As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

Gala tickets can be purchased for a $100 donation. Great opportunity to win $10,000.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

In this novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (also known as Our Mother of Perpetual Help from this icon pictured on the left) we pay tribute to the Blessed Virgin Mary in asking for her assistance. This picture of the Blessed Mother with her Divine Son above has helped her provide strength, comfort and even miracles to the faithful for centuries! .......... Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary. What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you. (Then say three Hail Marys).......... First placed in the Church of San Matteo in Rome in 1499, the picture was thought to be lost at one point after Napoleon’s armies sacked that church in 1798. Fortunately, however, it was in the care of the Augustinian fathers until Pope Pius IX ordered that the icon be given to the Redemptorist order at the Church of St. Alphonsus in Rome in 1866 for public viewing once again. Since then it has been copied and venerated in churches and homes all over the world. Note in this picture how Jesus, while safely cradled in his mother’s arms, looks anxiously at St. Gabriel the Archangel, who holds the cross and nails for His Crucifixion. (St. Michael the Archangel, at left, holds the lance, spear, and the vessel of vinegar and gall for our Lord's Passion as well.) The Blessed Mother looks at us solemnly, perhaps as if in contemplation of her beloved Son’s future Passion and death for our salvation! Remember that when we pray this novena to our Lady of Perpetual Help, that we are not choosing to worship her over her Divine Son. She is "our Mother on the order of grace,” according to a Vatican II document, and all the graces Mary gives us come directly from our Lord. She is always ready to intercede with Him on our behalf, but never for anything contrary to His wishes. As long as we approach her as we do Him, with sincerely humble and contrite hearts, we can count on her aid and guidance. Mary’s last spoken words in the Gospels concerned her Son when she said at the wedding feast at Cana “Do whatever he tells You” (John 2:5). If we persevere in our intentions to do Christ’s will for us, we are doing hers as well.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

Boundless Compassion (book by Joyce Rupp)- Broken, wounded, violent, damaged, divisive – these are some descriptions given to the current global situation. Our world desperately needs the noble, essential quality of compassion to be activated; the compassion that was the center of Jesus’ ministry and his mission for his disciples—and his call for us today. Join ASC Associate Director, Janet Trahan as together we nudge, encourage, and inspire one another to be a beloved, Christ like presence, living compassionately. Thursday, Sept. 6, 13, 20, 27, Oct. 4, 11, 2018, 9:30-11:30am at the Archdiocesan Spirituality Center, 2501 Maine Ave. Metairie. Please purchase the book and read pgs. 1-40. Bring a journal. Cost $50 (Adjustments can be made.) Register on the web: https://asc.arch-no.org. email: archspirctr@arch-no.org or telephone (504) 861-3254.

Come join the St Vincent DePaul Society or come volunteer to help the poor in our parishes.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

Call to Prayer Novena Week 6 PRAY May a change in the U.S. Supreme Court move our nation closer to the day when every human being is protected in law and welcomed in life. Our Father..., Hail Mary..., Glory Be... FAST Offer a sacrifice for the intention. (Ideas for fasting.) LEARN Pro-life laws can and do reduce the abortion rate. Most people on both sides of the abortion debate agree that reducing the number of abortions is a desirable outcome. While some argue that contraception is the key to reducing the abortion rate, real-world evidence does not back that up. Instead, research shows that even when women were provided with free "emergency contraception" ahead of time, the pregnancy and abortion rate remained statistically equivalent with those who were not provided with it. In fact, the availability of contraception and abortion can increase the rate of unintended pregnancies (as well as sexually transmitted infections) as studies show that people engage in more frequent and riskier behavior if they believe their risk has been lowered. On the other hand, evidence suggests that laws restricting the funding of abortion (like the Hyde amendment preventing Medicaid funds from going to abortion) or limiting its availability, involving parents, and providing women with more information lower the rate of abortion. Unfortunately, Roe, its companion case Doe, and some subsequent rulings have been used to invalidate many laws meant to lower the rate of abortion.

Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus will be held at St Anthony Church every 1st Friday after the 8:30 am morning mass.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

Sponsored by the West Bank (Marrero) Chapter of Magnificat September 8, 2018 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM Please arrive 15 minutes early. Open seating Location: Timberlane Country Club 1 Timberlane Dr. Gretna La. 70056 TICKETS Tickets to the prayer breakfast are $20.00 and may be obtained from our ticket chairwoman, Lauren McGinnis (504) 263-2474 or Diane Ribando (504) 913-4903 Tickets for priests, deacons, religious brothers and sisters are complimentary, but reservations are required and this may be done by contacting Lauren McGinnis. Tickets are also available from: Westbank Religious Supply House, Phone (504) 341-6558 or Mary’s Helpers, Phone (504) 348-7729 Members of the Service Team of Magnificat also have tickets for sale. Your check will serve as your receipt. Ticket sales end Friday, August 31, 2018. No tickets are sold at the door.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

Gala tickets can be purchased for a $100 donation. Great opportunity to win $10,000.

Jacob became Israel, “one who contended with God,” after a long night of wrestling with his unresolved issues. (Gen 32:22-32) Join Sr. Jeanne Moore, OP to explore how our struggles in moving from bitterness to gratitude, poor self- image to healthy humility, bad-mouthing to blessing others, might actually be a wider and deeper experience of the Living God. We’ll use Fr. Mark Thibodeaux’s helpful book, God, I Have Issues: 50 ways to pray no matter how you feel. Copies for sale on Sept. 10 for $15, or bring your own copy. Monday, Sept. 10, 17, 24, 2018, 10am – Noon. Northshore Catholic Center, 4465 East Hwy. 190 Service Rd., Covington. Cost $40.00 (Adjustments can be made.) Register on the web: http://asc.arch-no.org , email: archspirctr@arch-no.org or call(504) 861-3254.

Fr. Gary will have eight seminars in the Parish Office Conference Room (or suitable site) at 4:00 each date to learn about different aspects of our Catholic Faith. Dates are Monday Sep 10 On The Papacy Monday Sep 17 On The Bible Monday Sep 24 On The Real Presence Monday Oct 1 On The Sacrament of Confession Monday Oct 8 On Mary Monday Oct 22 On Purgatory If you have a Catechism of the Catholic Church book, please bring it. It can be pulled up on line also.

The Neocatechumenal Way is a way of Christian initiation that develops a pastoral work of evangelization for adults. A post baptismal catechumenate. This evangelization is bringing to a living faith many of our brothers and sisters who today live a Christianity of habit, and is giving to many people submerged in a secularized world the possibility of meeting Our Lord Jesus Christ through Christian communities which live their faith at an adult level. The Neocatechumenal Way is a group of people who wish to rediscover and to live Christian life to the full; to live the essential consequences of their Baptism, by means of a Neocatechumenate divided into different stages, like that of the early Church, but adapted to their condition as baptized persons.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

The Church bells will toll at 8:46, 9:03, 9:37, and 10:07 in honor of all those who died amidst the terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon, and Flight 93, which was crashed in Pennsylvania before the terrorists could complete their atrocities. Please remember the heroes that died, pray for peace and understanding, and show love and appreciation to all you meet this day as we mourn this tragedy.

In this novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (also known as Our Mother of Perpetual Help from this icon pictured on the left) we pay tribute to the Blessed Virgin Mary in asking for her assistance. This picture of the Blessed Mother with her Divine Son above has helped her provide strength, comfort and even miracles to the faithful for centuries! .......... Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary. What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you. (Then say three Hail Marys).......... First placed in the Church of San Matteo in Rome in 1499, the picture was thought to be lost at one point after Napoleon’s armies sacked that church in 1798. Fortunately, however, it was in the care of the Augustinian fathers until Pope Pius IX ordered that the icon be given to the Redemptorist order at the Church of St. Alphonsus in Rome in 1866 for public viewing once again. Since then it has been copied and venerated in churches and homes all over the world. Note in this picture how Jesus, while safely cradled in his mother’s arms, looks anxiously at St. Gabriel the Archangel, who holds the cross and nails for His Crucifixion. (St. Michael the Archangel, at left, holds the lance, spear, and the vessel of vinegar and gall for our Lord's Passion as well.) The Blessed Mother looks at us solemnly, perhaps as if in contemplation of her beloved Son’s future Passion and death for our salvation! Remember that when we pray this novena to our Lady of Perpetual Help, that we are not choosing to worship her over her Divine Son. She is "our Mother on the order of grace,” according to a Vatican II document, and all the graces Mary gives us come directly from our Lord. She is always ready to intercede with Him on our behalf, but never for anything contrary to His wishes. As long as we approach her as we do Him, with sincerely humble and contrite hearts, we can count on her aid and guidance. Mary’s last spoken words in the Gospels concerned her Son when she said at the wedding feast at Cana “Do whatever he tells You” (John 2:5). If we persevere in our intentions to do Christ’s will for us, we are doing hers as well.

Please join the Men of St Anthony (MenSA) as they form a men's group to build up the parish and their lives by fraternity, prayer, and service to our community. It doesn't take a genius to join this MenSA.

On any given Sunday, 80% of the congregation at Mass has either been afflicted with, or affected by the disease of addiction. This disease is an equal opportunity illness, disregarding gender, occupation, age, race, nationality, or social status. It is conservatively estimated that each afflicted person will affect a minimum of four (4) other people. A notable characteristic of this disease is denial, based in shame and sustained by a “conspiracy of silence.” The first step in addressing the problem is to begin talking about it, thus reducing the shame and opening the door to treatment and recovery. It is commonly said that there are only three ways out of addiction: Treatment, Incarceration, or death! It is widely noted that if there is an addict or alcoholic in the family, the whole family needs to be treated because of the pain and suffering that it causes. But there is hope! St Joseph Church has begun the process of creating a parish SUBSTANCE ADDICTION MINISTRY (SAM) What is SAM? S.A.M. stands for Substance Addiction Ministry. SAM is a parish-based ministry that is designed to provide a safe, confidential place for people touched by addiction to share their personal experiences with others. SAM provides educational information about addiction through professionals in this field. If you have any questions, contact the office. We meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at St Joseph Church Office at 7pm.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

Every parish church in the Archdiocese of New Orleans will be hearing confessions this night.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

Boundless Compassion (book by Joyce Rupp)- Broken, wounded, violent, damaged, divisive – these are some descriptions given to the current global situation. Our world desperately needs the noble, essential quality of compassion to be activated; the compassion that was the center of Jesus’ ministry and his mission for his disciples—and his call for us today. Join ASC Associate Director, Janet Trahan as together we nudge, encourage, and inspire one another to be a beloved, Christ like presence, living compassionately. Thursday, Sept. 6, 13, 20, 27, Oct. 4, 11, 2018, 9:30-11:30am at the Archdiocesan Spirituality Center, 2501 Maine Ave. Metairie. Please purchase the book and read pgs. 1-40. Bring a journal. Cost $50 (Adjustments can be made.) Register on the web: https://asc.arch-no.org. email: archspirctr@arch-no.org or telephone (504) 861-3254.

One hour prayer time for the men of St Joseph and St Anthony to grow spiritually as a fraternity of men.

Monthly Meeting with Guest Speaker -- Tonight's presentation is on ST JOSEPH CHURCH.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

Call to Prayer Novena Week 7 PRAY May a change in the U.S. Supreme Court move our nation closer to the day when every human being is protected in law and welcomed in life. Our Father..., Hail Mary..., Glory Be... FAST Offer a sacrifice for the intention. (Ideas for fasting.) LEARN Abortion fails women. Abortion is often portrayed as essential for women to achieve freedom and equality with men, yet many report feeling some degree of pressure or aborting to please someone else—often their partner. Further, after the abortion, many women report feelings of depression, suicidal or self-harm inclinations, sadness, shame, and regret. For example, Cynthia Carney in an amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court described the aftermath of her abortion saying, "For 23 years, I went into crying spells, depression, suicidal thoughts. Emotionally it devastated me." Camelia Murphy explained, "I have suffered with low self-esteem, self-hatred, suicidal impulses, constant anxiety (especially about sex and about making decisions)." Donna Razin said that her abortion caused her "[d]eep regret – initially I was suicidal – as the years have progressed I have developed a heightened level of bitterness and anger and self-hate." Women would be better served if society tried to creatively answer the needs of single mothers, mothers trying to get through school, mothers needing higher or more stable finances, etc. rather than telling them that the death of their children is the best answer. We can and should do better for all women.

The Neocatechumenal Way is a way of Christian initiation that develops a pastoral work of evangelization for adults. A post baptismal catechumenate. This evangelization is bringing to a living faith many of our brothers and sisters who today live a Christianity of habit, and is giving to many people submerged in a secularized world the possibility of meeting Our Lord Jesus Christ through Christian communities which live their faith at an adult level. The Neocatechumenal Way is a group of people who wish to rediscover and to live Christian life to the full; to live the essential consequences of their Baptism, by means of a Neocatechumenate divided into different stages, like that of the early Church, but adapted to their condition as baptized persons.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

The Catholic Communications Campaign is set for September 15-16, 2018, in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. This collection supports the evangelizing work of the church throughout the world by supporting media: newspapers, television, radio and digital or online media. Fifty percent of the funds collected in the Archdiocese of New Orleans remain here to support Catholic new media efforts and the Clarion Herald. To learn more about the national program visit www.usccb.org/ccc and locally visit http://nolacatholic.org.

Jazzed for Life will be on Saturday, September 15, 2018, at the CYO/Youth & Young Adult Ministry facility at 2241 Mendez St, New Orleans. Networking begins at 8:00 AM and speakers begin at 9:00 AM. We wrap up the program at noon and have until 1:00 PM for more networking. Visit our page to learn more and to register.

A Monthly Rosary For Peace for law enforcement, emergency personnel, firefighters, military, and peace in the world will be held at St Joseph Church. Everyone is invited to attend. For more information call Mary Grace at 504-367-7515.

STROLL - BIKE - SKATE - EAT - SHOP ENJOY A CAR-FREE STREET FOR AN EVENING WITH LOCAL BUSINESSES, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND NUMEROUS ACTIVITIES. BRING YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO THIS FREE, ALL-AGES EXPERIENCE THAT SHOWCASES GRETNA!

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

The Catholic Communications Campaign is set for September 15-16, 2018, in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. This collection supports the evangelizing work of the church throughout the world by supporting media: newspapers, television, radio and digital or online media. Fifty percent of the funds collected in the Archdiocese of New Orleans remain here to support Catholic new media efforts and the Clarion Herald. To learn more about the national program visit www.usccb.org/ccc and locally visit http://nolacatholic.org.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

Gala tickets can be purchased for a $100 donation. Great opportunity to win $10,000.

Fr. Gary will have eight seminars in the Parish Office Conference Room (or suitable site) at 4:00 each date to learn about different aspects of our Catholic Faith. Dates are Monday Sep 10 On The Papacy Monday Sep 17 On The Bible Monday Sep 24 On The Real Presence Monday Oct 1 On The Sacrament of Confession Monday Oct 8 On Mary Monday Oct 22 On Purgatory If you have a Catechism of the Catholic Church book, please bring it. It can be pulled up on line also.

The Neocatechumenal Way is a way of Christian initiation that develops a pastoral work of evangelization for adults. A post baptismal catechumenate. This evangelization is bringing to a living faith many of our brothers and sisters who today live a Christianity of habit, and is giving to many people submerged in a secularized world the possibility of meeting Our Lord Jesus Christ through Christian communities which live their faith at an adult level. The Neocatechumenal Way is a group of people who wish to rediscover and to live Christian life to the full; to live the essential consequences of their Baptism, by means of a Neocatechumenate divided into different stages, like that of the early Church, but adapted to their condition as baptized persons.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

All the active priests of the Archdiocese will be at the Convocation. There may be communion services provided by the deacons in case a retired or religious priest is not available to celebrate mass.

The Missionaries of St. Therese “Rose Petal Social and Luncheon” will be on Tuesday, September 18, 2018, at 11:00 AM in the St. Philip Neri Parishioners’ Center in Metairie. Festivities include a $1,000 Cash Prize Raffle, Silent Auction, Parade of Prizes, Homemade Sweets Shoppe, Restaurant Pool and more. Cost is only a $25 donation with 100% of the proceeds directly benefiting mission programs locally and throughout the world. Make your reservations now by calling JoAnn Testa Hebert 504-288- 0717.

In this novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (also known as Our Mother of Perpetual Help from this icon pictured on the left) we pay tribute to the Blessed Virgin Mary in asking for her assistance. This picture of the Blessed Mother with her Divine Son above has helped her provide strength, comfort and even miracles to the faithful for centuries! .......... Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary. What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you. (Then say three Hail Marys).......... First placed in the Church of San Matteo in Rome in 1499, the picture was thought to be lost at one point after Napoleon’s armies sacked that church in 1798. Fortunately, however, it was in the care of the Augustinian fathers until Pope Pius IX ordered that the icon be given to the Redemptorist order at the Church of St. Alphonsus in Rome in 1866 for public viewing once again. Since then it has been copied and venerated in churches and homes all over the world. Note in this picture how Jesus, while safely cradled in his mother’s arms, looks anxiously at St. Gabriel the Archangel, who holds the cross and nails for His Crucifixion. (St. Michael the Archangel, at left, holds the lance, spear, and the vessel of vinegar and gall for our Lord's Passion as well.) The Blessed Mother looks at us solemnly, perhaps as if in contemplation of her beloved Son’s future Passion and death for our salvation! Remember that when we pray this novena to our Lady of Perpetual Help, that we are not choosing to worship her over her Divine Son. She is "our Mother on the order of grace,” according to a Vatican II document, and all the graces Mary gives us come directly from our Lord. She is always ready to intercede with Him on our behalf, but never for anything contrary to His wishes. As long as we approach her as we do Him, with sincerely humble and contrite hearts, we can count on her aid and guidance. Mary’s last spoken words in the Gospels concerned her Son when she said at the wedding feast at Cana “Do whatever he tells You” (John 2:5). If we persevere in our intentions to do Christ’s will for us, we are doing hers as well.

The Series “Lord, Teach Me To Pray” (LTMTP) is a three-part prayer series, rooted in Ignatian spirituality and designed to help women and men learn how to pray. The three parts are taken in succession. Each part is a prerequisite for the next part. Part I, Praying Christian Virtues (12 weeks), introduces Ignatian prayer and spirituality in the way that St. Ignatius himself introduced people; i.e., by structuring their initial prayer experience around the Christian Virtues. Part 1 is conducted in a small group experience with two trained facilitators. Each group will meet for two hours once a week for prayer, faith sharing and introduction to the methods of Ignatian prayer. Everyone will receive Scriptures on the virtues to use daily at home for 15 minutes of private prayer. Part 2, My 19th Annotation (30 weeks), consists of the entirety of the well-known “Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius”. The title of this part of the series refers to the 19th note that St. Ignatius wrote in his notebook. In this note he wrote that a person taken up with “public affairs or suitable business” and unable to withdraw from the world for prayer may experience the prayer of the Spiritual Exercises in his daily life. Pt. 2 is conducted in a small group experience with two trained facilitators. Each group will meet for two hours once a week for prayer, faith sharing and will receive material on the Spiritual Exercises and Scriptures to use for their private prayer of 30-45 minutes daily. Pt. 2 is 30 weeks which are divided into two 15 week semesters with a month break in the middle. Part 3 Discernment and Gifts of the Spirit (14 weeks), provides a general theological catechesis of the Holy Spirit with emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, followed by an introduction to St. Ignatius’ Rules for Discernment. Pt. 3 is conducted in a small group experience with two trained facilitators. Each group will meet for two hours once a week for prayer, faith sharing, and will receive material on the Holy Spirit, St. Ignatius’ Rules for Discernment along with Scriptures for their private prayer of 1 hour. Ignatian Prayer has been in existence for almost 500 years, and it is said by some that the Spiritual Exercises were given to St. Ignatius by the Blessed Mother herself. As such, the Exercises have an integrity that has been safeguarded throughout the centuries by Jesuits and non-Jesuits alike. The Exercises have shaped the spirituality of countless children of God including numerous saints, drawing them into, and guiding them into, a very deep intimate relationship with the Lord Jesus (with the entire Triune God). The foundational material utilized in any Ignatian-based prayer series is the notebook of St. Ignatius himself which today we call the Spiritual Exercises. As such, St. Ignatius is, in reality, the primary writer of the heart of the “Lord Teach Me To Pray” series (Part II), even in cases where the material from the Exercises are presented through the explanations, interpretations or creative adaptations of spiritual writers who came after him. One could, however, imagine St. Ignatius asserting that the Holy Spirit, speaking through the holy vessel of the Blessed Mother, is indeed the true “author”. The facilitators of the series are not teachers or spiritual directors; rather, they themselves are “pray-ers” who, no matter how many times they facilitate the series, pray the assigned material throughout the week just as the other participants do. The facilitators are trained in the basic skills needed to simply “make easy” the entrance of each participant into this most beautiful way of prayer. The facilitators’ main responsibility is to allow for the space within the group that the Holy Spirit needs to direct each person’s journey. As the facilitators safeguard this space, the prayer itself opens the heart of each participant to a deep and intimate relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ who will, as the title of the series clearly suggests, lovingly and gently do the “teaching”. The Lord, Teach Me To Pray series was submitted to the USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) Publishing Office for approval and to receive the copyright permissions needed to publish excerpts from the New American Bible (Confraternity of Christian Doctrine) and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The approval process included a complete review of the LTMTP text by the Subcommittee on the Catechism to assure its consistency with the Catechism. At the successful conclusion of that review, LTMTP was granted copyright permissions to publish excerpts from both publications.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

All the active priests of the Archdiocese will be at the Convocation. There may be communion services provided by the deacons in case a retired or religious priest is not available to celebrate mass. Please pray for your priests.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

All the active priests of the Archdiocese will be at the Convocation. There may be communion services provided by the deacons in case a retired or religious priest is not available to celebrate mass. Please pray for your priests.

Boundless Compassion (book by Joyce Rupp)- Broken, wounded, violent, damaged, divisive – these are some descriptions given to the current global situation. Our world desperately needs the noble, essential quality of compassion to be activated; the compassion that was the center of Jesus’ ministry and his mission for his disciples—and his call for us today. Join ASC Associate Director, Janet Trahan as together we nudge, encourage, and inspire one another to be a beloved, Christ like presence, living compassionately. Thursday, Sept. 6, 13, 20, 27, Oct. 4, 11, 2018, 9:30-11:30am at the Archdiocesan Spirituality Center, 2501 Maine Ave. Metairie. Please purchase the book and read pgs. 1-40. Bring a journal. Cost $50 (Adjustments can be made.) Register on the web: https://asc.arch-no.org. email: archspirctr@arch-no.org or telephone (504) 861-3254.

Please join us for a Mass and Healing Service with Frank Kelly on Thursday September 20th at 6 pm at St Joseph Church.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

Call to Prayer Novena Week 8 PRAY May a change in the U.S. Supreme Court move our nation closer to the day when every human being is protected in law and welcomed in life. Our Father..., Hail Mary..., Glory Be... FAST Offer a sacrifice for the intention. (Ideas for fasting.) LEARN Abortion stops a beating heart. Abortion advocates usually refer to the human being growing in her/his mother's womb in dehumanizing terms like "product of conception" and suggest that most abortions are done before fetal organs are functioning. Actually, the vast majority are done after the fetal heart has begun beating. A baby's heart begins to beat at about 21 or 22 days after fertilization. That's at about 3 weeks of development. The vast majority of abortions in the United States are done well after this point.

The Neocatechumenal Way is a way of Christian initiation that develops a pastoral work of evangelization for adults. A post baptismal catechumenate. This evangelization is bringing to a living faith many of our brothers and sisters who today live a Christianity of habit, and is giving to many people submerged in a secularized world the possibility of meeting Our Lord Jesus Christ through Christian communities which live their faith at an adult level. The Neocatechumenal Way is a group of people who wish to rediscover and to live Christian life to the full; to live the essential consequences of their Baptism, by means of a Neocatechumenate divided into different stages, like that of the early Church, but adapted to their condition as baptized persons.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

Gala tickets can be purchased for a $100 donation. Great opportunity to win $10,000.

Fr. Gary will have eight seminars in the Parish Office Conference Room (or suitable site) at 4:00 each date to learn about different aspects of our Catholic Faith. Dates are Monday Sep 10 On The Papacy Monday Sep 17 On The Bible Monday Sep 24 On The Real Presence Monday Oct 1 On The Sacrament of Confession Monday Oct 8 On Mary Monday Oct 22 On Purgatory If you have a Catechism of the Catholic Church book, please bring it. It can be pulled up on line also.

The Neocatechumenal Way is a way of Christian initiation that develops a pastoral work of evangelization for adults. A post baptismal catechumenate. This evangelization is bringing to a living faith many of our brothers and sisters who today live a Christianity of habit, and is giving to many people submerged in a secularized world the possibility of meeting Our Lord Jesus Christ through Christian communities which live their faith at an adult level. The Neocatechumenal Way is a group of people who wish to rediscover and to live Christian life to the full; to live the essential consequences of their Baptism, by means of a Neocatechumenate divided into different stages, like that of the early Church, but adapted to their condition as baptized persons.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

Boundless Compassion (book by Joyce Rupp)- Broken, wounded, violent, damaged, divisive – these are some descriptions given to the current global situation. Our world desperately needs the noble, essential quality of compassion to be activated; the compassion that was the center of Jesus’ ministry and his mission for his disciples—and his call for us today. Join ASC Associate Director, Janet Trahan as together we nudge, encourage, and inspire one another to be a beloved, Christ like presence, living compassionately. Thursday, Sept. 6, 13, 20, 27, Oct. 4, 11, 2018, 9:30-11:30am at the Archdiocesan Spirituality Center, 2501 Maine Ave. Metairie. Please purchase the book and read pgs. 1-40. Bring a journal. Cost $50 (Adjustments can be made.) Register on the web: https://asc.arch-no.org. email: archspirctr@arch-no.org or telephone (504) 861-3254.

One hour prayer time for all the men of the parish to grow spiritually as a fraternity of men.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

Parking available in lots for a charge.

Call to Prayer Novena Week 9 PRAY May a change in the U.S. Supreme Court move our nation closer to the day when every human being is protected in law and welcomed in life. Our Father..., Hail Mary..., Glory Be... FAST Offer a sacrifice for the intention. (Ideas for fasting.) LEARN The chief strategist for legalizing abortion lied about deaths from illegal abortion. Claims that thousands of women were dying from illegal abortions at the time of Roe were fabricated for political purposes. The late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a chief strategist for legalizing abortion, said he and his associates invented the "nice, round shocking figure" of "5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year" from illegal abortions: I confess that I knew the figures were totally false, and I suppose the others did too if they stopped to think of it. But in the "morality" of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics? Research confirms that the actual number of maternal deaths resulting from abortion in the 25 years prior to 1973 averaged 250 a year, with a high of 388 in 1948. In 1966, before the first state legalized abortion, 120 mothers died from abortion. While any death is a tragedy, by 1972, when abortion was still illegal in 80 percent of the country, the number dropped to 39 maternal deaths from abortion. Furthermore, a groundbreaking 2012 study of abortion in Chile published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal found that Chile's abortion prohibition in 1989 did not cause an increase in the maternal mortality rate (MMR). On the contrary, after abortion was prohibited, the MMR decreased by 69.2% in the following fourteen years.

2018 Gretna Heritage Festival Lineup Announced Gretna Heritage Festival Logo The lineup for this year’s Gretna Heritage Festival (Sept. 28, 29, & 30, 2018) has been announced. The talent includes: Foreigner Village People Montgomery Gentry Night Ranger Lee Ann Womack Gin Blossoms Color Me Badd Tone Loc Sister Sledge Michael Ray Plus many regional and local favorites! See the full lineup and get your tickets at gretnafest.com

The Neocatechumenal Way is a way of Christian initiation that develops a pastoral work of evangelization for adults. A post baptismal catechumenate. This evangelization is bringing to a living faith many of our brothers and sisters who today live a Christianity of habit, and is giving to many people submerged in a secularized world the possibility of meeting Our Lord Jesus Christ through Christian communities which live their faith at an adult level. The Neocatechumenal Way is a group of people who wish to rediscover and to live Christian life to the full; to live the essential consequences of their Baptism, by means of a Neocatechumenate divided into different stages, like that of the early Church, but adapted to their condition as baptized persons.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

2018 Gretna Heritage Festival Lineup Announced Gretna Heritage Festival Logo The lineup for this year’s Gretna Heritage Festival (Sept. 28, 29, & 30, 2018) has been announced. The talent includes: Foreigner Village People Montgomery Gentry Night Ranger Lee Ann Womack Gin Blossoms Color Me Badd Tone Loc Sister Sledge Michael Ray Plus many regional and local favorites! See the full lineup and get your tickets at gretnafest.com

Parking in lots available for a charge

Learn More About Divine Mercy and the Eucharist and How to Revitalize Your Family and Parish! Saturday, September 29, 2018 St. Benilde Catholic Church 1901 Division Street, Metairie, LA 70001 BEGINNING WITH 8:00AM MASS IN THE CHURCH/ REGISTRATION IN THE SCHOOL CAFETERIA CONFERENCE TALKS 9:00AM – 3:30PM IN THE SCHOOL CAFETERIA

Dr. Tom Neal, Spiritual Theology Professor at Notre Dame Seminary, and Dr. Susie Veters, Director of Stewardship and Parish Services of the Catholic Foundation, will be leading a workshop, Discover Your Gifts and Live Your Strengths, to address the topic of discernment of God’s unique call to each individual. Personal results of the online gift assessment tool, Clifton StrengthsFinder, will be explored during the workshop. The workshop will be offered twice: Saturday, September 29, 2018, 8:30am to 3:00 pm at Notre Dame Seminary, and Saturday, October 13, 2018, 8:30am to 3:00 pm at the Northshore Catholic Pastoral Center.

Yummy good! Cake sale. Cakes sold after Vigil mass on Saturday Sept 29 and after Sunday mass on Sunday Sept 30.

As part of the St Joseph Restoration Project, we will host the St Joseph $10,000 Gala on Friday, November 2, 2018 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the St Joseph Gymnasium. Tickets are $100 each which includes admission for two people and your food and drink (beer, wine, & soft drinks). The Gala will include fun activities, such as: 50/50 raffle, Pick a Prize raffle, Silent Auction, horse races, football pools (Nov 3 Alabama at LSU and Nov 4 Rams at Saints), and other various prizes throughout the evening. Tickets are now available through any St Joseph Womens Club member, the St Joseph Parish Office, and the St Joseph Gift Shop after all weekend masses. For more information, please contact Darnell LeBlanc at 391-2233 or 460-5291. Remember all proceeds will benefit the St Joseph Restoration Fund.

2018 Gretna Heritage Festival Lineup Announced Gretna Heritage Festival Logo The lineup for this year’s Gretna Heritage Festival (Sept. 28, 29, & 30, 2018) has been announced. The talent includes: Foreigner Village People Montgomery Gentry Night Ranger Lee Ann Womack Gin Blossoms Color Me Badd Tone Loc Sister Sledge Michael Ray Plus many regional and local favorites! See the full lineup and get your tickets at gretnafest.com

Yummy good! Cake sale. Cakes sold after Vigil mass on Saturday Sept 29 and after Sunday mass on Sunday Sept 30.

Parking for festival available in lots for a charge.

Cross stitch -- New Orleans Collage. $2 a chance -- 3 chances for $5. Drawing on Sunday Sept 30. Chances are sold after Saturday Vigil and Sunday Masses at St Anthony Church