LCWR Visit to New Orleans

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LCWR Visit to New Orleans

• October 13-16, 2006

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One year after Katrina thousands of homes and
businesses remain severely damaged or abandoned

• (Pictures taken in New Orleans East, the Ninth
  Ward, Chalmette and Bywater)

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17th Street canal levee site of one of the
major breaks that flooded the city.
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The ruined interior of a luxury home near the
17th Street Canal break
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A destroyed lighthouse on Lake Pontchartrain
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Many cars still rest where they were carried by
the flood waters.
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Signs offering demolition services are everywhere.
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The bottom sign is from a pet owner seeking a
lost cat.
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There is also rebuilding and repair happening

• Piles of rubbish and FEMA trailers are GOOD
  signs. They mean that the owner is trying to
  stay.

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FEMA trailers fill the neighborhoods.
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This owner has raised the house to meet new
insurance standards.
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This trash could be a good sign that rebuilding
will occur.
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Musicians Village being built by Harry
Connick, Jr., and Wynton and Branford Marsalis to
insure that musicians will always have a home in
New Orleans.
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Halloween signs evidence some of the anger and
frustration of New Orleans.
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The Sisters of New Orleans
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Sister Marina, STJ shows the gutted lower floor
of the Teresian Sisters residence.
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Teresian Sisters House and sign from the yard.
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The interior of a guest house on the Teresian
property.
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A window looking out to the yard at the Teresian
Sisters House
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The Mirabeau offices and residence of the Sisters
of St. Joseph of Medaille
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SSJ of Medaille the house was flooded, then hit
by lightning and burned.
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Sisters of St. Joseph Mirabeau House
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Alice Abate, O. Carm, shows Mary Dacey, SSJ the
gutted lower floor of the Carmelite Communitys
residence
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Circuit breaker box from boiler room in Carmelite
residence
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Discarded computers from the Carmelite Sisters
Academy
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Materials in storage in the chapel during repair
work at the Carmelite house.
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More storage
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Remnants of stairway in Carmelite House of
Formation
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Sister Ruth Angelete, OP shows the watermark at
St. Anthony Grade School
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• Ruth Angelette, OP tells Mary Dacey about the
  volunteer help the school received from
• out-of-state
• parishes

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St. Anthony School water mark on front door
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Eva Regina Martin, SSF shows the watermark in a
first floor bedroom of the Holy Family Sisters.
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Donations made by women religious paid for the
new floor in the chapel of the motherhouse of the
Sisters of the Holy Family
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The altar at the Sisters of the Holy Family
motherhouse was donated by an
LCWR congregation
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Chairs were donated by an LCWR congregation for
the Sisters of the Holy Family
motherhouse chapel
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Bedroom at the Sisters of the Holy Family
motherhouse
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Exterior of the main building of the school of
the Sisters of the Holy Family
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Clare Pierre, SSF shows the watermark on a
classroom door in their Academy.
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Sign in a Sister of the Holy Family school
classroomGod will do all I cant.
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Residual mud in school building
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Gym in the school of the Sisters of
the Holy Family with championship banners in the
background
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File cabinet of the Sisters of the
Holy Family countless records were destroyed
throughout the area in schools.
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Lockers at school of the Sisters of the Holy
Family show the watermarks and the rust
everywhere.
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Globe at school of Sisters of the Holy Family
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Sylvia Thibodeaux, SSF at the school of the
Sisters of the Holy Family
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Bent metal at the school of the Sisters of the
Holy Family
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Former entrance into the gym at the school of the
Sisters of the Holy Family
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Sylvia Thibodeaux, SSF inside her temporary FEMA
trailer
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FEMA trailers where several Sisters of the Holy
Family reside
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In the midst of disaster,joy and celebration
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Marianite Sisters celebrate Jubilee at St. Ritas
Church with 900 people in attendance
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Marianite Sister Suellen Tennyson, a jubilarian
and Vicar for Religious of New Orleans
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• Mary Dacey and Sylvia Thibodeaux visit during the
  
• Marianite Jubilee celebration

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Rose Marie Penouilh, O. Carm., shows the site of
her former garden which she plans to grow again.
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• Mary Dacey, SSJ and Angie Magro, OP enjoy
  beignets at Café du Monde.

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With love from New Orleans Were coming back!