Lenten Special
Join our four seminarians, Deacon Michael Caraway, Andrew DeRouen, Levi Thompson and Joseph Caraway, studying for the priesthood at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, as they go on a weekly Lenten pilgrimage to stational churches throughout the Eternal City.
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ELTON — The Mass of Christian Burial for Deacon John H. Eaves, 73, will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday, June 24, by The Most Reverend Glen John Provost, Bishop of Lake Charles, in St. Paul Catholic Church. Rev. Marshall Boulet will be the homilist. Burial will follow in St. Paul Cemetery under the direction of Ardoin/Allen Parish Funeral Home.
LAKE CHARLES – Bishop Glen John Provost will be the ordaining prelate on Saturday, June 29, at a 10 a.m. liturgy in the newly restored Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for the priestly ordination of Deacon Michael Caraway and the historic ordination of four men - Samuel Bond, Joseph Caraway, Andrew DeRouen, and Levi Thompson - to the transitional diaconate, the penultimate step to the priesthood of Jesus Christ.
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Vatican City -- Fr. Augustus Tolton advanced along the path to sainthood, making the runaway slave-turned-priest one step closer to being the first black American saint.
The Most Reverend Glen John Provost, Bishop of Lake Charles, has asked that during the hurricane season of 2019 the people of the Diocese of Lake Charles pray the following prayer, composed in 1957 by The Most Reverend Maurice Schexnayder, Second Bishop of Lafayette, following Hurricane Audrey:
Pope Francis and Bishop Glen John Provost's June Prayer Intentions
