Gratias tibi agimus, Your Excellency!
April 23, 2007 — April 23, 2026
Blessed 19th Episcopal Anniversary
to Bishop Glen John Provost
By Pamela Seal
Diocese of Lake Charles
LAKE CHARLES — The Most Reverend Glen John Provost said that he receives “great joy and satisfaction” from visiting Catholic schools, celebrating Confirmations and participating in the Diocesan Youth Conference.
“I always allow the youth to ask me questions and find their inquiries fascinating. They show, for the most part, a great deal of thought and depth,” he remarked reflecting on his past 19 years as Bishop for the Diocese of Lake Charles. “I have concluded over the years that youth want more, not less. They look to the Church and its pastors to give them example, direction and instruction. They are the future of the Church.”
Let us hasten to the tomb with Mary Magdalen, where she is disturbed to find it empty. The angel asks her and the two accompanying her why they seek the living among the dead (cf. Luke 24:5). Let us sit with her as she ponders the silence of that first Easter morning and meets the Lord Himself, whom she mistakes for the gardener and does so until He speaks her name. Let us accompany her as she goes immediately to the Apostles to announce, “I have seen the Lord.” What amazement she must have experienced, the muted joy transformed into proclamation!
