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Iconic St. Roch Cemetery will be the site of a Dec. 17 fund-raiser benefiting the restoration of its 140-year-old, Gothic-style chapel. The outdoor event, featuring sales of cemetery-related items and guided tours of St. Roch Cemetery No.

Written by Beth Donze | | | Hits: 32 While many of their peers were catching up on their sleep, seven pre-teens from Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in New Orleans spent a recent Saturday morning preparing and serving the noon lunch for more than 100 homeless men and women at St. Jude Community Center, located across North Rampart Street from their home church.

Gabrielle and Isabelle Nguyen | | | Hits: 36 On Sept. 4, 2016, we landed in Rome with just one hour to get from the airport to St. Peter’s Square. After arriving in Vatican City, we had to follow a path and go through security.

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Leah Chase of Dooky Chase’s fame believes that every person who crosses your path leaves you with something. “Hope, encouragement and pride” is what she says New Orleans native Bishop-elect Fernand “Ferd” Cheri, almost 30 years her junior, has left her.

An “I can change the world with my own two hands” sign on a preschool classroom door greeted Bishop-elect Fernand Cheri and Quincy University students on a mission trip to New Orleans March 10 at St. John the Baptist Head Start.

Born Jan. 28, 1952 (age 63) Home Parish Epiphany, New Orleans Catholic Education Epiphany Elementary School St. John Prep High School (1970) St. Joseph Seminary College (bachelor of arts in philosophy, minor in psychology, 1974) Notre Dame Seminary (master of divinity, 1978) Xavier University Institute for Black Catholic Studies (master of theology, 1997) Ordination to the Priesthood Archdiocese of New Orleans May 20, 1978 First Profession as Franciscan Friar Aug. 14, 1992 Solemn Profession as Franciscan Friar Aug. 26, 1996 Pastoral Experiences ➤ Black Catholic Ministry Consultant Office of Social Concerns, Diocese of Springfield, Illinois April 2014-2015 ➤ Director Campus Ministry, Quincy University, Quincy, Illinois, August 2011-2015 ➤ Associate Director Campus Ministry, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans August 2010-2011 ➤ Vocation Minister Franciscan Vocation Office, St. Louis, July 2009-2010 ➤ Director Franciscan Office of Friar Life, St. Louis, July 2008-June 2009 ➤ Guidance Counselor/ Administrative Staff Member Althoff Catholic High School, Belleville, Illinois August 2002-2008 ➤ Pastor St. Vincent de Paul Church, Nashville, Tennessee August 1997-July 2002 ➤ Administrator St. Vincent de Paul Church, Nashville, Tennessee, August 1996-1997 ➤ Campus Minister/Teacher/ Coach/Vice Principal Hales Franciscan High School, Chicago, August 1993-1996 ➤ Novice, Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans) St. Francis of Assisi Friary, Franklin, Indiana, June 1992-August 1993 ➤ Chaplain Will County Adult Detention Facility, Joliet, Illinois Bible Study Teacher, Disciplinary Board Member, Counselor, Family Support Group Counselor, September 1991-June 1992 ➤ Candidate, Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans) St. John the Baptist Friary, Joliet, Illinois, September 1991-June 1992 ➤ Temporary Administrator St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Church, New Orleans, December 1990-January 1991 ➤ Pastor St. Francis de Sales Church, New Orleans, June 1985- June 1991 ➤ Pastoral Administrator St. Joseph the Worker Church, Marrero, June 1984-June 1985 ➤ Parochial Vicar/Music Minister St. Joseph the Worker Church, Marrero, September 1979- June 1985 ➤ Parochial Vicar/Youth Director Our Lady of Lourdes Church, New Orleans, June 1978-September 1979 ➤ Pastoral Team Member/ Diaconate Sacred Heart Church, New Orleans, Summer 1977-Spring 1978

Bishop Cheri’s arms are composed of four quarters. The first, upper left , is brown on which is displayed a silver (white) fleur-de-lis. The fleur-de-lis is a specific representation of a lily made out of three petals that are used here to represent the Creole Heritage that dominates south Louisiana.

Bishop-elect Fernand (Ferd) Joseph Cheri III has been singing most of his life. When he was just 3 years old, his mother Gladys recalls little Ferd, the first boy among her seven children, belting out a tune in their house on St. Anthony Street in New Orleans.

In the late 1980s, as Bishop-elect Fernand Cheri was concluding a visit to the home of Bishop Harold Perry, the elder priest excused himself, went to his bedroom and returned with a special gift: a pectoral cross given to Bishop Perry by Father Clarence Rivers, a black priest from Cincinnati and pioneer in the 1950s of bringing African-American expressions of culture into the Roman Catholic liturgy.