The parish office will close at 12:00 noon on Wednesday 11/23. The office will remain closed on Thursday, 11/24 and Friday, 11/25.

Come and celebrate the Season of Advent with a devotion through song to the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Sunday, December 4th at 6:30 pm.

Join us from 6:30 to 7:30 pm in the Church for our Advent Series - Angels of Advent. Click Headline to read on...

Please consider giving this year in our annual Stewardship Appeal and keep the mission of the Church of St. Joseph strong and effective.

On Sunday we celebrated the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. The Gospel reading is from the account of the crucifixion of Jesus on Good Friday. Jesus is King, yet He hangs on the Cross. And there is more: The rulers sneer at Jesus (Lk. 23:35) as - Click headline to read on.

Martha had been waiting for Jesus all day. She had begun to prepare the meal from the time she awakened. She had his favorite food on the menu. She kept looking out the window to see if he was walking down the road. When he did arrive, she was the one who met him at the door. Mary, meanwhile, “heard his word.” The text says that Mary “sat at the - Click Headline to Read On...

This year we mark 75 years as a parish and celebrate our Diamond Anniversary. We were officially declared a parish of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia on July 2, 1947, when our founding pastor, Fr. James A. Donnelly met with Dennis Joseph Cardinal Dougherty, who granted the people of ‘Green Ridge’, in Delaware County, permission to establish a new parish. Less than two weeks later - Click headline to read on...

Our founding pastor was Fr. James A. Donnelly. Fr. Donnelly stayed through the founding/building phases of our parish, as the cornerstone for the ‘Old Church’ was laid in 1949, and our rectory built in 1951, followed by the Original Church building. At that time, we saw the arrival of our second pastor - Click headline to read on...

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Walking with the Saints - We celebrate Mary, Queen of Saints, in her Immaculate Conception. For generations, among many Christian Catholic people, this has been one of the most misunderstood feasts on the Church calendar. This Feast, this celebration, is that of Mary being born without the stain of original sin. It is not about the sinlessness of Jesus. God chose Mary to be the stainless vessel, worthy of bearing His Son, and He did it with her full acceptance and cooperation. Click headline to read on...

Walking with the Saints Reflection. Thanksgiving...what a wonderful time to sit, reflect and be thankful. I have always looked forward to the Thanksgiving holiday. It is a way to bring everyone together, to share a meal, a laugh, a prayer and a memory.

He grew up under not just one, but two totalitarian regimes. He was almost killed in a car accident when we was young. He lost his mother at the age of eight. He lost his older brother five years later. At twenty years of age he lost his father, prompting the then-young man to say, “At twenty, I have already lost all the people I loved.” Later in life, a trained assassin fired a direct shot at him from yards away and missed the major artery of his heart only by mere centimeters.

A cloistered nun over 400 years ago continues to teach many others how to relate and pray to God - St. Teresa of Avila. Her wisdom, however, is not just for cloistered nuns...

One Of God's Finest... As we continue our walk with the Saints, we are reminded that throughout salvation history, our good and loving God blesses us with special people in our midst to guide us along the way. Read Deacon Jack Betzal's reflection on St. Francis Of Assisi in honor of his Feast Day!

Guardian Angels go before us everywhere. Read Msgr. Bransfield's reflection on the Church's celebration on this Feast of the Guardian Angels.

We continue our Saint’s Series with a reflection by Fr. Michal Mullan on St. Therese of Lisieux on her Feast Day of October 1st

It is a quiet, sunny day as I sit in church. The stained glass windows speckle their parade of colors on the white wall. The colors are beautiful. I have a few moments to myself. I take out my rosary and pray...