS (The Fellowship of Catholic University Students). Through personal prayer I believe that Christ has called me to live mission in a radical way on the college campus and minister to the future generation. I have often believed mission could only be lived in the poorest and most remote of countries, but this isn't true. The mission that God gives us is first and foremost to our families and communities, the people of our own country. FOCUS seeks to bring the faith to students or even deepen the faith they already have through authentic friendships, bible studies, prayer, and mission trips. With over 850 missionaries on over 150 campuses, FOCUS has seen great success with this model, and I personally have had my own life enriched by my missionaries on LSU's campus. To participate in the mission I need the support of generous people like you, and I ask all of you to prayerfully consider supporting the mission. If you are interested and would like to know more, please feel free to fill out a contact card to set up a meeting with me. I will also be at the back of Church after Masses at St Joseph on Saturday July 29th and Sunday July 30th. Thank you and God Bless. Daniel can also be reached by email: [email protected] or by phone 985-788-9828

Dear Westbank Catholic Men, This is an invitation. I’m Father Steve, the director at Archbishop Shaw and I’m inviting you as an alumnus to something important. And the invitation has nothing to do with asking you for a donation. I’m inviting you to a retreat that will help you receive God’s peace and joy in your life. I’m personally inviting you to this special retreat and asking you to say yes. Also, invite a friend or neighbor to go with you. I made the ACTS retreat three months ago and I can tell you it really was personally impactful. The ACTS RETREAT – will be At Our Lady of Holy Cross University. It’s on July 20, 21, 22 and 23. You must register and pay the deposit of $100.00 on line. Register here: https://www.archbishopshaw.org/ministry/worship/acts-retreat/ What is ACTS?- ACTS is retreat for men. It’s a full 3 days. It starts on a Thursday evening and ends on a Sunday Morning. Although the retreat takes place at Our Lady of Holy Cross University in Algiers-- we depart from St. John Bosco in Woodmere at 6:00pm on Thursday the 20th; and we come back to St. John Bosco for the 12 noon Mass on Sunday. Why Go? 1. ACTS will help you get closer to God 2. There are lots of good men who will be going on it. It will help you feel that you are not alone. 3. You will come away with a much better perspective on your life and with a heart full of gratitude. 4. It will strengthen you in your family life. 5. Every Christian man should do something to nourish their spiritual life Why go? Why not? You are a Shaw graduate. Invite a friend of yours to go. All men are eligible. Set your life’s course stronger with God for the rest of your journey. What will it be like? IT’S A BEAUTIFUL RETREAT. It will be well prepared for you by a team- keeping you in an environment of fraternity, prayer and fellowship. Trust the process- it’s a wonderful experience. Questions--Fr. Steve, Chad Sherman, Wade Perrin (St. John Bosco), Pat Connick (82’), Ray Davis (82’), Kevin Nanne (04) Cost $350.00 but do not let that dissuade you. Scholarships are available and we will make it reasonable for all who want to come to come Write to Father Steve at [email protected] Or call him 201-259-7263 (cell) Updates will be given periodically. Please Register now—by July 4th. Come on……. take a chance and tell Our Lord Jesus that He is a priority in your life. Go and experience something that will really help you to become the man God is calling you to be. Your Friend in Don Bosco, Fr. Steve Ryan SDB-- Director

West Bank High Catholic Religion St Martha Church 2555 Apollo Ave Harvey LA 70058 August 19, 2023 Registration from 10:00-10:30am Required parent/student meeting Saturdays 9:00-12:00 Once a month Open to students who are in 9,10,11 & 12 grade and are not currently receiving religions instruction. St. Martha Church 2555 Apollo Ave, Harvey, LA 70058 504-366-1604 St. Martha Church West Bank High Catholic Religion 9th graders 11th graders 10th graders 12th grade Meeting Dates Saturday 9:00 am- 12:00 pm St. Martha Cafeteria September 16, 2023 October 21, 2023 November 11, 2023 December 16, 2023 January 13, 2024 February 3, 2024 March 16, 2024 April 6, 2024 May 4, 2024 St. Martha Cafeteria August 19, 2023 10:00 am There is a $40.00 fee* check can be made out to cash accepted Venmo accepted Forms will be at the meeting Parent and student need to bepresent Registration * if you cannot afford the fee- please speakwith someone the day of registration. Contact: Cathy [email protected]

THAT MAN IS YOU! is an interactive men’s program focused on the development of male leadership in the modern world. It combines the best research from science with the teachings of the Catholic faith and the wisdom of the saints to develop the vision of authentic men capable of transforming themselves, their families and greater society. The Fight of Faith equips and enables men to engage in the cosmic, spiritual battle raging in our day. Authentic masculine identities will emerge to inspire heroic lives of service to a calling greater than ourselves. The Fight of Faith is uniquely both contemplative and practical. EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF TRANSFORMATION AS YOU DISCOVER: • New speakers, new personalities, and new topics, while building on the foundational years of TMIY formation. • A battle and calling that is much greater than yourself with a US Naval Officer. • Epic battle stories from the New Testament and Old, including the greatest battle story ever told with The Dynamic Deacon. • The calling to great sanctity and the support of Christian brotherhood. • A life and a marriage on the brink of collapse from two TMIY Core Team Leaders. • Discipleship as the counter solution to lukewarm Christianity. • An intimacy with The Father as his beloved sons and heirs to his Kingdom. • A Lenten Journey with Steve Bollman into the secrets of Christ’s heart. • An adventure filled with Scripture revealing the keys to interpreting reality.

CONSECRATION OF PARISHES TO THE PIERCED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY +++ OH SACRED HEART OF JESUS, you have loved humanity to the extreme of allowing yourself to be pierced, becoming a living fountain where abundant graces of salvation and of conversion flow. From your open Heart flows, with power and strength, the Blood and the Water which purify, transform, vivify and liberate us.  It is from your Pierced Heart, visible sign of your love, that life flows as an ever-flowing torrent of grace which brings fecundity to the world. It is from your Heart opened by the lance, and moved by your love and mercy, that the Church, –your Spouse, your Mystical body and our Mother–, is born filled with your grace, holiness and fecundity as a perennial sacrament of your presence and seed of your unending Reign. Today, as pastor of these parishes and in communion with the faithful entrusted to me, I consecrate to your Most Sacred Heart, the parishes of St Joseph Church and St Anthony Church . We acknowledge, by this act of consecration, our desire to live in communion of love with your Eucharistic Heart, center and pillar of the life of the Church. We dispose ourselves to the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit, who seeks to transform us and to give to us a heart like Your own. May we enter into the school of your Heart so as to acquire the virtues of humility and meekness; of obedience and self-denial; of generosity and sincere charity. Protect us from all sin, selfishness, error and indifference. Living within your Heart and allowing ourselves to be transformed by your love, may these parishes be a channel of grace, light, truth, justice, peace, mercy and charity for the world so in need. Consecrated to your Heart, we dispose ourselves to fulfill your merciful designs and to construct with authentic holiness and with fruitful, apostolic work, the civilization of love and life: the Reign of your Heart. OH IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY, spiritually pierced at the foot of the Cross as a result of your perfect and indissoluble communion with the Heart of Jesus. Your Heart was also opened in order to receive, in virtue of your spiritual maternity, the Mystical Body of Christ, born from the Pierced Heart of your Son. Your Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart, receives the Church in the person of St. John the Apostles so that you may take care, nourish, protect and accompany Her, with the same dedication which you had with your Son.  To you, Virgin Mother, the Pierced Heart of Christ commissioned to protect with your attentive, maternal Heart, the Church, destined to advance the Kingdom of God in history, in the face of great battles and dangers. Today, the parishes of St Joseph Church and St Anthony placing themselves in the person of St. John, receive with profound gratitude, your maternal mission in the life of the parish and in the life of each faithful. We consecrate ourselves to your Immaculate Heart and we ask you, who are the living school of total consecration and dedication to the Heart of Jesus, to teach us to love the Heart of your Son without divisions; to listen to Him with complete openness and docility; to obey Him with diligence and exactness; to actively cooperate with responsibility in the designs of His Heart in the historic moment in which we live. Guard us and defend us in your Immaculate Heart, sure refuge of sinners. Protect us from all that can separate us from the love of the Heart of Christ and from His Will.  Defend us, with your maternal care, from all the dangers against our eternal and present life.  OH HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY, Hope of Humanity! Today, these parishes consecrate themselves completely to the love of your Hearts.  Today we dispose ourselves to lift on high, as if on a luminous banner, the names of Jesus and Mary.  From our littleness, we desire to participate in the merciful designs which the Pierced Hearts are manifesting in the Church and in humanity. Having been consecrated to the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary, we renew with greater love, fidelity and zeal, our commitment towards the call for a New Evangelization received from our Holy Father, Pope St. John Paul II. We renew our commitment towards holiness and coherence of life and to the faithful and enthusiastic proclamation of the truth, taught to us by the Magisterium of the Church. May this consecration result in fruits of conversion, charity, justice, peace, generosity and mercy in each one of us. May the Two Hearts establish their reign of love in each heart, in the priests, religious, laity committed in service and in each one of us, for the greater good of the entire Church. Amen.

We are happy to announce that we will have Transitional Deacon Lawrence Wumya from the Diocese of Yendi in Ghana doing his Internship here at St Joseph and St Anthony. Lawrence was ordained to the Diaconate on Saturday May 20th at St Louis Cathedral. Please give him a warm welcome when you meet him and encourage him in his vocation.

The Order of St. Louis Awards Ceremony took place at 2:30 PM on May 7, 2023, at St. Catherine of Siena Church, 105 Bonnabel Blvd., Metairie. 240 people were presented with medallions for outstanding service to their parishes and the Archdiocese. Congratulations to Peggy LeBlanc from St Anthony; and Geri Mayville and Kathy Danjean from St Joseph in being chosen for this special honor. Thank you ladies for your dedication to our parishes.

Congratulations to the following children who received the Sacrament of First Eucharist at St. Anthony Church on April 22nd: Carter Ray, Avery Capocaccia, Rylee Murphy, Tatyhonor Jenkins, Gia Ramos, Gianni Carter, Marshall Delhom, and Logan Davis

Charlotte Cox Roussel was recognized by her alma mater, St Anthony Elemenatry School, as being an exemplar of the values taught in our Catholic schools. Fifty-four graduates were honored on Tuesday April 25, 2023 in the Schulte Auditorium at Notre Dame Seminary by the Archdiocese of New Orleans Department of Catholic Education & Faith Formation. These Alumni/ae represent a rich tradition of academic excellence, moral integrity, and service to others.

Congratulations to Augustine Mullek who received his First Holy Communion on Sunday April 23rd.

Congratulations to Glenn Esteve who received the 2023 C W Cox Life Enhancement Award in recognition of his leadership, friendship, and humanitarianism to our great city of Gretna. We also would like to congratulate the Honorable Jackie Berthelot who received The Outstanding Service Award for his contributions.

Congratulations to Brandon Romero who was baptized, confirmed & received First Eucharist, and also to Gustavia Matthew who received Confirmation and First Eucharist at the Easter Vigil on April 8th.

The Easter Bunny wants to remind all the boys and girls to brush their teeth lest their next visit comes from the Tooth Fairy.

St Joseph's Women's Club and the Parish wish to thank and acknowledge our Holy Family for their contribution to the Altar this year: Joseph -- Carter Magness; Mary -- Sophie Nolen; Jesus -- Jackson Murphy; and Angels -- Kinsey Francis and Jeanne Magness.

Congratulations to Eli Cannon, Anica Sercovich, and Blade Schneider who received the Sacrament of Confirmation at CTK on March 8th.

We congratulate Danielle Nguyen (St Anthony) and Garyn Sercovich (St Joseph) on being selected and honored as our 2022 Altar Servers Of The Year. Our parishes thank them for their outstanding service.