Mark your calendar!  JOIN BISHOP DESHOTEL FOR 5:30pm MASS HERE AT ST. ANNE ON THURSDAY, MAY 25^TH

After Mass, the Bishop will bless the grounds of the construction site and the medals/crosses to be eventually distributed along the foundation slab.  

HOLY MEDALS/CROSSES ONLY:    As a way to let parishioners share in the upcoming construction project, you are invited to bring religious medals and/or crosses to Church to place in a designated container now in the Sanctuary (see picture).  The medals/crosses  will be distributed throughout the construction site before the cement slab is poured, so that they can lie within the very foundation of the New Church Expansion.   The medals/crosses ONLY (other objects will be removed) can be brought to Church throughout the month of May.

OUR NEXT MAJOR FUNDRAISING PROJECT will be an Advertisement Board erected on Church grounds throughout the construction time.   This is a great way to promote a business while at the same time supporting St. Anne’s Capital Campaign.  More information to follow shortly.  

It is with deep sadness that I announce the death of a native son of St. Anne Parish, Fr. Rex Broussard. Fr. Broussard and I have a personal history that goes back to my high school and seminary days when he served as pastor of my home town at St. Joseph’s Church in Patterson. He was the pastor who saw me into the seminary in the fall of 1980 and travelled to my ordination nine years later in Rome. He accompanied me with prayer and support throughout my time in seminary and was a frequent visitor in my family home during his pastorate in Patterson. I am grateful to God for giving me the grace of recently going to his deathbed to visit with him and to thank him for the influence he had on my life, kissing his anointed hands (hands that blessed me numerous times in my youth), and assuring him that he would always be remembered. He was in total peace.
Fr. Rex was ordained by Bishop Maurice Schexnayder on December 17, 1966. Parish records show that he celebrated his First Solemn Mass the following day at 10 in the morning here at St. Anne. A reception was held that same evening at the Youngsville High School Gymnasium. Fr. Rex’s parents, along with his sister, are buried in our cemetery in the Assumption Mausoleum .
The photo is of me a few days after my ordination in May of 1989, on the roof top of the seminary in Rome (where I made my Theology studies) with Fr. Rex, my Grandmother Margaret Russo, and my parents, Joe and Lucy Russo.
Fr. Rex’s funeral will be held at the Cathedral of St. John in Lafayette where he will also be entombed. I will preach the funeral homily, for which I ask for your prayers.

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Let us pray for his soul and for the comfort of his family and friends. Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him.

Our pastor celebrates his 32nd anniversary of ordination today, May 28th.   Fr. Russo was ordained by Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City with 57 others from around the world (see photo).   Fr. Russo is kneeling on the last row, fourth from the right side of the picture.  The prayer of consecration is being recited by the Pope, after which the newly ordained stand and,  for the first time, put on their priestly vestments (which are folded in their arms).