LAKE CHARLES -- The Abrazando Cristo Mission Program wishes to thank the 629 ticketholders of the recent Big Cash Giveaway Fundraiser for the mission trip to Nicaragua and the Johnnie Thbodeaux Memorial Golf Tournament for their support to the mission program.

The Office of Catholic Schools is pleased to announce that Deacon Glenn Viau has been named as the interim principal for St. Louis Catholic School for the 2017-2018 school year.  He will begin his term on Monday, July 17, and conclude upon the installation of a new principal.  Deacon Viau currently serves as Pastoral Associate at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church.  A native of New Orleans, Deacon Viau was ordained as a deacon on June 9, 2000 by Bishop Jude Speyrer.

LAKE CHARLES  -- Bishop Glen John Provost was the presiding prelate on Saturday, June 3, at the Mass of Ordination for a new priest for the Diocese of Lake Charles – Rev. Sam A. “Trey” Ange III – and a transitional deacon – Deacon Samuel Orsot – in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

LAKE CHARLES – Two individuals were honored at the 2017 Catholic Charities of Southwest Louisiana Jazz Brunch for their generous contributions of self and resources to aid those most in need of assistance in Southwest Louisiana.

I, The Most Reverend Glen John Provost, Bishop of Lake Charles, hereby announce the pastoral assignments for the Year Two thousand and Seventeen for the Diocese of Lake Charles, Louisiana:

Father Egidio A. Vecchio, M.S., 90, a member of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette, died May 25, 2017, at St. Dominic Village Nursing Home in Houston, Texas.