New Orleans Is A City of Sinners Full of Saints

New Orleans is magnificent.  The city glows, day and night, with a holy light.  The City of New Orleans is the handmaid of the Lord.  Miracles happen in New Orleans.  New Orleans will make a convert out of you.  Once you've been bitten by New Orleans' bug, you'll be contagious.  Happiness loves company.

Saints are around every corner in New Orleans.

Vice is nice in New Orleans as far as it goes, and, in New Orleans, the sky is the limit how high a trumpet note can reach.  Angels sing in New Orleans.  Guardian angels keep busy in New Orleans.  You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you shouldn't pick your friend's nose.  The Devil wants to be your best friend in New Orleans.  

Statistics show that the rate of drug-assisted rape in the City of New Orleans outside of the French Quarter is the lowest per capita of population in the Western Hemisphere except for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the state of Utah, the country of Suriname, and the part of the continent of Antarctica that is in the Western Hemisphere.

Don't believe the worst that you read about New Orleans.  Ours is a tender and tolerant, welcoming city.

New Orleans is a city of sinners but it is also a city full of saints.  New Orleans is, literally, the Saints' City.  Watch Monday night football.  Who Dat!

New Orleans is a city that goes light on judgement.  New Orleans is a city that goes heavy on mercy.  You will meet the nicest people you will ever meet in New Orleans.  People who live in New Orleans are onto something.  They know things that people who don't live here don't know.  

In different parts of the city, different people know different things. No one in New Orleans is wholly innocent.  New Orleans is a city.  Vice will find its voice and advocate on the City Council, and even in the Mayor's office.  Nothing is pure.  Everything in New Orleans is a mix of natural law, human nature, swamp gasses, faubourg quelque choses, traditions, recipes, stories, love and devotion.  New Orleans is a collection of souls who want the best.

It's hard to know sometimes.  I know.  What's best?  New Orleans has its answers.  Immerse yourself in a New Orleans state of mind. Everything will still be murky but it will seem clear.  New Orleans has its own pulse.  When your heartbeat matches New Orleans' rhythm, you'll be well on your way to being a saint.  

We are all sinners, it's our nature, but New Orleans is a city that encourages holiness.  You can't swing a broom without hitting a sinner in New Orleans, especially in the French Quarter.  Most of those people aren't New Orleanians, they are visitors.  You can't swing a dead cat in New Orleans without hitting a saint-in-the-making.  Every real New Orleanian is a saint making his or her way to Heaven.  This is New Orleans.  "Love thy neighbor." is an authentic and obtainable ideal here.

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St. Joan of Arc is the unofficial patroness of New Orelans.