Mass Times:

For Daily Mass Times Please Call (402) 643-3421

Saturday 5:30 pm | Sunday 8:00 am & 10:00 am

Confession Times:

Monday thru Friday Confessions will be 20 minutes before 7 am Mass

Saturday and Sunday Confessions will be 30 minutes before each Mass

Msgr. Robert Tucker, Pastor

Fr. Shravan Raminedi

Lay Minister Schedule:

Saturday December 11 | 5:30 pm

Acolyte Roger Grunke, Volunteer

Servers Tate & Will Ratkovec

Lector Mark Policky

Greeters Dan Pernicek Family

Cantor TBD

Sunday December 12 | 8:00 AM

Acolyte Tim Fichtner, Brandon Lindau

Servers Deklan & Kohltyn Lindau

Lector Jeff Reimers

Greeters Glen & Theresa Hain

Cantor Janelle Smith

Sunday December 12 | 10:00 am

Acolyte Mitch Marshall, Kelly Schrad

Servers Blaise & Sam Schrad

Lector Mark Peery

Greeters Denny & Bonnie Hentzen

Cantor Choir

December 5, 2021

Volume 69, Number 50

Mass Intentions:

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6 7:00 AM : †Betty Geis/ Adeline Geis 8:10 AM: †Jack Tesina/ Bill & Mary Riha

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7 7:00 AM : †Ron Buman/ Stan & Dee Mitchell 8:10 AM: †Ron Vavra/ SVDP Staff 6:30 PM: †Gabriel, Thelma, Barbara Zippi/ Ann Marcov

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8 6:45 AM : †Alan Hofer/ Peggy Bauer 8:10 AM: †Gene Soucie, Ernie & Laurie Kohout 7:00 PM: For All Parishioners

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9 7:00 AM : Healing for Victims of Abuse 8:10 AM: Healing for Victims of Abuse

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10 7:00 AM: †Lillian Kobza/ Family 8:10 AM: †Gerald & Jean Hans/ Matt Hans

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11 8:00 AM: †Don Suhr/ Roger & Sharon Cudaback 5:30 PM : †Dennis & Fritz Zitek/ Lucy Zitek

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12 8:00 AM : †Louie & Marie Kotera/ Chuck & Susan Kotera 10:00 AM : †Lois Smith/ Todd & Terry Smith

CHRISTMAS

Friday, Dec. 24th—4 & 8 p.m.

Saturday, Dec 25th—9 a.m.

Sat, Dec 25—5:30 p.m. (Sun. Vigil)

Sunday, Dec. 26—8 and 10 a.m.

SOLEMNITY OF MARY

Friday, Dec 31st—5:30 p.m.

Saturday, Jan 1st—9 a.m.

Sat, Jan 1st—5:30 p.m. (Sun Vigil)

Sun, Jan 2nd—8 and 10 a.m.

Second Sunday of Advent, December 5, 2021

COLLECTIONS A LETTER FROM MSGR. TUCKER

What is God asking of me?

Our response to the Lord last week

Adult: $6,375.00 E-tithing: $1,145 00

Other: $870.00

DIFFERENT WAYS OF GIVING TO PARISH

We have set a box next to the bulle-tins this weekend where you can

place your envelope,

E-tithing—See notice on website for a form and instructions or in back of church in narthex .

You can mail your tithing envelopes

directly to the church at:

St. Vincent de Paul Church

152 Pinewood Ave,

Seward, NE 68434

Check out http://formed.org

Parish Access Code: XGWYQP

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

CCD-GP ATTENDING HOLY DAY MASS CCD students and Godteens are asked to attend the Feast of the Immaculate Conception Mass at 7 p.m. this Wednesday, December 8. CCD children should meet in their classrooms at 6:50 p.m. Godteens meet their groups in the narthex (away from the sanctuary doors). Please note—CCD will dismiss immediately after Mass from their classrooms. If a family chooses to go together to Mass, simply let us know.

CCD CHRISTMAS PROGRAM December 15 will be the last night of CCD-GP for this semester. That night there will be a Christmas Pro-gram presented by Gr . 1-4 at 7:30 p.m. The older grades (5-8) will have their own Christmas celebrations according to their teachers’ choice. All CCD will meet, as usual, at 7 p.m. with the exception of Gr. 2, who will meet at 6:30 p.m.

Upcoming Mass Schedule

UPCOMING PARISH & SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

December 6 PCCW Christmas Party—6 p.m.

6 RCIA—6:30 p.m.

9 Juan Diego school play—after 8:10 Mass

11 Wedding

12 Emmaus Institute Studies—6:30 p.m.

13 School Christmas Concert— 6:30 p.m.

15 CCD Christmas Program

Dear Parishioners,

This week I listened to a great talk from Bishop Robert Barron, that was posted on “Word on Fire”. He was giving the talk to Catholic School Administra-tors in Vancouver. The topic was evangelization. He made a really good distinc-tion, between evangelization and apologetics. When we think about evangeliza-tion our minds go directly to sharing our faith with others. This sharing is many times focused on the sharing of facts or knowledge that we have about Je-sus. This sharing is apologetics, whereas evangelization is sharing our encounter with the living and active person, Jesus. He says that we cannot be an evangelist is we do not know Jesus, and if we have not experienced His love. He says that what will attract people to the Catholic faith is passion and knowledge. We need both, evangelization and apologetics, to address the problem of a large group of people with no faith in our country.

This introduction is the reason I am using Flocknote right now. I intend to continue to use Flocknote to share a passion for Jesus and a knowledge of Him. The responsibility to evangelize is a universal call for all Catholics, and we need to grow in both, our passion and knowledge of our faith. The weekly note to encourage spending time in prayer before Jesus present in Eucharist, is going to increase our passion for our faith. I like the word “radiate” that Fr. Anthony used for spending time in front of Jesus in the Eucharist. His love radiates from the Blessed Sacrament to us, when we are in His presence. We will only experi-ence this profound radiant love, if we spend time in His presence. I think we be-come too familiar with this teaching of the Church and we take it for granted. I know I take it for granted, and I have the easiest access to spending time in the Church. There are times that I feel that I am too busy, or I will do that later, and then at the end of the day I find myself too tired to give my best time to Je-sus. When I do get up and take time in Church for an hour, I walk out and say to myself, “Why did I wait so long to experience His love!” I encourage you to con-sider spending time with Jesus during this Advent season. I assure you the en-counter with Him will help you to have a more joyful celebration of Christ-mas! God Bless you.

Msgr. Tucker

Great Christmas Gift Firehawk Booster Mugs going fast!

If you are planning to buy a Firehawk Booster mug, now would be a good time to order - we’ve sold 52 mugs, and have 20 left. (Order forms for mugs and

water bottles are on the table in the narthex.)

PCCW Thanks for Giving

Appreciation Dinner

Monday December 6th

6:00 pm All women of parish invited

Free will offering

Sign up in narthex or call church office

To make a reservation.

The schedule for the Christmas Masses can be

found on bottom left hand corner of bulletin.

Special thanks to the Husker Spirit

Gift Gatherings. With all those

who participated in these events, we

were able to raised $2000.

Thank You

Flocknote? What’s that? Most churches can’t reach their people when they need to — in between Sundays or if a person stops showing up on Sundays. Flock-

note help churches fix that with a way to text messages and email their members.

Stay informed with what is going on at St. Vincent’s by signing up to receive text message and email alerts right to your phone! Text: MYSTVINCENT

To: 84576 Click on the link that is texted to you. Enter your first and last name. Hit save. Touch on the Communications and/or Committees you

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Guardian Angel Tree You are invited to prayerfully consider supporting the

families of St. Vincent de Paul this Advent by making

a donation to the Guardian Angel Fund.

This is a fund that provides tuition assis-

tance to our parish families, so that all

families that wish to have a Catholic edu-

cation for their children, can do so. This fund is more

important than ever because of the rising costs of

education and the effects that the pandemic has had

on families. Below is a summary of what was paid

out from the fund over the last 3 years:

2019-2020: $4,265 2020-2021: $5,025

2021-2022: $13,750 There is a guardian angel tree located in the narthex. Envelopes can be taken from there and put in the collection basket during Advent or dropped off at the church office. Thank you for your consideration and generosity. May you have blessed Advent!

Year End Gifts

Monetary gifts for the year 2021 must be at the church office no later than Friday Dec. 31, 2021. Tith-ing collected at the 5:30 pm vigil mass on Dec. 31st will be counted for the year 2022. Thank you for all your gifts of time, talent and treasure to the church and school this year! May the Lord bless you for all you have given.

CONFESSIONS TODAY , Dec 5th

at 7 p.m.