Dec 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
AMDG Dear OSJ Family, Today, as we begin this holy time of Advent—from the Latin “to come”—we are reminded that this liturgical season exists to help us to prepare spiritually for Christ’s “first coming” at his nativity in Bethlehem, and his “second coming” at the end...
Dec 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
AMDG Dear OSJ Family, So many have recently shared with me concerns with the level of angst, confusion and hostility that has surfaced in our country in these past two years during what proved to be a highly contentious presidential campaign and a growing divide that...
Dec 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
AMDG Dear OSJ Family, “Wow! It looks like a bomb hit the Willings Alley side of Old St Joe’s! I hope everything is OK, Father. These words to me, by one of our longtime parishioners, could not be truer. You may have noticed the shocking condition of the...