At the start of January 2010, I will be stationed for one year in the quasi-parish of the Blessed Sacrament, in the diocese of Houma-Thibodaux.
The diocese of Houma-Thibodaux is located South West of the city of New Orleans Louisiana, in what is colorfully referred to as the Bayou (the Mississippi delta ie. The Houma, Thibodaux, Morgan City area south of New Orleans).
The area was first explored and colonized by the French, which goes a long way to explaining the area’s deep rooted Catholicism.
Pope Paul VI established the Diocese in 1977 with 36 parishes carved out of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Bishop Warren Boudreaux was appointed its first bishop. Since that time the diocese has had two other bishops; Michael Jareell, consecrated and enthroned in 1993, and Bishop Jacobs the current bishop who was enthroned in October of 2003.
In 1981 the Monastery of the Sacred Heart in Lockport, a Dominican community of Nuns, was establish. I will be working with these sisters once I am firmly in place at Blessed Sacrament.
The current interior of Saint Joseph's Co-Cathedral in Thibodaux
