Cypress Springs Mercedarian Prayer Center

Cypress Springs Mercedarian Prayer Center is a Catholic church at 17560 George Oneal Road in Baton Rouge, LA 70817. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 3 Catholic congregations in the city.

We conform ourselves to Christ the Redeemer in his Eucharistic Mystery through the profession of the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, and obedience, and we work to spread the Kingdom of the Eucharistic Jesus, under the maternal protection of Our Lady of Ransom.

We, the Mercedarian Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, consecrate ourselves to God, the source of all holiness.

17560 George Oneal Road, Baton Rouge, LA, 70817

Cypress Springs Mercedarian Prayer Center is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 578 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Louisiana — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.

From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.

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The community around Cypress Springs Mercedarian Prayer Center

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Social Isolation: 32.2%
  • Depression: 25.1%
  • Unemployment: 6.4% (0.4–12.4%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

St. George city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 2,866 residents.

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