Mass & Prayer Schedule St. Lucy Weekend Masses: Saturday - 4:00pm Sunday –8:00am & 10:30am, & 5:00pm* The 5pm Mass will not held on 12/27/20, Easter Sunday or the Sunday of the St. Lucy Summer Festival St. Lucy Weekday Masses: Monday through Saturday - 8:15am St. Sebastian Masses: Saturday-4:30pm, Sunday-9:15am Weekday Mass, Thursday Morning:8am (3126 95th St, Sturtevant) Confessions: Saturday - 3:00pm-3:30pm Friday - following 8:15am Mass Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Tuesday: 9am to 3pm ST. LUCY PARISH Wednesday: 9am to 3pm Thursday: 9am to 3pm 3101 Drexel Ave., Racine, WI 53403 Holy Hour E-Mail Address: [email protected] Holy Hour is scheduled for the First Monday of the Web Site: www.stlucychurch.org Month at 6pm. All Are Welcome! Parish Office: Phone: 262-554-1801, Fax: 262-554-2009 Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 8am - 4pm and Fridays-8am to noon Rosary & Divine Mercy Chaplet Fr. Thomas Vathappallil, MCBS – Parish Administrator. Prayed daily, Monday through Saturday, 7:15am Email:[email protected] Deacon Eric Sewell email: [email protected], 886-6057 Face Masks/Coverings Pat McLeod, Business Manager 554-1801, x201, email: [email protected] are Required To Enter Ann Wehnert, Bookkeeper 554-1801, x202 The Church. Thank you. Michelle Heeren, Pastoral Associate, DRE 554-1801, x208email: [email protected] Eric Antrim, Director of Youth Ministry and Adult Formation email: [email protected], 554-1801, x205 or 262-498-9028 Laurie Feiler, Administrative Coordinator 554-1801, x601 email: [email protected] Terri Seitz, Liturgical Music Director email: [email protected] WEDDINGS - Should be arranged at least 6 months before Kathleen Bialecki - Food Pantry Contact: 262-939-6485 wedding date and couples should be registered and practicing Bring your Food Donations anytime. If food is needed, call no later members of the parish. Call the Parish Office. than the Monday before the 1st Wednesday of the month which is BAPTISM - Arrangements for registered & practicing members the food distribution day at St Sebastian’s. of the parish can be made after attending the Baptism Prep Knights of Columbus St. Lucy Council: KofC.org/joinUs Classes. 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month (Classes on Clem Bauer (262) 554-7202, Members Meeting, 2nd Tuesday of hold at this time.) at 6pm.Parents must attend both sessions. the month, 6:30pm in St. Lucy’s Parish Hall. Call Michelle Heeren, 554-1801, x208 to sign up. Baptisms Matthew Sepanski-St. Lucy Athletic Director: 262-554-7478 take place on Sundays at 11:30am. [email protected] ● www.stlucysports.org BULLETIN REQUESTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS - Must be dropped off at Catholic Cemeteries of Racine: 262-639-1071 the Parish Office in writing or e-mailed to: [email protected] by Monday, 9:00am for the next week’s bulletin. St. Lucy Pastoral Council MASS ANNOUNCEMENTS - Must received by 9:00am on the Fr. Thomas Vathappallil-Pastor, Angela Lefeber-Chair, Bill Roszkowski-Vice Wednesday before the weekend in legible print. All Chair, Bill Wehnert-Secretary, At-Large-Members: Beth Edwards, Helen May, announcements will need to be approved by Fr. Thomas. Diane Tenuta, Stacey Walsh, Larry Jansen-Trustee, John Csepella-Trustee BECOMING A MEMBER OF ST. LUCY PARISH - If you would like to St. Lucy Parish School - A Siena School-262-554-1801, x212 become a member of St. Lucy Parish, there are registration Sarah Thostenson, Principal, [email protected] cards in the back of church at the kiosk. Registration cards Peggy Ross, Administrative Assistant, [email protected] may be mailed in, dropped in the collection basket, or brought After School Care: 262-498-3961 to the Parish Office during the week, 8am to 4pm, Monday- Thursday, or Friday from 8am until Noon. Welcome to St. Lucy’s Catholic Church • December 13. 2020 Sunday, December 13th 8am Mass, 10:30am Mass, 5pm Mass 6pm R.E.P. Confirmation Class 6-7:30pm Sunday Night Study/Program-Hall Monday, December 14th 8:15am Mass 9am-Church Cleaning Volunteer Group Tuesday, December 15th Christmas Eve, December 24th 8:15am Mass 4:00pm Mass 9am-3pm Adoration 6:30pm Mass 1pm Advent Reconciliation Service 10:00pm Mass with Individual Confessions immediately Christmas Day, December 25th following. Masses at 8:00am and 10:30am 6pm-8:30pm Knights of Columbus Member Meeting (No 5:00pm Mass) (rescheduled from December 8th) Wednesday, December 16th New Year’s Eve, December 31st 7am-Men’s Study Group 4:00pm Mass 8:15am Mass Solemnity of Mary, The Holy Mother of God 9am-3pm Adoration January 1st, New Year’s Day Thursday, December 17th Mass at 9am 8:15am Mass 9am-3pm Adoration 7pm-8:30pm RCIA Class Unique Opportunity To Support Friday, December 18th Our Parish 8:15am Mass Did you know that for every item you purchase from Amazon, 9:00am Confessions (After 8:15am Mass) they will send St. Lucy a percentage of the purchase price? That’s right. Amazon has a Foundation called the Amazon 5:00pm-Rehearsal Smile Foundation. Help support St. Lucy with every Amazon Saturday, December 19th purchase you make by always starting off at: 7:00am-Men’s Bible Study-Hall Smile.Amazon.com To take advantage of this opportunity however, again, you 8:15am Mass must start with Smile.Amazon.com— not just Amazon.com. 9:00am-Women’s Bible Study-Hall Follow these simple steps below. 1pm Wedding 1. Go to Smile.Amazon.com 2. Put Saint Lucy Congregation in the search bar, select Saint 3pm-3:30pm Confessions Lucy Congregation (in Racine, WI) as your designated 4:00pm Mass Charity. (You only need Sunday, December 20th to select St. Lucy once 8am Mass, 10:30am Mass, 5pm Mass and it will remember going forward). 6-7:30pm Sunday Night Study/Program-Hall 3. Every time you use Smile.Amazon.com, a The 2021 portion will be sent Calendar Is Here! back to St. Lucy’s. 4. So easy, right? Copies of the 2021 Catholic Art Calen- dar are available in the Narthex on tables. Pick up your copy today!. These calendars are generously provided to us by Draeger Langendorf Funeral Home. A big Thank You to them! Third Sunday of Advent Readings for the week of December 13th Sunday: Is 61:1-2a, 10-11/Lk 1:46- III-Joseph Cramer and 48, 49-50, 51-54 [Is 61:10b]/1 Thes Maria Kaprelian 5:16-24/Jn 1:6-8, 19-28 I-Cameron Schoene and Monday: Nm 24:2-7, 15-17a/Ps 25:4- 5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9 [4]/Mt 21:23-27 Hannah Cooper Tuesday: Zep 3:1-2, 9-13/Ps 34:2-3, 6-7, 17-18, 19 and 23 [7a]/Mt 21:28-32 Wednesday: Is 45:6b-8, 18, 21c-25/Ps 85:9ab and 10, 11-12, 13-14 [Is 45:8]/Lk 7:18b-23 Thursday: Gn 49:2, 8-10/Ps 72:1-2, 3-4ab, 7-8, 17 [cf. 7]/Mt 1:1-17 Friday: Jer 23:5-8/Ps 72:1-2, 12-13, 18-19 [cf. 7]/Mt 1:18-25 Saturday: Jgs 13:2-7, 24-25a/Ps 71:3-4a, 5-6ab, 16-17 [cf. 8]/Lk 1:5-25 Next Sunday: 2 Sm 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16/Ps 89:2-3, 4-5, 27, 29 [2a]/Rom 16:25-27/Lk 1:26-38 High School Religious St. Lucy-Feast Day- Ed. Classes December 13th Lucy's history has been Dec. 13th In person class for Confirmation students. lost and all we really know for cer- Dec. 20th There will be a Zoom meeting for all Confirma- tain is that this brave woman who tion Parents starting at 6pm. Zoom info will be emailed to lived in Syracuse lost her life dur- you. ing the persecution of Christians in January 10, 2021-We will have a Zoom parent meeting for the early fourth century. Her vener- all 9th and 10th Grade Parents. More info to come. ation spread to Rome so that by the sixth century the whole Church recognized her courage in defense of the faith. Because people wanted to shed light on Lucy's bravery, legends began to crop up. The one that has passed the test of time tells the story of a young Christian woman who vowed to live her life in service of Christ. Her mother tried to arrange a marriage for her with a pagan and Lucy knew her mother could not be swayed by a young girl's vow, so she devised a plan to convince her mother that Christ was the better partner for life. After several prayers at the tomb of Saint Agatha, Lucy saw the saint in a dream. St. Agatha told Lucy her mother's illness would be cured through faith, which Lucy used to persuade her mother to give the dowry money to the poor and allow her to commit her life to God. While Lucy and her mother were grateful to God, the rejected bridegroom was deeply angered and betrayed Lucy's faith to the governor Paschasius. The governor attempted to force her into defilement at a brothel, but the guards who came to take her away were unable to move her, even after hitching her to a team of oxen. The guards heaped bundles of wood around her but it wouldn't burn so they finally resorted to their swords, and Lucy met her death. Though details of her life remain unknown, it is widely known that during her lifetime Christians were persecuted for their faith. They were forced to endure horrific torture and often met painful ends during Diocletian's reign.