Joyful June: Good Work Happening in the Diocese

Friday, June 2, 2023

Happy Pentecost!  It is hard for me to believe that 6 months have passed since my ordination and consecration as the 12th bishop of Louisiana. And, what a wonderful whirlwind it has been!  The time has been filled with blessings that are hard to describe and...

2023 Gaudet Community Grant Recipients Announced

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

The Gaudet Committee announces the awarding of 24 community grants for the 2023 program year. The Gaudet Community Grant provides funding for not-for-profit agencies that create, manage, and expand educational opportunities for African-American children within the...

Leading a Congregation into Outreach

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

by Deacon Jay Albert Deacon Jay Albert at Interfaith Prayer Service for the Homeless While serving at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Lakeview, New Orleans, as my first assignment, I looked for an outreach program that would involve the laity. I wanted a program that...

2022 Gaudet Community Grant Recipients Announced

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

The Gaudet Committee announces the awarding of 18 community grants for the 2022 program year. The Gaudet Community Grant provides funding for not-for-profit agencies that create, manage, and expand educational opportunities for African-American children within the...

INTERVENTION; What is it? How does it work?

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

“You can’t help anyone if they don’t want help.” I can’t count the number of times I have heard that statement from family, friends and or coworkers who would rather tolerate the inappropriate behavior of an individual under the influence of alcohol or other drugs...

COMMUNITY MISSION APPEAL GRANT RECIPIENTS 2021

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Greetings,   I’m John Pitzer, one of the co-chairs of The Community Mission Appeal, also known as CMA. CMA is a way for the Diocese to help certain ministries that are in need of financial help and support.  Formerly known as the Bishops Annual Mission Appeal, the...

Photographs: Hurricane Ida Relief Work From September 5-11

Monday, September 13, 2021

Trinity Loaves and Fishes NEW ORLEANS, September 5-11, 2021 — Trinity Loaves and Fishes volunteers making sandwiches and feeding hundreds of people every day this week throughout the French Quarter and Central City. [Photographs provided by Trinity Loaves and...

Photographs: Hurricane Ida Relief Work (August 29-September 4)

Monday, September 6, 2021

Trinity Loaves and Fishes NEW ORLEANS, August 31, 2021 — Deacon Ben Nobles and Trinity Loaves and Fishes distributed meals made by Culture Aid NOLA. NEW ORLEANS, September 1, 2021 — Trinity Loaves and Fishes handed out 14 cases of water in New Orleans....

Resources Following Hurricane Ida

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Food/Water/Supplies Parish-by-parish List by NOLA.com https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_640ba81a-0c24-11ec-8e55-f370fd879aa7.html Parish-by-parish list by WWLTV...

Addiction Recovery Ministry Reflection: “Toward the Future”

Thursday, August 5, 2021

by the Rev Séamus Doyle, member of the Addiction Recovery Ministry; permanent supply priest for St. John’s, Kenner, and St. Timothy’s, LaPlace In 1936, in his book, Toward the Future, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote: “The day will come when, after...