New Orleans and Traditional Catholicsm

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St. Christopher or St. Edward’s parish? I’m older than you Daivd and that should have been St. Christopher’s.
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I was closer to St Christophers, but remember I’m a recent convert, I did attend mass over there once or twice with friends, and I believe used the playground quite a bit. As a young teen, we moved to near the corner of Carollton and Claiborne, in the Archbishop’s backyard, so to speak, and played at St. Rita. Watched girls at Dominican HS. :o

Speaking of Archbishop Hannan, does anyone have a copy of the prayer he crafted for the early NO Saints? They need that prayer right now…
 
I didn’t know the good Abp. had crafted a prayer. I do know that even here in BR we’ve gone back to praying for the intercession of Our Lady during hurricane season. If anyone knows the prayer, please post it.
 
This is the prayer that was said at St. Bernard and San Pedro Catholic Churches in St. Bernard Parish:

Our Father in heaven, through the intercession of Our Lady of Prompt Succor, spare us, during this hurricane season, from all harm and protect us and our homes from all disasters of nature. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

We would say that prayer at each Mass and it was in our bulletin during the entire hurricane season. Wonder how much worse Katrina could have been if we had not been praying. :signofcross:
 
God Bless New Orleans…
keep up your faith, our lady is listening…

Pax…
 
How New Orleans and traditionally Catholic can you get? Where’d’ja go to high school?! St. Aloysius - one hundreth and final graduating class in '69!
 
Many,many thanks for your comments on N.O. you brought me back to a photo copy of my childhood. Do you remember WWL and the hour of St.Francis? Midnight mass at the St.Louis Cathedral? Do you remember trying to make nine churches on Good Friday? Do you remember the 8th Eucharistic congress at city park or our mothers donating their gold so Bernard&Gruning could make a Monstrnce for that occasion? Do yoy rember Christmas caroling at Jackson square or Loyola U?Your memories of the Carmelite convent brings back memories,I remember my mother walking by the convent at night so that we could hear the nuns singing the Gregorian Chants.When I was older I bought a home on Esplanade Ave just for that reason unfortunately they were moved out on Gentily H,way.Their last postulant was the daughter of Notre Dames winning coaches.THANKS
 
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I can’t help but notice on the forums over the years that there are a great many of us who grew up in our beloved city under the wings of HMC. I can’t help but notice that there are a whole bunch of folks who think that NO is sin city central and that God was justified in “sending Katrina”. I’m gonna leave it at that.

What’s going on now is not the city that I grew in which I grew up. I don’t think that people have an inkling of what it meant to me to see St. Anthony’s on Canal St. where I was baptized under water. Or St. Dominic’s in Lakeview where I went to many a Sunday Mass. Or to drive throughout the city and see all the parishes that I can remember vibrant, living churches sitting in destruction. And it’s not just us, we all know how connected we were to the Mississippi Gulf Coast…St. Staninslaus in ruins…St. Michael in Biloxi and on an on.

I grew up in a Catholic city. I am tired of being the lone voice trying to explain that Bourbon St. is not NO. I know y’all are out there…give us your thoughts.
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I grew up Baptist up in Natchitoches but had a half Sicilian Catholic family. We had plenty of older relatives down there and made a visit every few years or so. They were always stopping by my great grandparents store as it had been there for years and it seemed EVERY Sicilian going from New Orleans to Shreveport or vice versa knew to stop of at Catanese Grocery (and my grandfather made home movies of each one 😃 )I never even knew Mardi Gras was such a horrible thing on Bourbon Street until I went myself in the early 90’s. Still, having anyone with any familiarity with NOLA knows to compartmentalize that aspect.
 
I don,t know if you are the one who posted the email on New Oleans or not but you gave me a photographic picture of my youth. I grew uo in the french quarter,Sts.Peter and Paul,mass at St.Louis Cathedral,always walked down barracks st.late in eveving to hear Carmelites singing. Mother always attended novea of St.Jude at church for the dead,always made 9churches on Good Friday. Parents buried in St.Rochs cemetary.Too many memories crowd my mind for rememberance.When I return to New Orleans I wander through the streets thinking “where are the nuns” we had so much respect for them.Just one story and I will let you go. In medical school when we were studing pathology we got an autopsy tray of organs,all six of us were laughing and talking(all Catholics) when we were told that these were the organs of a Catholic nun. We were startled,all we could say was Hail Mary full of grace. Thanks for the memories.
 
brotherhrolf said:
How New Orleans and traditionally Catholic can you get? Where’d’ja go to high school?! St. Aloysius - one hundreth and final graduating class in '69!
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De La Salle class of 75, but I spent a year at Jesuit.
 
Warren_Stassi said:
Many,many thanks for your comments on N.O. you brought me back to a photo copy of my childhood. Do you remember WWL and the hour of St.Francis? Midnight mass at the St.Louis Cathedral? Do you remember trying to make nine churches on Good Friday? Do you remember the 8th Eucharistic congress at city park or our mothers donating their gold so Bernard&Gruning could make a Monstrnce for that occasion? Do yoy rember Christmas caroling at Jackson square or Loyola U?Your memories of the Carmelite convent brings back memories,I remember my mother walking by the convent at night so that we could hear the nuns singing the Gregorian Chants.When I was older I bought a home on Esplanade Ave just for that reason unfortunately they were moved out on Gentily H,way.Their last postulant was the daughter of Notre Dames winning coaches.THANKS
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Wow! Thank y’all! I knew you were out there! I’m getting tired of having the sobriquet of “sin city” attached to NO when my memories are anything but. Yes, I do remember the nine churches on Good Friday. And the fact that all the restaurants and movie theatres closed on Good Friday. I don’t remember the 8th Eucharistic Congress.

But, oh, to have gone to St. Aloysius! What a rich heritage I inherited. I started 8th grade at St. A. We were housed at St. Augustine’s parish - a few blocks away from St. A. We witnessed several jazz funerals from St. Augustine. The Brothers taught us about the customs and let us all align the fence and watch the procession into St. Augustine.

We didn’t have air conditioning in those days. We could hear the bells of St. Louis Cathedral toll the hours. We could hear the bananna man with his mule drawn wagon. We could hear the steam whistles of the ships in the the river.

Later, in high school, we would have 9 weeks exams. These finished around 12 and we would walk from Rampart and Esplanade to Canal St. Pop into St. Jude and make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament. And then go to the show, downtown.

Jesuit’s always had confession available after school.

How about All Saint’s Day? My folks are all buried in St. Joseph’s #3 on Washington Ave. We would go and clean the tomb and then white wash it. Scrape the mud and plant flowers. And then head to the chapel for prayers.

The big altars in front of St. Joseph’s on Tulane for St. Joseph’s Day?

I grew up in a thoroughly Catholic world. We rode the bus. We rode the street car. We passed in front of a church and made the sign of the cross. The NO I know and the NO that is portrayed in the news media are two different cities.
 
Sigh…man b.r. your posts are bound to be eye openers for most folks out there. People just don’t realize how different the French/Creole/Cajun parts of Louisiana are from the rest of the South…New Orleans
was the pinnacle of this culture.
 
Howdy, Brian! We anthropology types have a responsibility to pass on the culture. A lot has changed - to be certain. But NO is still a fundamentally Catholic city. I just wish I could more adequately express what I experienced growing up and how it continues on to this day. All people see is Bourbon St, the gambling, the gay decadence…and they never stop to see that for most of us those kinds of stuff are as far as east is from west.
 
I’ve never been to New Orleans, but this thread (and what I remember of seeing the effects of Katrina on TV) is making me sad for the NO which used to exist as a truly Catholic city.
 
brotherhrolf said:
Howdy, Brian! We anthropology types have a responsibility to pass on the culture. A lot has changed - to be certain. But NO is still a fundamentally Catholic city. I just wish I could more adequately express what I experienced growing up and how it continues on to this day. All people see is Bourbon St, the gambling, the gay decadence…and they never stop to see that for most of us those kinds of stuff are as far as east is from west.
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I’ll say. When I visited New Orleans over the MLK weekend this year, it was my first time to do so as a Catholic. Louisiana, and particularly New Orleans, make so much more sense to me now. Before, I had only seen NOLA as an old city. But Catholicism screams at you from every corner! The shrines, the churches, the convents (yes, I drove right by the Carmelite convent when I was there)…it’s just amazing. I felt so much more at home in New Orleans than I ever had before. For the first time, I thought, “I could live here.”
 
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