Pope Francis has asked our parish to support the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, which helps Christians in the Holy Land. --- Your support helps the church minister in parishes, provide Catholic schools and offer religious education. The Pontifical Good Friday Collection also helps to preserve the sacred shrines. --- The wars, unrest and instability have been especially hard on Christians. In these times of crises, the Pontifical Good Friday Collection provides humanitarian aid to refugees. --- When you contribute to the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, you become an instrument of peace and join with Catholics around the world in solidarity with the Church in the Holy Land. PLEASE BE GENEROUS!

Be A Part Of Our History -- ST JOSEPH CHURCH is offering you an opportunity to purchase custom bricks that cross the grounds and forge the walkways of our HOLY FAMILY MEMORIAL GARDEN. Guidelines For Brick Order: Bricks can be inscribed with your family's name, or in memory of a departed loved one, or any inscription of your choice (subject to approval). A contribution of $50.00 for each brick will enable you and your loved ones to be remembered. + Bricks are engraved with one, two, or three lines of text. + There are 17 characters on each line; this includes the blank spaces between words. + Alumni Bricks have "Class of 19__" on a line below the name (St Joseph graduates only). + Memorial Bricks have "In Memory of" on a line above the name. + Name Bricks have the name engraved as you designate. + Family Bricks have "Family" on a line below the name. [Bricks are installed after they have been paid in full and received from the manufacturer.] Click this article for order form to fill out and drop it off with your payment to the Parish Office.

Session 24: The Triumph of Mercy · Enlarging the Human Heart · Encountering the Father, Rich in Mercy · The Story of St. John Bosco · The Power of a Good Confession · The Gift of Peace · The Superabundant Mercy of God · John Paul II and Mercy

St Joseph Church will be open today from 8am to 5pm for prayer. Remember that today is a day of fasting, abstinence, and prayer.

CHRIST IS RISEN, ALLELUIA! HE HAS TRULY RISEN. On behalf of St Joseph and St Anthony Parishes, the Pastor and staff wish you and yours a Very Happy Easter and we look forward to the day when we can come back together at Mass and give God the Glory.

Vice President Mike Pence encourages people of all faiths to support their places of worship during this time when public assembly is discouraged. Your offertory helps to keep your Church open and to continue vital ministry and prayers for the community.

Join us for a session with retirement income expert and author, Tom Hegna, President of TomHegna.com. Gain insights to help you prepare for retirement—and live generously along the way. Tom Hegna, CLU®, ChFC®, CASL®, is the author of Don’t Worry, Retire Happy!, a straightforward guide to retirement planning in uncertain times. He’ll offer insights to help you prepare for a secure and fulfilling retirement—and live generously along the way. It’s all part of our mission to help build individual contentment and confidence, along with communities that thrive. We look forward to seeing you! Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 6:00 p.m. Online Webinar, Register at: bit.ly/thsouth1. Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 6:30 p.m. Online Webinar, Register at: bit.ly/thsouth02. Monday, April 13, 2020, 7:00 p.m. Online Webinar, Register at: bit.ly/thsouth3. RSVP using the links above. Please free to share this event information with a friend!

Session 25: Mission 12.0 · The Saddest Story in the Gospel · The Seven Steps of TMIY! and Their Impact · Superabundant Happiness · The Profound Impact of the Family · The TMIY Mission 12.0 Challenge · The Vision of a New Springtime · The “Program” for the Future”

Sunday June 7, 2020 at 3:00 pm at St Philip Neri. Each couple will receive a certificate and picture with Archbishop Aymond. This prayer service is for couples who have been married for 50 years or more. All participants may register online or through their parish. To register, we suggest that you have couple call the rectory prior to Friday, March 20, 2020, in order for you to have sufficient time to submit your couples. Parishes are asked to register couples, using this online form, by Monday, March 23, 2020, to facilitate the mailing of confirmation letters, preparing scrolls, and seating assignment of the couples. Please Note: This celebration will not be a Mass, but a prayer service. Attendance of Mass for Sunday obligation will have to be met within one's parish.

Session 26: A Man after God’s own Heart · A Journey into the Heart of Mercy · Trust in Divine Mercy · Continuing Our Journey · St. Joseph, A Man After God’s Own Heart · The Hiddenness of St. Joseph · The School of Nazareth · Open Wide the Arms to Christ

Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus will be held at St Anthony Church every 1st Friday after the 8:30 am morning mass.

On First Saturdays, the Rosary will be prayed after Mass. ++ The Five First Saturdays devotion is one of the principal points of the Fatima message. It centers on the urgent need for mankind to offer reparation and expiate for the many injuries that the Immaculate Heart of Mary suffers from the hands of both impious and indifferent men. On the First Saturday during 5 Consecutive Months, the Devotion consists of: 1. Going to Confession, 2. Receiving the Sacrament of Holy Communion, 3. Saying five decades of the Rosary, 4. Meditating for 15 minutes on the mysteries of the Rosary. All this offered in REPARATION for the sins of blasphemy and ingratitude committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

St Joseph Church has the 3:00 slots on Sundays and Mondays at the Gretna Bingo Palace. Please come out to play BINGO and support our Church.

Sunday June 7, 2020 at 3:00 pm at St Philip Neri. Each couple will receive a certificate and picture with Archbishop Aymond. This prayer service is for couples who have been married for 50 years or more. All participants may register online or through their parish. To register, we suggest that you have couple call the rectory prior to Friday, March 20, 2020, in order for you to have sufficient time to submit your couples. Parishes are asked to register couples, using this online form, by Monday, March 23, 2020, to facilitate the mailing of confirmation letters, preparing scrolls, and seating assignment of the couples. Please Note: This celebration will not be a Mass, but a prayer service. Attendance of Mass for Sunday obligation will have to be met within one's parish.

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.

Christ in the City, an evening of Eucharistic Adoration for young adults 18-39, is held at St Rita Church on Lowerline the first Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm sponsored by the CYO/Youth & Young Adult Ministry Office of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. The hour-long service of adoration includes scripture and a reflection, music, silent time for prayer, the opportunity for the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and benediction. A social follows across the street at Rock n' Bowl.

Al Mansfield, Coordinator -- Office Hours MWF 10-5 -- 1901 Division St Metairie LA -- CCRNO Prayer Meeting and Mass 7:30 pm Every Wednesday at St Benilde -- Youth Prayer Meeting at Rummel Raider Room at 7:30 pm Sunday Nights.

Come join the St Vincent DePaul Society or come volunteer to help the poor in our parishes.

The Knights of Columbus is the largest Catholic, Family, Fraternal, Service, organization in the world. Becoming a Knight can transform your life. As a Knight, you have the opportunity to support your parish, give back to your community, grow in your faith and gain exclusive access to the top-rated insurance program in the country to protect your family. Charity is the first principle of the K of C. Knights are men who get things done. By working together, our Order had the ability to donate more than $1.5 billion to charity and provide 691 million volunteer hours to worthy causes in the past decade. Unity and Fraternity are the second and third principles of the Knights of Columbus. The K of C was founded so men could work together to serve their parishes and communities, protect the well-being of their Catholic families, and support each other in faith and in many other ways.

Be A Part Of Our History -- ST JOSEPH CHURCH is offering you an opportunity to purchase custom bricks that cross the grounds and forge the walkways of our HOLY FAMILY MEMORIAL GARDEN. Guidelines For Brick Order: Bricks can be inscribed with your family's name, or in memory of a departed loved one, or any inscription of your choice (subject to approval). A contribution of $50.00 for each brick will enable you and your loved ones to be remembered. + Bricks are engraved with one, two, or three lines of text. + There are 17 characters on each line; this includes the blank spaces between words. + Alumni Bricks have "Class of 19__" on a line below the name (St Joseph graduates only). + Memorial Bricks have "In Memory of" on a line above the name. + Name Bricks have the name engraved as you designate. + Family Bricks have "Family" on a line below the name. [Bricks are installed after they have been paid in full and received from the manufacturer.] Click this article for order form to fill out and drop it off with your payment to the Parish Office.

St Joseph Church has the 3:00 slots on Sundays and Mondays at the Gretna Bingo Palace. Please come out to play BINGO and support our Church.

Sunday June 7, 2020 at 3:00 pm at St Philip Neri. Each couple will receive a certificate and picture with Archbishop Aymond. This prayer service is for couples who have been married for 50 years or more. All participants may register online or through their parish. To register, we suggest that you have couple call the rectory prior to Friday, March 20, 2020, in order for you to have sufficient time to submit your couples. Parishes are asked to register couples, using this online form, by Monday, March 23, 2020, to facilitate the mailing of confirmation letters, preparing scrolls, and seating assignment of the couples. Please Note: This celebration will not be a Mass, but a prayer service. Attendance of Mass for Sunday obligation will have to be met within one's parish.

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.

"An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints". To gain indulgences, whether plenary or partial, it is necessary that the faithful be in the state of grace at least at the time the indulgenced work is completed. A plenary indulgence can be gained only once a day. In order to obtain it, the faithful must, in addition to being in the state of grace: — have the interior disposition of complete detachment from sin, even venial sin; — have sacramentally confessed their sins; — receive the Holy Eucharist (it is certainly better to receive it while participating in Holy Mass, but for the indulgence only Holy Communion is required); — pray for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff. It is appropriate, but not necessary, that the sacramental Confession and especially Holy Communion and the prayer for the Pope's intentions take place on the same day that the indulgenced work is performed; but it is sufficient that these sacred rites and prayers be carried out within several days (about 20) before or after the indulgenced act. Prayer for the Pope's intentions is left to the choice of the faithful, but an "Our Father" and a "Hail Mary" are suggested. One sacramental Confession suffices for several plenary indulgences, but a separate Holy Communion and a separate prayer for the Holy Father's intentions are required for each plenary indulgence. For the sake of those legitimately impeded, confessors can commute both the work prescribed and the conditions required (except, obviously, detachment from even venial sin). Indulgences can always be applied either to oneself or to the souls of the deceased, but they cannot be applied to other persons living on earth.

The Gretna Historical Society was founded in Gretna, Louisiana in 1969 by Lloyd E. Gomez (insurance man, volunteer firefighter, and community activist), who descended from Gretna pioneers, German immigrants Claudius and Catherine Nuss Strehle. The articles of incorporation for the GHS were drafted by Gretna attorney Everette F. Gauthreaux and signed in his law office on October 26, 1969. Today the GHS operates the Gretna Historical Society Museum Complex at the corner of Lafayette Street at 2nd. It consists of three 19th century Creole cottages, a blacksmith shop, and the Louisiana Fire Museum. The GHS also owns and maintains the caboose and train depot on Huey P. Long Avenue at 4th Street. There are no requirements for membership in the GHS, other than the timely payment of annual membership dues of $20 per person. Monthly meetings are held at the St Joseph's complex at the corner of Newton and 7th Streets, on the second Thursday of every month at 7:00 pm. Guests and prospective members are always welcome to attend the meetings. The society newsletter, Gretna Chronicles, is published monthly and mailed to its members.

St Joseph Church has the 3:00 slots on Sundays and Mondays at the Gretna Bingo Palace. Please come out to play BINGO and support our Church.

Sunday June 7, 2020 at 3:00 pm at St Philip Neri. Each couple will receive a certificate and picture with Archbishop Aymond. This prayer service is for couples who have been married for 50 years or more. All participants may register online or through their parish. To register, we suggest that you have couple call the rectory prior to Friday, March 20, 2020, in order for you to have sufficient time to submit your couples. Parishes are asked to register couples, using this online form, by Monday, March 23, 2020, to facilitate the mailing of confirmation letters, preparing scrolls, and seating assignment of the couples. Please Note: This celebration will not be a Mass, but a prayer service. Attendance of Mass for Sunday obligation will have to be met within one's parish.

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.

St Joseph Church has the 3:00 slots on Sundays and Mondays at the Gretna Bingo Palace. Please come out to play BINGO and support our Church.

Sunday June 7, 2020 at 3:00 pm at St Philip Neri. Each couple will receive a certificate and picture with Archbishop Aymond. This prayer service is for couples who have been married for 50 years or more. All participants may register online or through their parish. To register, we suggest that you have couple call the rectory prior to Friday, March 20, 2020, in order for you to have sufficient time to submit your couples. Parishes are asked to register couples, using this online form, by Monday, March 23, 2020, to facilitate the mailing of confirmation letters, preparing scrolls, and seating assignment of the couples. Please Note: This celebration will not be a Mass, but a prayer service. Attendance of Mass for Sunday obligation will have to be met within one's parish.

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.

Do you want to be a volunteer fire fighter or belong to a company of dedicated first responders? Consider becoming a Volunteer Firefighter or an Honorary Member. Meetings are held once a month on Fourth Tuesday of the Month. Click on links on St Joseph Website for application.

St Joseph Church has the 3:00 slots on Sundays and Mondays at the Gretna Bingo Palace. Please come out to play BINGO and support our Church.

Sunday June 7, 2020 at 3:00 pm at St Philip Neri. Each couple will receive a certificate and picture with Archbishop Aymond. This prayer service is for couples who have been married for 50 years or more. All participants may register online or through their parish. To register, we suggest that you have couple call the rectory prior to Friday, March 20, 2020, in order for you to have sufficient time to submit your couples. Parishes are asked to register couples, using this online form, by Monday, March 23, 2020, to facilitate the mailing of confirmation letters, preparing scrolls, and seating assignment of the couples. Please Note: This celebration will not be a Mass, but a prayer service. Attendance of Mass for Sunday obligation will have to be met within one's parish.