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An adrenaline rush will penetrate members of the Voices of Peter Claver Choir May 5 as they step on the Gospel tent stage May 5 at 12:50 p.m. at Jazz and Heritage Festival. And once the 50-plus voices launch their 45-minute set, the tent will be rocking.
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To serve as Jesus did. That’s how Kelly Maurin described her mother-in-law Anne Maurin, the 2012 Regina Matrum recipient who will be honored for her devotion to family and church May 14 at 7 p.m. at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Metairie.
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The funeral Mass for Msgr. Clinton Doskey will be celebrated Friday, April 27, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Pius X Church, 6666 Spanish Fort Blvd., New Orleans. Visitation at the church will be Friday from 8 to 10:30 a.m.
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Msgr. Clinton Doskey, the retired pastor of St. Pius X Church who preached the homily at the funeral Mass of Archbishop Philip M. Hannan last October, died April 22 at Ochsner Medical Center from complications of a heart infection.
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Ronald J. Ambrosetti, currently provost and dean of the college at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, N.Y., has been named the next president of Our Lady of Holy Cross College, it was announced today by Deacon Larry Oney and Kyle M. France, respective chairman and vice chair of the Board of Regents of the 96-year-old New Orleans institution.
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The archdiocesan Office of Catholic Schools will host town hall meetings April 25 and 26 to discuss the strategic plan for Catholic schools now being formulated with the help of Catholic University education professors Dr. John Convey and Dr. Leonard DeFiore.
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Unlike “The Diary of Anne Frank,” another set of reflections penned during World War II is mostly off the radar of today’s readers: the “freedom poetry” of young Jewish inmates bravely awaiting their deaths inside the Terezin Concentration Camp, north of the Czech Republic’s capital city of Prague.
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The students who gathered inside Holy Cross Student Center on April 12 probably will never listen to classical music the same way again. Instead of allowing the music to simply wash over them, or tuning it out altogether, the young audience members were asked to become more active listeners, and to see classical music as a deliberate and cohesive layering of rhythm, melody and harmony by the composer.
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The St. Elizabeth Ann Seton fourth graders agreed it was the most memorable “board game” they had ever played. Equipped with a range of small items, such as miniature houses, strips of artificial turf and plastic sticks, the youngsters were asked to create two different scenes on a peg board: Louisiana coastal protection as they wished it were – rich in soil-anchoring “speed bumps” like barrier islands, marshes and trees; and Louisiana coastal protection as it exists today – full of holes due to the erosion of these natural barriers, and greatly reliant on levees and pumping stations in the event of a storm surge.
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What do you imagine “happiness in marriage” to be? Do we think about that or do we just believe we will be happy when we are married? Have we considered any “scenarios” that might affect that happiness?
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The following is a list of newly retired priests and new pastoral appointments made by New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond: RETIREMENT Reverend Dominic Huyen Duc Nguyen granted retirement from Our Lady of La Vang Mission, New Orleans, effective June 30, 2012.
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Xavier University of Louisiana President Dr. Norman C. Francis was honored by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) April 17 for his commitment to minority education and service to the community during the organization’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Dr. Francis has served as Xavier’s president for 44 years, making him the longest-sitting college president in the United States.
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As the newly appointed archdiocesan liaison to retired and ill diocesan priests, Father Warren Cooper has treated the last several months as an ecclesiastical time machine, traveling back in history to a time before the Second Vatican Council, when the revered priests of his youth celebrated Mass facing the tabernacle and used Latin as their liturgical language.
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As a Catholic psychotherapist, I have worked with dozens of couples in my 25-plus years in practice. While each situation is certainly unique, there are some fundamental issues that present themselves over and over.
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A major exhibit of the personal effects of Blessed Pope John Paul II, entitled “I Have Come to You Again,” will open its three-city U.S. tour in the Archdiocese of New Orleans in February 2013, and the exhibit organizer who has handled four previous Vatican exhibits in the U.S. said he is bracing for record crowds.
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Los siguientes son extractos de la homilía del Arzobispo Aymond en la Misa Crismal celebrada el 3 de abril en la Catedral de San Luis. En la misa Crismal, son bendecidos los aceites sagrados, para ser utilizados sacramentalmente por la Iglesia durante todo el año y los sacerdotes se reúnen para renovar su compromiso al ministerio sacerdotal.
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Deadline: Submissions due Thursday (10 days before each issue) calendar@clarionherald.org (504) area code unless noted April 21-29 PARISHES ST. ANGELA MERICI, second annual Gumbalaya cook-off, April 21, 5:30-9:30 p.m. Pay-one-price for all-you-can-eat ($13 adults, $10 ages 13-21, $5 ages 6-12 in advance or add $2 a ticket at the door; children under 5 eat free).
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There were several errors in St. Scholastica Academy’s summer camp information as published in the March 17 issue of the Clarion Herald. The Cheerleading Camp’s show-off performance will be on June 14.
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➤ What: Benedictine Players of St. Scholastica present this musical with a live orchestra. ➤ When: April 26, 27, 28, 7:30 p.m.; and April 29 at 2 p.m. ➤ Where: Benet Hall of St. Joseph’s Abbey, 75376 River Road, St. Benedict, La.
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Nine St. Mary’s Academy students involved with the Dryades YMCA Youth and Government Program were among 550 students from around Louisiana to visit Baton Rouge for three days to learn about the nation’s democratic traditions.
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