St. Joseph Parish – 100 years

Save the Date! Sunday, May 3rd, 2020 100 Years! Plan to join us as we celebrate our parish anniversary. Mass in the morning, dinner in the evening. (more details to...

NOT TO CARE IS A CRIME

THE SPIRITUAL ALZHEIMER The parable that challenged Dr. Albert Schweitzer is the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. This story Jesus told made a man with three doctoral degrees (one in medicine, one in theology, one in philosophy), leave civilization with all its...

THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS

Now is the time for conversion, when we die it will be too late to convert. That is what the rich man in Jesus’ parable in today’s Gospel painfully learned (Luke 16:19-31). How we live now has consequences for all eternity. There are riches that last into the next...

OUR HEAVENLY FATHER OFFERS US ALL HE HAS

Today’s readings invite us to believe in a loving, patient, merciful, forgiving God. The Good News Jesus preached was that God is not a cruel, judging and punishing God. He is our loving and forgiving Heavenly Father who wants to save everyone through His Son Jesus....

Is Adolescence really a Problematic Stage?

Understanding Adolescence What is adolescence? Why adolescence is so significant to a growing person? Why it is labelled as a problematic stage of development? It is a transitional period of growth between puberty/late childhood and adult stage of a human personality,...