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St. Anthony Cathedral Basilica School celebrated Mardi Gras with a “Bible Stories” themed parade in front of the school Feb. 28. Every class had a wagon float, and threw candy and beads to the students who were gathered along the route.

Mardi Gras was celebrated at Lamar University, Beaumont. Mass was celebrated in the St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel followed by lunch in the Catholic Student Center on Feb. 28. The lunch was prepared and served by the Men of Jude from St. Jude Thaddeus Church in Beaumont.

Delegates from different dioceses in Region X, which includes Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, met on Feb. 25 at the Holy Family Retreat Center in Beaumont. They met to discuss their upcoming conference in September.

The 15th Annual St. Katharine Drexel Health Fair was Feb. 25 at Martin Luther King Middle School in Beaumont. Several health care providers were present as well as community service organizations including Lamar University’s College of Business.

With Lent here, parishes and Knights organizations throughout the diocese are helping with plans for lunch and supper on these Fridays. And you have choices since some are doing more than fish. Blessed Sacrament Church at 780 Porter Street in Beaumont will be selling fish dinners Fridays, March 3-April 7, 8 a.m.- 2 p.m.

I love to cook. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to do it as much as I’d like because of school. However, one Saturday morning, I woke up early to help my mom make homemade breakfast tacos. She was going to make homemade tortillas and salsa.

“We give new meaning to the term blue haired ladies,” said St. Joseph Altar Committee volunteer Eleanor Means when talking about the women volunteers’ blue hairnets. The women were working to prepare food for the St. Joseph’s Altar at the St. Anthony Cathedral Basilica Cathedral Center.

Current law requires judges to lie to juries; causes unnecessary death penalty decisions AUSTIN — The Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops (TCCB) commends Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr., for filing Senate Bill 1065, which will improve the rights of jurors serving in death penalty sentencing trials.

“It was a lot of visiting. We visited almost everyone in the parish,” said Charlotte Carley speaking of her work as chair for the capital campaign at Holy Trinity Church in Mont Belvieu. Holy Trinity has outgrown its facility.

“She was service personified,” Billie Matthews said about her friend and former Diocesan Stewardship Council member Fran Landry. Landry was honored posthumously last August with the 2015 Diocesan Stewardship Council Award for an entire lifetime of exceptional Stewardship.

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“ The cry of Christ in the voice of the migrant moves us.” WASHINGTON—More than 20 Bishops along the border of Texas and Northern Mexico have issued a joint statement Feb. 15 emphasizing the need to listen to the cry of our migrant brothers and sisters.

WASHINGTON— In a letter to the United States Secretary of State Feb. 17, chairmen of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development and Committee on International Justice and Peace, along with Sean Callahan, president of Catholic Relief Services, urged the Administration to do everything they can to care for creation both domestically and globally.

“These men come in there and they give people hope,” said Damon West while speaking of the Kolbe Prison Ministry retreats coordinated by the Diocese of Beaumont office of Criminal Justice. West spoke of how these retreats make a difference, as part of Education Weekend for the Bishop’s Faith Appeal on Feb. 12. at St. Elizabeth Church in Port Neches.

Father Maurice Henry Sands, executive director of the Black and Indian Mission Office, visits St. Anthony Cathedral Basilica School in Beaumont Feb 16. The school receives a grant from the annual Black and Indian Mission second collection.

By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration welcomed a federal appeals court ruling that upheld a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump’s travel ban on refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries that also temporarily suspended the country’s refugee resettlement program.

“In the old days they were simply called bad or slow,” said Dr. Rosa C. Gonzalez, a Beaumont psychiatrist, about children with Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity disorder before 1968. That is when ADHD appeared in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders for the first time.

By Richard Rosario Thinking back on my first job, I believe it was special. I love ice cream and I was privileged enough to work at an ice cream shop. At the time, I did not think so since scooping and making ice cream was harder than I thought.

“We can get pretty wild in here sometimes,” said stuffer and St. Jude Thaddeus parishioner Karen Schroder while joining other volunteers placing end-of-year tax statements in envelopes at the Catholic Pastoral Center in Beaumont.

By Letty Lanza Another gray February morning. The side yard filled with pockets of brown mud where grass should grow. Humidity hanging heavy on this Texas morning. The ink colored berries on the Indian Hawthorne have been replaced with small white and barely pink buds.