After Dulac was ravaged by Hurricane Ida, this year’s shrimp boat blessing holds a special place for the Rev. Antonio Speedy of Holy Family Catholic Church. “Hurricane Ida has turned our community ...

Gerrard Cheramie had a special passenger on board his fishing boat today. Cheramie’s vessel was selected to transport the Rev. Joseph Henry Sebastian down Bayou Lafourche during the 102nd Our Lady of ...

MUSKEGON -- St. Brendan may be the patron saint of sailors and navigators, but the boats and boaters in Muskegon have been blessed by Father Tom. The Rev. Thomas C.H. Scott, that is, the priest at St.

For Terrebonne and Lafourche Parish’s fishing communities, this year’s Blessing of the Boats ceremony was more important than ever before as Hurricane Ida damage continued to blight their ...

PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (WLOX) - The wind gusts kept the boats at the docks for the 44th annual Pass Christian Blessing of the Fleet on Saturday. So, instead of the boats coming to the blessing, the ...

WASHINGTON — “This blessing is for Seize the Day,” said Rev. Adrienne Terry of Christ United Methodist Church in Southwest D.C. The vessel’s crew grinned as she continued with the traditional prayer ...

HOUMA -- Like countless boat parades throughout the South and Europe, boats in Chauvin and Pointe-aux-Chenes take part in an annual Blessing of the Fleet. The ceremony, set for Sunday in south ...

Whether you're the skipper of a shrimp boat, a luxury yacht, a Coast Guard or Marine Patrol vessel or even a kayak — you're invited to take part in a ceremony Saturday that's purpose is to ensure you ...

Ancient fishermen and sailors viewed the ocean as a living entity that had dark hungers. They believed that it would often take lives to appease its hunger. In order to insure their safety and a ...

An ancient practice was revived in Hull with the blessing of commercial and pleasure boats Sunday at Allerton Harbor. Portuguese fishermen started the blessing-of-the-fleet tradition centuries ago, ...

CHALMETTE, La.CHALMETTE, La. — The blessing of the boats is normally a joyous kickoff to the spring fishing season in St. Bernard Parish. But this year’s affair had more the air of a wake. Some years, ...