A striking vision… St. Paul the Apostle Church in Gentilly commissioned Attenhofer’s Stained Glass Studio in Metairie to fashion a stunning stained-glass window of St. Paul being knocked from his horse.

Those who think the Christian life inoculates a person from suffering are sadly mistaken, but Christ promises to remain with them when suffering occurs, Deacon Josh Johnson told 320 teens and young adults at a Youth and Young Adult Revival March 16 at St. Mary of the Angels Church.

Deadline: Submissions due Thursday (10 days before each issue) calendar@clarionherald.org (504) area code unless noted March 24-31 FISH FRIES OUR LADY OF HOLY CROSS COLLEGE, Student Nursing Association’s fish fry, silent auction, March 28, 5-8 p.m., on campus in Moreau Center, 4123 Woodland Drive, New Orleans.

En servicios de oración, el domingo pasado en la Catedral de San Luis, y el lunes en la Iglesia de San Pedro en Covington, el arzobispo Gregory Aymon, dio la bienvenida a casi 350 catecúmenos y candidatos que entrarán en la iglesia Católica en la vigilia de la Semana Santa.

➤ Age: 27 ➤ Seminary year: Second Theology, Notre Dame Seminary ➤ Home Parish: St. Edward the Confessor, Metairie ➤ Elementary School: Carolyn Park Elementary, Arabi; St. Louise de Marillac, Arabi ➤ High School: Brother Martin, New Orleans ➤ College: University of New Orleans ➤ Confirmation saint: St. Luke the Evangelist ➤ Why did you choose this saint?

The Catholic Cultural Heritage Center of the Archdiocese of New Orleans is sponsoring an art contest for high school students on the theme “Catholic New Orleans.” In addition to students earning cash awards, winning entries will be displayed in an exhibit June 13-Sept. 1 at the Old Ursuline Convent, 1100 Chartres St. New Orleans.

What a holy week we’ve had! Starting out with St. Patrick’s feast day and moving into St. Joseph’s feast day, there has been an entire week of celebration. From parades in honor to St. Patrick and altars erected in honor of the carpenter, foster-father of Jesus, we have truly experienced a joyous occasion in the early weeks of the Lenten season.

When we arrived at the airport at 4 p.m., our trip was becoming real. Our group of 13 high school juniors and seniors from St. Mary’s Dominican High School, four parent volunteers, our Spanish teacher Claudia Vallejo and Dominican Sister Pat Harvat, vice president of Dominican Catholic Identity, were really going to the Dominican Republic.

My grandmother Shanette “Meme” Edler was a co-owner for Liuzza’s Restaurant and Bar in Mid-City New Orleans. She was a real piece of work. We would go to Liuzza’s all the time, and she taught me about the business, letting me stamp checkbooks while she did financial work.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Priests in the Diocese of Rome, led by Pope Francis and organized by a Vatican office, will mark “24 hours for the Lord,” offering eucharistic adoration and the sacrament of penance in St. Peter’s Basilica and three historic churches in the center of Rome March 28-29.

NEW YORK (CNS) – Pope Francis “has taken the world by storm” in the year since his election, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said March 13.

Dominican Father Jean-Jacques Perennes, director of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) in Cairo, Egypt, since 2011, will give three public lectures on the state of Christian and Islamic relations in the Middle East March 24 and 26.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – As leader of the universal church, a pope must direct his ministry in both of the ways traditionally described by the Latin terms “ad intra” and “ad extra”: inwardly to the church itself, and outwardly to the rest of the world.

Loyola University set two school records on March 15 at the Southern Mississippi Invitational at the USM Track and Field and Soccer Complex. Justin Johnson set the school mark in the 200-meter dash as he raced the event in 22.72 seconds.

Is it 2006 all over again? Then first-year head coach Sean Payton took his training camp to Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss. That summer in Mississippi featured very little rain and lots of heat. You could feel the heat running through your shorts during the afternoon practice on artificial turf at the stadium.

Two of the best high school track and field athletes in the U.S. are scheduled to return to Tad Gormley Stadium this weekend to compete in the Allstate Sugar Bowl Classic. McDonogh 35’s undefeated sprinter Marquita Stalbert and Jewel Sumner’s record-breaking vaulter, Devin King, will return to the site of their amazing performances in 2013.

I believe the coaches of the six high school basketball teams in District 9-5A would be among the first to admit that this past season has been less than stellar for the Catholic League. Interesting, yes, through parity among most of its teams; but stellar, no.

St. Paul the Apostle Church in Gentilly commissioned Stained Glass Studio in Metairie to fashion a stunning stained-glass window of St. Paul being knocked from his horse. The project was in the works for three years and is now complete.

Lantern Light, a ministry of the Presentation Sisters in New Orleans, will hold its fifth annual fish fry March 28. All proceeds will go to the ministry of feeding and caring for homeless at the Harry Tompson Center adjacent to St. Joseph Church, 1803 Gravier St., New Orleans.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – In its approach to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, the Catholic Church needs to find a middle ground that does not destroy or abandon doctrine, but offers a “renewed” interpretation of church teaching in order to help those whose marriages have failed, Cardinal Walter Kasper said.