Information and Announcements About The Diocese
LAKE CHARLES – Two seminarians of the Diocese of Lake Charles – John Souder and Michael Caraway – studying at the Pontifical North American College (PNAC) in Rome will be Val J. Peter Scholars this fall, according to information provided to Bishop Glen John Provost by Msgr. James Checchio, Rector of the College.
LAKE CHARLES – Father Rommel Tolentino celebrated a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form on Thursday, June 4, in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for the Feast of Corpus Christi (the Body and Blood of Christ). Bishop Glen John Provost presided and Father Nathan Long and Father D.B. Thompson assisted.
LAKE CHARLES – With his Wednesday, April 22, trip to the Immaculate Conception Cathedral Catholic School, Bishop Glen John Provost has completed his annual set of visitations to each of the Catholic schools in the Diocese of Lake Charles.
CAMERON – Bishop Glen John Provost celebrated a Votive Mass to Avert Storms on Wednesday, June 3, in the Historic Shrine of Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church. This annual liturgy comes at the beginning of Hurricane Season, which opened on Monday, June 1.
LAKE CHARLES – The Most Reverend Glen John Provost, M.A., D.D., Bishop of Lake Charles, has announced the bestowal of Papal honors to nine members of the laity of the Diocese of Lake Charles by the Holy See. The Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Carlos Maria Viganò, notified the Bishop on Monday, March 30.
By Deacon Glen Bertrand
Director of Development
LAKE CHARLES -- The Catholic Extension Society has offered a challenge to raise seminary funding to the Diocese of Lake Charles. For every donation of $1,000 or more to the Seminary Burse Endowment, Catholic Extension will match the offering with 50 cents on every $1.00 given. By raising $50,000 by December 31, 2015, we will receive $25,000 in matching funds.
Read more: Take the Challenge: Raise Funds for Our Seminarians
LAKE CHARLES – School calendars for the 2015-2016 academic year have been released by the Office of Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Lake Charles, according to Kimberlee Gazzolo, superintendent.
I, The Most Reverend Glen John Provost, Bishop of Lake Charles, hereby announce the pastoral assignments for the Year Two thousand and Fifteen for the Diocese of Lake Charles, Louisiana:
In my sixth cycle of parish visitations (September 2014 through March 2015), I had the pleasure of joining parishioners at Our Lady of LaSalette in DeQuincy, St. Lawrence in Raymond, St. Raphael in Iowa and Our Lady of Prompt Succor in Sulphur. The visit offered us the opportunity to get to know each other, hear of their concerns, learn of the many good things going on in the parishes, answer questions, and acquaint them with the ministries of the Diocese.
Read more: Bishop Comments on Completion of Sixth Cycle of Parish Visitations
LAKE CHARLES – The devastation from the 7.8 maginitude earthquake that struck Nepal last Saturday, May 25, has been great. Nearly 5,000 people lost their lives with many villages and communities in the mountainous country destroyed.
The Office of Family Life has during the last six weeks conducted a broad consultation in the Diocese of Lake Charles among faithful and clergy in preparation for the upcoming XIV Ordinary Synod of Bishops, with the theme, “The Vocation and Mission of the Family in the Church and Contemporary World".