Calendar - January 6, 2024

EVENTS

LOUISIANA RIGHT TO LIFE, Proudly Pro-Life Gala, Jan. 13, with dinner at 7 p.m.  New Orleans Convention Center. Tickets at: https://prolifelouisiana.org/gala.

IN-HOME MARRIAGE PREP TRAINING, Jan. 13, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., St. Peter Church, St. Mary’s Hall, 125 E. 19th Ave., Covington. Cost: $140 a couple includes materials and lunch. Details: (504) 861-6243, [email protected]. Register: https://nolacatholicfla.regfox.com/in-home-marriage-preparation-training.

ST. PIUS X, blood drive, Jan. 14, 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m., in the gym. Donors receive a mini health exam for blood pressure, iron, cholesterol and temperature. Ice cream gift card or Blood Center blanket given also. Those who make appointments go first. 6600 Spanish Fort Blvd., New Orleans. Visit tbcdonors.org to schedule a time or call 1 (800) 86-BLOOD.

SEELOS HEALING MASS, ANOINTING OF THE SICK, Jan. 14, 1 p.m., with Redemptorist Father Kevin Zubel, provincial superior of the Denver Province. St. Mary’s Assumption Church, 919 Josephine St., New Orleans. Mass will be live on facebook.com/Seelosshrine/ www.seelos.org.

SILVER WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, register with your parish by  Jan. 16 for the archdiocese’s annual Silver Wedding Anniversary prayer service March 17, 3 p.m., Our Lady of the Rosary Church, 3368 Esplanade Ave., New Orleans. It honors couples celebrating or who have recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.

MARCH FOR LIFE IN BATON ROUGE, Jan. 20, 10 a.m. Meet at the Louisiana State Capitol. 2024 Theme: “Here for Her” supports pregnant and parenting woman regardless of circumstances. Keynote speaker: incoming Attorney General Liz Murrill. Details: www.LALifeMarch.com or call 1-866-463-5433.

OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE/INTERNATIONAL SHRINE OF ST. JUDE, Winter Novena, Jan. 20-28, 2024, with guest speaker Oblate Father James E. Taggart on “The Practice of Virtues.”  Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 411 North Rampart, New Orleans.  The homily is given during the novena masses, Monday-Friday at 7 a.m. and noon; Saturdays: 7 a.m., noon and 4 p.m. Vigil Mass; and Sundays 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. (Spanish ) and 6 p.m. The novena is livestreamed during the daily noon Mass and Sunday 9:30 a.m.  Masses at www.judeshrine.com. Details: (504) 525-1551.

MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR THE UNBORN, in observance of Roe v. Wade anniversary. Jan. 22, noon, Holy Innocents Prayer Garden at St. Patrick Cemetery No. 1, 5000 Canal St., New Orleans. Prayers 

for those lost to miscarriage, stillbirth or abortion and those who mourn them.

ST. JEROME PARISH, hosts four-part docuseries about families seeking asylum in the U.S. after fleeing abuse and violence in Honduras and Guatemala and what a Midwestern church learned by helping them. Jan. 24, 27, 31 and Feb. 3, at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m., St. Jerome Parish Hall, 2402 33rd St., Kenner.

MEN’S EMMAUS RETREAT, Feb. 2 leaves 4 p.m. and ends Feb. 4 after 5:30 p.m. Mass at St. Dominic. The retreat, based on Luke’s scripture passage, “The appearance on the road to Emmaus,” is at W. J. Kelly Retreat Center in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi. Details: (504) 494-4511, https://stdominicparish.com/emmaus-registration.