Today we enter Holy Week and we're about to enter the Triduum (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday). Now is the time when Jesus won our salvation on the cross: this is the moment Christ saves us from sin and death and opens the path to eternal life with God before us. This sacred time makes available many powerful graces that we should take advantage of. There are many special liturgies this week and all of them help us enter into the mysteries of Christ's work of salvation. Attend as many of these liturgies as you can because they are a source of much spiritual strength and growth. Below is our Holy Week schedule.

This week is our annual parish mission! Fr. Stephen Dominic Hayes will preach Monday through Wednesday of this week, at 7pm each night. The topic is A Life of Holy Wisdom. It will investigate the Christian life, using the spirituality of the Egyptian Desert Fathers and the saints to elucidate and make concrete the living of the Christian Life and the origin of its grace in Holy Baptism, our Exodus towards glory in the Holy Spirit, and our nourishment and healing by our Eucharistic Jesus, our new manna. It should be a fascinating series and a good preparation for Holy Week and Easter.

This Thursday is the culmination of our Journey with Joseph! It’s the Solemnity of St. Joseph and we’ll have a 7pm Mass when we’ll complete our consecration to St. Joseph. We’ll have incredible music provided by Higher Word and a reception in McGuire Hall afterwards.

We have a lot coming up at St. Joseph’s this Lent! Read more to find out what!

We’re now well into Lent and I hope that it’s going well for everyone. If you think your Lent needs a bit more, consider the many opportunities to go deeper at St. Joseph’s. You could attend our Friday Stations of the Cross (7pm) or go deeper with our Journey with Joseph by attending the Saturday small group discussion on St. Joseph (Saturdays at 11am in the parish hall). We also have Nightfire in a couple Fridays, so that is another option to go deeper this Lent.

I pray that everyone’s Lent is starting well! This can be a time a great spiritual growth if we cooperate with the graces God sends us. To support our spiritual growth, we have a lot going on at the parish this Season:

This Sunday begins our Journey with Joseph! Make sure to pick up the book of meditations for the next 33 days (we’ll also email the meditations and they’re available on our parish website). The friars here wrote the meditations for our parish specifically. And we did so the old-fashioned way: we didn’t use AI for any of the writing! There’s a lot of parts to the Journey with Joseph, so check out our parish webpage and emails for all the details.

It’s the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Baptism is at the root of our entire spiritual life. St. Paul puts it this way: “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (Rom 6:3-4).

It’s the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Baptism is at the root of our entire spiritual life. St. Paul puts it this way: “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (Rom 6:3-4).

It’s the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Baptism is at the root of our entire spiritual life. St. Paul puts it this way: “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (Rom 6:3-4).

It’s the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Baptism is at the root of our entire spiritual life. St. Paul puts it this way: “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (Rom 6:3-4).

It’s the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Baptism is at the root of our entire spiritual life. St. Paul puts it this way: “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (Rom 6:3-4).

Happy Epiphany! Today we celebrate Epiphany, when the Magi came to adore the infant Jesus. We have an image of Epiphany in the church: the painting just under the tabernacle in the sanctuary. Also, we have a lot of special spiritual tools available on this feast.

Merry Christmas! Christmas is an octive, which means that it’s eight days long, running through the 1st, and ending on the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God. The 1st is a Holy Day of Obligation. Therefore, we’ll have a 7pm Mass on the 31st and on the 1st we’ll have our usual 12:10pm daily Mass and a 7pm Mass. As a Holy Day of Obligation, every Catholic is obligated to attend Mass for the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God.

Big news for the Archdiocese of New York: a new Archbishop has been named: Archbishop-delegate Ronald Hicks, currently the Bishop of Joliet, Illinois. Bishop Hicks will be installed as the new Archbishop of New York on February 6 th , 2026, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Please keep Cardinal Dolan and Bishop Hicks in your prayers.

Today is Gaudete Sunday, which means Rejoice. Thus the rose vestments at Mass, the color of rejoicing. We rejoice that our wait is almost over: in less than two weeks our Lord will come at Christmas.

This Monday is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It’s a Holy Day of Obligation, which means that all Catholics must attend Mass this Monday. We’ll have our usual 12:10pm daily Mass and a 7pm evening Mass.