October 4, 2015 - St. Lucy Parish

Saint Lucy Parish
Saint Lucy Parish
Methuen, MA
Methuen, Massachusetts
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
October 4, 2015
Saint Lucy Parish
Methuen, Massachusetts
Saint Lucy Parish
254 Merrimack Street
Methuen, MA 01844
978-686-3311
Fax 978-794-0383
www.methuencatholic.org
methuencatholic@gmail.com
Office Hours
9AM-4:30PM
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Pastoral Staff
Mass Schedule
Saturday Vigil
4:00 PM
Father William Lohan
Pastor
Father John Cassani
Parochial Vicar
Mr. Kevin Fitzgerald
Facilities Manager/RCIA Coordinator
Sr. Rina Brunetti, p.m.
Hospital & Home Care
Mr. Brett Iannazzo
Weekend Assistant
Mr. Karl Jackson
Director of Faith Formation
Samantha Moore
Coordinator Youth Ministry/
Sundays
8:00, 9:30, 11:00 AM
Daily
8:00 AM
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Monday from 4:30 -5:30 pm,
and Saturday from 3:00 - 3:45 pm
or by appointment
PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS ~
Lord Jesus Christ, Savior of the world,
show forth, we beseech Thee, in Thy
Church the Holy Spirit with whose
power the apostles were so
abundantly filled. We thank Thee for the blessings
bestowed upon the work of priests and religious;
and we pray that Thou wilt add to the number of
those who now pray, labor, and sacrifice
themselves for Thy glory and the salvation of
souls. Give them unselfish zeal for Thy glory. O
good Jesus, give us more priests and religious
after Thine own Heart! Amen.
October 4, 2015
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Sacrament of Baptism
Second and Fourth Sundays of the
month at 12:30PM
Sacrament of Matrimony
Contact the Pastor at least 6 months
prior to the celebration
Pastoral Care of the Sick,
Homebound, or Elderly
Contact Sr. Rina at rectory offices
978-686-3311 Ext. 34
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Saint Lucy Parish
Methuen, Massachusetts
Disciples in Mission- Carrying out the Local Pastoral Plan with Selfless Love
After a year of hard work, our Local Pastoral Plan (LPP) has been approved by Cardinal Sean O’Malley. As
fall settles in we move to the great and challenging call to implement it. The plan calls for a large push to get
everyone involved, by more fully engaging in the spiritual exercises (beyond just an hour a week), apostolic
labors and social life of the parish. Already we have seen great fruit in the new faith formation program for
youth at St Monica, a program that will be implemented next year at St Lucy. Saint Monica has been better
attended as we have integrated Mass into the formation sessions. Many more parents are bringing their children
to mass. Last week the 9:30am was standing room only. What a blessing to see so many new faces
worshipping with us! The first year of the plan’s implementation focuses on preparing the staff and other
leaders of our parishes to be effective in carrying out their assigned tasks and becoming better equipped to
motivate all of our parishioners to live the Gospel more zealously. Over that time we will be offering trainings
and retreats for staff and the leadership team. The Leadership Team and Staff will begin with a retreat day on
October 19th lead by Fr. Jim DiPerri from Waltham. We will be working hard to organize our staff with clearly
defined roles and up to date job descriptions that will allow us to minister better and make sure nothing falls
through the cracks. We will also be sure that we have cutting edge communications abilities in the office, to
ensure we get the message out regarding our enhanced and new activities. The staff, answering the Holy
Father’s call to live in solidarity with the poor, and to build a cohesive team, will spend two days together
working with the poor over the next year. Parishioners will be investigating how best to host a big thanksgiving
seasonal dinner for the poor in 2016, expanding our outreach to the poor through an increase and expansion of
our sock and blanket drive. We will create a pilot small faith-sharing group that will become the model for
many others in the future. In the spring we will begin to host family enrichment Sundays with games for the
kids and spiritual workshops for the parents, some specific to parenting well. The building up of our youth
groups and inviting more adult volunteers to work with our young people will also begin in this first year. All
of this will lead up to a parish-wide call to conversion and faith-filled action that will begin for everyone next
fall when we kick in a major push for parish wide hospitality in both parishes and our school.
The following years will feature major initiatives to strengthen marriages and vocations to the priesthood and
religious life. It will require each of us to become intentional about our Catholicism, to be accountable to one
another and to radiate a joy that attract others to join us. Each person should be discerning how they will
become more involved.
As we enter this new phase of our working together it does not come without some changes that are painful.
There will be fewer morning masses midweek, (three in each parish, rather than six) still ensuring an
opportunity for mass each morning in the collaborating parishes. This is a shift away from serving very well the
same 100 parishioners. We are explicitly calling upon those 100 to sacrifice so that new initiatives can be
undertaken. Priests will be able to offer masses in the evening during Lent, offer masses in peoples homes
having invited their inactive neighbors to “come and see,” and to ensure the priests have time and energy to
reach out to those who are away. As I have said to many of you I want never to say no if Fr. Cassani or I am
asked to offer mass/preach at PMA or Central Catholic. Cardinal Sean says we are to be fishers of men not
keepers of the aquarium. Jesus leaves the 99 to go after the one and we told there is more joy in heaven when
the one comes back than in the 99 who are already in the fold. The cost savings of eliminating two weekday
masses said by visiting clergy allows us to have a visiting priest for an additional Sunday mass to help Fr.
Cassani and me with the nine Sunday masses we offer each weekend.
As two communities working together, sacrificing for each other , to assure the common good, Saint Paul has
the perfect words for us that he offers to the Phillipians (2:1-4): If there is any encouragement in Christ, any
solace in love, and participation in the Spirit, any compassion and mercy, complete my joy by being of the same
mind, with the same love, united in heart, thinking one thing. Do nothing out of selfishness or vainglory, rather
humbly regard others as more important than yourselves, each looking out not for his own interests, but
everyone for those of others.”
Let us set out into the deep for a catch!
Fr. Bill
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Saint Lucy Parish
Methuen, Massachusetts
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY SODALITY NEWS
The next Sodality meeting will be held on
Sunday, October 11th, after the 9:30 Mass and
the praying of the rosary. If you have been
considering joining the Sodality, please join
us....and bring a friend. We have a busy and
exciting schedule this year.
Saturday, October 3, 2015
8:00AM
4:00PM Leo and Mar gar et Beaudoin
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Memorial
8:00 AM The Despreo Family
9:30 AM Rocco and Amelia Bonanno
and Michael and Carmela Ciaraldi
and deceased members of their families
Memorial
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October 17th: Trip to Weston Priory.
SOLD OUT!!!!
November: help fill Thanksgiving Baskets at the Lazarus
House Food Pantry.
December: Christmas visit to members who are in nursing
homes and homebound.
Memorial
11:00 AM Community Intentions Mass:
Joseph and Concetta Pappalardo
Memorial
Gavino Ilagan
4th Anniversary
Anthony and Tillie DeAngelis
Memorial
Alice Lukasiak
Memorial
David P.J. Bedrosian & Angela Battiato
Memorial
Monday, October 5, 2015
8:00 AM Ar lene Gauthier
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
8:00 AM Mar gar et J . Covey
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
8:00 AM Carmelina Messina
Thursday, October 8, 2015
8:00 AM J ohn Kendr ick
Friday, October 9, 2015
8:00AM
Saturday, October 10, 2015
8:00AM
4:00PM J ohn Rovinski
Sodality Christmas Dinner/Party and Yankee Swap.
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We are a sodality dedicated to the Blessed Mother in service
to our parish and our community.
Memorial
Praise and Worship Night!
Come join us on the second Tuesday of each month
at 6:30pm in the St. Monica lower rectory for Eucharistic
adoration and worship music. We always
meet together afterward for fellowship. I hope you'll join
us. Our first worship night of the year is on Tuesday,
October 13th. All ages are welcome! Please contact
Sammie Moore with any questions
at youth.stlm@gmail.com or (978) 686-1801.
Memorial
Memorial
Memorial
Our Lady of the
Miraculous Medal Novena
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Novena
continues at St. Monica Church each Monday
beginning at 7:00pm with a Holy Hour. during
which the Rosary and Novena Prayers will be said. The
Holy Hour will end with Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament. Please join us for this Novena in honor of Our
Blessed Mother.
Memorial
Sunday, October 11, 2015
8:00 AM Parishioners of St. Lucy & St. Monica Parishes
9:30 AM Connie Sasso
Memorial
11:00 AM Community Intentions Mass:
John Tombarello
Memorial
Joseph DiZenzo
Memorial
“It is good and holy to pray for the dead.”
Carmela Messina
Margaret Marnie
John J. Piazza
Domenic DiZazzo
Please pray for peace in the
Holy Land and in the
Middle East and especially for our persecuted brothers and sisters.
Our Lady, Queen of Peace, pray for us.
May their souls and the souls of all our
beloved dead rest in peace
Amen.
October 4, 2015
Note: The Novena will end on Monday, November 9th.
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Saint Lucy Parish
Methuen, Massachusetts
Middle School Youth Group
Calling all 6th, 7th, and 8th graders! You are invited to join
our middle school youth group. We meet every Thursday
after school until 5:00pm. This is a wonderful place for
youth to come together in fellowship, and learn more
about our Faith in Jesus Christ. We are all about having
fun, and eating food, too! We meet in the lower rectory at
Saint Monica parish. Please contact our youth
minister, Sammie Moore, if you have any questions. Her
email is youth.stlm@gmail.com, and she can be reached
by phone at (978)-686-3311
New Daily Mass Schedule
Beginning on Monday October 12th there will be a
new Daily Mass schedule in our parishes. This
will not affect the Saturday 4pm masses, nor the
Sunday schedule which will remain the same. The
daily mass schedule will be:
Monday- 8am at St. Lucy
Tuesday- 8am at St. Lucy
Wednesday- 8am at St Lucy
Thursday- 7am at St Monica
Friday - 7am at St Monica
Saturday- 8am at St. Monica
The Fifth and final session in a series of gatherings at St.
Monica Rectory for Liturgical Ministers will be held this
coming Tuesday, Oct. 6th from 6:30pm and last to
8:00pm if people wish to stay (you can enter the rectory
by the main door).
The fifth gathering will be for Adult Servers and
Youth Servers (Both Parents and Grandparents are
encouraged to come). (Note: this group will meet in the
Youth Room in the Parish Rectory Basement). I hope
that many of our Ministers will be able to join us.
During Lent there will be an additional two daily
masses offered.
Tuesdays- 7pm at Saint Monica
Thursdays- 7pm at Saint Lucy
NOTE: on the days of Saint Monica School
masses, usually the first Friday of the month at
8:15am, there will be no 7am mass at St Monica.
Everyone is invited to attend the school mass.
BAPTIZED THIS PAST WEEK:
If you have a Mass that is affected by the above
changes, please call or come to the parish office
(located at St. Lucy) so that we can re-schedule.
Owen Christopher Clemons
Avery Diane Crimmin
Brett James Haggerty
Wedding Banns
CONGRATULATIONS!
Daniel Bonanno Mazella and Kara Ann Foley I
Bible Study...…has begun on Tuesday
evenings at 6:30pm in the St. Monica Church
chapel. Please consider joining us on any
Tuesday night. All are always welcome!
RSVP: Bonnie Doherty,
ellen10bonnie@gmail.com or 978-270-3366
The young women’s Tea and Treasure
will begin on Friday, October 16th, (in
the cream colored ranch house
directly across the parking lot from St.
Monica Church) from 11:30 - 1pm. It
consists of a light lunch, a short spiritual reading, and
then we pray the Holy Rosary together. If you are
interested in attending, or for further information,
please call Kathy Garon at 978-683-1193 ext. 119.
Please leave your name and phone number. Please
be sure to RSVP so we can plan the amount of food
needed.
Mark Your Calendar
HALLOWEEN - October 24th
Family Halloween Party
October 24th 7pm –10pm
Saint Lucy Church Hall
Costumes welcome for all
Music, games, prizes
Tickets will go on sale October 5th
$10.00 Adults/$5.00 children 12 and under
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Methuen, Massachusetts
St. Lucy's Faith Formation (CCD) Program
We are still accepting registrations for
sacrament preparation and faith formation of
youth. Registration forms are available by
calling the office at (978) 686-3311 ext 35 or
36. See our website
(stlucymethuen.org/parish-life/education) for
more information.
Program for Adults
desiring to receive the Sacraments
Sessions will be offered for any adults interested in
our Catholic faith and in becoming a member of the
Catholic Church through the Sacraments of Baptism,
Holy Communion and Confirmation, a program commonly known as RCIA. Anyone interested in receiving any or all of these sacraments, which they may
have not received in their youth, are encouraged
and welcomed to attend. Sessions will begin in October at 11:00am at the St Lucy Parish Schoolhouse.
Sessions will last 90 minutes and are held on Sunday mornings. Any questions please contact Kevin
Fitzgerald, at 978-686-3311. If any adult would like
to prepare to receive these Sacraments but is unable
to attend on Sunday mornings, please contact Fr. Bill
Lohan at the parish offices.
Thank you for your continued generosity.
Permanent Diaconate –
Information and Inquiry Sessions
If you are discerning God’s possible call to serve the
Church as a minister of charity, word, and sacrament as
an ordained deacon in the Archdiocese of Boston, you
and your wife (for those who are married) are invited to
take part in the upcoming inquirer sessions.
The format consists of four sessions. First session for
the (North Region); who is the Deacon and am I one
who is called? Will take place on Tuesday October 6,
2015, from 7:00-8:30pm at Sacred Hearts Parish, 165
South Main Street, Haverhill. Additional sessions: How
does diaconate ministry fit into marriage and family life?
Tuesday October 13, 2015, 7:00-8:30pm (Pastoral
Ctr.,Braintree) Application process, Canon Law, Formation from the wives perspective Tuesday October 27,
2015, 7:00-8:30pm (Pastoral Ctr., Braintree) Half-day
discernment retreat Saturday November 14, 2015,
10:00AM–2:00PM (with lunch provided). Miramar Retreat Center, Duxbury, MA.
Those who are interested in the Diaconate are strongly
encouraged to attend all four sessions along with their
wives (for those who are married). Please email the
Permanent Diaconate Office at deacon_vocations@rcab.org to sign up or to receive more
information. The Diaconate Formation Program is four
years in length and is open to single and married men
who will be between the ages of 35-65 at the time of
ordination.
Video and Prayer: All men and women of the
collaborative are invited to join together on Wednesday,
October 7th, from 9am-10:15am, at the ranch house at
St. Monica, where we will be watching a thirty minute
video, “Building the Kingdom of God”, by Fr. Richard Ho
Lung, followed by a brief time of sharing. We will then
pray the Holy Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet
together. These sessions will meet of twelve
consecutive weeks. To register, please call Kathy
Garon at 978-683-1193, Ext. 119.
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