St. Joseph Church & Shrine
St. Anthony Church
Invites you to celebrate
Holy Week &Triduum
St. Joseph/St. Anthony Lenten Confessions
at St. Joseph Church & Shrine
6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Followed by Mass/Novena at 6:30 p.m.
With Confessions continuing after Mass
St. Joseph
Holy Thursday, April 6, 2023
There will be no 12:10 mass
7:00 p.m. – Mass and Washing of Feet
Adoration following Mass until 10:00pm
Good Friday, April 7, 2023
(No masses are celebrated on Good Friday)
3:00 p.m. – Reading of Passion, Veneration of the Holy Cross and Communion
Confessions follow Liturgy
6:30 p.m. – Stations of the Cross (No Mass)
Holy Saturday, April 8 2023
8:00 p.m. – Easter Vigil
St. Anthony
Holy Thursday, April 6, 2023
There will be no 8:30 a.m. Mass
7:00 p.m. – Mass and Washing of Feet
Adoration following Mass until 10:00 p.m.
Good Friday, April 7, 2023
(No masses are celebrated on Good Friday)
3:00 p.m. - Reading of Passion, Veneration of the Holy Cross and Communion
Confessions follow Liturgy
6:30 p.m. – Stations of the Cross (No Mass)
Holy Saturday, April 8, 2023
There will be no 8:30 a.m. Mass
8:00 p.m. – Easter Vigil
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Stations of the Cross
Each Friday during Lent at 6:30 p.m.
St. Joseph – Mass & Stations
St. Anthony – Stations only
LENT AND EASTER GUIDELINES
THE LENTEN SEASON
A distinction is to be made between Lent and the Easter Triduum. Strictly speaking, Lent ends with the beginning of the Triduum on Holy Thursday. The Ordo notes: “Lent runs from Ash Wednesday until the Mass of the Lord’s Supper exclusive on Holy Thursday.”
FASTING AND ABSTINENCE
Fasting is to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday by all Catholics who are 18 years of age but not yet 59. Those who are bound to fast may take only one full meal. Two smaller meals are permitted, if necessary, to maintain strength according to each one’s needs, but eating solid foods between meals is not permitted.
Abstinence from meat is to be observed by all Catholics 14 years or older on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and on all Fridays of Lent. N.B. This year St Patrick's Day falls on a Friday. Archbishop Aymond has granted permission for Catholics to eat meat on March 17th but has encouraged Catholics to abstain from meat on another day of the week. The determination of certain days as obligatory days of penance should not be understood as limiting the occasions for Christian penance.
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Winners
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$5,000 -- Neal Vaught
$500 -- Charles Billings,
Toni Bergeron, Marsha Helton,
& Teresa Worley
Thank you to all who purchased
a ticket and for supporting
St Joseph's Restoration Fund
COMMUNITY CENTER
FOR LIFE
Thank you for helping to fulfill our mission to share the hope of Christ and provide support to women and families in need! Below is a list of our most needed new items during this time.
● Tubs
● Dr. Brown bottles
● Life factory bottles
● Even flow bottles
● Bassinets
● Pack N’ Plays
● New convertible (or infant) car seats
● Breast pumps
● Cribs manufactured after 2012
Larger Items that are always needed include:
● Gender neutral infant car seat and/or travel system
● Baby Swing and/or Bouncy Seat
Gift cards are among our most needed items at this time:
● Target, Walmart, etc.
For further guidelines on what to purchase, you can locate our Target Baby Registry. To find our registry, go to Target Registry Search Page and click on “Search for an organization”. Type Community Center for Life.
Thank you for your generosity and your support for the mission of CCL.
"For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made...Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them." Psalm 139:13-14, 16, ESV
Sanctity of Human Life www.westbankpregnancy.org @wbpregnancy @wbpregnancy 504-227-9090
ABOUT COMMUNITY CENTER FOR LIFE
Community Center for Life is a 501(c)3 pregnancy resource center dedicated to walking alongside women and families facing unplanned pregnancies and saving the life of the unborn. By providing education, counseling, and resources, we desire to help them to thrive before, during, and after the pregnancy. In all we do, we seek to love our neighbors as God commands us and first demonstrated to us through Jesus Christ. Refer women and families facing unplanned pregnancies to Community Center for Life or your local pregnancy resource center.
WAYS YOU CAN HELP
1 Refer women and families facing unplanned pregnancies to Community Center for Life or your local pregnancy resource center.
https://pregnancytestingwestbank.com/
2 Pray for women and families facing unplanned pregnancies, for the unborn at risk of abortion, for post-abortive women suffering in silence.
3 Volunteer. CCL presents various volunteer opportunities for Christians who love the
LORD and the gift of life.
4 Give. Make one-time donation or support us monthly. To give now, text PROLIFE to 53555
539 Lafayette Street, Gretna, LA 70053
This year they conducted 1,048 appointments. 159 of them were pregnancy tests. Out of those considering abortion 31 had changed their minds!
Your support makes a life-changing impact in our community, and we thank God for you!
St. Joseph Restoration Fund Major Contributors of $5,000 or MoreSt. 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
Optimer and Mary RousselWe thank all our Contributors, both great and small, for their gifts of charity.
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We are excited to announce that NOLA Catholic Youth Conference 2023 will take place on Saturday, September 30, 2023! Additional details, including keynote speakers, schedule info, and location will be coming soon.
We are also excited to announce that this year we are opening up the conference to 7th grade students, in addition to all high school students (grades 8-12)!
We are sharing the date now so that the conference can be included in your planning as your parishes & schools continue working on calendars for next school year. We appreciate your efforts in making the date available on your calendars so that your students will be available to attend the conference!
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.
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.