Louisiana Catholic Blogger Roundup For Oct 17th

St Matthews Church in Monroe Louisiana(Diocese of Shreveport)
This Church is very beautiful on the inside. On a personal note this Church is Right next door to St Francis Hospital where I was born. My birth has always been shrouded in some mystery because of my adoption. At one point I was going to talk to the very colorful lawyer that was involved in my adoption. Alas though fate intervened and the Federal Govt stopped those plans by sending him(along with the parish sheriff ). to prison. Well C'est la Vie as they say .However I do know I was like 6 weeks premature. I was so small that when the Nun's called my baptist momma to say they had a child for her they gave me to her in Christmas stocking.
Anyway there is a lot of history to this Church. If he go to the very historic Holy Trinity Church in downtown Shreveport you will in the stain class priests from this Church. Those priests came to Shreveport knowing that there it was a death sentence. Shreveport was suffering from horrific Yellow fever. Several of those Priests died within weeks of coming to minister to Catholic and non Catholic alike. From the Church Web site:
Though the precise date that the first settler of present Monroe, Captain Don Juan Filhiol, arrived in the Monroe area cannot be fixed with exact certainty, Filhiol's own documents put him in our region, "Post of the Ouachita," on February 1, 1783, which is years before the Louisiana Purchase unified American Colonization efforts. Construction on a fort would not begin until September 8, 1790, five years after it had been established and named after Governor Estevan Miro. Fort Miro remained the successor to the Ouachita Fort until May 1, 1819, when the name of the settlement changed to that of Monroe. On May 12, 1819, the Steamboat Monroe, named after the President, James Monroe, arrived at the present site of the city of Monroe. The citizens of Fort Miro saw the arrival of the Steamboat Monroe as the beginning of a great age of trade proving that river traffic would be coming. Until missionary priests arrived in this area, the founder of the city and the residents attended religious services in the southern part of Louisiana at regular intervals.
As the oldest parish of the diocese, it is from St. Matthew the origin from which all other parishes throughout the area were created. This has caused many to affectionately refer to St. Matthew as the "Mother Church" of northeast Louisiana. The history of the parish, beginning in 1851, is replete with the many contributions of the faithful and friends from throughout our region. St. Matthew and the clergy who served here have been a unifying force in this community throughout the last 150 years, and it will continue to be so into this third Millennium.

On to the Roundup
From The Recamier is on vacation but posting. Check out her post here as we follow her travels across the great USA(play Lee Greenwood song here). She talks about the Saints of the Day from yesterday Saint Hedwig, religious (died 1243) and Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin (died 1690). Plus she has a ton of other facts.

Catholic Tube has some a vid up. Go see this Vid on School violence.

Alive and Young has some post up. I shall be highlighting this first one in a separate post. Check out this post about a 72-year-old Dominican priest that gets thousands of dollars in royalty checks for a rock song that he co-wrote in the 1950s . This has helped has furthered the religious mission of the Dominicans. Also see his post The Lesser Traveled Road.

Fr. Victor Brown’s Catholic Daily Message has a great post here at Feast of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (16 Oct 2007)

A Number of Things has a post up called Almost Time for Another Toymaking Fair!

Astonished, Yet at Home! has a must read. I rarely do post on Saints because so many other bloggers i link do it so well. I might make an exception as to this one. I think a lot of converts came into the Church when they came across this early Saint's writings we honored today that knew the Apostles Peter(ordained by him) and likely the Apostle John. Go see Saint Ignatius of Antioch . It was his writings that made be started down the Road to Rome.
He has post here called Perhaps We Should Make Obama's Heritage An Issue . I agree. If Obama is related to the best Vice President since Harry Truman that is a plus in my book.Classical Music Thrives Online is another nice link.
He has a post that relates to popular Louisiana Catholic blogger(on hiatus because of work) Michael Denton. Michael is actually blogging some at the LSU paper. Today I intend to find out where that is at. Anyway go see Mr Denton's article here at New From Michael Denton. By the way he responded to my post on the Partition of Iraq issue. So see his thoughts in that entry which is just a couple of post down.

We end today with the Brown Pelican Society. Those post and links are
Oregon Woman Prevented From Starting Petition to Protect Life; State Being Sued
Pope Benedict Names 23 New Cardinals With a Couple Surprises( I am going into this later)
THE MASS AND THE HOLY EUCHARIST
The Second Coming of Christ
Pontiff: Families Must Form Consciences
Perspectives: It's Huckabee or Hillary(this will be highlighted later)
Analyst Evaluates Hillary's 401(k) Plan: Tax 'em so They'll Save
Virginia Man Gets Five Years in Prison for Causing Girlfriend's Abortion
Pro-Abortion Group (NARAL) Fundraising to Overturn Policy on Tax-Funded Abortions
Congress Adds Abortion to Request for Research on Pregnancy, Depression
Clinical Psychologist Lists 5 Ways Same-Sex 'Marriage' Harms Children Psychologically
Lake of Fire Review: Abortion Opponents Portrayed as Mostly Violent or Strange; Director Admits Excluding Mainstream
A CALL TO CHRISTIANS: CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS NO LONGER SAFE ENVIRONMENT; MASS EXODUS CALLED FOR
Harvard Cannot Find Women to Donate Eggs for Human Cloning Experiments
Halfway Through '40 Days for Life' and Planned Parenthood is Already in Crisis Mode
TODAY'S GOSPEL & MEDITATION - True Charity Gives Sense to Everything We Do
TODAY'S SAINT - St. Ignatius of Antioch (d. 107?)