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Rose Dinner Proceeds Donated to Pregnancy Centers
The Diocese of Lafayette presented local pregnancy centers with donations today! The funds were raised during the 2021 Pro-Life Rose Dinner. Bishop Deshotel welcomed six crisis pregnancy centers to his office Wednesday and presented each with a check for $8,000 to continue their life-saving ministries. The Bishop’s Rose Dinner, organized by the Office of Pro-Life Apostolate was held in August of this year and honored local champions of life. The mission of the Office of Pro-Life Apostolate is to respect, protect, and serve life from conception to natural death through public education, pastoral care, state & national legislation, prayer, and worship. If you would like more information on the Office of Pro-Life Apostolate or crisis pregnancy centers in the Diocese of Lafayette please visit https://www.diolaf.org/pro-life.
Pictured with Bishop Deshotel, left to right:
Kelley Chapman Director of the Office of Pro-Life Apostolate
Deacon Jim Kincel, Office of Ministries
Patrice Lewis, A Pregnancy Center & Clinic Lafayette
Lenita Turner, Vermilion Women’s Resource Center/Christian Service Center’s Women’s Resource Center in Abbeville
Brenda DesOrmeaux, DesOrmeaux Foundation’s Women’s Center of Lafayette
Connie Landreneau, New Life Pregnancy Center in Mamou
Mika Hernandez, Opelousas Pregnancy Center
Kelli Davis, Program Coordinator of the Office of Pro-Life Apostolate
The Unexpected Pregnancy Center in New Iberia (not pictured)
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Bishop Blesses John XXIII House
On the Feast of St. John XXIII, Bishop Deshotel blessed the Pope John XXIII House, in the presence of members of the Community of Jesus Crucified.. The house is leased, maintained, and operated by St. Teresa Center for the Works of Mercy, a non-profit public charity based in St. Martinville, Louisiana. John XXIII house is a residence for women who find themselves in need of housing and the help of an ordered common life and who wish to grow in their love for Jesus and discernment of God’s will in their lives. The residence includes a program for sober living for women who wish to pursue sobriety in a spiritual, ordered, and communal way of life. John XXIII house is inspired by Pope St. John XXIII who forwarded the cause of the laity, especially women. The house follows Catholic principles of moral teaching and doctrine.
