St. Joseph Parish

Thank you for visiting and welcome to St. Joseph Parish. We, the community of Saint Joseph Parish, a Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Family rooted in Christ, are committed to loving and serving one another by living, sharing, and celebrating our Faith. We hope that you find this website inviting and resourceful.
 

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You never have to worry about writing a check or remembering a special collection. Click on this link, Connect Now Giving  In a few minutes you can be sure that your gift will work every day of the year to help our parish. For more information call the Parish office at 603-679-8805.

Registration forms are now available for Religious Education for 6th & 7th Grades.  (click on Registration forms to download and print.)

Registration forms are now available for Religious Education for 1st through 5th Grades. (clidk on Registration forms to download and print.)

                                                      21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
 
A relationship with Christ is not an insurance policy whereby we pay our premiums and expect to receive a settlement when needed. This relationship with the Son of God is not so transactional that we do x, y, and z and Jesus in return grants salvation. If such were the case we would be effectively earning our own salvation by our works.

But salvation is a free gift, undeserved, no matter how much we might feel we deserve it. The master locks the door on the evildoers, barring entry to them. The frightening thing is that some of those locked out know the Lord. Would they consider themselves evildoers? Not likely.

Where are we in this story? Are we striving to enter through the narrow door? Are we waiting until later before we make up our minds? When will the door be shut, not in some apocalyptic sense, but when we come to the end of our own personal life? There will be a reversal of fortune. Let us be prepared and manage our expectations lest we be disappointed.

May God Bless you Hearts!!