April 2007
Month of the Holy Eucharist

Adult Faith Formation has begun. See the schedule for details. The biweekly classes are also listed on the parish calendar.

Get involved in the Parish Council!
All parishioners are welcome to attend the meetings and participate in the governance of the parish. You can download the minutes from the last meeting here.

REGISTRATION
If you have been attending St. Joseph Parish but have not registered as a parishioner, please consider joining us! You can download a registration form here. Once you have completed it, please drop it into the collection basket at Mass, or send it to the address at the top of the sheet.

Don't forget Daily Mass!
Fr. Mark has reinstated daily Mass in our cluster. Mass is held Monday and Tuesday in Latin, and Wednesday in English at St. Joseph's at 12:10 p.m. Thursday noon Mass is at St. Josaphat's, and Fridays at Sweetest Heart of Mary, also at noon. Take the time for midday worship!

News: April 29, 2007
FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

Our monthly Bake Sale is next Sunday, May 6th. Now that Lent is over, we can look forward to all the goodies in our Bake Sale without any guilt feelings. Please remember, we always need people to bake and people to buy. Our Bake Sales help to pay our utility bills. Our last Bake Sale brought in $420.50. It was our best ever. Let’s keep it going!

News: April 22, 2007
THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER

Jim Beauvais was recently added to our sick list. On March 19th, the feast of Saint Joseph, Jim and Maria Beauvais were busy in our Social Hall helping to serve the Spaghetti dinner and work on cleaning up the hall afterwards. That very night, Jim suffered a heart attack that required a 4 way bypass operation a few days later. While undergoing surgery, Maria kept a vigil in the hospital along with her daughter and son-in-law who had flown in from Iron Mountain, Michigan. Upon returning home, Maria found that the house and garage had been broken into and they were cleaned out of many items including all of their Savings Bonds. Jim is healing slowly and the emotional shock of the break-in has added to the stress. Please remember them and all of our sick in prayer. People on our sick list are deeply appreciative of the prayers of the parishioners and many express their thanks for this support.

Next Sunday, April 29th is the World Day of Prayer for vocations. “The harvest is great but the laborers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest” (Luke 10:2). We are encouraged to keep this intention in our prayers at all times as our Lord instructed. Pamphlets are in the racks throughout the cluster for praying the rosary for priests. We can also add prayers for vocations to our daily thanksgiving before meals. Some may want to have a Mass offered for this intention. Here in our cluster, we are losing Father Paul Ward to reassignment, and Father Mark will again find it difficult to obtain the help of other priests as he manages our cluster. The Together in Faith program that the Archdiocese initiated a few years ago predicted that in 5 years, every priest would have a minimum of 2 parishes. That prediction was made 2 years ago. Our priests need our support both from our prayers and as volunteers in our churches. If the void is to be filled for priests, nuns and brothers, we must pray for vocations as our Lord has encouraged us to do, especially next Sunday.

Pray also that priests and especially bishops will take holiness seriously, and that they will be dedicated without distraction to the work of God.

News: April 15, 2007
SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER

THANK YOU!
Rick Gosiewski was laid off from Daimler/Chrysler in early December. He has been working as a volunteer here at St. Joseph Church, five days a week alongside our custodian, Tom Cracchiolo. Rick has worked a total of 16 weeks and helped to restore the plaster damage around the St. Joseph altar and also the plaster damage in our vestibule that occurred during the winter of 2005/2006 when a steam pipe broke and destroyed the paint and much of the plaster. Rick returned to work on April 10th. Thank you Rick, from all of the parish!

News: April 8, 2007
EASTER SUNDAY

Divine Mercy Sunday
April 15, 2007
The first observance of Divine Mercy Sunday in Detroit took place 24 years ago at Saint Joseph Church and has continued every year since. On May 5, 2000, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments decreed that the Second Sunday of Easter should be known as Divine Mercy Sunday throughout the universal church. A Plenary indulgence that removes all the temporal punishment due to sin is granted on this day to those who receive sacramental confession, Eucharistic Communion and pray for the intention of the Holy Father. This action must be accompanied by a firm purpose to sin no more with the help of God’s grace. These words of Jesus are from Sister Faustina’s diary: “My daughter, tell the whole world about My inconceivable mercy. I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sinners. On that day the very depths of My tender mercy are open. I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the fount of My mercy. The soul that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment. On that day all the divine floodgates through which grace flow are opened. Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet. My mercy is so great that no mind, be it of man or of angel, will be able to fathom it throughout eternity.”

Easter week and Divine Mercy schedule at St. Joseph’s
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday, April 9th, 10th, 11th and 14th, Mass at 12:10 followed by Divine Mercy Novena.
Sunday, April 15th, Mass at 10:30 followed by exposition and adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament until Benediction at 3:00 pm. Solemn Latin Mass celebrating the close of the Divine Mercy Novena will begin at 3:15.
There will be no Mass at 12:00 noon on April 15th.
Confessions will be available from 1:00 pm until 3:00 pm.

Welcome!
On Sunday, March 25, 2007, Father Lawrence Fares baptized Evelyn Josephine Meyersieck, daughter of Jeremy and Amy Degens Meyersieck. Proud grandparents are Scott and Sue Meyersieck and Patrick and Dorothy Degens. Godparents are Adam Meyersieck and Mary Jo Degens. The parish family of Saint Joseph Church congratulates Evelyn and welcomes her into the Christian community.

News: April 1, 2007
PALM SUNDAY

Confession Schedule

Saturday, March 31st, 3:00 pm at Sweetest Heart of Mary.
Sunday, April 1st, 9:15 am at St. Josaphat.
Wednesday, April 4th, after the 12:10 Mass and Novena at St. Joseph Church.

Confessions are heard at Saint Bonaventure Monastery, 1740 Mt. Elliot, between Vernor and Jefferson, 6 days a week, Monday through Saturday, on the hour at 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 2:00, 3:00 and 4:00. This schedule is current from Monday, March 26th through Saturday, March 31st.
The Holy Week Confession schedule for St. Bonaventure is as follows: Normal confession schedule for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 2nd, 3rd and 4th. No Confessions will be heard on Holy Thursday, Good Friday or Holy Saturday, April 5th, 6th and 7th.

Holy Week Schedule at St. Joseph's

Holy Thursday: Mass at 7:00 pm only at Sweetest Heart of Mary with Tenebrae at 9:00 pm. Adoration until 11:00 pm.
Good Friday: 12:00 noon, Stations of the Cross. Veneration of the relics of the Passion. 1:00 pm, Liturgy of Good Friday begins. 3:00 pm, Divine Mercy Novena begins.
Holy Saturday: Easter Vigil Mass at 8:00 pm followed by Divine Mercy Novena.
Easter Sunday: 10:30 German Mass, 12:00 noon Latin Mass followed by Diving Mercy Novena.

A Special Word of Thanks
Food and beverages for our annual San Giuseppe (St. Joseph) day dinner were donated by Roberto and Lucia Rossi and Craig and Susan Larsen. The Rossi Family began the custom of the San Giuseppe dinner in our parish and have participated in it through four generations. Those who helped to prepare and serve the dinner included Maria and Jim Beauvais, Patrick and Dorothy Degens, Jack and Gertrude Dunne, Rick Gosiewski, Christine Gray, Tonette Houseman, Christine Hubbard, Kenneth Klemmer, Craig Larsen and Stephen Weber. May God bless these and all of our faithful volunteers.

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