On Wednesday, June 30, 2021, the City of Gretna will inaugurate our elected officials. Congratulations to Honorable Belinda Cambre Constant (Mayor), Honorable Arthur S. Lawson (Chief of Police), Honorable Wayne A. Rau (Councilman-At-Large), Honorable Rudy S. Smith (Councilman - District 1), Honorable Michael A. Hinyub (Councilman - District 2), Honorable Mark K. Miller (Councilman - District 3), and Honorable Jackie J. Berthelot (Councilman - District 4). Inauguration is at 6pm on Wednesday June 30, 2021 at the Mel Ott Multi-Purpose Center. All are welcome to attend.

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 Revelation of the Father enables men to take the final step in their leadership. It prepares them to lay a foundation for the future so that they leave a legacy that survives them. It transforms them into true builders of an authentically Christian culture. EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF TRANSFORMATION AS YOU DISCOVER: • The true dignity of the heart of a father. • The trust God has in men to form creatures destined to live forever. • The four types of formation necessary for fathers to form their children. • The amazing dignity of the home at Nazareth and the means by which your home can participate in this dignity. • The parenting method given by a saint and proven effective with the most difficult children and its relationship to the 7 Steps of TMIY. • The challenges confronting men in their fatherhood and the means to overcome them. • The vision of St. Joseph as the true Man after God’s own Heart. • The renewal God has in store for men, their marriages and their families. FALL SEMESTER THE FORMATION OF A CHILD Week 1: The Revelation of the Father Week 2: The Heart of Father Week 3: The Mystery of Creation Renewed Week 4: Human Formation Week 5: Intellectual Formation Week 6: Moral Formation Week 7: Pastoral Formation Week 8: The Attack on the Heart of the Father Week 9: Weeds in Human Formation Week 10: Weeds in Intellectual Formation Week 11: Weeds in Moral Formation Week 12: Weeds in Pastoral Formation Week 13: To Touch the Heart of Man OBJECTIVES: Present the dignity of a man’s heart and the battle being waged over it. Present the vision of a person in the fullness of their dignity. Identify the four types of formation necessary to fully form a human person. Identify the specific challenges confronting men as they seek to form their children.

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.

Due to the Gretna Prayer Dinner being at 7pm Tuesday June 15, the OLPH Novena and Mass will start with confessions at 5:30pm and Mass at 6:00pm so that those who have signed up for the Prayer Dinner may arrive before it begins.