A Community of Generosity, a Family Rooted in Faith
Saint Joseph recorded masses
Weekly Mass TimesMondays: 12:05 pm
Tuesdays: 12:05 pm Fridays: 12:05 pm Saturdays: 4:00 pm Sundays: 8:00 am, 10:00 am & 6:30 pm Private Reconciliation 9:00 am Saturday Mornings
or By Appointment. Office HoursParish Office Hours will be 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Monday through Thursday 9:00 am - 2:00 pm - Friday These times will change as the church opens up more. If you need someone during hours we are closed, please call 920-734-7195 and leave a message or if you need immediate assistance, contact Fr Jim at 920-419-8738. Address404 W. Lawrence St.
Appleton, WI 54911-5817 UPCOMING EVENTS:
Wishing Fr. Jim Good Luck in the Journey Ahead There will be Farewell Celebrations for Fr. Jim on Sat., July 31 and Sunday August 1. On Saturday, there will be a cookout with Burgers & Brats following the 4:00 pm Mass in the East Parking lot. In the event of rain, we will move inside to Holly Hall. On Sunday, there will be special receptions for Fr. Jim in the Great Hall after 8:00 am, 10:00 am, & 6:30 pm Masses. We hope you can attend one of these gatherings for a chance to say farewell to Fr. Jim and thank him for his eleven years of service and ministry at St. Joe’s. God bless him! Note: there will be NO PARKING IN THE EAST LOT ON SATURDAY. Celebrating Elderly & GrandparentsThis weekend we celebrate Grandparents and Elderly. We are all blessed by their presence in our lives...their wisdom, their humor, their willingness to give of themselves.
Think about the people that are older in your life and how they have given you so much. Take time this weekend to say thank you to them in person or through prayers. Enjoy these stories that were submitted about Elderly or Grandparents! My grandparents, John and Ruth Fafinski are special to me because I always have the best fun with them, there are so many memories! Nowadays, I always love going out to dinner with them whenever we visit, and telling them about my adventures and hearing about theirs. It's always nice to get some good homemade meals from them too! Whether it be Papa showing his pizza making prowess, or Grandma making a delicious chicken pot pie (I picked a pot pie because she is the reason I love chicken pot pies), I know I'm in for some good eats whenever I come to town! Good family and good food, it doesn't get much better than that. -Max Jozwiak I always loved traveling with Grandma and Papa! [John & Ruth Fafinski] I also love being able to visit them in Arizona over spring break. I was able to visit them for my 21st birthday, and it was great to be able to celebrate with them and spend time with them! Love you both very much. Happy Grandparents Day! - Maddie Jensen Hi Grandma and Papa! [John & Ruth Fafinski] Happy Grandparents' Day! One of my most favorite memories was being able to live with you during the summer before my freshman year of college and then you being my "home" all throughout the year! I really appreciated you being able to be there for my summer orientation weekend as I was adjusting to living in Wisconsin for the first time and allowing me a place to stay whenever I needed a little break from campus life! I loved being able to build a special bond with you and getting to start my spring break tradition of traveling to Arizona during my college years. And now I love when you get to see us when you come to La Crosse! I love you! -Katie Jensen I am so grateful to have John and Ruth Fafinski in my life as such supportive grandparents. Whether it was watching marching band performances in cold, rainy weather; driving hours to move me into my dorm room freshman year (again, in the rain!); or attending my high school and college graduations, my grandparents are always there to cheer me on. John and Ruth are kind, dependable, and fun. They always have the best bread for toast. Most of all, though, they are always there for me. I love you both! -Alison Jozwiak As a child my favorite memory was going to Bay Beach and going on the rides with my grandparents Kathy and Gene Losselyong and having a picnic in the park area after and feeding the ducks. We have now continued the tradition by taking my son, their great grandchild Jameson each Summer along with his cousins Jack and Felicity to Bay Beach and going on rides. Kathy and Gene have always been very dedicated to their family and have rarely missed a sporting event their grandchildren played in. Love, -Kalie and Jameson Tracey Coming over for lunch after church and eating melted cheese sandwiches, playing beauty salon aka curling and styling gramma’s hair, playing cards, bowling, taking numerous walks, sleepovers, & Christmas parties at your house to name a few. Thank you for all the love and support you have given me over the years. For hosting us when we come home to visit, for sending little goodies to your great grandkids and treating them so well. I hope you know how much you mean to us and how special it has been growing up having you by our side! We love you so much! With Love,-Heidi Losselyong My favorite memories with my grandparents, Gene and Kathy Losselyong was them showing up to all of my sporting events and my graduation. My grandparents have always been supportive of me and I cherish all of the memories we have made and many more to come! As a child, my grandparents would play crazy 8 the card game with me and they were always the lucky winners! I am very thankful to have my wonderful grandparents. Love, -Laken Tracey What do I remember most about my Grandma (Agnes Smarzinski)? Ever since I was a young girl, I’ve always enjoyed baking with my Grandma. She had the best cookie recipes (my favorites are her Oatmeal Scotchies and Monster cookies) and at Christmas time, her homemade popcorn balls and her amazing cherry torte always reminded me of being home at the holidays. When I was young, coming over to her house to bake cookies was something I always looked forward to! (Of course hers were always perfect and mine come out close but not the same - I swear she still has secrets ingredients hidden somewhere or some kind of magical powers to make things delicious). Even when I moved with my job to different states; I always remembered the fun I had and the amazing recipes I learned from her over the years. She always spoiled us with sweet treats! In fact, one of my favorite Christmas presents ever that she gave us was recipe binders with her favorites (okay - our favorites really). Holidays are not complete without her Cherry Torte. She has taught me so many things that I’ve taught my children as well. Great memories that I will remember forever about one amazing lady who I feel blessed to love as my own Grandma. - Christine Andrews There are too many wonderful stories that I could share about my grandparents, but my favorite has to be one from when I was younger about my grandma. If you don’t know my grandma, Barb Mauthe, she’s not the most fond of animals. I was around 3 years old at the time. My mom, grandma, my sister Keira (who was a baby at the time), and I were leaving the house through the door in the garage, when suddenly, a huge flying creature came into the garage and made a beeline for the open door. If it wasn’t for my grandma’s quick thinking skills the flying creature would’ve gotten into the house, she quickly shut the door while screaming at it. The one miscalculation in her brave attempt to keep our house creature-free, is that instead of pulling my mom, sister, and I back inside the house, she pushed us all out of the house to be left with the enormous flying beast swooping in and out of our garage. We all laugh about this account today, and we all love you very much, Grandma. (Even though you did sacrifice me to not a huge flying beast, but a small bird at a young age. Don’t worry, it was still a heroic attempt.) Love you! -McKenna Andrews I remember every Christmas making cut-out cookies with my papa. My favorite shape that we made were probably the bells. My papa had a habit of collecting different sprinkles, silver balls, M&M’s, colored sugar, and probably 50 different colors of frosting. We would make cookies together for over 12 families. I have become quite the cookie decorator. I look forward to baking with my papa every year. He makes my favorite cookies and I hope I can do the same as I get older as well. -Keira Andrews My maternal grandfather was the only one of my grandparents still living when I was born. He was 70 at the time. He came every Sunday in the late morning and stayed for lunch, dinner, and to watch sports and play cribbage with my father. He was very formal, always dressed in a suit. He had been an official with the Sterling Motor Truck Company and with Transamerica Company. I remember learning a lot of “proper English” from him as he always corrected any mistakes in grammar, and I learned quickly as I did not like the way he corrected me. However, I did come away with a good grasp of the English language. He was very generous with my parents. My mom’s first husband was a dentist and mom stayed home with their four children. Her husband died while the youngest was less than a year old and grandfather purchased a home for them to live in. About ten years later, mom married my father. I remember one Christmas, years later, how taken aback my parents were when they opened the gift from grandpa and found it was the deed to the house. Grandfather was a graduate of Marquette University and, for many years, was the oldest living alum of MU. The university gifted him a pair of seats behind the bench for the basketball games during the Al McGuire era. He didn’t feel he should accept such a gift and gave them back. My wife and I were in college at the time and often thought (jokingly) of how we could have paid our tuition with the proceeds of the sale of those tickets if he had kept them. I also remember grandpa’s recollections of the history of Milwaukee. His father was the first person to sign up for the Army when Lincoln’s Call to Arms was read outside the cathedral in Milwaukee. Great-grandfather never fought in the war due to an illness he contracted, but he learned how to make ice cream when he was in the south. When he returned to Milwaukee, he started the Luick Ice Cream Company, later Luick Dairy, which was purchased by National Diary and made a part of Sealtest. I wish there had been a tape recorder back then so we could have recorded all the history grandfather related to use over the years. Grandfather died in 1974 at the age of 93. -Mark Holzhauer As a young boy in the early 1970s I attended Saturday Mass at St. Joseph’s with my family. I remember how huge the church seemed to me and I especially remember how kind the people of St. Joseph’s were. Father Ephrem Hertel made me feel especially welcome and always made time to visit with me after Mass. In 2018 my wife Joan and I decided to join the parish at St. Joseph’s. We were immediately welcomed into the St. Joseph family and a parishioner that became an good friend of ours right away was Ruth Harp. Ruth always arrives at Mass early to pray her rosary. We have always sat near Ruth at church and she always makes time to visit with us. She is caring and a great role model as to what a Catholic should aspire to be. Our conversations with her are fun and inspiring and we can tell that many others value her as a friend and an example. Each week we look forward to visiting with Ruth. Ruth does much for our church. She can be found at many weekday masses filling the role of lector. One can tell that she prepares for the lecturing role and takes that role seriously as her reading is clear and meaningful. A few weeks ago I was worrying about something more than I should be. It was keeping me awake at night and affecting my happiness. It was one of those things I wished my parents were still around so that I could ask them their advice. My parents passed away within the last 5 years and I miss them terribly. Ruth is approximately the age that my parents would be. I decided to ask Ruth what she does to help with worry. She talked to me about her thoughts on worry and told me to put the worry in God’s hands and God would take care of it in his way. She then told me that once you do that you can’t worry about it anymore because God has it. What fantastic advice and having Ruth tell me this in her own words made this situation better. Now each day when I have a worry I offer it up to God and then say a prayer of thanks for having Ruth as a friend and as a fellow parishioner. Joan and I value Ruth more than she knows. Her smiling face and her faith is a shining light to us and to many others! God Bless You Ruth! - Dave & Joan Sachs Consider sending in a story next year when we again celebrate this special weekend on the Fourth Sunday of July, 2022. |
Fr. Jim Jottings
Welcoming a new Pastor!
Here are a few suggestions for everyone to keep in mind with the transition of Pastors. 1. Be patient. Everything is new! New faces, new schedules, new names, new routines, did I mention new faces? In our parish, there are many parishioners, activities and things going on. We need to give lots of grace and patience. 2. Introduce yourself, your name, what you’re involved in and don’t be embarrassed to do it more than once! Don’t be offended if he doesn’t remember you from that first meeting. You are meeting one new person, he is meeting HUNDREDS! 3. Let him change his mind. Sometimes questions are thrown at a new priest and, like all of us, they can be caught off guard. Sometimes decisions are rushed or without knowing all the details. Once again, give a lot of grace and wiggle room. Put yourself in his shoes. 4. Did your mother ever tell you that “Comparison is the thief of joy”? Comparing to what we’re used to is an easy trap to fall in. We all know that no two people are alike. We shouldn’t expect our priests to be all alike either. Again, this is where grace and patience come into play and we should avoid the comparison trap which poisons relationships. Here at St Joe’s we’ve gone through a change of Pastors 33 times! That is a lot of “hellos” and “goodbyes”. Soon we will do this again. Fr Gerry Pehler will be here on August 3rd and I will be on my way on August 4th to St Lawrence Seminary in Mt Calvary. Sit amore Dei! Non-Raffle RAFFLE Thanks to all those who have been able to support our “Non-Raffle Raffle”. This is the twelfth year of the raffle. It has been successful and, especially, helpful in paying for our summer expenses. We invite you to offer a gift of $35 and return it in the envelope you received with our letter. Please help in the next few weeks with your donation. As of July 21, we raised $21,678. Last year the parish raised over $23,000. Thank you ahead of time for your donation. Attn: Bus Riders St. Joe’s Parish is tentatively looking at setting up a Saturday evening bus for those not able to drive to 4:00 pm Mass. Are you a person who needs a ride to Mass? Please contact the Parish Office at 920- 734-7195 and leave your name and address if you’re interested. Before we can proceed, we’d need a minimum of 10 riders to make the option feasible. Sunday BulletinsQuick Links |
Upcoming Events
SCRIP
TEMPORARILY: We have some SCRIP cards in the office that you can call ahead to have ready for pick-up.
In addition, we are accepting orders for SCRIP, where you can order anything on the SCRIP Order Form and send it to the Parish or drop it at the Office. Upon receiving the order we will get the order filled and let you know when it is ready for pick-up.
[SUSPENDED: SCRIP being sold the first and third full weekends of the month from January through October, then every weekend November 1st until the weekend before Christmas.]
ORDER WHAT YOU NEED TODAY!
What is SCRIP, you may ask? SCRIP is a gift card program where participating vendors return a portion of the value of the gift card to Xavier Schools and St. Joe's. You receive the value of your purchase and we get a "rebate" type return. Please consider using SCRIP to help support St. Joe's.
To expedite your order, fill out the SCRIP Order Form.
TEMPORARILY: We have some SCRIP cards in the office that you can call ahead to have ready for pick-up.
In addition, we are accepting orders for SCRIP, where you can order anything on the SCRIP Order Form and send it to the Parish or drop it at the Office. Upon receiving the order we will get the order filled and let you know when it is ready for pick-up.
[SUSPENDED: SCRIP being sold the first and third full weekends of the month from January through October, then every weekend November 1st until the weekend before Christmas.]
ORDER WHAT YOU NEED TODAY!
What is SCRIP, you may ask? SCRIP is a gift card program where participating vendors return a portion of the value of the gift card to Xavier Schools and St. Joe's. You receive the value of your purchase and we get a "rebate" type return. Please consider using SCRIP to help support St. Joe's.
To expedite your order, fill out the SCRIP Order Form.
St. Joseph Food Program
The first full weekend of each month, we collect groceries for St. Joseph Food Program. For more information about the St. Joseph Food Program and how you can help, visit their website: StJoesFoodProgram.org
Our Mission
Reaching In to ourselves to share our God-given gifts within our church community.
Reaching Out with care and compassion to our fellow parishioners as well as the needs within our community and beyond.
Reaching God through worship sacraments, prayer and spiritual growth.
Reaching Out with care and compassion to our fellow parishioners as well as the needs within our community and beyond.
Reaching God through worship sacraments, prayer and spiritual growth.
REACHING IN...
To share our God - given gifts within our church community.
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REACHING OUT...
With care and compassion to
our fellow parishioners as well as the needs within our community and beyond |
REACHING GOD...
Through worship, sacraments, prayer, and spiritual growth
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