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Our Sacred Heart Roots
“I don’t really have any roots…,” a young woman recently shared with me while visiting the school. Listening quietly, I suspected that rather than having “no roots,” she was on an archetypal journey to find them. Does it surprise you that she has found her way to New Orleans? For us who live under the canopies of Live Oaks, whose tap roots extend both deep and wide, we value our roots as a source of identity and insight, character and [...]
Bicentennial Celebration of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, St. Louis Cathedral
This short "Call to Worship" opened the Liturgy of Celebration with banners and song in a packed Cathedral. Philippine's spirit is alive and well! Good afternoon! We gather here in this beautiful Cathedral for the opening of the Bicentennial year of celebration of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne. Philippine Duchesne was a pioneer missionary of the Catholic Church. She was a frontier woman of vision. And, she was a woman known as the “one who prays always.” Beginning today, November 18th, [...]
Strengthening our Community
Last Monday, we celebrated the Patronal Feast of the Rosary. On October 2, 1887, the first Mass was celebrated to place our school under the special patronage of Mary and to officially establish the campus on St. Charles Avenue. That event took place 130 years ago! Sr. Louise Callen, RSCJ, Ph.D., notes in her history of the event, "...the first children of the Rosary were registered on the following day - just nine in number, but truly a grain of [...]
