About Our Lady of La Vang · New Orleans, Louisiana
Our Lady of La Vang is a Roman Catholic parish in New Orleans, Louisiana, situated in the Gentilly / Lake-area neighborhood at 6054 Vermillion Boulevard. It belongs to the Archdiocese of New Orleans and serves as a spiritual home for the local Vietnamese Catholic community, taking its name from the 1798 Marian apparition at La Vang in Vietnam. The parish offers Mass on Saturday evening, twice on Sunday morning, and once during the week, with confessions and brief Eucharistic adoration built around those liturgies.
- Patron
- Our Lady of La Vang (Đức Mẹ La Vang) — a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary tied to the 1798 apparition reported among persecuted Catholics in the rainforest of La Vang, Vietnam
- Diocese
- Archdiocese of New Orleans
Why belong here
Our Lady of La Vang gives Vietnamese-American Catholics of the New Orleans area a place to pray in their own language and cultural tradition while remaining part of the larger Archdiocese of New Orleans. Visitors can join a small but devoted community for Sunday Mass (7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.), Saturday Vigil Mass (5:00 p.m.), and a weekday Mass on Friday evening, with confession and adoration offered before each liturgy. Its location in Gentilly, off Vermillion Boulevard, makes it an accessible neighborhood parish for families from across eastern New Orleans.
Mass times at Our Lady of La Vang
Weekly Mass schedule
Confession times
- Saturday: 5:30 PM – 5:50 PM
- Sunday: 9:30 AM – 9:50 AM
Adoration times
- Friday: 5:30 PM – 5:55 PM
- Saturday: 4:30 PM – 4:55 PM
Parish Identity & Patron
Our Lady of La Vang is named for the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary that Vietnamese Catholics have venerated since 1798, when Catholics taking refuge in the rainforest of La Vang in central Vietnam reported seeing Mary. The title is widely honored among Vietnamese Catholics worldwide as a sign of hope and perseverance through persecution.
Location & Contact
The parish is located on Vermillion Boulevard in the Gentilly area of New Orleans, in the 70122 ZIP code. Its main published contact number is (504) 283-0559.
- Address: 6054 Vermillion Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70122
- Phone: (504) 283-0559
- Listed Archdiocese line: (504) 266-5080
- Website: http://ourladyoflavangnola.org/
Vietnamese Catholic Community in the Archdiocese of New Orleans
Our Lady of La Vang is one of several Vietnamese Catholic faith communities served by the Archdiocese of New Orleans. The most prominent among them is Mary Queen of Vietnam Parish in New Orleans East; the Vietnamese-language directory of the Archdiocese also lists St. Agnes Lê Thị Thành Parish (Marrero), Assumption of Mary Parish (Avondale), and a Vietnamese community at St. Joseph Catholic Church as sister communities in the region.
- Mary Queen of Vietnam Parish – 5069 Willowbrook Dr, New Orleans, LA 70129 (maryqueenvn.org)
- St. Agnes Lê Thị Thành Parish – 6851 St. Le Thi Thanh St, Marrero, LA 70072
- Assumption of Mary Parish – 172 Noel Dr, Avondale, LA 70094
- St. Joseph Catholic Church (Vietnamese Community) – 6450 Kathy Court, New Orleans, LA 70131