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Easter Deanery to host 100th anniversary event Sept. 12
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The Eastern Deanery will host a 100th Anniversary of the Diocese event on Sunday, Sept 12 at St. Joseph Church in St. Joseph, La. The feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross will begin with a Mass at 11:30 a.m. at St. Joseph Church with Bishop Herzog officiating, followed by a reception at the Tensas Community Center. Bishop Herzog will be erecting a stone cross near the Mississippi River marking the area in which the first missionaries began the work of evangelization in northern and central Louisiana. The public is invited to attend.
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100th Anniversary celebration held Aug. 6
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 On July 29, 1853, Pope Pius IX established the Diocese of Natchitoches and appointed Auguste Marie Martin as its first bishop.With Natchitoches as its See City, the new diocese included all of north and central Louisiana and Avoyelles.
In 1910, Bishop Cornelius Van de Ven recommended to the Apostolic Delegate in Washington that the See City of Natchitoches be transferred to Alexandria. Many of the priests believed that the needs of the diocese could best be served by establishing the See City in a more central location of the diocese, where railroad transportation was much more accessible.
On Aug. 6, 1910, the title of cathedral was transferred from Immaculate Conception Church in Natchitoches to St. Francis Xavier Cathedral in Alexandria.
On Aug. 6, 2010, -- 100 years later -- the clergy, religious organizations, and the people of the Diocese gathered in St. Francis Xavier Cathedral to celebrate the 100-year milestone of its existence.
Bishop Ronald Herzog, 13 bishops from Louisiana and other parts of the U.S., and the diocesan clergy, concelebrated Solemnn Mass at 6 p.m.
Read more here.
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Catholic schools start Aug. 20-23. Mary Ann Huckabay named new superintendant of Catholic schools
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 Bishop Ronald Herzog named Mary Ann Huckabay the new superintendent of Catholic schools in July, after accepting the resignation of Sister Ann Lacour, MSC.
Sister Ann served as superintendent for four years, and resigned in order to serve full time as a member of the Leadership Team for her religious order, the Marianites of Holy Cross.
Ms. Huckabay is no stranger to education, having served 27 years in the Catholic school system in the Diocese of Alexandria, and 8 years in the public school system.
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Red Mass to be held Sept. 24
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The Annual Red Mass for attorneys, judges, legal staffers, and governmental leaders will be held Friday, Sept. 24, at 9:30 a.m. at Saint Francis Xavier Cathedral. All priests of the diocese will concelebrate the Mass with Bishop Herzog. Bishop Michael Jarrell of the Diocese of Lafayette will be the homilist. A reception will follow at Cathedral Xavier Hall.
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Taste of Faith benefits seminarian education fund
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 Bishop Ronald Herzog and five of the seven seminarians of the diocese stop for a minute to take a group photo in the kitchen, where they worked for two days preparing for the Taste of Faith Benefit Dinner held Thursday, Aug. 12 at the St. Rita Holy Family Center. The annual event is a fundraiser for the Seminarian Education Fund. This year, several of the permanent diaconate candidates also helped out with the meal preparation and serving.
Seven men from diocese are to study at seminary this fall.
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OL of Sorrows: 4 in formation continue as novices; 7 more join as postulants
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Four young women currently in formation with Our Lady of Sorrows religious order will continue in the process as novices this fall at the OLS Mother House in Shreveport.
Sheri Semon (USA), Memory Muzvondiwa (Zimbabwe, Africa), Chondona  Rebeiro (Bangladesh, Asia), and Sume Costa Bangladesh, Asia) will leave the OLs Convent in Moreauville, where they have studied for more than a year and move to the OLS Mother House in Shreveport for the next two years as they continue their formation.
In addition, seven more women will become postulants this fall and continue their formation. Three will stay in Moreauville at the OLS Convent and attend weekly formation meetings with Sister Sandra Norsworthy. Four will stay in Shreveport at the Emmaus House of Discernment and continue their formation.
Of the seven aspirants (soon to be postulants) five are from Bangladesh and two are from Zimbabwe.
 Effective in October, Sister Anthony Castellani, OLS, will step down as principal of Sacred Heart School in Moreauville and will move to Shreveport and serve as superior of the Mother House.
Sister Sandra Norsworthy will serve as the new principal of Sacred Heart School.
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Sisters of the Holy Family speak to the Serra Club
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Sister Henriette Delille, a New Orleans-born African American, founded the Catholic order of Sisters of the Holy Family in 1837. Her cause for sainthood is currently under consideration.
On July 19, 2010, almost 173 years later, a group of Sisters of the Holy Family addressed the members of the Serra Club, an organization that prays for and supports vocations, during their monthly meeting. The Sisters, who relocated in Alexandria after Hurricane Katrina, were invited to the meeting as their special guests.
Sister Doris Goudeaux addressed the Serra Club members and told them the fascinating story about their founder, Sister Henriette was born in New Orleans in 1812 to parents who were “free people of color.”
Trained by her mother in French literature, music, dancing, and nursing, Henriette was groomed to take her place in the placage system as the common-law wife of a wealthy white man.
Henriette was drawn instead to a strong religious belief in the teaching of the Catholic Church, and resisted the life her mother suggested. In 1827, at the age of 14, the well-educated Henriette began teaching at the local Catholic school and caring for the poor, which caused conflict with her mother. In 1837, she founded the Sisters of the Presentation, which was later changed to Sisters of the Holy Family. Sr. Henriette was declared Venerable in 2010 and is now a candidate for sainthood.
Sisters who attended the meeting were Sisters Hilary Daigle, Eva Regina Martin, Doris Goudeaux, Cornelia Hall, Gloria Lewis, Elizabeth Holmes, Regina Amos, Laurita Oliver, Francella Jackson, and Marie deMontfort Breaux.
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Boy Scout Troop 6 learns values through fun, fellowship, and adventure
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How are you teaching your sons to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent?
In today’s world of iPhones, xBox, and DTV, it is not easy. After all, who wants to listen to boring lectures about the importance of fundamental values when you’ve got today’s technology to keep you entertained?
 The Boy Scouts of America, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, teaches these 12 fundamental values through fun, fellowship, and adventure. Just ask Emile Oestriecher, Scoutmaster for Troop 6, sponsored by St. Frances Cabrini Church in Alexandria. He’s been teaching you ng boys life values for more than 38 years.
“A young boy doesn’t join Scouting to learn values,” said Oestriecher. “He joins to have fun. But in the process of having fun, Scouts learn basic life values that usually stay with them the rest of their lives.”
This summer, Troop 6 participated in their annual Dreamcatcher trip, a week-long sailing trip on a 72-ft schooner off the coast of Florida; a week of camping at Camp Attakapas near Jena, LA; and a backpacking trip at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico that covered 70 miles of hiking and camping over two weeks. Next summer they plan to again enjoy a twelve-day trip of canoeing in the Boundary Waters of Canada. During the school year, the troop has weekend campouts once a month in addition to their three meetings a month.
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