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Dear Parishioners, "To foster Sacrament-nurtured disciples of Christ who live a bold and extraordinary faith, first in the family, then flowing out into our community." Over the last six months our parish has been discerning what the Lord is asking of us as a parish family. This began as an earnest desire to surrender the good of Christ's parish of St. Joseph and St. Mary back to him. What ultimately came out of these sessions before the Blessed Sacrament was a strong d

Dear Parishioners, This weekend, we have our missionary appeal and welcome to our parishes Fr. Augustine Kipkemei, a missionary priest from the Diocese of Nakuru in Kenya -East Africa. The missionary efforts of the Church are a response to Jesus' great commission to, "Go and baptize all nations in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This spirit of mission has propelled Her members to bring the Faith to the far reaches of Africa and Asia as well as at home he

Dear Parishioners, I am so grateful to be back with you all after my 8-day Ignatian Retreat at Broom Tree in South Dakota. Truly, the Lord wants to meet us in the silence where His voice can be heard. I was deeply moved by experience and would like to invite anyone to consider doing a retreat there or at our local retreat center! One touching moment in prayer was an invitation from Mary to renew my devotion to her through the Brown Scapular. There are many devotions tha

Dear Parishioners, We are celebrating our nation's 250th anniversary as a country. This is a tremendous accomplishment for a nation to survive the test of time. Through this great struggle emerged a new nation that no longer made distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders. As Patrick Henry noted, "I am not a Virginian, but an American!." We continue to live in that unity of purpose and identity. As a nation founded under God and di