WE'RE HIRING JOIN OUR TEAM Office Manager Responsible for ensuring optimal dayto-day operation of the organization and project management. Minimum Qualifications A college degree in relevant field or 2 years of experience in administrative support and/or management. Organizational skills and team management experience Send Your Resume or questions hfranklin@westbankpregnancy.org APPLY NOW! Perks Contribution to a life-saving mission! 28-hours a week part-time Salaried position with generous paid time off, including paid holidays. +++ In addition to the job, we are also looking for medical professionals who may be able to commit to volunteer a few hours a week for our center. If you know of any pro-life RNs and OBGYN doctors and ultrasound techs, please help me be connected to them.

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.

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 Vision of Man Fully Alive enables men to experience authentic freedom as sons of God. Through living the three-fold mission of abiding presence, joyful service and loving sacrifice, their hearts and homes will experience the joy that God desires. To sustain them on their spiritual journey, the men will be led directly to the three spiritual foods that Christ himself proclaims: The Eucharist, The Word of God, and The Will of God. EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF TRANSFORMATION AS YOU DISCOVER: • Eight new speakers, new personalities, and new topics, while still building on the foundational formation of the first three years of TMIY formation. • The path to authentic spiritual freedom, the beauty of the Eucharist, and the power of the Holy Spirit in action from a passionate and dynamic Franciscan Friar. • A deeper understanding of each of the four gospels from one of the best theologians in the world. • An epic real life story from the underground mafia of London to the heights of spiritual freedom. • The secrets of superabundant relationships from one of the world’s experts on purity and chastity. • Intellectual clarity on the misconception that causes the largest percentage of Catholics and all Christians to abandon their faith. • The harmony of faith and science from one of the foremost leaders in this field. • The personal journeys and spiritual implementation from three men who have over 25 years of combined TMIY experience and contemplation. • A systematic and uniquely personal plan for every man, no matter where they are in their spiritual life. Please join us for Breakfast September 9th at 5:45am. We will begin our presentation at 6:15am, followed by Small Group Discussion. We will have you out by 7:30am. TMIY runs 13 consecutive Fridays in the Fall and, after a brief break for the Holidays, will run 13 consecutive Fridays in the Spring. REGISTER FOR THIS FREE PROGRAM ONLINE AT WWW.TMIY.ORG

Teens Encounter Christ (TEC) is a three-day retreat weekend based on the Paschal Mystery where teens and young adults are invited to enter into a deeper, loving, and personal relationship with Christ through activities, prayer, and small group discussions. TEC is a retreat experience with an approach designed for teens and young adults who have completed at least the second semester of the sophomore year of high school. In summer of 2022, there are two opportunities to attend a TEC retreat. TEC 142 will be held June 25th-27th, and TEC 143 will take place July 30th-August 1st. All retreats are held at Rosaryville Retreat Center in Poncha-toula, LA, and the cost to attend is $120. To register to attend a summer TEC retreat, visit www.tecneworleans.com/applications. Questions? Email tecneworleans@gmail.com.

The Altar Server Awards Mass was held on June 1 at St. Rita Church in New Orleans. This year’s recipients were: Carter Magness – St. Anthony Ivana Sercovich – St. Joseph Congratulations and thank you for your service and dedication to both of our churches.

Dear Parishioners, On behalf of Unbound, thank you very much for welcoming us to your parish. Our hearts are full of gratitude for the generosity you have shown to the children, youth and the elders in our sponsorship program. Through your willingness to partner with Unbound, your parish community has taken steps toward a closer walk with Jesus in the name of the poor. We pray that members of your parish community who answered the call to sponsorship will be richly blessed by their experience. TABLE OPTIONS PREMIUN TABLES OF 6 GOLD LEVEL – ROUND TABLE OF 6 – LEVEL I SEATING $500.00 SILVER LEVEL – ROUND TABLE OF 6 – LEVEL II SEATING $300.00 BRONZE LEVEL – OBLONG TABLE OF 8 $ 160.00 INDIVIDUAL SEATS $20.00 Makes checks payable to Gretna Community Association and mail to PO Box 2681 Gretna, LA 70054 For more info, please call 504-432-7618 All checks must be received by June 13, 2022 to be included in the program.

Honorary Chairman Rudy Smith Councilman District 1 Guest Speaker Rev. Dr. Orin D. Grant, Sr. St. Paul Baptist Church Music Ministers St. Paul Worhsip Team Dinner prepared by St. Cletus Knights of Columbus Sponsored by Gretna Community Association and St. Cletus Knights of Columbus. 28th anniversary prayer dinner June 21, 2022 - 7pm TABLE OPTIONS PREMIUN TABLES OF 6 GOLD LEVEL – ROUND TABLE OF 6 – LEVEL I SEATING $500.00 SILVER LEVEL – ROUND TABLE OF 6 – LEVEL II SEATING $300.00 BRONZE LEVEL – OBLONG TABLE OF 8 $ 160.00 INDIVIDUAL SEATS $20.00 Make checks payable to Gretna Community Association and mail to PO Box 2681 Gretna, LA 70054 For more info, please call 504-432-7618 All checks must be received by June 13, 2022 to be included in the program.

Congratulations to: Francesca Arostegui, Adam Gattuso, Trenton Johnson, Mylena Le, Emma LeBouef, Alora McCastle, Dakota Miller, Alina Murillo, and Hollis Thierry on their First Communion (4/30/22) and Hanna Miller, Kevin Morvant, and Erica Evans on their recent reception of The Sacrament of Confirmation (3/16/22).

How sponsorship works When you sponsor through Unbound, you offer a hand up — not a handout — to a family working to lift themselves out of poverty through hard work, initiative and hope. Your monthly contribution of $40 directly benefits the specific individual you sponsor to help meet their basic needs. But your sponsorship does so much more. With your support, our program empowers sponsored individuals and their families with tools to achieve self-sufficiency. Local staff members work with sponsored families on how to best use their benefits to achieve personal and family goals. This may include resources for: Nutrition Health care Education and skills training Improved living conditions Seed capital for a small business or farm Thanks to your support and encouragement, families are able to invest in their children's education, develop livelihoods and become active community participants. Over time, they rely less on sponsorship and more on their own income-generation activities.

The Archdiocese of New Orleans recognized 25 Distinguished Alumni from the Catholic School System to receive an Award for being a Distinguished Alumnus(ae). These distinguished men and women have achieved much in spreading Gospel values and serving witness to Christ's love as they continue to grow the mission by their respective schools throughout the world. • From St. Anthony School, Rory Cadres. He graduated from St. Anthony School in 1975 and recently retired from the US Postal Service. He is a dedicated parishioner and frequently volunteers for activities and duties associated with the church and school. Currently, he is a lector, usher and serves an altar server as needed. He is also on the St. Anthony Pastoral Council and assists with the yearly Bonanza to raise funds for the parish. Prior to the pandemic, he served as a mentor to middle school students through the Isaiah 43 mentoring program. He is also a member of the Knights of Columbus Archbishop Blenk Council 1905 that serves our parish and school. He is a devout Catholic and dedicated husband, father, and uncle. He is always willing do whatever needs to be done to keep the parish going strong. His hard work and dedication are truly valued. Currently, Mrs. Patti Waddell is Principal and the Pastor is Father Gary Copping.

On Saturday, May 21, 2022 at I0:00 a.m. at the St. Louis Cathedral, Archbishop Aymond will ordain David Michael Doyle, Cory Paul Ford, Brennan Chase Masters, Long Thanh Pham and Kevin Alden Seay to the Transitional Diaconate for the Archdiocese of New Orleans. You are cordially invited to attend the ceremony. Reception to follow in the Cathedral Gated Garden. On Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. at the St. Louis Cathedral, Archbishop Aymond will ordain Deacons Joseph Alfonse DiMaggio, III, Andy Gil Gonzalez, Lennin Arroyo Martinez, Jeffrey Austin Merritt, William Patrick Mumphrey and Kesiena Dennis Obienu to the Priesthood for the Archdiocese of New Orleans. You are cordially invited to attend the ceremony. Reception to follow in the Cathedral Gated Garden.

Please join us as we pray for babies, moms, and the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. Reception to Follow Learn More: www.NolaCatholic.org/respectlife Featuring Archbishop Gregory Aymond and Father Ajani Gibson

Each year on Good Shepherd Sunday the Archdiocese of New Orleans designates a special second collection to help support the medical and retirement expenses of our diocesan priests. This collection is scheduled for the weekend of May 7-8, 2022.

After prayerful consideration and in order to provide for the pastoral care of the people of God in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, we will begin the process of discernment for the next formation group to be considered for the ministry of deacon. ++ If you know of any man who exhibits the possible stirrings of a call to serve, please encourage them to take the next step. There will be upcoming discernment gatherings which will provide a formalized structure of discernment and prayerful accompaniment beginning in Mid-May. Interested men can contact the Office of Diaconate at 504-861-6329 or by email pdiaconate@arch-no.org. The Office of Diaconate will now receive "First Inquiry Forms". The completed inquiry forms begins the more personalized relationship of accompaniment that may lead to acceptance into the "Aspirant Stage" of formation for diaconal ministry. Husbands, remember to get your wife's permission :)

The Notre Dame Seminary Programs for Laity is excited to announce that we have adopted a new curriculum for the Institute for Lay Ecclesial Ministry (ILEM) and Master of Arts in Pastoral Leadership (MAPL) programs! Under this new curriculum, students can earn a MAPL degree in as few as three years while enrolled on a part-time basis. Furthermore, all accepted students are eligible to receive the Handing on the Faith Scholarship, which reduces tuition by 75%! The next ILEM/MAPL cohort begins this Summer 2022, with an application deadline of Monday, May 2nd, so now is the time to consider furthering your formation and education for the good of our local Church with the same professors and in the same place as our future priests and deacons. For more information, contact the NDS Programs for Laity Office at layprograms@nda.edu

St Joseph Gymnasium - Dine In or Take Out Menu - Fish Dinner - Includes fried catfish, baked macaroni, bread, and coleslaw. $10.00 Shrimp Pasta - Includes shrimp pasta, bread, and salad. $10.00 Desserts and Drinks sold separately. Dine In or Take Out

Over two hundred twenty-five laypersons who have devoted themselves to the work of the Catholic Church throughout the Archdiocese of New Orleans will be awarded the Order of St. Louis IX Medallion by Archbishop Gregory Aymond in ceremonies May 15, 2022 at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Metairie. The Order of St. Louis IX award was established in 1975 to honor those laypersons who have contributed their time and talents to the church. In nearly a half-century, more than 10,000 men and women have received the medallion as a token of gratitude for their Christ-like service to the church. This year’s recipients of the Order of St. Louis IX are: Ms Mary Alford and Mr Mike Giglio for St Joseph and Mr Eldon Boudreaux and his wife, Mrs Angela Boudreaux for St Anthony. Congratulations to them all and thank you for your service to our Parishes and to the Archdiocese.

St Joseph Gymnasium Menu - Fish Dinner - Includes fried catfish, baked macaroni, bread, and coleslaw. $10.00 White Beans and Shrimp - Includes white beans, rice, shrimp, bread, and coleslaw. $10.00 Desserts and Drinks sold separately. Dine In or Take Out

O Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, in this time of trial we turn to you. As our Mother, you love us and know us: no concern of our hearts is hidden from you. Mother of mercy, how often we have experienced your watchful care and your peaceful presence! You never cease to guide us to Jesus, the Prince of Peace. Yet we have strayed from that path of peace. We have forgotten the lesson learned from the tragedies of the last century, the sacrifice of the millions who fell in two world wars. We have disregarded the commitments we made as a community of nations. We have betrayed peoples’ dreams of peace and the hopes of the young. We grew sick with greed, we thought only of our own nations and their interests, we grew indifferent and caught up in our selfish needs and concerns. We chose to ignore God, to be satisfied with our illusions, to grow arrogant and aggressive, to suppress innocent lives and to stockpile weapons. We stopped being our neighbour’s keepers and stewards of our common home. We have ravaged the garden of the earth with war and by our sins we have broken the heart of our heavenly Father, who desires us to be brothers and sisters. We grew indifferent to everyone and everything except ourselves. Now with shame we cry out: Forgive us, Lord! Holy Mother, amid the misery of our sinfulness, amid our struggles and weaknesses, amid the mystery of iniquity that is evil and war, you remind us that God never abandons us, but continues to look upon us with love, ever ready to forgive us and raise us up to new life. He has given you to us and made your Immaculate Heart a refuge for the Church and for all humanity. By God’s gracious will, you are ever with us; even in the most troubled moments of our history, you are there to guide us with tender love. We now turn to you and knock at the door of your heart. We are your beloved children. In every age you make yourself known to us, calling us to conversion. At this dark hour, help us and grant us your comfort. Say to us once more: “Am I not here, I who am your Mother?” You are able to untie the knots of our hearts and of our times. In you we place our trust. We are confident that, especially in moments of trial, you will not be deaf to our supplication and will come to our aid. That is what you did at Cana in Galilee, when you interceded with Jesus and he worked the first of his signs. To preserve the joy of the wedding feast, you said to him: “They have no wine” (Jn 2:3). Now, O Mother, repeat those words and that prayer, for in our own day we have run out of the wine of hope, joy has fled, fraternity has faded. We have forgotten our humanity and squandered the gift of peace. We opened our hearts to violence and destructiveness. How greatly we need your maternal help! Therefore, O Mother, hear our prayer. Star of the Sea, do not let us be shipwrecked in the tempest of war. Ark of the New Covenant, inspire projects and paths of reconciliation. Queen of Heaven, restore God’s peace to the world. Eliminate hatred and the thirst for revenge, and teach us forgiveness. Free us from war, protect our world from the menace of nuclear weapons. Queen of the Rosary, make us realize our need to pray and to love. Queen of the Human Family, show people the path of fraternity. Queen of Peace, obtain peace for our world. O Mother, may your sorrowful plea stir our hardened hearts. May the tears you shed for us make this valley parched by our hatred blossom anew. Amid the thunder of weapons, may your prayer turn our thoughts to peace. May your maternal touch soothe those who suffer and flee from the rain of bombs. May your motherly embrace comfort those forced to leave their homes and their native land. May your Sorrowful Heart move us to compassion and inspire us to open our doors and to care for our brothers and sisters who are injured and cast aside. Holy Mother of God, as you stood beneath the cross, Jesus, seeing the disciple at your side, said: “Behold your son” (Jn 19:26). In this way he entrusted each of us to you. To the disciple, and to each of us, he said: “Behold, your Mother” (v. 27). Mother Mary, we now desire to welcome you into our lives and our history. At this hour, a weary and distraught humanity stands with you beneath the cross, needing to entrust itself to you and, through you, to consecrate itself to Christ. The people of Ukraine and Russia, who venerate you with great love, now turn to you, even as your heart beats with compassion for them and for all those peoples decimated by war, hunger, injustice and poverty. Therefore, Mother of God and our Mother, to your Immaculate Heart we solemnly entrust and consecrate ourselves, the Church and all humanity, especially Russia and Ukraine. Accept this act that we carry out with confidence and love. Grant that war may end and peace spread throughout the world. The “Fiat” that arose from your heart opened the doors of history to the Prince of Peace. We trust that, through your heart, peace will dawn once more. To you we consecrate the future of the whole human family, the needs and expectations of every people, the anxieties and hopes of the world. Through your intercession, may God’s mercy be poured out on the earth and the gentle rhythm of peace return to mark our days. Our Lady of the “Fiat”, on whom the Holy Spirit descended, restore among us the harmony that comes from God. May you, our “living fountain of hope”, water the dryness of our hearts. In your womb Jesus took flesh; help us to foster the growth of communion. You once trod the streets of our world; lead us now on the paths of peace. Amen.

St Joseph Gymnasium Menu - Fish Dinner - Includes fried catfish, baked macaroni, bread, and coleslaw. $10.00 Shrimp and Grits Dinner - Includes shrimp, grits, bread, and coleslaw. $10.00 Desserts and Drinks sold separately. Dine In or Take Out