St. Joseph Catholic Church
10404 102 Street T8V 2W3 Grande Prairie, AB, Canada

Join us in a time of Music and Meditation as we listen to the beautiful hymns of comfort, especially in this time of waiting and pandemic. Tell us what songs or themes you would like to hear for our next Music & Meditation.

Welcome weekday mass at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Grande Prairie, Alberta, and Happy Remembrance Day. Fr. Remi Hebert is our presider and homilist. We invite you to like and share this video and write in the comments who is with you or invite someone to join you so more people are with us this morning. You can make donations to St. Joseph Church online on our website at saintjoseph.ca/donate - your support is greatly appreciated.If you you are joining us from another parish, we still encourage you to support your local parish.

Join us in prayer with Archbishop Pettipas and Mgr. Charles Lavoie in the celebration of a Requiem Mass for those who died of COVID-19 in the Archdiocese of Grouard-McLennan.

As we prepare for a Christmas like never before, St. Paul writes that we should "rejoice, pray and give thanks." There is no limit on rejoicing, praying, and giving thanks.

May we focus on what brings us joy on our lives.

Just a reminder to join us for the live-streamed Requiem mass at 4pm for those who have died of COVID-19Just a reminder to join us for the live-streamed Requiem mass at 4pm for those who have died of COVID-19

St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, Virgin (Feast day - November 18) Born in Grenoble, France, in 1769, Rose joined the Society of the Sacred Heart. In 1818, when she was forty-nine years old, Rose was sent to the United States. She founded a boarding school for daughters of pioneers near St. Louis and opened the first free school west of the Missouri. At the age of seventy-one, she began a school for Indians, who soon came to call her "the woman who is always praying". Her biographers have also stressed her courage in frontier conditions, her singlemindedness in pursuing her dream of serving Native Americans, and her self-acceptance. This holy servant of God was beatified by Pope Pius XII in 1940 and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1988. St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, pray for us!

May we seek to be more like St. Joseph this advent season! 1. Listen to the Holy Spirit 2. Unity of work and prayer 3. Devotion to the Virgin Mary... 4. Adore the Christ Child See more

Join Fr. Remi this week for Liturgy of the Word with Children on Christ the King Sunday.

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, was a princess of Hungary whose devotion to the poor (for whom she relinquished her wealth) made her an enduring symbol of Christian charity. The daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary, she was betrothed in infancy to Louis IV, son of Hermann I, landgrave of Thuringia, at whose court she was brought up. The marriage, which occurred when Louis succeeded his father in 1221, proved to be ideal but brief. Louis died in 1227 of plague at Otranto, Italy,... en route to the Sixth Crusade. When his brother Henry assumed the regency, Elizabeth left and took refuge with her uncle, Bishop Eckbert of Bamberg. No longer caring for position or wealth, she joined the Third Order of St. Francis, a lay Franciscan group. At Marburg she built a hospice for the poor and sick, to whose service she devoted the rest of her life. She put herself under the spiritual direction of Konrad von Marburg, an ascetic of incredible harshness and severity, who belonged to no specific order. Among the best-known legends about Elizabeth is the one often depicted in art showing her meeting her husband unexpectedly on one of her charitable errands; the loaves of bread she was carrying were miraculously changed into roses. This transformation convinced him of the worthiness of her kind endeavours, about which he had been chiding her. St. Elizabeth of Hungary, patron saint of bakers, beggars, brides, & charities, pray for us!

John is a saint because his life was a heroic effort to live up to his name: of the Cross. The folly of the cross came to full realization in time. Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me (Mark 8:34b) is the story of John’s life. The Paschal Mysterythrough death to lifestrongly marks John as reformer, mystic-poet, and theologian-priest. Ordained a Carmelite priest in 1567 at age 25, John met Teresa of Avila and like her, vowed... himself to the primitive Rule of the Carmelites. As partner with Teresa and in his own right, John engaged in the work of reform, and came to experience the price of reform: increasing opposition, misunderstanding, persecution, imprisonment. He came to know the cross acutelyto experience the dying of Jesusas he sat month after month in his dark, damp, narrow cell with only his God. Yet, the paradox! In this dying of imprisonment John came to life, uttering poetry. In the darkness of the dungeon, John’s spirit came into the Light. There are many mystics, many poets; John is unique as mystic-poet, expressing in his prison-cross the ecstasy of mystical union with God in the Spiritual Canticle. But as agony leads to ecstasy, so John had his Ascent to Mt. Carmel, as he named it in his prose masterpiece. As man-Christian-Carmelite, he experienced in himself this purifying ascent; as spiritual director, he sensed it in others; as psychologist-theologian, he described and analyzed it in his prose writings. His prose works are outstanding in underscoring the cost of discipleship, the path of union with God: rigorous discipline, abandonment, purification. Uniquely and strongly John underlines the gospel paradox: The cross leads to resurrection, agony to ecstasy, darkness to light, abandonment to possession, denial to self to union with God. If you want to save your life, you must lose it. John is truly of the Cross. He died at 49a life short, but full. St. John of the Cross, pray for us!

Welcome to the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Most Rev. Archbishop Gerard Pettipas is our presider and homilist, and Deacon Gerald Logan is proclaiming the Gospel. Remember to check out this weeks online bulletin: https://saintjoseph.ca/bulletins/all/ You can make donations to St. Joseph Church online on our website at saintjoseph.ca/donate - your support is greatly appreciated.If you you are joining us from another pari...sh, we still encourage you to support your local parish. We invite you to like and share this video and write in the comments who is with you or invite someone to join you so more people are with us this morning.

Check out this week's bulletin- there are many news items, updates, and important information! God Bless and have a blessed week! https://saintjoseph.ca/bulletin/sunday-november-22nd-2020/

Let the light of Christ shine in the darkness! https://buff.ly/2EwRnZA

Welcome to Christ the King Sunday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Fr. Leo English is our presider and homilist. Remember to check out this weeks online bulletin: https://saintjoseph.ca/bulletins/all/ You can make donations to St. Joseph Church online on our website at saintjoseph.ca/donate - your support is greatly appreciated.If you you are joining us from another parish, we still encourage you to support your local parish.... We invite you to like and share this video and write in the comments who is with you or invite someone to join you so more people are with us this morning.