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Church parishes and charitable organizations are hosting fundraisers this Lent

The Holy Ghost School in Hammond Dance Team took home third place in Junior High Gameday and fourth place in Junior High Hip Hop at the UDA National Dance Team Competition in Orlando, Florida. Pictured are, front row, Charlee Raborn, Kailyn DeMarco, Liza Fagan; middle row, Caroline Caves, Cloie Harper, Mary Orlando, Ellie Peterman, Lucca Carbo, Gracelyn Guillory; and back row, Coach Teddi Rayborn, Adlyn Gauthreaux, Ava Magliolo, Ellie Fernandez, Ryleigh Colona, Ella Hill, Joleigh O’Neil and sponsor Melissa Bordelon. Photo provided by Cindy Wagner | Holy Ghost School

“Creating the human race may be the single biggest mistake that evolution made.”

On Jan. 28 women in the Diocese of Baton Rouge converged upon the campus of Our Lady of Mercy Church in Baton Rouge to be rejuvenated amidst life’s storms at the Women In the New Evangelization (WINE) Conferenc

The Diocese of Baton Rouge honored 11 religious women and men with a combined 610 years of service to the church at a Jubilee and Consecrated Life Mass on Feb. 9 at Our Lady of Mercy Church in Baton Rouge.

On Jan. 9, we celebrated “The Baptism of the Lord.”  Jesus was sinless, so why was he baptized?

There are many ongoing opportunities in the Diocese of Baton Rouge to to renew your faith this Lenten season:

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge immediately activated its disaster relief team in the wake of a tornado that struck the village of Tangipahoa on Feb. 7.

Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital and Hogs for the Cause broke ground Feb. 14 on the Family Support Home.

Deacon Randall Waguespack heard first-hand the struggles many children face when they are placed in foster care.

The thought of being led into the desert for 40 days, alone, without food or water may not necessarily appear as an auction item at your church fundraiser event.

Stations of the Cross are among the familiar Lent traditions, along with reconciliation services and fish frys, in which Lent would not be the same without them. As we gather on Fridays in our church parishes and declare, “We adore you O Christ and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world” we are participating in “a Lenten tradition of love.”

They sit only miles apart, their roots dug deep into the fertile soil along Bayou Lafourche, their traditions enchanting chapters of life along the bayou when settlers were still discovering Louisiana’s vast richness as well as meeting relatives who had earlier fled from the horrors of Nova Scotia.

Our foreheads were marked with the sign of the cross on Ash Wednesday and now we “forge ahead” in that “dusty, deserted time in the desert with Jesus” during Lent.

The Lenten season officially started with Ash Wednesday on Feb. 22. St. Joseph Cathedral in Baton Rouge was overflowing with people coming to to have their forehead marked with ashes in the form of a cross.This is a reminder of their mortality and call to repentance. Pictured in the forefront is Bishop Michael G. Duca distributing ashes to the people. Photo by Debbie Shelley | The Catholic Commentator

The penitential season of Lent begins with the Church’s exhortation “Repent and believe in the gospel” which accompanies the imposition of ashes on the foreheads of the faithful.

To fall in love! We use the expression to cover many things.