Wisdom Center
Wisdom Center is a Roman Catholic church at 501 East Saint Mary Boulevard in Lafayette, LA 70503. It is one of 151 churches in Lafayette, and one of 18 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
The mission of Our Lady of Wisdom Church & Catholic Student Center is simple: To Form Lifelong Disciples of Jesus Christ.
501 East Saint Mary Boulevard, Lafayette, LA, 70503Service times
- Saturday 8:30am
Phone: (337) 232-8742 · Website: https://www.ourladyofwisdom.org/
Wisdom 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 Wisdom Center
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third 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: 38.8%
- Depression: 30.0%
- Food Insecurity: 20.6%
- Poverty Rate: 20.8% (10.0–31.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lafayette city is served by 51 churches — about one congregation for every 2,480 residents.
Churches near Wisdom Center
- Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- UL BCM — 0.3 mi away
- Fresh Water Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Ascension — 0.5 mi away
- Our Lady of Good Hope Mission Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- Acadiana Baptist Church for the Deaf — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Lafayette — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Episcopal Church of the Ascension — 0.5 mi away
- Our Lady of Good Hope Mission Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Patrick Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist — 0.8 mi away
- Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away
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