St. Joseph

Sundays  
Relgious Education Classes 
10:45AM in the Parish Hall

Mondays
ESL Classes 
7PM in the Small Dining Room in the Parish Hall

Tuesdays
Bible Study with Fr. Rob
9AM in the Church

Wednesdays
Spanish First Communion Classes
5:30PM in the Parish Hall
Deacon John's High School Bible Study
6PM in the Parish Hall
Youth Group Classes 
7PM in the Parish Hall

Thursdays 
Spanish GED Classes
6PM in the Parish Hall
RCIA Classes
7PM in the Church

REMINDER:

After our Saturday Vigil Mass (tomorrow evening),      we will celebrate the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.

For those to be anointed, please come down front and sit on the tabernacle side of the Church (across from the Baptismal Font).  During the sacrament, after the prayer with the laying on of hands, you will be anointed on your forehead and the outstretched palms of your hands…

If you are not receiving the sacrament, please know that you are more than welcome to stay and participate as we lift up our prayers for those in our parish who are sick and in need of God’s healing.
 

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

SPEND TIME WITH OUR LORD IN EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

EVERY FRIDAY AT 6PM IN ENGLISH AND EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 6PM IN SPANISH
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ADORACION EUCARISTICA

PASAR TIEMPO CON NUESTRO SEÑOR EN ADORACIÓN EUCARÍSTICA

TODOS LOS VIERNES A LAS 6PM EN INGLÉS Y TODOS LOS MIÉRCOLES
A LAS 6PM EN ESPAÑOL

GOSPEL MEDITATION - ENCOURAGE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE

January 29, 2023

4th Sunday in Ordinary Time

In my parents’ bedroom there were on the wall two photos of my mom and dad from their early adulthoods. The photo of my mother entranced me when I was a boy. I loved looking at it, even though I saw her in daily life. Something about that picture captured her perfectly. It was an image of the joy, wisdom, beauty, and strength that enveloped me from the start of my life. It was an icon of the woman who fed, taught, and encouraged me. I felt a deep pride that I came from such beauty.

The beatitudes of Jesus are a kind of self-portrait. But it is a strange picture. At first, the blessings of being poor, mourning, and hungering and thirsting for righteousness may seem bizarre or, worse, a religious delusion. Who wants to look like that? But if we look again, we begin to see the characteristics of Jesus’ form. He becomes poor and fills it with his riches for us, he weeps and mourns for us, and fills it with his joy, he hungers and thirsts for us to be righteous, and so satisfies us. And so on. It’s the way he appears on the cross.

Perhaps we should put on our bedroom room walls the words of the beatitudes next to a crucifix of the Lord Jesus. Then we can do what the beatitudes are designed for, to gaze at the joy,

wisdom, beauty, and strength of the one who is our origin, and who is with us every day. And little by little, we’ll start to look like him.

                                                                                            — Father John Muir

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MEDITACIÓN EVANGÉLICO - ALENTAR ENTENDIMIENTO MÁS PROFUNDO DE LA ESCRITURA (Gospel Meditation)

29 de enero de 2023

4º Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario

La sociedad actual tiene una necesidad imperante de buscar la comodidad, la riqueza, la fama y el poder. Sin embargo, el Evangelio de hoy narra las bienaventuranzas y la primera de ellas invita a la pobreza: “Felices los que tienen espíritu del pobre, porque de ellos es el Reino de los cielos” (Mateo 5,3). Al contrario de esta bienaventuranza, los anuncios en los medios de comunicación son de comodidad y riqueza. Estos no se llevan con la pobreza de espíritu, mucho menos con la Buena Nueva del Evangelio, donde Dios anuncia la salvación a los pobres y va con los pobres.

El sermón del monte declara solemnemente el anuncio de la Buena Nueva a los pobres y necesitados. Esto no quiere decir que se esté contra los ricos, por el contrario, compartir los bienes recibidos dan más abundancia. La solidaridad y misericordia de unos para con los otros es camino seguro para convertir un corazón duro y cerrado, en un corazón compasivo y dadivoso. Ser pobre de espíritu quiere decir confiar y abandonarse en Dios, aunque se tengan bienes materiales. La persona sencilla se somete a Dios confiando en su voluntad. Si analizamos a los santos y santas de Dios, ellos se caracterizan por ser pobres, justos y sencillos. ¿Cuál de las bienaventuranzas te ayuda a cambiar el corazón y te lleva a la conversión? ¿Conoces a alguien que sea pobre de espíritu y limpio de corazón? ¿Qué imitarías de esa persona? Ser felices, ser pobres, significa ser constructores de la paz, dejar la violencia y el egoísmo. ¿Podremos?

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