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My Dear Parishioners, This Thursday, the children in our Religious Education Program and our SJR School children will be receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation. We thank retired Archbishop Edward Adams for imposing hands on our children and giving them the fullness of the Holy Spirit. Archbishop Adams was ordained a priest by John Cardinal Krol…

ST. JOSEPH CHURCH LENT and EASTER SCHEDULE FRIDAYS IN LENT Stations of the Cross and Benediction: 7:30 pm SACRAMENT of PENANCE St. Joseph Parish will make available the opportunity for Confession… Saturday mornings in Lent after the 8:00 am Mass Saturday afternoon 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm (No confession on Holy Saturday 4/19) & Tuesday,…

My Dear Parishioners, One of the most beautiful images in all of Scripture is the image of the Transfiguration. Just picture it. Picture the mountain. Picture the trees. Picture the sky. Picture the sound of the birds. Picture how Jesus looks. Picture how He sounds. Picture the faces of the Apostles. Now picture Our Blessed…

My Dear Parishioners, I don’t know, is it right to say Happy Lent? Happy walking around with ashes on your head? Happy fasting? Happy abstaining? Happy giving things up? I think so. We are happy when we are satisfied. If we have taken our Lenten disciplines of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving seriously, we should be…

My Dear Parishioners, As of writing this letter, Pope Francis is still alive but in critical condition. By the time this is published, things may have changed. Pope Francis may well be on the way to recovery, or Pope Francis may be journeying home to the Lord. Either way, our prayer for the Pope is…

My Dear Parishioners, It is a sad fact that cybercrimes are common, increasingly sophisticated and very successful. These are crimes committed through our computers and cellphones. The two common types of cybercrimes are imposter scams and phishing scams. Many cybercrimes start with a “copycat” email address. These copycat criminals pretend to be a real person,…

My Dear Parishioners, For our second reading we have been hearing from St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. St. Paul’s visit there is recorded in Acts of the Apostles, and he personally helped to establish the Church in the Greek city of Corinth. The city in which St. Paul evangelized was a “new” city.…

My Dear Parishioners, We thank all of those who helped to make our volunteer’s appreciation dinner and our family bingo so successful. There were so many happy people at both events. We have such a beautiful and friendly and happy parish. We are so blessed. Saturday morning Confessions are off to a great start. The…

My Dear Parishioners, We are now about forty days past Christmas which means that this weekend we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. In the “old days,” the Feast of the Presentation was considered a continuation of the Feast of the Epiphany. This Feast was also known as the Feast of the…

My Dear Parishioners, This week we observe “Word of God Sunday.” This observance was instituted by Pope Francis to encourage an ever-greater devotion to Sacred Scripture. Our First Reading fits nicely into this theme. Ezra the Scribe and Priest was assigned to lead the people back to the Promised Land from the land of exile…