St Joseph Catholic Church

Jewel, we love it

Wonderfully beautiful and reverent masses. Homilies that are incredibly relevant to Catholics trying to navigate the modern world.

Wonderful parish, the True Mass and the True Faith can be found here in our current spiritual wasteland.

Visited twice, including Christmas eve midnight Mass. This was the most reverent Sacrifice of the Mass with the most pious parishioners of any Catholic Church I’ve ever visited. All the faithful who receive Holy Communion receive our Eucharistic Lord on the tongue while kneeling. The most beautiful sung liturgy by choir that I’ve ever heard. So this is what Mass is supposed to look like and sound like?!?! Why on earth would the Vatican have moved away from this? Mass here is simply magnificent. Also, here the Mass is clearly a Sacrifice to Almighty God. Everything is clearly focused on God above, and not on our neighbors and ourselves.

Warm, friendly laity. The Sunday Mass is offered by an SSPX priest. He is young, serious and amiable—but not jocular or folksy. Looks like a young army lieutenant—disciplined and serious about souls. I sense no schismatic attitude in his preaching—no disrespect or hostility toward legitimate Church authorities, and no desire for separation from the Pope.

The SSPX is in an “irregular” situation within the Church—because of their denial of some modernist portions of Vatican 2 documents (importantly, Vatican 2 did not define any dogmas that must be held by all). The head/secretary of the pontifical commission “Ecclesia Dei” (charged by the Vatican with oversight of traditional groups/orders) says they are not in schism. The Vatican has recently extended to the SSPX unlimited faculties to hear confessions and grant absolution, and to preside at weddings and offer nuptial Masses in certain/limited situations. Additionally, last year the Vatican gave the SSPX approval to ordain their seminarians as new priests without approval of the ordinary diocesan bishops. So, it seems the SSPX is a problem for the Vatican (because they are not on-board with the modernist currents within the Church over the last 40-50 years), but they are a problem WITHIN the Church.

Whether or not the SSPX is a problem for the Vatican (and the Vatican has plenty of its own problems right now), Mass at St Joseph is beautiful and uplifting and is the Mass offered by the Saints of the Church through all its ages until 1969. After seeing this, one can only weep for what is considered worship in the wider Latin Church now

Beautiful SSPX parish. Went for Midnight Christmas Mass and the prior Sunday. This parish didn’t have a permanent priest at the time (not sure if they’ve gotten one yet) and Fr. Sick presided over the Masses and gave wonderful confessions before Mass.