Dear Parishioners,
Mark your calendars: the parish will offer a Farewell Party for Fr. Boniface Ramsey on Saturday October 19th. Fr. Boniface will celebrate the 4 PM Mass. Following the Mass there will be a reception in the school auditorium. All parishioners and friends are invited.
October is the month of the Holy Rosary. I encourage all our parishioners to pray the rosary with attention and devotion every day. The rosary is a wonderful combination of vocal and meditative prayer.
If you would like to enroll your child in the parish CCD-Religious Education Program please call St. Ignatius Loyola: 212-288-3588. St. Joseph and St. Ignatius Loyola conduct a joint CCD program with classes being held at both parishes.
If you know of any homebound parishioner who would like to receive Holy Communion, please contact the rectory office.
I was not able to arrange for a German speaking priest to celebrate the 10 AM Mass this Sunday. If a German speaking lector is available, we will have the readings in German. We are currently working on getting a United States visa for an African priest who knows German. His arrival, if all goes well, should be sometime before Christmas.
Beginning this weekend, we will make a change to the music at the end of Mass: we will no longer have a recessional hymn; rather, our organist will play an appropriate musical flourish as the priest walks to the back of the church to greet the parishioners as they leave. This is the practice used at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
I will be in Rhode Island this weekend for a wedding and will return on Sunday afternoon.
God bless you!
Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Pastor
The regular schedule of Masses is as follows:
Monday to Friday – 7:00 am and 12:15 pm
Saturday – 8:00 am, 12:15 pm and 4:00 pm (Sunday Vigil)
Sunday – 8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 noon, 2:00 pm (Hungarian) and 6:00 pm
Confessions are heard on Saturdays from 3:15 to 3:45 pm
The church is open Monday through Friday from 6:30 am to 6:00 pm,
Saturday from 7:30 am to 5pm, and Sunday from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm.
The parish office is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 am to 6:00 pm.
The Blessed Sacrament is exposed for veneration on Sunday afternoons.
St Joseph Church
404 East 87th Street, New York, NY 10128
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