BAYOU TECHE – Fete-Dieu du Teche, Eucharistic Boat Procession down Bayou Teche, will take place on the Feast of the Assumption, Tuesday, August 15, starting with a Mass in French presided over by Lafayette Bishop Douglas Deshotel, D.O., at 8 a.m. at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Leonville. Bishop Deshotel will also be the homilist.

ALMA, Mich. – The Religious Sisters of Mercy received five new novices into their community recently, including one who served the final year of her postulancy in the Diocese of Lake Charles.

MOSS BLUFF – August events at Saint Charles Center will include A Catholic Journey Through Grief presented by Joan Broussard on Tuesday, August 1 from 6 to 9 p.m. and Blessings from the Fall with Sr. Diane Depwe on Tuesday, August 8, also from 6 to 9 p.m.

LAKE CHARLES -- The Serra Club of Lake Charles hosts the Second Annual Bishop’s Invitational Kickball Classic at 10 a.m. Saturday Aug. 5, on Legion Field.

LAKE CHARLES --  Two classes will be offered  during the fall by the Center for Catholic Studies located in the Catholic  Student Center of Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church.