Ingeborg Hyde (above), an Ursuline Academy alumnae now a Tulane University freshman studying public health, continues her Happy Feet project she started in seventh grade at Ursuline. She holds a used sock drive to benefit the homeless population of New Orleans.

Brother Martin High School held its annual Easter liturgy April 20 with a nod to the tricentennial anniversary of the city of New Orleans. Father Paul Hart, school chaplain and 1970 alumnus, celebrated the Mass, calling it “a celebration of faith, hope and love. The greatest is love.

To echo the words of Maurice Chevalier’s hit from the internationally acclaimed screenplay, “Gigi”: “Thank heaven for little girls.” That was the theme of the May 4-6 LHSAA Allstate Sugar Bowl Track and Field Championship meet at LSU.

The CYO/Youth and Young Adult Ministry bestowed the St. Timothy Award on 15 teenagers who have excelled in volunteer service to their Catholic church, school and community April 29 at St. Louis Cathedral.

St. Mary’s Dominican High School National Art Honor Society (NAHS) members enjoyed a colorful painting session of butterflies, streetcars, magnolias and the St. Louis Cathedral with students at St. Michael Special School Joy Activity Center as part of their annual service project.

About a week ago, I noticed three bright blue eggs, somewhat hidden beneath our fire pit. Looking around, I saw a mama robin perched on the pitch of our garage, seeming to watch me intently. I backed away, curious at the location.

The only way to understand and choose what is right in a world full of conflict, difficulties and materialism, is by living a life of poverty that is filled with prayer and patience, Pope Francis said. “If you pray, if you are poor, if you are patient, rest assured that you will be fruitful,” he told about 700 consecrated men and women in the Vatican’s Paul VI audience hall May 4.

Catholics in the Archdiocese of New Orleans make the request every Sunday at the end of Our Family Prayer: “Our Lady of Prompt Succor, hasten to help us.” This particular Marian title holds a special meaning at Ursuline Academy, whose founding community of sisters established the first all-girls’ school in North America in 1727.

The McNamara family at Price McNamara’s wedding. From left are Alma’s daughter Joni Maurer, her husband A.J. “Buddy” McNamara,daughter Nancy, son Price, Alma “Puddin’” McNamara and son Dwight. Buddy and children Nancy and Dwight are deceased. Puddin’ was named the 2018 Regina Matrum by the Council of Catholic School Cooperative Clubs in the archdiocese.

In the summer of 2015, National Right to Life held its three-day annual convention in New Orleans. The news coming out of that conference was rich in hope – the millennial generation, the young church and scientists using 4D technology that showed more clearly the humanity of the unborn child were leading the charge against more than 40 years of cultural headwinds that enshrined individual “freedom” as the gold standard when assessing which rights are inalienable or not.

He could have departed 25 years ago for a Division I head coaching job, but he’s glad he stayed. Delgado baseball coach Joe Scheuermann is now 32 wins shy of 1,000. “Not many junior college baseball coaches get 1,000 wins,” said Scheuermann. “That all of those wins are at Delgado, makes it even more special.”

Rejoice and be glad, Jesus is calling you to be holy! Ah, but you might say “Holiness is for saintly people like the pope. But the pope says holiness is for you and me, and that everyone is called by God “to be holy and blameless before him in love” (Eph. 1:4).

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As we celebrate Mother’s Day on Sunday, what are your feelings about the day on which we honor our mothers? This is a wonderful day to gather as a family to thank our mothers for how much they have given of themselves to protect and nourish their family. It’s a time when we pause to more deeply appreciate the persons that they are – or if they have died, the persons that they were to us – and to thank God for them. 

Al celebrar el Día de la Madre el domingo, ¿Cuáles son sus sentimientos, sobre el día en que honramos a nuestras madres? Este es un día maravilloso para reunirnos en familia, y agradecer a nuestras madres por lo mucho que han dado al proteger, y alimentar a su familia. Es un momento en el que hacemos una pausa, para apreciar profundamente a las personas que están vivas – o que hayan muerto, esas personas que fueron para nosotros – y agradecerle a Dios por ellas.

At the inauguration Mass for LaToya Cantrell – the first female to serve as mayor of New Orleans – Archbishop Gregory Aymond called Cantrell into the sanctuary of St. Louis Cathedral for a special blessing on her public service.

Eight seminarians from Notre Dame Seminary will be ordained as transitional deacons on May 19 at a 10 a.m. Mass at St. Louis Cathedral. Seven will serve in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. From left are Daniel Okafor, Damian Zablocki, Andrew Gutierrez, Ton Huu Dang, Doug Busch, Andrew Rudmann, Leon Poche and Daniel Darmanin.

ST. JOSEPH CHURCH, Restoration’s “Mother Church Cookbook,” on sale for $25 at two locations: Gretna Art Walk May 12, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Gretna Farmer’s Market, on Huey P. Long Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets,  and the neutral ground between 6th- 7th Streets. 458-6562. Also, a St. Joseph Gretna Reunion, for alumni from St. Joseph School, catechism or CYO, May 19, 7-10 p.m. The reunion benefits the St. Joseph Restoration Fund. It’s a pay-at-the-door affair, but RSVP Juliette Swiler at 361-0619 so enough food is prepared.

The Northshore Chapter of The Catholic Foundation honored the deacons of the West St. Tammany-Washington deanery during the annual dinner on April 20 at St. Paul’s School in Covington.  “The diaconate is an important part of our local church,” Archbishop Gregory Aymond said. “They do an incredible amount of ministry.”