SATURDAY OCTOBER 30, 2021
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Chili Cookoff on the River 2021, a fun-filled family event will be held on Saturday October 30, 2021 on the Gretna River Batture, Amphitheatre Side, 1st Street and Huey P. Long Avenue!

Registration is open for Cooking Teams to compete in a contest where judging will be done in a blind method.  Registration Fee is $100 per team.

The event offers all the chili you can eat, a free Kids Korner and live music by "Chicken On The Bone!"  Food, beer, and wine will be offered for sale at very reasonable prices.

Call it a "Covid Bonus", ticket prices have been cut in half for the 2021 event.  Advance tickets and tickets purchased day of event are only $10, but the Advance ticket entitles you to enter into a FREE raffle to be drawn at 2:30pm. Winner must be present to win.

Advance tickets are available at the St Joseph Church Office, 610 6th St in Gretna (504-368-1313)

Gulf Coast Bank & Trust is our Event Sponsor but other sponsorships are available.

A $500 Stage Sponsorship includes your logo on the Stage Banner and many other advertising opportunities, both on social media and print media.  Sign sponsorships are $150 where your name and info will be on a 18" x 24" sign displayed at event.

Get your applications in now, "Chili-Heads!" Call 504-458-6562. 

“Chili Cookoff On the River” Schedule

All events located at or near the Gretna Amphitheatre
on the River Batture,
1st Street & Huey P. Long Avenue

6:30 a.m. Parking lot open on river batture left of Gretna Ferry House.
7:00 a.m. Cooking Teams will begin meat weigh-in at weight station in front of the Gretna Ferry House. After weigh-in, chili cooking begins.
10:00 a.m. Chili sample cups collection begins.
10:30 a.m. Judging begins.
11:00 a.m. Chili Cookoff on the River opens to the public.
11:00 a.m. Chili served to guests.
12:00 p.m. Kiddie Korner Opens and offers fun until 3pm
12:00 p.m. "Chicken On The Bond" starts and plays until 4:00pm. The river batture rocks!
2:30 p.m. Chili Cookoff Winners announced.
4:00 p.m. Band stops, the inaugural Chili Cookoff On the River is over!
 

RAFFLE

DRAWING OCTOBER 30, 2021

RAFFLE PRIZES:
(1) $5,000 CASH & (4) $500 CASH
$50 PER TICKET

ONLY 500 TICKETS BEING SOLD

WINNER NEED NOT BE PRESENT

TICKETS CAN BE PURCHASED AT THE CHURCH OFFICE AND AT ALL MASSES

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St. Joseph Restoration Fund Major Contributors of $5,000 or More
 

St. Joseph Women’s Club
Gretna Historical Society
China Doll Restaurant
Karen Meyers
Gulf Coast Bank & Trust
German-American Cultural Center Jefferson Historical Society of LA
John & Anne Kulakowski
Gretna Community Transportation Company
Kenneth & Darnell LeBlanc
Italian-American Society
Gretna Police Benevolent Association The Estate of Charles C. & Louise D. Lyons
Arthur & Brenda Lawson
Rev. Fr. Gary Copping, Pastor
Robert Gelpi
Lois LaBruzza Wiley & Raylyn Beevers Wesley & Shayna Beevers Morvant
Stan & Judy Salathe
Mary Ribaul Bose
Kenneth & Gayle Alfortish
David & Susan Kalil
Thomas “Skip” & Lauren McGinnis Marille & Barbara Faucheux
Kirk Jones & Family
Joel Durkes In Memory of John L Marchese
Brett J. Lawson
In Memory of Hon. Henry Garland Sullivan, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Toomey
In Memory of Dr. Mary Grace Curry
Ted & Gail Heine
The Daul Family
In Memory of Kendall E. Alforthish
In Memory of Darryl F. Alfortish
Bonnie Geers Cucullu

We thank all our Contributors, both great and small, for their gifts of charity.

 

Looking for a way to serve youth in need?

BECOME A MENTOR
Cornerstone Kids is a mentoring program for children between the ages of 9-17 who have an incarcerated parent or relative. Mentors develop a supportive relationship to help youth build on their strengths and develop positive self-esteem.
YOU can make a DIFFERENCE in a child’s life
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Requirements:
 Dedicate 3 hours per month for a 1 year mentorship
 Complete volunteer application process
 Pass background check and fingerprinting
 Complete 6 hours of new mentor training
Contact Kristina Gibson at 504-310-8772 or kgibson@ccano.org


Calling All Youth!
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 Ages 9-17 at time of enrollment
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Watch Vimeo Recording Of Men's Conference At WWW.NOLACATHOLICMEN.COM

 

Gentlemen, First, we’ve completed the bulk of the video recording for the second Men’s Conference Video! It now goes to editing and it is on target for release June 5th (God willing!). In this video we focus on our men’s groups around the archdiocese and in particular, two remarkable men’s groups. The Men at St. Charles Borromeo in Destrehan have two men’s groups going, one using the Crossing the Goal program and another a weekly discussion of the Sunday Gospel readings for Mass. There are more than 50 men at St. Charles Borromeo who regularly participate in the men’s ministry there and they have a lot of experience and insight to share with us. The second group is the Sociedad de Hombres Pecadores (The Society of Sinful Men!). The Sociedad started with a couple of guys at breakfast after a Manresa retreat who decided they wanted to continue their spiritual journey together. Over the years they have grown to a total of five dedicated men but they have learned that growth isn’t best measured in numbers! The story of their journey into the heart of the faith, into the depths of friendship, and out into service is an inspiring testament to what growth is really about – like the little bit of leaven that raises the whole loaf! In many ways, these two groups could not be more different, but they share a deep bond for friendship where each man finds encouragement and support as they make their way through life together. It is their faithfulness to God and to one another that brings the growth, and that is the whole reason for this effort.

We’ll send an email to everyone when the video is released on the NolaCatholicMen.com website. And to you men’s group leaders, why not consider watching it together with your men’s group and discussing it together? It would be a great way to continue on your walk with St. Joseph together! The Second Big Announcement is that the 2022 ANO Men’s Conference is ON! We will be meeting together again at St. Catherine of Sienna parish in Metairie on March 12, 2022. It is the Saturday of the first full week of Lent (not the Saturday after Ash Wednesday, but the Saturday after that). Mark your calendars now! You won’t want to miss it and it is likely to fill up! These emails will be the first place to let you know here when and how to register. We are working now to put together our lineup of speakers and we will be making announcements in these emails as well as details emerge. Its been a long wait but I hope you are as excited as we are to gather once again and give praise to our God for all he has done for us! In your kindness, please keep all of this work in your prayers that the Lord may prosper the work of our hands. For if the Lord does not build a house, in vain to its laborers labor. Keep the faith, hold each other in prayer, and don’t stop walking with St. Joseph!

Holy Land, Jerusalem Pilgrimage October 2022

w/Fr. Gary Copping $4,677 from Nola

October 23-Nov.1, 2022

Nothing brings the Gospels to life like a Catholic Holy Land Pilgrimage Tour to the Holy Land and Jerusalem. During the course of the pilgrimage tour, you will walk in the Footsteps of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and the Apostles, visiting and celebrating daily Mass in the most important Shrines and Basilicas of Christianity. You will visit the Basilica of the Annunciation, where the Angel of the Lord
appeared to the Virgin Mary, and she professed her Magnificat. You will visit Bethlehem and celebrate the birth of Christ at
the Church of the Nativity. During this Holy Land Pilgrimage tour, you will have the opportunity to renew your baptismal vows at the
Jordon River and your wedding vows in Cana, where Jesus performed His first Miracle. You will spend two days around the Sea of
Galilee where Jesus began His ministry, preaching to thousands as He gave His sermon of the Mount of Beatitudes, and miraculously
fed the multitudes with fish and loaves of bread. The highlight of the Holy Land Pilgrimage Tour will be in Jerusalem where you will
pray in the Garden of Gethsemane and experience the Lord’s Passion along the Via Dolorosa, (the Way of the Cross) on the way to
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre which marks the place where Jesus was put to death on Calvary, and was buried and rose again!
Visits to Mount Tabor, Sepphoris, Bethany, and Jericho are just some of the other places that you will visit on this pilgrimage.

Get the details and book online| www.catholicjourneys.com/copping | or call 800-715-6670

The Mother Church Cookbook Is the Perfect gift for Mom, mother's to be, or anyone that likes to cook or is forced to cook.

Founded in 1857, St. Joseph Church in Historic Gretna is the “Mother Church” of 14 Catholic parishes in West Jefferson all the way to Grand Isle. Built in 1927, this building is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places.

The Mother Church needs your help. She needs a “face-lift” and major “do-over.” The protective sealant over the stucco on the exterior of the church is crumbling and a minimum of 80% of the sealant must be removed and re-applied, with a paint job to follow. Work on the auditorium is needed as well.

The cookbook benefits the $500,000 Restoration Fund needed to return the Mother Church to her former beauty!

Thank you for your help.

To order, go to top line of this website and click on Mother Church Cookbook or, if you are on a cell phone, look to the left for the three vertical bars on top of each other and click the bars.

Prayer for a Stewardship Parish

Dear Heavenly Father,

My parish is composed of people like me; I help make it what it is.

It will be friendly, if I am.
Its pews will be filled, if I help fill them.
It will do great work, if I work.
It will make generous gifts to many causes, if I am a generous giver.
It will bring other people into its worship and fellowship, if I invite and bring them.

It will be a parish of loyalty and love, of fearlessness and faith, and a parish with a noble spirit, if I, who make it what it is, am filled with these same things.

Therefore, with Your help, O God, I shall dedicate myself to the task of being all things that I want my parish to be.

Holyart is an online store that sells religious art and original sacred products and religious handmade items. 

Welcome to St. Joseph Catholic Church

Since 1857, when Fr. Thaddaeus Anwander, CSSR, celebrated the first Mass in Gretna on Christmas Day, until the present time, God has blessed our St. Joseph Parish with dedicated priests, religious nuns, and laymen and women, to carry on the life of St, Joseph Parish.

May this Website help us to acknowledge our past, to recognize our brothers and sisters in Christ of the present, and to unite our parish family ever more in the future.