All are Welcome

"Come to Me all who labor and are overburdened
 and i will give you rest"
Our Mission is based on Matthew 11:12

Mass Times


Weekend

Saturday: 8:00 AM, 12:00 PM, 4:00 PM

Sunday: 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 12:00 PM

Weekday

Monday–Friday:  8:00 AM, 12:00 PM, 5:30 PM

Mass and Confession Schedule

upcoming Holy Hours

End of Human Trafficking

Monday, June 9

4:00 PM

Sanctity of Life

Monday, June 23

4:00 PM

Vocations

Monday, June 30

4:00 PM

Eucharistic Adoration

Saturday: After 12:00 PM Mass til the 4:00 PM Mass

First Fridays: After 12:00 PM Mass til the 5:30 PM Mass

Confession Times

Monday–Friday: 10:30 AM–11:45 AM, 4:30–5:15 PM

Saturday: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

First Wednesdays: 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Anointing of the Sick

First Saturday of the month, June 7, after all Masses :

8:00 AM, 12:00 PM, 4:00 PM

Live Streaming Mass

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2025 Jubilee Year Pilgrims of Hope

December 24, 2024 - January 6, 2026

Archbishop Henning has designated St. Joseph the Worker Shrine as a “Holy Site” for the Jubilee year. Under certain conditions a plenary indulgence may be obtained by those who take Sacramental Confession and the Eucharist and fulfill certain other prescriptions. 

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March Jubilee Newsletter/Events

Plenary Indulgence Guide

2025 Jubilee FAQs


This Week's Message from

Father Michael Amesse



June 1, 2025


A few weeks ago, I wrote about the virtues: faith, hope, and charity. I quoted the French writer, Charles Péguy and his analogy that faith, hope, charity are three sisters walking together—and the little virtue, hope, is the one who makes them all walk together. I want to talk more about hope. What is hope? Charles Péguy says hope loves what will be. It is true! How else can we define hope?


We cannot live without hope. Fr. T.S. Sullivan, OMI, says this about hope, “What food is to the body, hope is to the soul. Deprive a man of food and he will die—not immediately, but day by day he will grow weaker until the spark of life is extinguished. So too with a man, a nation or a civilization that has ceased to hope.”


We see in the world so many who need help and suffer from addiction and other problems. Why? I think it is because they are without hope. I know hope has helped me as I recover. What if I did not have hope? My days would be long and dark. I would be fearful of the future. But with hope—I see light and I know the future will be safe. I am not afraid.


I met Our Lady of Hope when my family visited the Shrine of Our Lady of Hope in Essex, NY. That is where I met the Oblates. There is a statue of our Lady of Hope in our Shrine. Have you stopped to pray to her? She watches over all of you each day!



I pray for you–you pray for me.


Last Week's Message

June is the Month of the Sacred Heart

 

The month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a devotion which began in the 12th Century and gained popularity after Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in the 1670s, revealing to her the image of His Sacred Heart.

Baby Bottle Drive to benefit the 

 Pregnancy Care Center


We are pleased to once again partner with the Pregnancy Care Center.  The Pregnancy Care Center, located on Warren Street, provides women at no-cost, ultrasounds, pregnancy testing, adoption support,  and after abortion support.  The Pregnancy Care Center is  pro-woman and a non-profit. They  do not provide or refer for abortion services.


In front of the  St. Joseph the Worker statue, near the organ, there is a baby crib with baby bottles.  Take a bottle and fill it with loose change and/or bills over the next several weeks.  If you don’t have cash, checks are also welcome. Please make payable to Pregnancy Care Center. 


All baby bottles should be returned no later than  June 8. Please leave your baby bottle with the Giftshop staff or with  Sacristan David Lazu.


You may read more about the work they do at https://pccnortheast.org/ 

at the shrine.....

Pure in Heart

Young Adults ages 18-35

Next Meeting Tuesday, June 10

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Legion Of Mary

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Light a Devotional Candle at the Shrine

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Ring the Bells of the Shrine

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Shrine Memorial Plaques Available

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First Fridays at The Shrine

Next First Friday - June 6

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Pure in Heart

Young Adults ages 18-35

Next Meeting Tuesday, June 10

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Legion Of Mary

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Can You Help Us? 


Many of us regularly receive unsolicited religious items in the mail - along with requests for the support of various charitable activities. After contributing to one or two of our choosing, those endless monetary requests can be declined in good conscience. Oftentimes, however, folks are puzzled as to what they should do with the accumulated religious tokens they were sent.


If you or your friends have a stockpile of such religious items, please bring them here to the Shrine and we will make them available as gratis religious tokens for folks to take home during the Folk Festival (coming this July!). We use these items to fill and refill the “Basket 0’ Haloes”  in our sidewalk welcoming tent.   Please give the to Sacristan David Lazu or with the Giftshop staff.  



Downes Parking Garage Ticket Validation


  • Available in the Gift Shop /Bookstore
    Monday through Saturday
    from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Sunday street parking is always free
  • Those attending the Saturday 4 p.m. Vigil Mass who park in the Downes Garage
    can validate their ticket in the Gift Shop before Mass




Catholic Conversations

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“Come to me all you who labor and are overburdened, and I will give you rest.”

– Matthew 11:28





Praying with the Stained Glass Windows of

St. Joseph the Worker Shrine


Part I - The 100 Year+ Windows Series Part II - The St. Joseph Windows

 




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Through St. Joseph the Worker Shrine




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Self Guided Tour of

St. Joseph the Worker Shrine


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Our Mission

We who minister at the Shrine are committed to work collaboratively with one another and with you. Our aim is to provide a place of prayer, conscious reflection, and social action that is hospitable to and calls forth the gifts of all who come to the Shrine. We do this in the spirit of Jesus Christ and of
Saint Eugene de Mazenod, founder of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

Our Mission is based on Matthew 11:28:
"Come to me all you who labor and are overburdoned, and I will give you rest"

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