Pope Francis has released an Apostolic Letter about Saint Joseph and has declared a “Year of St. Joseph” to be observed from December 8, 2020 – December 8, 2021.
The letter, Patris corde (“a Father’s heart”) is released on the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of Saint Joseph as patron of the Universal Church.
The Pope writes: After Mary, the Mother of God, no saint is mentioned more frequently in the papal magisterium than Joseph, her spouse. … My desire to do so increased during these months of pandemic, when we experienced, amid the crisis, how “our lives are woven together and sustained by ordinary people, people often overlooked. People who do not appear in newspaper and magazine headlines, or on the latest television show, yet in these very days are surely shaping the decisive events of our history.
Saint Joseph reminds us that those who appear hidden or in the shadows can play an incomparable role in the history of salvation. A word of recognition and of gratitude is due to them all.”
ENCYCLICAL LETTER
FRATELLI TUTTI
OF THE HOLY FATHER
FRANCIS
ON FRATERNITY AND SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP
1. "Fratelli tutti" With these words, Saint Francis of Assisi addressed his brothers and sisters and proposed to them a way of life marked by the flavour of the Gospel. Of the counsels Francis offered, I would like to select the one in which he calls for a love that transcends the barriers of geography and distance, and declares blessed all those who love their brother “as much when he is far away from him as when he is with him” In his simple and direct way, Saint Francis expressed the essence of a fraternal openness that allows us to acknowledge, appreciate and love each person, regardless of physical proximity, regardless of where he or she was born or lives.
RESERVATION CHAPEL
Open for private prayer and adoration before the Blessed Sacrament from 6:30 am to 9:00 pm every day.
Everyone is required to maintain proper social/physical distancing while using the Chapel. Proper distancing is measured by leaving 2 empty seats between you (or your group) and the next person. Rows will be spaced at 6 Feet. Masks must be worn in the Chapel.
WEEKDAY MASSES
Mondays through Fridays: 9:00am
Wednesdays: 6:45 pm
Anyone coming to a public Mass must wear a mask and sanitize your hands upon entry. Your temperature will also be taken.
All entry will be through the front doors of the church which will be unlocked 20 minutes before each service.
WEEKEND MASSESA pastoral letter against racism was issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in November, 2018. In 1 John 3:1 we read, "See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are." The document defines racism as when a person holds that his or her own race or ethnicity is superior, and therefore judges persons of other races or ethnicities as inferior and unworthy of equal regard....Racists acts are sinful because they violate justice ...."