Lenten Mission with Fr. Michael Champagne, CJC

Fr. Michael Champagne of the Community of Jesus Crucified will preach the Lenten Mission at St. Catherine of Siena Church (105 Bonnabel Blvd., Metairie, LA) at 7:00 pm on March 8, 9 and 10, 2021. Fr. Champagne will speak on the Year of the Eucharist and St. Joseph.  For information, call the parish office at 835-9343. 

About Fr. Michael Champagne, CJC

Fr. Michael Champagne was ordained a Catholic priest in 1994 for the Community of Jesus Crucified in Lafayette and returned to Rome for further studies. In 1995 he received an STL in theology from the Angelicum University, where he wrote on the Sacramental Characteristics of Religious Consecration. Fr. Champagne currently serves as the religious superior of the CJC which includes priests, brothers, and sisters. He is also the Spiritual Director to the lay community. Father serves as retreat master at Our Lady of Sorrows Retreat Center and is involved with preaching parish missions, conducting on-going spiritual formation programs for laity and priests, and adult catechesis workshops and classes. He has served as chaplain to the Women's Center of Lafayette and on numerous committees dealing with end-of-life issues. Father Champagne has also served on the Bishop's Task Force on Reproductive Technology, three terms on the Council of Priests, and on the Bishop's Pastoral Outreach Initiative Task force for the New Evangelization. In 2015 he began Fete­Dieu du Teche, LLC, an organization to promote new evangelization initiatives in the Acadiana region including the annual Assumption Boat Procession, the public Bible Marathon, and the operation of the Spiritual Care Unit (mobile confessional). Father is also the director of St. Teresa Center for the Works of Mercy which operates a soup kitchen and food pantry for the poor, Guadalupe Sober Living House for men, and Oratory Don Bosco, a youth center for at-risk youth