“Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer your daily struggles.” — St. Josemaria Escriva
PASTORAL BULLETIN OF AUGUST 2019
“Do not try to please everybody, try to please God, the Angels, and the Saints they are your public”. – St. John Maria Vianney
PASTORAL BULLETIN OF JULY 2019
“Wear the scapular devotedly and perseveringly. It is my garment. To be clothed in it means you are continually thinking of me, and I in turn, am always thinking of you and helping you to secure eternal life.”– Our Lady of Mount Carmel to St. Simon Stock.
June-July 2019
Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?
PASTORAL BULLETIN OF JUNE 2019
“Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy”. – St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
PASTORAL BULLETIN OF MAY 2019
“The humble workman of Nazareth not only personifies before God and the church the dignity of a man who works with his hands, but he is always the provident guardian of you and of your families.’’ – Pope Pius XII
PASTORAL BULLETIN OF MARCH 2019
“Saint Joseph, my loving father, I place myself forever under thy protection; look on me as thy child, and keep me from all sin.” – St. Clement Mary Hofbauer
PASTORAL BULLETIN OF FEBRUARY 2019
“O my Mother, to you I sacrifice all other attachments so that my heart may belong entirely to you and to my Jesus.” – St. Bernadette
PASTORAL BULLETIN OF JANUARY 2019
“Through Divine grace we are at the beginning of a New Year. God alone knows whether we shall reach the end of it, so we should spend it in reparation for the past and in preparing for the future with good resolutions.” – St. Padre Pio
PASTORAL BULLETIN OF DECEMBER 2018
“We desire to be able to welcome Jesus at Christmas-time, not in a cold manger of our heart, but in a heart full of love and humility, in a heart so pure, so immaculate, so warm with love for one another” – St. Teresa of Calcutta
Dear Friends of St. Joseph,
The month of December is always a month of contradictory experiences; on one hand, we are blitzed by offers from many branded lifestyle necessities. On the other, God grants an offer to everyone – a free salvation – by sending His only begotten Son in the form of human flesh in this snowy winter, a time when Santa Claus is singing “Jingle Bells” and children are waiting for their Christmas gifts.
We also celebrate another important event in this month – the feast of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception. It was on December 8, 1854, Pope Pius IX declared that at no moment in Mary’s life, contrary to us who have a human nature tainted by original sin because of the fall of Adam and Eve, was she under the dominion of sin. She was conceived without original sin and freed from its influence even in the womb of her mother, St. Anne. From the very first moment of her life, the Blessed Virgin Mary and our Mother too, was in the original state of the fullness of grace. She was in the state of the original blessing. In other words, she was conceived immaculately in the womb of her mother without the stain of sin.
We also celebrate in this month the birth of our Founder, St. Louis Guanella, on December 19th. He was a holy soul, one who had a special love for those who were physically and mentally disabled.
In addition, on December 28th, we celebrate the feast of the Holy Innocents, the first martyrs for our Lord Jesus. It’s the time we need to pray especially for the unborn in our country. As we begin the new liturgical season of Advent, a preparation to welcome for the coming of the newborn child Jesus, let’s prepare ourselves more generously to receive the child Jesus – to allow Him to be born in our hearts.
St. Augustine says, “Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure is, there is your heart; where your heart is, there is your happiness”. So let us always try to find Jesus as the true treasure, the one who is the ultimate source of happiness for our lives. May this Holy Christmas bring love, peace, and joy to dwell in our hearts, our families, and the community in which we live.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
&
A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2019
With Love and Prayers,
Fr. Leo Joseph SdC
