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St. Joseph School
PARENTS & GUARDIANS
Please accompany ALL minors (ages 17 & younger) to the restrooms. It is YOUR kuleana to keep them safe while attending Mass & parish events.
SAFETY NEEDS TO BE EVERYONE’S PRIORITY!
St. Joseph Church Collection
The General Collection is used for the day to day operation of the parish and its programs. You may set up a one-time or recurring donations to our parish
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ADORATION
of the
BLESSED SACRAMENT
Come Pray
the Liturgy of the Hours
Join us daily in the morning immediately following the Morning Mass and in the evenings: Weekdays & Sundays at 4:00 pm
Saturdays at 3:00 pm
Come pray
the Liturgy
of the Hours
Join us daily in the
MORNING:
immediately
following
the Morning
Mass.
And in the
EVENINGS:
Weekdays & Sundays
at 4:00 pm
Saturdays
at 3:00 pm
How to reverently receive
Holy Communion:
Those who receive Communion may receive either in the hand or on the tongue, and the decision
should be that of the individual receiving, not of the person distributing Communion.
If Communion is received in the hand, the hands should first of all be clean. If one is right handed the
left hand should rest upon the right. The host will then be laid in the palm of the left hand and
then taken by the right hand to the mouth. If one is left-handed this is reversed. It is not appropriate to reach out with the fingers and take the host
from the person distributing.
(USCCB.org - Prayer and Worship)
"No sin or crime is greater than God's mercy. The sacrifice of the Cross reveals that Christ's greatest desire is to forgive those with a repentant heart."
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POPE FRANCIS
PRAYER
TO ST. JOSEPH
Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. To you God entrusted his only Son; in you Mary placed her trust; with you Christ became man.
Blessed Joseph, to us too, show yourself a father and guide us in the path of life. Obtain for us grace, mercy, and courage, and defend us from every evil. Amen
5th Sunday of Easter – 2024 (B)
Remain in My Love
In this Sunday’s Gospel, we hear Jesus telling his disciples “I am the Vine.” To the jews of his time, they pride themselves as the chosen vineyard of the Lord. Israel was the vine transplanted from Egypt by God and took care of it until it flourished. As the vine, Jesus reminds his listener of God’s loving concern for His people. In Him his disciples will find nourishment because He connects us to the roots of the plant and the garden, which is the life-giving medium for any plant. But this will only be true, if as disciples of Jesus, we see ourselves as branches that cling to the vine. And very truly that separated from the vine, we will have no life in us. That is why how important it is that we remain in him – “Remain in me as I remain in you. Remain in my love”
But in the life of the vine, another reality that we must contend with is the cycle of pruning. In pruning, we take away that which eats up the nutrients that should go to the bearing of fruits. No different from what we must prune from our lives such as the unnecessary habits or way of living or preoccupations that take us away from meaningful moments that could have been spent with God and doing His works. We can't flourish if we haven't trimmed away the excess, haven't pruned the clutter, haven't focused on remaining connected to the true vine.
When being pruned in life let us not despair. For as a good bishop once said: “ Little to suffer, little to offer. Much to suffer, much to offer. Nothing to suffer, nothing to offer.”
National Eucharistic Revival Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, you give us your flesh and blood for the life of the world, and you desire that all people come to the Supper of the Sacrifice of the Lamb.
Renew in your Church the truth, beauty, and goodness contained in the Most Blessed Eucharist.
Jesus living in the Eucharist,
come and live in me.
Jesus healing in the Eucharist,
come and heal me.
Jesus sacrificing yourself in the Eucharist,
come and suffer in me.
Jesus rising in the Eucharist,
come and rise to new life in me.
Jesus loving in the Eucharist,
come and love in me.
Lord Jesus Christ, through the paschal mystery of your death and resurrection made present in every Holy Mass, pour out your healing love on your Church and on our world.
Grant that as we lift you up during this time of Eucharistic Revival, your Holy Spirit may draw all people to join us at this Banquet of Life. You live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever.
Our Lady of Peace, Mother of the Eucharist, Pray for us.
St. Joseph, silent adorer of the Eucharist, Pray for us.
As part of our response for the Year of Eucharistic Revival, St. Joseph Church will offer Eucharistic Adoration on the 2nd Sunday of each month from 10:30am to 11:30 am.
Please plan to join us on May 12
Mother of Perpetual Help
Prayer Group
Novena devotions have resumed on Tuesday,
at St. Joseph Church;
6:00p.m. (evening).
Come join us every Tuesday praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, Rosary, Consecration and Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help.
Rejoice Always, Pray without ceasing, Give Thanks in all circumstances. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help
Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary. What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you.
(Then say three Hail Marys).
What is the National Eucharistic Revival?
The National Eucharistic Revival is a three-year initiative sponsored by the Bishops of the United States to inspire and prepare the People of God to be formed, healed, converted, united, and sent out to a hurting and hungry world through a renewed encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist – the source and summit of our Catholic faith. The Revival officially launched in June 2022, and its milestone event will be a National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, IN, from July 17-21, 2024. The National Eucharistic Revival and National Eucharistic Congress are a direct response to the Holy Father’s call for a “pastoral and missionary conversion which cannot leave things as they presently are” so that the Church in the United States might be “permanently in a state of mission” (Evangelii Gaudium, n. 25).
This eucharistic movement seeks to bring together clergy, religious, laity, apostolates, movements, and parish and diocesan leaders to spur momentum, collaboration, and lasting impact for the renewal of the Catholic Church in the U.S. over the next three years. Each year will have a strategic focus for formation and missionary discipleship.
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