Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Join us for these family-friendly Advent and Christmas events in the Diocese of Louisiana. For additions or corrections to this list, email Karen Mackey kmackey@edola.org. [eo_events event-tag=”christmas-fun”...
Monday, November 26, 2018
“Beloved in Christ, in this season of Advent, let it be our care and delight to prepare ourselves to hear again the message of the Angels, and in heart and mind to go even unto Bethlehem, to see the Babe lying in a manger.” Below you will find a list of Lessons and...
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Almighty and gracious Father, we give you thanks for the fruits of the earth in their season and for the labors of those who harvest them. Make us, we pray, faithful stewards of your great bounty, for the provision of our necessities and the relief of all who are in...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
by the Rev. John Pitzer, CMA Committee Co-Chair Let Love Open the Door, was the theme this year for the Community Mission Appeal. CMA, is a grant program to assist specific ministries in the diocese who are in need of financial assistance. The funds are raised from...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Click here to view Bishop’s Thompson State of the Diocese Address to the 181st Annual Convention. He delivered the address during the Opening Eucharist on Friday, October 26 at St. Martin’s Episcopal School. Elected to Offices Secretary of the Diocese...
Thursday, October 4, 2018
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Thursday, October 4, 2018
by Dr. Caroline Caroson, Seminarian, The University of the South I received a UTO grant in January 2018 for my proposal “Pastoral Care to Refugees in the Arab World” and for work in the Diocese of Egypt, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. This was a terrific...
Thursday, October 4, 2018
by Lisa Lee, Co-chair of the Mission and Outreach Committee, and the Rev. Bryan Owens, Rector, St. Luke’s, Baton Rouge This year the parish church of St. Luke in Baton Rouge is responding to God’s call to more regularly and intentionally reach out into the community...
Thursday, October 4, 2018
by the Rev. Drew Rollins, Chaplain, St. Alban’s Chapel, Baton Rouge St. Alban’s Chapel is a mission-driven ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana that provides a place of refuge, hospitality, and worship for the students, faculty, staff, and wider...
Thursday, October 4, 2018
by the Rev. Rob Courtney, Rector, St. Paul’s, New Orleans “We need to have our own ministry.” I heard these words a lot in the wake of closing our St. Paul’s Homecoming Center in 2015. The Homecoming Center was the ministry our church formed in response...
Thursday, October 4, 2018
I get looped in from time to time on topics that seem over the top. For example, I was copied on a long string of emails regarding the placement of the flag in the nave of a church. The writers of these emails had various stances on the flag, whether it should be in...
Thursday, August 30, 2018
by Gale Roy, Arts Council of Pointe Coupee Executive Director The Arts Council of Pointe Coupee is pleased with the second round of Art on the Go camps which visited the Innis Library on Tuesday, July 10 and St. Augustine Catholic Church on Thursday, July 12. Twenty...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
August 20, 2018 Dear Clergy and Wardens of the Diocese of Louisiana, It is my honor and privilege as your Bishop, to give you notice of the 181st Convention of the Diocese of Louisiana on October 26 & 27, 2018. Convention will be hosted by and held at St....
