ST. LUKE THE EVANGELIST CATHOLIC CHURCH NOVEMBER 29, 2020 1st SUNDAY OF ADVENT 910 Cross Gates Boulevard • Slidell, Louisiana 70461 • Office 985-641-6429 The most up-to-date information and calendar changes can be found on our website. Visit us at SAINTLUKESLIDELL.org PARISH INFORMATION OFFICE HOURS: Welcome to our parish. MON - WED: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. & THU and FRI: 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. WE’RE GLAD YOU’RE HERE! WHEELCHAIRS COMING SOON! Our online Masses will begin to Just ask our friendly ushers or greeters if you need assistance getting into livestream on our very own the sanctuary for Mass or help to or from your car. YouTube channel! Find it at saintlukeslidell.org SPECIAL BLESSINGS MASS REACH US St. Luke hosts a Mass with readings, music, and homilies especially Main Office 985-641-6429 organized for people of all abilities. For more information, please call our Fax 985-847-0742 Email [email protected] office. Out of an overabundance of caution, we are waiting to reopen our Special Blessings Mass in order to protect our more vulnerable JOIN OUR FAMILY OF FAITH To register at St. Luke, you may pick parishioners. up a registration form available in our Community Room or register AMBASSADORS & WELCOMING COMMITTEE online at saintlukeslidell.org/new We are looking for people with friendly smiles to make new parishioners Come join a vibrant feel at home. The friendships you make may last a lifetime! For sacramental life! information, call Charlene Stein at 985-768-0471. BAPTISM: Call our office to schedule an appointment with a member of TRAVELING VOCATIONS CHALICE our clergy. Please help pray for vocations to the religious life at your home. Sign up to bring the STL Vocations chalice home for one week by calling our FIRST COMMUNION and CONFIRMATION: Our CCD programs office or visit saintlukeslidell.org/vocationschalice. build lasting faith and community. For more information, call our ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS Faith Formation Director or visit saintlukeslidell.org/grow SAFE ENVIRONMENT TRAINING Live trainings for Safe Environment for new participants will be MARRIAGE: We welcome you to celebrate your big day at St. Luke! scheduled through our Faith Formation Director. To learn how to use the Please call our office at least 6 to new Safe Environment training, visit saintlukeslidell.org/safeandsacred. 8 months in advance to meet with a member of our clergy and begin preparation. CHRISTIAN BURIAL The death of a loved one can be a daunting moment for any family. ANOINTING OF THE SICK: If you or Our priests are committed to helping your family plan the funeral a member of your family is sick or hospitalized (as soon as admitted) and accompanying you. Once you have chosen a funeral home, it call 985-641-6429 to request a is extremely important that you call St. Luke BEFORE you make priest. • If homebound: please provide arrangements for the funeral. Calling before you make arrangements - name, address, and phone whether it will be a large or small funeral - assures that our priests can number. • If in the hospital: please be there for you and your family during this difficult time. 985-641-6429 provide name of the patient, hospital name, room number, and a contact name and phone THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY! number. Your generosity allows us to spread the Gospel and care for those in need. Our monthly collections for the past month: Cover Art: The Annunciationby Luca Giordano OCTOBER 2020 (1634-1705), Naples. Budgeted Need: Actual Collection: $ 71,160 $ 67,265 1 | SAINT LUKE THE EVANGELIST CATHOLIC CHURCH @SAINTLUKESLIDELL WEEKEND MASSES Vigil, SAT. 5 p.m. FATHER JARED SUN. 7:30 a.m. • 9 a.m. • 11 a.m. Hello, St. Luke Family! 6 p.m. Praise the Lord for His continued blessings upon our wonderful parish! DAILY MASSES MON, TUE, WED 8:45 a.m. There is much to be grateful for! WED & THU 6:00 a.m. 8:45 a.m. As promised, I would like to remain transparent with you about the FRI 8:45 a.m. things happening around our parish. 1ST FRI 8:45 a.m. Latin 12:10 p.m. First, Mass Intentions Requests. In order to faithfully comply with 1ST SAT (only) 8:45 a.m. Canon Law, we have tweaked some of the procedure for re questing Mass intentions. We will now be taking requests four months at a time. RECONCILIATION In other words, when we open up our 2021 book this week, you can Saturday 3 - 4:30 p.m. request a Mass for those Masses to be celebrated between January and Sunday 5 - 6 p.m. April. Tuesday 8 - 9 p.m. Wednesday 5 - 6:30 p.m. Also, in order to give all parishioners an opportunity to request Masses, Our Adoration Chapel is open a person is allowed to request three (3) individual Mass intentions and 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. All other days and an unlimited number of Multiple-Intention Masses. Of course, you can hours available for parishioners with come back the next day and request another three, and the next day, chapel keys. and so on. But this way, we will be allowing parishioners to have an equal We request a $5 donation for opportunity to request Masses. candles lit in the Candle House. Please deposit inside the church Second, I am thinking (while sometimes over-thinking!) and praying near the Adoration Chapel. about our Christmas Mass schedule. As of now, we plan on having For the faithful of the Archdiocese Masses at 4PM (Vigil), 6PM (Vigil), Midnight (Vigil), 8AM, and 10AM. of New Orleans, the obligation to With regards to how many Masses will be at those particular times will attend Mass has been dispensed. depend on the next mandate scheduled to be announced the first week You do not incur a sin if you do not in December. attend. Act of Spiritual Communion: Third, I thank you for your continued patience as we continue to strive My Jesus, I believe that you are to follow the Lord’s will while keeping us as safe as possible. present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love you above all things, and I Know that you are in my daily prayers and sacrifices, as I strive to be the desire to receive you into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment pastor that you and our Lord deserve. receive you sacramentally, come at least spirituality into my heart. I embrace you as if you were already To Jesus through Mary, there and unite myself wholly in union with St. Joseph, to you. Never permit me to be Your pastor, separated from you. Amen. Rev. Jared Rodrigue PASTOR Rev. David Frank PAROCHIAL VICAR Dcn. Peter Pham TRANSITIONAL DEACON PERMANENT DEACONS: Dcn. Paul Augustin Dcn Harold Burke Dcn. Bill Faustermann Dcn. Ronald LeBlanc www.saintlukeslidell.org 1st SUNDAY OF ADVENT | 2 LITURGY MASS INTENTIONS Saturday, November 28 5:00 p.m. Patrick Flanagan; Ruby De Marco; George Cordes Sr; Dominic Hoc Tran; Maria Nhi Nguyen; Holy souls in Purgatory; Dn, Bob Binney; Catherine Hingle; Verlie Migliore; Dennis Davis; Marvin Norman; Fran Wein; St Luke Church Family, Priests, and Staff (Int); Pearl Roper; Barbara Donnelly Sunday, November 29 7:30 a.m. Marie Gardner 9:00 a.m. Parishioners of St. Luke (INT) 11:00 a.m. Matthew J. Oelking; Lucille Roberts; Faye Horner; Miriam Fritchie (Int); Barbara Donnelly; Elster Verzwyvelt; Angela Kintop; Joseph Ravain; George Thomas; Holy Souls in Purgatory 6:00 p.m. Alice Natal; Ginger Wortman; Charlie Hickman; Beathe Zyrowski; Bobbie Donnelly; Elster Verzwyvelt Monday, November 30 8:45 a.m. Donald Bagert; Claudia Nelon (Int) Tuesday, December 01 8:45 a.m. Dave Vedros (Int); Fran Wein CHRISTMAS Wednesday, December 02 MASS SCHEDULE 6:00 a.m. Margerite Hogan 8:45 a.m. Gregory Calico Thursday, December 03 Christmas Eve 6:00 a.m. Trey Bramley (Int) 4 p.m., 6 p.m. 8:45 a.m. Michael Guillot Friday, December 04 Christmas Day 8:45 a.m. Holy Souls in Purgatory Midnight Mass 12:10 p.m. Latin Mass: Parishioners of St. Luke (Int) 8 a.m., 10 a.m. The Flowers for this weekend’s Masses are lovingly placed for St Luke Parish Vietnamese Families The Sanctuary Light is burning for St Luke Parish Vietnamese Families READINGS FOR THE WEEK PLEASE PRAY FOR MON: Rom 10:9-18; Ps 19:8-11; Mt 4:18-22 Lucas Algeciras & Family; Shirley Alphonso; John B. Angram; Jean & George Arieux; TUE: Is 11:1-10; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17; Pat Armand; Dcn Paul Augustin; Dean Bagert; Joseph Beals; Anna Bonnette; Gil Lk 10:21-24 Berkins; Fay Binney; Jessica Black; Regina Boeck; June Booth; Cameron Bowman; Joyce Bryant; Dcn Harold Burke; Charlotte Campbell; Pat Carriere; Joe Charbonnet; WED: Is 25:6-10a; Ps 23:1-6; Mt 15:29-37 Helen Comeaux; Mark Coniglio; Phyllis Cooper; Gay Corley; Margie Crenshaw; Al Curiel; Albert & Toni Davis; Mitzi Dowden; Dwayne Evans; Keith Frederick; Joseph THU: Is 26:1-6; Ps 118:1, 8-9, 19-21, 25-27a; Froeba; Cheryl Gardner; Bill Graff; Francine Grand; Heidi Guillot; Philip Guillot; Mt 7:21, 24-27 Jane Gutierrez; John Haynes; Ed Hetherington; Rebecca Hingle; Beverly Holetz; Joseph Hingle; Phyllis Indest; Inez C. Joachim; Charlie Johnson; Joseph Kastner; FRI: Is 29:17-24; Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14; Mt 9:27- Marilu Keller; Sandra Killeen; Cathryn Lang; Linda LeBlanc; Dcn Ron & Mary Ann 31 LeBlanc; Melanie Lewis; Abbie Rabalais Lewis; Lopinto Family; Jim McGill; Tyler Millet; Mike Mills; Linda Mize; Jim Monroe; Sheila Morgan; Claudia Nelon; John SAT: Is 30:19-21, 23-26; Ps 147:1-6; Nestor; Audrey Pasqua; Gary Picou; Sally Piske; Linda Polo; Pat Prudhomme; Mt 9:35 — 10:1, 5a, 6-8 Donna Richard; Frances Smith; Timothy Smith; Margaret Sovecka; Linda Rajki; Ron Rajki; Kathy Seeger; Timothy Smith; Liam Stork; Mercedes Tadlock; Parishioners in SUN: Is 40:1-5, 9-11; Ps 85:9-14; 2 Pt 3:8-14; Assisted Living/Nursing Homes; Asher Wood; Mickey Wortmann; Fred Zoller, Sr.