Deadline: Submissions due Thursday (10 days before each issue) calendar@clarionherald.org (504) area code unless noted Oct. 27-Nov. 4 EVENTS DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY CENTER, free health fair, Oct. 27, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free flu shots, dental/vision screenings, eyeglass repairs, prescription assessments, food, entertainment, giveaways.

Vatican Council II was designed to last 10 weeks each fall, during the months of October, November and December, for however long it took. In preparation, bishops throughout the world had sent in topics they wanted considered.

During the past year, we have reflected on the meaning and celebration of the Eucharist. It might be well to pause and center on the relationship between the Eucharist and daily life, for this is where the Eucharist leads us.

We have waited two years for Nov. 7, 2012, to come around – the occasion on which LHSAA Executive Director Kenny Henderson will reveal the makeup of the seven classes of schools for the next two school years.

Ursuline Academy and Cabrini are favored to successfully defend their state volleyball titles, while Mount Carmel and De La Salle want to take that final step to gold when the Louisiana High School Athletic Association stages its state championship tournament at the Pontchartrain Center Nov. 8-10.

It was 10 months ago, but it seems like yesterday. In the BCS Championship Game, played a little more than an hour’s drive from the LSU campus, the Tigers were not only shut out by Alabama, 21-0, but they were embarrassed.

Ignorance of the faith puts Christians at risk of following a “do-it-yourself” religion, Pope Benedict XVI said. People need to become more familiar with the creed because it is there that the “Christian moral life is planted and … one finds its foundation and justification,” the pope said Oct. 17 at his weekly general audience.

It was Jan. 7, 1973 – a Sunday morning – and Bruce Nolan was back home from Mass when the phone rang. As a rookie reporter recently hired by The Times-Picayune, Nolan had learned through experience that time away from the office wasn’t really his own.

What is your understanding of the purpose of the Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization? The Holy Father called for the synod – and specifically called for it on the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council – because he wanted us to reflect again on the great gifts that Vatican II has given to the Church and still is proposing to the Church.

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Deadline: Submissions due Thursday (10 days before each issue) calendar@clarionherald.org (504) area code unless noted Oct. 20-28 PARISHES ST. JOHN BOSCO, Women’s Society meeting, pot luck, Oct. 22, 7 p.m., 2114 Oakmere Drive, Harvey.

Jesuit Father Christopher A. Billac, a native of New Orleans, died Oct. 3 at Ignatius Residence. He was 78 years and had been a Jesuit for 60 years and a priest for 47 years. A funeral Mass was celebrated Oct. 8 at Holy Name of Jesus Church.

The Willwoods Community will sponsor a “Family That Prays” retreat for married couples and their teenage children Nov. 3-4 at St. Joseph’s Abbey. The retreat is designed to strengthen marriage, faith and family.

Though they were written a half-century ago, the documents that came out of the Second Vatican Council are indispensable for helping today’s Christians navigate their way in a stormy world, Pope Benedict XVI said.

Nod to local clergy Luling At a time when much is said and written against bishops, priests and the priesthood, I’d like to encourage and thank the many dedicated, hard-working, devout and compassionate bishops and priests who serve their parishes and parishioners today.

At the first President’s Assembly of the new school year at Archbishop Rummel High School Sept. 28, Christian Brother Gale Condit, school president, opened the morning by reminding the student body that they “are in the holy presence of God.” After opening prayers, Brother Gale recognized many students for their work outside and inside the school community.

Sometimes, there are problems in our world that seem too big to solve, but by joining together, young people can devise amazing ways to resolve or bring attention to those problems. I found a problem that needed attention, and thanks to the efforts of students at my school, Academy of Our Lady High, we are helping to address suffering taking place thousands of miles from our Marrero campus.

The pastors and parishioners of St. Dominic and St. Pius X gathered in St. Dominic’s school yard Oct. 14 to mark the 100th year of a Catholic presence in the Lakeview area. The first Mass, celebrated on May 12, 1912, in a West End dance hall, was led by Father Thomas Lorente, a Spanish-born Dominican priest brought to the city by Archbishop Placide Louis Chapelle.