The Red Cross will have a blood drive here at St. Joseph’s on Tuesday, September 22. It will be in our church hall and will run from 1:00-6:00 P.M.. To ensure safety precautions are best carried out, they ask that everyone who is to donate blood register before they come to the drive. To register and schedule an appointment please call 1-800-RED-CROSS or visit redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code: StJoseph. Blood supply levels are at a critically low level. Please consider giving blood- each donation can save a life!
The women of the Parish are invited to a morning of prayer, reflection, and sharing on Wednesday, September 23 at 9:45 A.M. in the parish center. We will be guided through an experience of Lectio Divina, a method of praying with scripture. This method involves reading a scripture passage four times with pauses for personal reflection and prayer after each reading. Please join us and bring along a friend. If you have any questions, please contact Sr. Elizabeth Anne at 845-255-7462 or dipippoe@newpaltz.edu
On Thursday, September 24 Fr. Salvatore will be offering a workshop on Centering Prayer. It will be in the church and will begin at 7:00 P.M. Centering Prayer is a form of spiritual meditation that disposes us to enter contemplative prayer and to say “yes” to the presence of God within us. Fr. Salvatore will speak on the spirituality and the technique of this way to pray and then we will have the opportunity to pray in that way. And Fr. Salvatore will be offering similar workshops on Lectio Divina on October 6 and the Jesus Prayer on October 22.
On Saturday, October 3 at 11:00 A.M. we will dedicate the prayer grotto in front of the parish center to our beloved Capuchin brother Fr. Barnabas Keck, who passed away in 2013. Fr. Barnabas was a very patriotic man and had a great love of the Blessed Mother so we’re sure he will be happy that this space was being dedicated in his memory. The donor of the grotto wishes to remain anonymous but we still offer our great thanks to them.