Minutes after his team’s spring football game, LSU head coach Les Miles was asked by a reporter: “Is this 2014 recruiting class one that can lead you to a national championship?” Miles didn’t hesitate.

Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond will officiate at the Blessing of Palms at 10:50 a.m. April 13 outside St. Louis Cathedral to open the observance of Holy Week, followed by a procession into the Cathedral for the 11 a.m. Mass.

Deadline: Submissions due Thursday (10 days before each issue) calendar@clarionherald.org (504) area code unless noted April 5-13 FISH FRIES ST. GENEVIEVE, Men’s Club annual Lenten fish fry, April 11, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., parish hall behind church, 58203 Hwy.

Usted ha hablado mucho sobre las vocaciones desde que regresó a la arquidiócesis en 2009. ¿Por qué? No tengo ninguna duda que hay muchos hombres jóvenes siendo llamados al sacerdocio, y mujeres y hombres llamados a la vida religiosa en esta arquidiócesis, que aún no han escuchado la llamada.

➤ Age: 51 ➤ Seminary year: Second Theology, Notre Dame Seminary ➤ Home Parish: St. Joseph Mission, Algiers ➤ Elementary School: St. John Baptist de La Salle in Daklak, Vietnam (1969-76) ➤ High School: Public school, grades 6-7, Vietnam; Redemptorist minor seminary, grade 8, in Thu Duc, Vietnam; public school, grades 9-12, Daklak, Vietnam ➤ College: Studied English 1994-97; Divine Word College, Epworth, Iowa, for philosophy; Harold Washington College, Chicago, for philosophy; Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, for theology; University of New Orleans, graduating with a B.A.

Our Lady of Holy Cross College’s Nursing Program recently received the prestigious Nightingale Award as 2014 Nursing School of the Year Entry Into Practice Program from the Louisiana State Nurses Association.

Every year as Lent rolls around, we often find ourselves beginning to wonder what we will be giving up this year. By now, we’ve all made our choices for Lenten sacrifices, and hopefully – unlike our New Year’s resolutions – we’ve been able to keep them so far.

One of the most interesting parts of a recent visit to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola was meeting the prisoners and hearing how they got there. When we met Charles, I really felt like he didn’t belong there because he was so civilized; I never would have known that he had killed somebody.

On April 12, members of our community will gather for a day of reflection. Team Up Against Violence is an initiative with the goal of bringing awareness to violence and inequality currently plaguing our city.

In order to provide pastoral care for the people of God in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Archbishop Aymond has made the following appointment: CHAPLAIN Rev. John Talamo as Chaplain to the New Orleans Fire Department while remaining Pastor of St. Andrew the Apostle, effective immediately.

Tow truck appalling River Ridge I was appalled after reading the article in the March 29 Clarion Herald while in church relative to the incident experienced by Sister Beth Mouch (“While she feeds the poor, the city tows her truck”).

Father Donald J. Duffy, the retired former pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish in Edgard, died March 29 at Our Lady of Wisdom Healthcare Center in New Orleans. He was 90. Father Duffy’s funeral Mass was celebrated April 3 at St. Anthony Church in Lafitte, where he had been residing for many years.

Dominican Father Austin E. Green, a priest for nearly 61 years, died March 24. The Chicago native was 93 and had been a Dominican for 68 years. Father Green served in the Navy during WWII and joined the Dominican order in 1946.

Holy Cross High School has produced many of the city’s great prep running backs. One of them was a young Harahan boy who became a boarding student as a fifth grader in 1939 named Francis Edward Lauricella.

In the words of Sam Cooke’s ode to the Civil Rights movement, made popular by the Neville Brothers in 1964, “a change is gonna come” in the Louisiana High School Athletic Association. And it’s visible on the horizon.

A much-needed boost for the Tulane men’s basketball program is on the way. Next season, the Green Wave will play its first season in the American Athletic Conference. In basketball, the American is a huge step up from Conference USA.

Pastors/administrators are reminded that nominations for the Order of St. Louis IX Awards should be sent no later than April 11 via e-mail to Mrs. Jonelle Foltz at the Clarion Herald at jfoltz@clarionherald.org; or by fax to (504) 596-3020.

It was the seminal event of Western Christianity over the last 500 years. When Martin Luther, a German Roman Catholic monk, sent his “95 Theses” or “Disputation on the Efficacy and Power of Indulgences” to the local archbishop on Oct. 31, 1517, he set into motion the Protestant Reformation that four years later prompted his excommunication by the Catholic Church and laid the groundwork for denominational splintering that over the centuries has led to the formation of thousands of Christian churches.

Kneel before the Lord, invest your heart in him, rest in the Spirit’s love, and do your best to fulfill God’s will. Do all of that, lay evangelist Jim Murphy says, and you’ll be doing your part to rebuild God’s church.

The world’s bishops, priests and deacons need people’s prayers and encouragement to continually deepen their relationship with Jesus and serve their community with love, Pope Francis said. A minister of God who does not nourish his love for Christ, his church and his flock “inevitably ends up losing sight and an authentic sense of his service and the joy that comes from a deep communion with Jesus,” he said.