Wednesday, May 11, 2022 | Community Ministry, Reflections
“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...
Friday, December 31, 2021 | Community Ministry, Reflections
by the Very Rev. Stephen Crawford, rector of St. Mary’s, Franklin, and member of the Gaudet Fund Committee. Frances Joseph Gaudet is a Saint. It really is a marvelous thing that we would recognize this. It was a hundred years ago (1921) that the Episcopal...
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 | Community Ministry, Diocesan News
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...
Friday, October 8, 2021 | Community Ministry, Diocesan News
Three Things You Can Do to Help with Hurricane Recovery in the Diocese of Louisiana:Southeast Louisiana is still reeling one month following Hurricane Ida. Your help is needed now more than ever. 1. Volunteer for Hurricane Ida reliefVolunteer with our diocese to clean...
Monday, September 13, 2021 | Community Ministry
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...
Monday, September 6, 2021 | Community Ministry
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....
Tuesday, August 31, 2021 | Community Ministry, Diocesan News
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...
Thursday, August 5, 2021 | Community Ministry, Reflections
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...
Thursday, July 22, 2021 | Churchwork, Community Ministry
by Karen Mackey, Diocese of Louisiana The Formation of the Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative After Hurricane Katrina A week after Hurricane Katrina, the Very Rev. David duPlantier, dean of Christ Church Cathedral, was listening to an NPR’s All Things...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021 | Community Ministry, Reflections
by the Rev, Seamus Doyle, member of the Addiction Recovery Ministry A doctor in recovery provides a guided tour through the brain changes, genetics, and psychology that cause addiction… The Alcoholic / Addict Within is a book that empowers alcoholics and addicts – and...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 | Community Ministry, Out and About in EDoLA
[Photographs by Karen Mackey] The 134th Annual Gathering of the Episcopal Church Women was held at Trinity Church, New Orleans on June 18 and 19, 2021. The theme was “A New Day” and featured keynote speaker, the Rev. Sandy Casey-Martus, with special...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 | Community Ministry
[Photograph by Karen Mackey, Diocese of Louisiana] Marilyn Hines is one of the 2021 Honored Women of the Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese of Louisiana. The two other honorees are Alice Strausser and Cecile Torbergsen, not pictured. For 25 years the Episcopal...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021 | Community Ministry, Diocesan News
The Rev. Benjamín Sánchez was received as a priest in the Episcopal Church on June 5, 2021, at St. Augustine’s, Metairie. He will serve as the missioner for Hispanic ministries in the Diocese of Louisiana. He will celebrate his first service at St....
Thursday, May 20, 2021 | Community Ministry
The Community Mission Appeal (CMA) was established in order to help parishes in the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana reach out to their neighbors who are most in need. Funds for the CMA are raised through parish appeals throughout the Diocese, as well as individual...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 | Community Ministry, Reflections
by the Rev. Seamus Doyle, member of the Addiction Recover Ministry Recently I was half-listening to an interview on NPR about the stress and strain of the past year on people old and young, professionals, etc. In the course of the interview, the interviewee told of a...
