Es tamos en la temporada de Adviento. ¿Tuvo alguna tradición de Adviento con su familia mientras crecía? Sí, siempre tuvimos una Corona de Adviento en nuestro hogar. Animaría a las familias a considerar la incorporación de la Corona de Adviento en un momento de oración, antes de la cena, o antes de acostarse.

We are in the season of Advent. Did you have any Advent traditions in your own family growing up? Yes, we always had an Advent wreath in our home. I would encourage families to consider incorporating the Advent wreath into a time of prayer before supper or before bed.

By Peter Finney Jr., Clarion Herald Behind the record-breaking numbers of the third annual #iGiveCatholic online giving campaign on Nov. 28 – which raised more than $3.6 million for 616 Catholic nonprofits across the country, including $2.5 million for 150 entities in the Archdiocese of New Orleans – there’s the unique story of the big band that could.

Photo by Alexis Lang At St. Mary’s Dominican High School, 41 students were inducted into Mu Alpha Theta (MAO). MAO is the national high school and two-year college Mathematics Honor Society with 110,000 student members in more than 2,400 schools in the United States and in 20 foreign countries.

Academy of Our Lady seniors and four-year volleyball team members Skyla Rousse,  Courtney Reed, Hailee Richard and Skylar Turner were honored Oct. 26 at their last home game of the regular season against Belle Chasse High School.

Academy of Our Lady celebrated the Feast of All Saints in a very special way with Grandparents Day. On Nov. 1, grandparents were invited to campus for Mass with their granddaughters followed by a reception of  coffee and donuts.

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Being on the other end of the holiday season – the planning, the organizing, the endless cooking – I’m starting to understand the concept of holiday fatigue. For Thanksgiving, when friends found out we were staying put in St. Louis rather than traveling to visit family, we had multiple offers to join in festivities.

If people really understood that participating at Mass is witnessing Christ’s suffering, death and resurrection, then maybe they would stop taking pictures, talking, making comments and acting as if it were some kind of show, Pope Francis said.

Making a Difference When was the last time you shared a meal with a poor person? For Pope Francis it was just a couple of weeks ago. On Nov. 19, the Holy Father celebrating the first World Day of the Poor broke bread with not only one poor person, but with some 1,200 poor brothers and sisters (see photos: http://bit.ly/2ArCdTT ).

When I was a senior at Archbishop Rummel, the De La Salle Cavaliers defeated the Raiders in a jamboree. That night, two Cavaliers, including Kevin Kytle, class of 1976, rolled my house. Until 37-year-old Ryan Manale arrived on campus six years ago, football highlights for the Cavaliers had been sparse.

December 1, 2017 Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Soon, our parishes will be conducting the appeal for the Retirement Fund for Religious, an annual collection that benefits more than 32,000 elderly Catholic sisters, brothers and religious order priests.

Student Council leaders at St. Mary’s Dominican High School in New Orleans received a crash course Nov. 15 on what to do if someone has a severe bleed wound and how, by taking a few easy steps, they could save a life.

By Beth Donze Lyrics tend to pop into the head of James Behan Jr. when he is doing the most mundane and repetitive things – like the time he was mindlessly washing his car over Labor Day weekend. In two, short September weeks, Behan cobbled together a six-verse hymn he entitled “Thanks Be to God,” using the “Notes” function of his phone as words and phrases occurred to him and tweaking their syllabic flow on his guitar at night.

WASHINGTON (CNS) –  The U.S. Catholic Church focused attention on the plight of persecuted Christians in Iraq and Syria with a day of prayer Nov. 26 and a weeklong observance to raise awareness and educate people about their situation.

In observance of Advent and Christmas, the archdiocesan offices of Evangelization and Communications have partnered to produce video reflections on the Gospel readings for Sundays and Holy Days. The reflections feature clergy, religious and lay people.

By Beth Donze Eight years ago, Sharon Brandt’s eyes were drawn to a brochure inside the vestibule of her home church of St. Matthew the Apostle in River Ridge. Entitled “Faith Companioning,” Brandt assumed it would contain information on how she might find a friend with whom to discuss her spiritual journey.

By Ryan O’Connor, Guest Column, Brother Martin Clarion Herald Over the past month, the Crusaders for Life, Brother Martin High School’s Pro-Life Club, planned a Respect Life Week for Oct. 30-Nov. 3. Many potential ideas and projects emerged from weekly club meetings such as the documentary, “I Lived on Parker Avenue,” by David Scotton, a diaper drive, a baby bottle coin drive and a fetal development walk to be displayed in the backyard outside of school.

When Nikolas T. Nikas first entered the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in Poland, something did not compute. The Phoenix attorney knew from his reading of history that 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, had been exterminated in the gas chambers there during WWII, but the warehouse of death, as chilling and silent as it was, seemed too small to have accommodated genocide on such a massive scale.

At St. Mary’s Dominican High School, 41 students were inducted into Mu Alpha Theta (MAO). MAO is the national high school and two-year college Mathematics Honor Society with 110,000 student members in more than 2,400 schools in the United States and in 20 foreign countries.