14 October 2021 Parish Update
https://parishesonline.com/find/st-joseph-church-54021/bulletin/file/02-0545-20211017B.pdf
read moreTWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
10 October 2021 I go to downtown Minneapolis to get my hair cut. You wouldn’t think I’d go all that way for as little hair as I have—but it’s a longer story. One day I was there early in the morning before most of the stores were open. Along comes a young man–maybe 20 something, clean cut, but obviously disturbed. I’m about the only other person around and he’s heading straight for me. He comes up to me and says: “I, I, I need a quarter. Can you give me quarter?” I begin to reach in my pocket and suddenly, he’s more upset. “I’m...
read more7 October 2021 Parish Update
https://parishesonline.com/find/st-joseph-church-54021/bulletin/file/02-0545-20211010B.pdf
read more30 September 2021 Parish Update
https://parishesonline.com/find/st-joseph-church-54021/bulletin/file/02-0545-20211003B.pdf
read moreTWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
26 September 2021 Shortly after I was ordained it was my privilege to preside at the baptism of several children. Everything I was taught, everything I had experienced told me this was one of those indisputably happy occasions. It was a celebration of life on two levels: the gift of physical life, the gift of another, deeper kind of level. During the liturgy I couldn’t help noticing a very striking woman who was one of the grandmothers. She was clearly a woman of the world. She not only dressed well, but carried herself like she...
read more23 September St Joseph Parish Update
https://parishesonline.com/find/st-joseph-church-54021/bulletin/file/02-0545-20210926B.pdf
read more