Join Joie de Vivre for our 1st annual Louisiana Arts & Culture Festival!
This two-day gathering focused on “South Louisiana & Literature” will be a life-giving gathering of both local and national novelists, short story writers, poets, and artists with our wider community to celebrate the feast that is our Catholic faith and the literary and visual arts.
Together, we’ll enjoy:
keynote presentations
breakout sessions
poetry readings
Mardi Gras murder mystery verse play
Liturgy of the Hours and Mass with the monks
happy hours
leisurely strolls on the Abbey grounds
optional housing accommodations at the Abbey
Featured Speakers
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Timothy Gautreaux
Professor Emeritus, Southeastern Louisiana University (Hammond)
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Katy Carl
Writer-in-Residence, University of St. Thomas (Houston)
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James Matthew Wilson
Cullen Foundation Chair in English Literature, University of St. Thomas (Houston)
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Jane Scharl
Author of Sonnez Les Matines & Ponds
Saint Joseph Abbey & Seminary College
Saint Benedict, Louisiana
Saint Joseph Abbey is a Benedictine community of monks located on 1,100 acres of beautiful pine forests in Saint Benedict, Louisiana. Over the past century, the Abbey has been an abiding spiritual presence in the Gulf South and has left an indelible mark on local and regional history. The Abbey has educated many of the region's civic and religious leaders, and it has founded and staffed numerous parishes in the New Orleans and Northshore areas. It has also had a significant impact on area culture by sponsoring and promoting programs in both liturgical and secular arts. And finally, Saint Joseph Abbey’s monks have remained faithful to prayer, work, and the monastic way of life.
Saint Joseph Abbey is a member of the Swiss-American Congregation of the Order of Saint Benedict, a network of autonomous, Roman Catholic monasteries in the United States, Canada, and Central America. Currently, the Right Reverend Justin Brown, O.S.B., former abbot of Saint Joseph Abbey, is the congregation’s Abbot President.
Thanks to the generous support of Saint Joseph Abbey, the 1st annual Joie de Vivre Louisiana Arts and Culture Festival will be hosted on these beautiful grounds, and we will be able to enjoy Liturgy of the Hours and Mass with the monks, in addition to walking the Abbey grounds.
