St. Joseph

St. Joseph Catholic Church
321 N. Virginia
Muskogee, OK 74403
918-687-1351
We are located 1 block west of York Street and 1 Block North of Okmulgee Street (Behind Walgreens)


Regular Mass Schedule

PER DECREE OF OUR BISHOP KONDERLA, ALL PUBLIC MASSES WITHIN THE DIOCESE OF TULSA ARE SUSPENDED FROM MARCH 20TH UNTIL APRIL 24TH (UNLESS REVOKED OR EXTENDED BY SUBSEQUENT DECREE)

Saturday Mass, 5 p.m.
Sunday Mass, 9:30 a.m. (English)
Sunday Mass, 12 noon, (Spanish)
                                      
The Marian Chapel
Weekday Mass - 8:15 a.m. Tue. - Fri. (Eng)
Wed., 6:00 p.m. Hora Santa 
Wed., 7:00 p.m.., Misa (Spanish) 
Sunday Mass, 5:00 (Vietnamese) 1st &                                          3rd Sundays 

The Adoration Chapel
1st Saturday of the month, 9 a.m.

Next 1st Saturday Mass is on March 7, 2020.

Confessions, Saturday 4 p.m., or by appointment 

St Francis Hospital, Muskogee
1st Friday of the month, 12:00 p.m.

Next 1st Firday Mass is on March 6, 2020. 

55+ Mass
2nd Thursday of the month, 12:00 p.m.
From September to June

Next 55+ Mass is on March 12, 2020.


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April 5, 2020

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

Human beings are united in their suffering. When we find ourselves in a painful moment, our first reaction is “why me?” as if we are the only person on earth who ever encountered this challenge. Going through life with a “why me” attitude only find us wallowing in the mire of self-pity and never seizing opportunities or graces. We walk in solidarity with every human being in the experience of suffering. Believing that the goal of life is the elimination or avoidance of suffering is simply an illusion that keeps us entrenched in a collective myth. This myth distorts us and limits us.

There a living witnesses among us showing how courage and determination can overcome any degree of hardship, pain, loss, or tragedy. Folks finding the normalcy of their lives suddenly torn asunder are faced with options: opportunity or despair, stay of leave. Jesus stands before us as the prime example of endurance and perseverance. He is the One who showed humility through both the triumphs of life (by learning to be humble) and the tragedies and injustices (by learning how to be obedient). To secular ears, this may be perceived as nonsense. But to those with the eyes of faith, they are pearls of great price.

True humility tempers the temptation we have to become complacent and prevents an excessive relishing of life’s successes and affirmations. Learning obedience keeps us faithful to our relationship with God so that we can find the courage to endure any depth of hardships, disappointment, betrayal, or agony. While we may want our cup of suffering to be taken away, it simply cannot be. Somehow and somewhere in the seemingly opposing experiences life can deal us, God is present with His reassuring, compassionate, empowering, and persevering love. To be true to who we are and who God is, we must take up the cross of suffering, even when it’s the hardest and most apparently senseless thing to do.

Only our soul can understand these things, but our minds cannot, so they continue to run to secular ideas and solutions to pain and hardship. It goes without saying that we need to do all we can to eliminate as much senseless, unjust suffering as possible. Hunger, violence, abuse, exploitation, rejections, prejudice, homelessness, disrespect for life, and a whole host of other sins are result of suffering or find ourselves the victim of injustice, what do we do?