MASS TIMES
Sunday Mass Times
Saturday Vigil: 4:00 PM
Sunday: 8:15 AM
Weekday Mass Times
Monday: 12:10 PM
Wednesday: 12:10 PM
Confession Times
One hour before each Mass
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PARISH STAFF
Clergy
Administrator: Rev. Davis Ahimbisibwe
Deacon: Deacon Martin Dickerson
Pastoral Staff
RCIA Coordinator/Director of Religious Education (DRE): Deacon Martin Dickerson
Secretary: Mrs. Audrey Coleman
Safe Environment Coordinator: Wildred Miller
Church History
Mass was celebrated on Sunday, July 1, 1945 by Father John A. McShane, S.S.J. at a public school. Fr. McShane had the desire to build a church home for 300 or more fallen away Negro Catholics. His superior general, the Very Reverend Edward V. Casserly, S.S.J., responded with words of encouragement and was instrumental in getting a generous donation of $10,000 from the St. Joseph Society of the Sacred Heart.
Reverend Lucien J. Caillouet, pastor of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, assisted in forming committees to locate a suitable site and solicit funds for the mission. Judge J. Louis Watkins served as chairperson of the Church and School Site Committee. The Most Reverend Joseph Francis Rummel purchased an approximate three-acre site from the Montegut Insurance Agency of Houma, Louisiana for $10,000.
The dedication of St Lucy Mission Church, named in honor of the patron saint of vision and the late H. L. Bourgeois’ mother, took place on June 8, 1947. The Most Reverend Joseph Francis Rummel dedicated the church and delivered the homily. Reverend Edward V. Casserly, S.S.J., superior general of the Josephite Fathers, celebrated the first Mass in the new church. Reverend J. B. Georges of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, West Indies was the master of ceremony.
In 1966, St. Lucy Parish was closed to further the cause of integration. The doors remained closed as a church until the now deceased Most Reverend Warren L. Boudreaux realized that, once again, more than 300 to 400 black Catholics were without a true church home. The help of the Josephite Fathers was solicited once again. Father William Norvel was instrumental in organizing the people of Houma and Thibodaux. St. Lucy in Houma and St. Luke in Thibodaux reopened in 1986. They were left to operate sufficiently to prove the true need and ardent desire of black Catholics to worship in the cultural setting of their African-American heritage. True to his word, Bishop Boudreaux embraced the gift of black Catholics and granted full parish status the following year to St. Lucy and St. Luke within the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux. St. Lucy was re-dedicated in 2004.