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Pics With St Nick Saturday Dec 3rd 1-3:30pmAll FREE- All Welcome. Games, face painting, cookies, prizes.Click for St Nick PicsBackForwardPauseCaption
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Chili Cookoff CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
REFUNDS BEING ISSUED AT GRETNA WELCOME CENTER, GULF COAST BANK, OR PARISH OFFICE. CALL ST JOSEPH OFFICE FOR FURTHER DETAILS AND QUESTIONS.
Sponsors for the St. Anthony Centennial
A & W Catering
Capdebosq’s Catering Service
Gattuso’s
Kim Cadres
Café 615 - Da Wabbit
China Doll
Olive Branch, Algiers
Joe Toomy
Knights of Columbus–Archbishop Blenk Council 1905
We thank our sponsors with heartfelt gratitude
and encourage everyone to patronize
the businesses among these sponsors.
Open to all adults who desire to learn more about St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body. People who have benefitted from this seminar include:
-parents
-young adults
-priests
-counselors
-doctors
-school/church administration
-teachers
-catechists
-youth/campus ministers...
if you have a BODY, Theology of the Body is for you!
*Continuing Education Credit (CEC) - any teacher of any subject in the Archdiocese of New Orleans who attends this seminar will receive 12 hours of CEC.
*Certification Options - for those seeking certification/training to teach You: Life, Love, and the Theology of the Body OR Theology of the Body for Teens: Middle School Edition, we offer certification options with additional required instruction. See link below for details!
Don’t want to visit the Malls!
Come visit our Gift Shop at St. Joseph Church where religious articles for the Christmas season will be available for purchase before and after all masses, beginning December 3-4 through December 17-18. (Christmas cards with a photo of the altar at Christmas time on the cover will also be available for purchase (pack of 10 cards with envelopes for $10).
In need of a Christmas present!
St. Joseph “Mother Church” Cookbooks will also be available for purchase during the month of December at a cost of $25.00.
Please make checks payable to
St. Joseph Restoration Fund.
The cookbooks are also available for purchase yearround in the Parish Office or through our website.
Also available for purchase will be St. Joseph ornaments featuring 3 new ornaments
ranging in price from $5-$15.
Magnificat Breakfast
Westbank Chapter
Saturday, December 10
The Four Columns, Harvey 9:30am - Noon
Registration: 9:00-9:30am
Tickets: $20.00
On Sale Now thru December 5
Speaker: Kim Rodriguez-Torres
Kim is a wife, mother, grandmother, and woman of God. She has been involved in different areas of ministry for the past 30 years. She is the founder of “Bella’s Blanket of Blessings”, a prayer blanket ministry that was started after her four-year-old niece and goddaughter, Bella, became paralyzed and was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Kim is willing to share the power of prayer, the love of God and the mission of Christ any chance she gets. -
Chili Cookoff Raffle Winners
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 1,146 appointments. 161 of them were pregnancy tests. Out of those, 50 clients were considering abortion. But by the end of the year, 41 of 50 had changed their minds! They also performed 42 ultrasounds, 161 additional prenatal and postnatal support visits, and 743 parent support visits for families with children under 4 years.
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 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
Optimer and Mary RousselWe thank all our Contributors, both great and small, for their gifts of charity.
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Parish Events
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November 14, 1:00 PM - December 3, 3:30 PM
St. Nicholas, aka Father Gary, and the Mothers Day Out program invites you to meet St Nicolas and take a free picture with him. St Nicholas will be at the St. Joseph Complex Gym, corner of 7th & Newton Sts. on Sat, Dec 3 from 1 - 3:30 pm. All FREE- All Welcome. Children will play games, get face painting, decorate their own Christmas cookie and receive prizes.Read More -
November 16 - December 10
As we head into the holidays and the new year, there’s no better time to recalibrate our hearts and minds on what’s most important. We’re calling all Catholic men to join us for the 2-hour virtual event on December 10th. This will be a powerful time to gather with other men from across the country to be built up and strengthened in our faith. What will be covered? The Identity Of Catholic Men When? December 10th from 11am to 1:00pm What? Free two hour event Why? Because there is too much at stake with your family, with your mindset, and your career to go into the new year without new momentum.Read More -
November 26 - December 4
All are welcome to “A Christmas Musical: Prepare the Way for the Coming of the Lord” presented by the Archdiocese of New Orleans Gospel Choir on Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 3 pm at Corpus Christi-Epiphany Catholic Church in New Orleans. Admission is free to the public.Read More -
November 26 - December 4
Widowed? Separated? Divorced? Listen. Accompany. Heal. Beginning Experience is an international ministry founded by a Catholic religious sister and her divorced friend offering hope and healing for those who have lost their marriage through death, separation or divorce. The Beginning Experience weekend transforms lives and has helped thousands navigate the road through grief. Visit www.beginningexperience.org to learn more about the program. One weekend … All the difference. Join us for the Beginning Experience of New Orleans Weekend Retreat December 2-4, 2022 at the Archdiocese of New Orleans Retreat Center located at 5500 St. Mary Street in Metairie. For more information including registration and fees, contact Registrar, Rhonda Lodriguss at (504) 452-8756 or Rlodriguss@cox.net or contact President, Melanie Trimarco at (630) 589-2813 or mbtri-marco@yahoo.com. Weekend program includes materials, two nights’ lodging and five meals.Read More -
Monday, November 28
The Office of Black Catholic Ministry, The Department of Catholic Schools and Faith Formation, The CYO Youth & Young Adult Ministry Office, and Catholic Charities are collaborating together to bring back the Martin Luther King Jr. Day On Not Off Service Day on January 16, 2023. They will begin with a prayer service and sendoff with Archbishop Aymond that morning at the CYO Office.Read More -
Tuesday, November 29
Save the Date and Donate to your Church or School on November 29, 2022.Read More -
Tuesday, November 29, 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Please come and join us at St Anthony Church -- Gretna -- on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 AM before Mass to pray the Rosary. Let us pray together for: the end of COVD; the sick, the dying, the abused, those suffering from abortion, the aborted, souls in purgatory, the conversion of sinners; those caught in human trafficking; peace in the world; compassion, understanding; and your special intentions.Read More -
Tuesday, November 29, 6:30 PM
In this novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (also known as Our Mother of Perpetual Help from this icon pictured on the left) we pay tribute to the Blessed Virgin Mary in asking for her assistance. This picture of the Blessed Mother with her Divine Son above has helped her provide strength, comfort and even miracles to the faithful for centuries! Come join us for Mass and Novena.Read More -
Tuesday, November 29, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Young adults between the ages of 18 – 39 are invited to the next Christ in the City on Tuesday, December 6th at 7:00 PM which will be a special night held at the Archdiocese of New Orleans Retreat Center (5500 St. Mary Street, Metairie.) Christ in the City is a monthly Holy Hour of Eucharistic adoration, praise & worship, and the opportunity to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation. A social hour will follow, thanks to the generosity of the Retreat Center. Christ in the City is sponsored by the CYO / Youth & Young Adult Ministry Office of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. For more information, please contact 504-836-0551, ext. 3228 or yam@arch-no.org.Read More -
Wednesday, November 30
Wednesdays: Oct. 5, 19, Nov. 2, 16, 30, 2022, 6:00 – 8:00pm (virtual) Presenters: Archdiocesan Spirituality Center Associate Directors Jeanne Burmaster and Stephanie Clouatre Davis. In what ways do our prayer and our lived experiences intersect? How do we become more aware of the Holy Spirit moving and guiding us? Together in prayer and faith we will share the stories of our everyday lives. Sifting through the stories and circumstances of our life/world enables us to see everything through the eyes of faith. We all benefit, and blessings come to light when we have companions along the way. Come and join us! Donation: $40.00 (Adjustments can be made.) Register on the web: https:nolacatholic.org/asc Email: archspirctr@arch-no.org or call (504) 861-3254.Read More -
Wednesday, November 30, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Come Lord Jesus! Bible Study -- In St Anthony Parish Office/Hall -- Thursdays at 10:30 in St Anthony Rectory ++ Also at 1 pm St Joseph has their CLJ in the St Joseph Social Room ++There is another group for Young Adults that meets on Tuesdays at 6:30pm at 31 Derbes Drive, Gretna LA +++ Please join us for one, two, or all three ++ It’s a program that was developed in the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, USA in the late sixties and early seventies by Father Conley Bertrand, a parish priest. Graced with a love for prayer and Scripture and an ardent zeal, he sought to communicate these qualities to his parishioners. Come, Lord Jesus! is the fruit of many years of prayer, reflection on Sacred Scripture, and experimentation. This inspiring program is a complete study of the Sunday Readings, including Gospels (Be My Witness), Epistles(Love One Another) and the Old Testament(Give Glory to God) in three separate volumes. Following the Liturgical Calendar and utilizing the Catechism of the Catholic Church, members grow in sanctification through prayer, Scripture, Eucharist, and Christian community.Read More -
Thursday, December 1
Please join us this Friday for That Man Is You! We have Breakfast at 5:45am, followed by 6:15am Video Presentation, 7:00am Small Group Discussions, then dismissal at 7:30am so that you can put into practice what you have learned. Week 13: Friends of St. JosephRead More -
Thursday, December 1
If you or someone you know in St. Joseph or St. Anthony Parishes is homebound and would like to receive Holy Communion, please notify the office at 504-368-1313 and someone will be in contact with you.Read More -
Thursday, December 1
St Anthony Church has a lending library of Catholic books, movies, and cd's in the back of the Church. Please check out the wide assortment of media and consider checking out something for yourself or for someone you know, so that you may increase your Faith and understanding of time-held beliefs.Read More -
Thursday, December 1
Fr. Gary will again this year be offering classes on our Catholic Faith for those interested in becoming Catholics or wanting to enrich their Faith. Classes will resume September 8th at 6:30 pm in the St Joseph Rectory and will run throughout the year on most Thursday nights until Holy Week. Call Parish Office for details. We are also looking for those who would like to assist Fr. Gary in presenting the classes. Sometimes the best way to learn our Faith is to teach our Faith. All are welcome!Read More -
Thursday, December 1
Mary Queen of Peace Parish in Mandeville and the Office of Justice and Peace at Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans are sponsoring a Peace Prayer Walk at 3:00 pm on December 15, 2022 at the Holy Family Hospitality Hermitage (also known as the “Blue Stand”) in Covington to promote peace and to build solidarity with our neighbors. The Hermitage is located at 501 W. 31st St. in Covington.Read More -
Thursday, December 1, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Catholic Charities’ food pantry is open Monday – Thursday from 10 am – 2 pm. The food pantry is located at 2505 Maine Ave in Metairie. Clients should go down the driveway to the left of the building. The food pantry is located in the back building, fourth door from the front. Clients can receive a pre-packed bag of food and some optional supplemental items every two weeks. Clients fill out a simple intake form at their first visit, and at subsequent visits only need provide their name.Read More -
Friday, December 2
Fridays: Oct. 14, 21, 28, Nov. 11, 18, Dec. 2, 9, 2022, 10:00am – Noon, Registration required by Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. Presenters: Sr. Gloria Murillo, STJ and Archdiocesan Spirituality Center Associate Director, Bonnie Chase. A Faith Companion is a person skilled in spiritual conversation through faith, listening skills, shared prayer and faith sharing. A Faith Companion accompanies another in spiritual friendship. If you are a person of faith and prayer; have an on-going spiritual conversation with another Christian/Group and can commit to the entire program this course will enrich your ministry with others in your parish, school, home visitation, RCIA, hospitals, prayer groups or informal “coffee cup” faith sharing. Donation: $125.00 (Adjustments can be made.) Register on the web: https:nolacatholic.org/asc Email: archspirctr@arch-no.org or call (504) 861-3254.Read More
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Friday, December 2
Anne Trufant, Fr. Bill Henry, and Fr. Paul Yi will be featured at the annual Holy Spirit Women’s Retreat from January 27-29, 2023, at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Lafayette. The theme for 2023 is “Fear Not…For You Are Mine!” The weekend will include praise and worship, dynamic preaching, adoration, daily Mass, prayer minis-try and more. Anne is a dynamic missionary and teacher who has travelled the world spreading the truth of the Kingdom of God. She and her husband Dave are the founders of The Mission on the Mountain ministries, and are especially known in our area for their decades of youth and young adult ministry at Camps Kahdalea and Chosatonga. The retreat is sponsored by the Catholic Charismatic Renewal of New Orleans (CCRNO) and annu-ally serves hundreds of women from throughout the Gulf South. Early bird rates end November 30, 2022. Register online at www.ccrno.org.Read More -
Friday, December 2, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus will be held at St Anthony Church every 1st Friday after the 8:30 am morning mass.Read More
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Links
- Online Giving To St Joseph Church And Shrine -- $$
- Online Giving to St Anthony Church -- $$
- Read Online Clarion Herald Here
- Click Here For Past Bulletins
- Formed.org -- like NetFlix(R) for Catholics -- Join for free
- GRETNA GLANCE -- YOUR GUIDE TO ALL THINGS GRETNA
- St Anthony School Gretna LA
- Purchase A Commemorative Brick In Our Holy Family Garden
- Become A Knight of Columbus -- Online Application
- Become a Volunteer Firefighter at David Crockett Steam Fire Company No. 1
- Find A Mass Wherever You Are @ DiscoverMass.com
- Safe Environment Website For The Archdiocese Of New Orleans
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Mother Church Cookbook For Sale
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.
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Mass TimesSunday Mass Schedule
- Saturday: 4:00 PM English English EN
- Sunday: 7:30 AM English English EN 9:30 AM English English EN 11:30 AM English English EN 6:30 PM English English EN Haitian Creole
Daily Mass Schedule- M WF 12:10 PM English English EN
- Tuesday: 6:30 PM English English EN Perpetual Help Novena said during mass
- 1st Friday: 8:00 AM English English EN followed by adoration to 12:00 noon benediction
Upcoming Holy DaysImmaculate Conception- December 7: 6:30 PM English English EN
- December 8: 8:00 AM English English EN 12:10 PM English English EN 6:30 PM English English EN
Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ- December 24: 4:00 PM English English EN 6:00 PM English English EN
- December 25: 12:00 AM English English EN Midnight Mass 9:30 AM English English EN 11:30 AM English English EN 6:30 PM Other | Haitian Creole Mass
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Parish News
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November 7
You are Invited to join Fr. Gary Copping on Special Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe April 27-May2, 2023 Our Lady of Guadalupe offers a pilgrimage experience without the jetlag of traveling to Europe or the Holy Land. Only a twohour flight from Houston, Mexico City is home to some of the most beautiful churches and shrines in all of the Americas. Spend a day at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas, beginning with Mass in the modern Basilica, where the Miraculous image on the Tilma of St Juan Diego is featured above the main altar. Atop the hill behind the basilica, called Tepiac, you will see the original chapel built on the site of Our Lady’s apparition. During your stay in Mexico, you will also visit Tulpetlac, also known as the Church of the Healing, which is the site of Our Lady’s fifth apparition and where St. Juan Diego’s Uncle was cured; the Metropolitan Cathedral, the oldest cathedral in Latin America; the Holy Family Church, where you will pray at the tomb of Blessed Miguel Agustin Pro, the Jesuit martyr; and the beautiful city of Puebla to visit St. Dominic’s Church, with it’s magnificent Chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, and to visit the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, where you will view the incorrupt body of St. Sebastian of Aparicio. Of course, no trip to Mexico would be complete without a visit to the pyramids of San Juan Teotihuacan where you will see the pyramids of the Sun and the Moon. Don’t Miss this Incredible Opportunity! Book your Guadalupe Pilgrimage Tour today! Call Catholic Journeys (800) 715-6670 or visit https://www.catholicjourneys.com/mxcopping $2,599 per person Includes *Roundtrip airfare from New Orleans (Prices available from other cities.) *5 nights at Le Meridien Mexico City (or similar) *Breakfast and Dinner Daily *Wine and Bottled Water with Dinners *Lunch everyday, except day of arrival and departure *All Transfers as per itinerary via Private Motorcoach *Sightseeing and all admissions fees *Local English Speaking Guide *Luggage handling (1 piece per person at hotels) *Flight bag & Travel document portfolio *Daily Mass and Spiritual Activities Coordinated with Fr. Gary CoppingRead More -
October 20
The Missionaries to the Family initiative consists of three stages: Discernment, Formation and Service. The Discernment stage explores a person’s calling, desire and fit for becoming a Missionary to the Family. The Formation stage provides professional training to the missionaries to help them fulfill their calling. The Service stage follows Formation and empowers the missionary in their mission work within or around the parish. Formation consists of three types of formation over one year’s time: Theological Spiritual Practical Theological formation is provided by the McGrath Institute for Church Life (MICL) at the University of Notre Dame and consists of four online courses. Spiritual and Practical formation is provided by Paradisus Dei through a combination of in person retreats and online coursework. Missionaries should expect to spend approximately two hours per week on the online courses. The Formation year begins with a retreat at Notre Dame in August. The second retreat’s location varies by class year, and the final Commissioning retreat weekend is hosted at the University of Notre Dame.Read More -
September 26
The journey of the silver rose begins each year in March and ends on Dec. 12, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. During that time, Silver Roses travel from town to town along eight routes throughout North America. Several of those routes begin in Canada and end in Mexico. The Silver Rose Program began in 1960, when the first rose – a real, live one – was blessed by a bishop in Ontario. The rose then traveled to New York and then to Texas where it was taken across the border into Mexico. The rose ended its pilgrimage at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Monterrey on Dec. 12, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. To better ensure future annual trips, a silver rose was ultimately made. Today, due to the popularity of the program throughout the North American continent, eight silver roses travel unique routes. In 2001, when Carl Anderson, Past Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, expanded the Silver Rose Program, he commented: “Through [the Silver Rose Program] we honor not only Our Lady of Guadalupe and express the unity of the [Knights of Columbus], but we also reaffirm the Order’s dedication to the sanctity of human life. It is to the Blessed Mother that we turn in prayer as we work to end the Culture of Death that grips our society. As we think in terms of ‘One Life, One Rose,’ it is most appropriate that we turn to Our Lady of Guadalupe who made known her will through Juan Diego and the miracle of the roses.” All members of the community are encouraged join Knights of Columbus Archbishop Blenk Council 1905 at St Joseph Church & Shrine in Gretna LA on Monday October 10th at 6:00 pm to pray for a civilization of love and culture of life in our own country and throughout the world.Read More -
September 6
Interested in Catholic Youth Groups for 5th through 12th Grades? Click on this article for information.Read More
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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. -
Today's Readings / Lecturas Del Día
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Confession Times
- Tuesday: 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM and on request
- Saturday: 3:00 PM to 3:45 PM and on request 4:15 PM to 4:45 PM AT ST ANTHONY (also available by appointment during week)
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Adoration Times
- Monday: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Rosary and Adoration take place 1 hr before Noon Mass M-F
- Tuesday: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Rosary and Adoration take place 1 hr before Noon Mass M-F
- Wednesday: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Rosary and Adoration take place 1 hr before Noon Mass M-F
- Thursday: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Rosary and Adoration take place 1 hr before Noon Mass M-F
- Friday: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Rosary and Adoration take place 1 hr before Noon Mass M-F
- 1st Friday: 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM AT ST ANTHONY after mass, along with novena to Sacred Heart
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Word on Fire
