October is Fire Prevention Month. Remember to check those smoke detectors. David Crockett offers a free smoke detector to homes without one. Contact your local fire department for details.

On Sunday October 28 Archbishop Aymond will celebrate the annual liturgy for the Victims and Survivors of Violence at 11am mass at St Louis Cathedral. If you know of any victim or survivor of violence, please submit their name to the parish office so that the Archbishop can send them an invitation to this special mass. Families that have lost loved ones are encouraged to bring a photo of their loved one to carry during the procession. All are invited to attend.

October is Fire Prevention Month. Remember to check those smoke detectors. David Crockett offers a free smoke detector to homes without one. Contact your local fire department for details.

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

St. Francis of Assisi is hosting a Free Support Group for Survivors of Suicide Loss. The purpose of this group is to provide support, coping skills and fellowship to those who have lost a loved one to suicide. The group will meet each Monday 5:00 pm- 6:15 pm for 7 weeks from October 1st - November 12th at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 631 State Street, New Orleans. For more information and to register, contact Melissa Stiebing at 504-565-7474.

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.

October is Fire Prevention Month. Remember to check those smoke detectors. David Crockett offers a free smoke detector to homes without one. Contact your local fire department for details.

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.

October is Fire Prevention Month. Remember to check those smoke detectors. David Crockett offers a free smoke detector to homes without one. Contact your local fire department for details.

The Archdiocese of New Orleans will offer a writing workshop for persons seeking an annulment in the Catholic Church or for persons responding to an annulment. The workshop will be held in St. Rita of Cascia’s Msgr. Champagne Complex in Harahan. The series will be for three (3) Saturdays, November 24, December 1 and December 8, 2018. Hours are 8:30 AM – noon. The materials for the series cost $25.00. To register go to our website https://nolacatholicfla.regfox.com/annulment-writing-workshopnovemberdecember-2018. For more information, please call Cathy, 504-861-6243.