Information and Announcements About The Diocese
The Office of Catholic Schools along with school site administration believe that keeping your children safe is our top priority each and every day. Listed below are several safety measures currently in place designed to safeguard students and ensure positive student learning in the
classroom:
Read more: On the Priority of Safety at Our Catholic Schools
LAKE CHARLES -- The celebration of the Sunday 9:30 a.m. Mass from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, which has been broadcast live on the radio - KLCL (1470-AM), since the beginning of the Diocese of Lake Charles and additionally - more recently - on Jennings' KJEF-AM (1290-AM) as well streaming on both stations' websites, will now also be aired on Radio Maria 91.1 FM beginning May 13, continuing on each second Sunday thereafter.
Read more: Broadcast of Cathedral's 9:30 a.m. Sunday Mass to Expand
LAKE CHARLES – Trevor Donnelly, currently the principal of Our Lady’s Catholic School in Sulphur, has been named as the new principal, beginning the 2018-2019 school term, at Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic School.
Read more: Donnelly Named Principal at Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic School
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Chairmen for the Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations and the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth have expressed gratitude for the openness and honesty of the young adults who participated as delegates to the Pre-Synodal Meeting in anticipation of this October’s Ordinary Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment.
“Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.” John 6:56
My Dear People of God,
“At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the Cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a Paschal banquet ‘in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us’” (Sacrosanctum concilium, 47, cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, #1323).
“’The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.’” Luke 4:18
When our Lord rose in the synagogue of Nazareth to proclaim the words of Isaiah, He proclaimed this as His mission: “’The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord’” (Luke 4:18-19).
ICHTHUS is the Greek word for “fish.” Jesus tells us to, “Come follow me. And I will make you fishers of men!”
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Administrative Committee has issued the following statement today marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Administrative Committee serves as the Board of Trustees for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
WASHINGTON — Diocese of Lake Charles native Katie Prejean McGrady is one of three young adult delegates discerned by the USCCB to represent the United States at the March 2018 Pre-Synod Gathering in Rome.
Read more: Katie Prejean McGrady One of Three Named for Pre-Synod Gathering in Rome
ROME – Three seminarians of the Diocese of Lake Charles - Joseph Calloura Caraway, Andrew Martin DeRouen, and Levi Joseph Thompson – were among 47 men in the Second Year Class of the Pontifical North American College instituted as acolytes on Sunday, February 25 - the Second Sunday of Lent.
LAKE CHARLES -- Rachel’s Vineyard of Southwest Louisiana, sponsored by the Office of Pro-Life of the Diocese of Lake Charles, will host two retreats this year, the first Friday through Sunday, February 9-11 and the second July 6-8, at Tabor Retreat House of Saint Charles Center.