New assignments were announced publicly at all Masses April 11, 2021.
Please wish Fr. Vincent well as he heads North to Our Lady of the Lake in Mandeville.
Please welcome our new Parochial Vicar (soon-to-be) Fr. Michael Lamy. You will remember him from his Summer Internship with us last Summer.
Joining us for an Internship this summer will be (soon-to-be) Deacon Andy Gonzalez. Please give him a warm St. Ann Parish welcome.

Please welcome Deacon Andy Gonzalez who will join us as a Deacon Intern this summer.

 “My name is Andy Gonzalez. I am a seminarian of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, studying in my third year at Notre Dame Seminary. I was born and raised in Cuba, a country where the communist government does not allow the people to know about God. My parents and my sister are still living there. 

I was 12 years old the first time I went to the Catholic Church. After that day, the Church became my second home, even when I had to participate in secret. After receiving my baptism, I experienced the love of The Father Who loves each one of us infinite, and the love of Mary who is always there to guide us to Jesus. One day, my pastor told me, "One day, you are going to be a good priest." My response was, "One day, you might become a good bishop, but there is no way that I become a priest because I want to have a family like everybody else." To my surprise, my pastor became the bishop of my Diocese a few years later, and here I am now, living my formation to the priesthood.

When I was 19, I went to the obligatory military service in Cuba, and that year transformed my life forever. I started seeing the need of God and the Church, not only for me but also for many people around me. So, I got a License in Education to teach Humanities and Art in Middle School. After that, I became a Marist Brother, and I spent seven years evangelizing in Cuba and Central America. 

After I finished my mission, I came to the USA in 2012. The call to the priesthood came back seriously after seeing the need of God and the Church again for the people in this country. I studied Philosophy in the minor seminary in Miami. After graduation, I took a Pastoral Year because God told me through different ways that I had to go and serve in another diocese. One priest in Florida recommended that I should come to New Orleans. Here I am now, as a new American Citizen after June 6, 2019, getting ready for my Diaconate Ordination on May 22, and very excited of having my internship in St. Ann parish.“

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Fr. Billy O’Riordan, received the St. John Vianney Award from Archbishop Aymond at the annual Notre Dame Seminary Chancellor’s Dinner on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Our congratulations to Fr. Billy O’Riordan who has served the Church as a dedicated priest for nearly 32 years and who exudes the virtues by which St. John Vianney lived out his priesthood.  St. John Vianney is the Patron of Priests.