Broadmoor United Methodist Church, 10230 Mollylea Drive, will host its Bmoor Beats and Bites event at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18.
Attendees should bring a lawn chair or blanket for an evening of music, food and fun. Admission is free.
For more information visit www.broadmoormethodist.org.
Mass for the Assumption
The Universal Catholic Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Thursday, Aug. 15, a holy day of obligation for Catholics locally and worldwide.
The Most Rev. Michael G. Duca, Bishop of Baton Rouge, will preside at the noon Mass at St. Joseph Cathedral, 401 Main St. downtown.
In November 1950, Pope Pius XII in the papal encyclical Munificentissimus Deus declared that “the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.” This dogma enables all Catholic Christians to hope that the bodily “taking up” of Mary into heaven by God’s grace will make more effective our belief in our own resurrection.
One week later, the church celebrates the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a memorial feast established in 1954 by Pope Pius XII, who wrote: “… (never) has that faith ever failed by which we are taught that Mary … reigns with a mother’s solicitude over the entire world, just as she is crowned in heavenly blessedness with the glory of a Queen.” A Mass for this feast will be celebrated at noon Thursday, Aug. 22.
For more information, contact (225) 387-5928 or office@cathedralbr.org.
Gathered Voices Concert
First Baptist Church Baton Rouge, 529 Convention St., will present a Gathered Voices concert at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17.
Experience the power of music, unity and authentic worship. All are invited.
Ushers' anniversary
Nathaniel Baptist Church, Hwy. 33 South, Centreville, will celebrate an "Ushers Anniversary" at 2 p.m. Sunday.
The Rev. Tyser Brown and the New Zion Hill Church will be guests.