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St. Joseph Catholic Church, Middletown, CA

Catholic church serving the communities of South Lake County (Middletown, Cobb and Hidden Valley Lak

St. Joseph Catholic Church, Middletown, CA

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Have a very Blessed day on this Solemnity of the Annunciation which commemorates the Angel Gabriels announcement to Mary that she would conceive Jesus by the Holy Spirit. Today we step out of Lent, in one way.We are nine months away from Christmas. This is the feast of the Incarnation – the enfleshment of our God for us. In Jesus, God entered this world, our world.This day thereby offers wonderful Lenten graces. On this day the eternal Father sent his angel to bring Mary the good news of our salvation. Mary is God's servant. She is humble and she says "yes." And God, for whom "nothing is impossible, does the restLet us turn to God and pray with confidenc:“Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call Him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David, and He will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; His kingdom will never end…” (Luke 1:26-38)ALMIGHTY FATHER of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, You have revealed the beauty of Your power by exalting MARY, the lowly Virgin of Nazareth and making her the Mother of our Savior. May the prayers of this woman bring Jesus to the waiting world and fill the void of incompletion with the presence of her Child, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit one God forever and ever. Amen. O MOST HOLY VIRGIN MARY, to whom God sent the Archangel Gabriel to announce that you should be the Mother of His Only-Begotten Son, pray for us who have recourse to you. Holy, lovely Mary, we give our all to you what is past and present, and the future, too. Blessed be the holy and Immaculate Conception of the most blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God.HAIL MARY, FULL OF GRACE. THE LORD IS WITH THEE. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, JESUS. Holy Mary, Mother of GOD, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.R: Lord, fill our hearts with your love.You chose the Virgin Mary as the mother of your Son, – have mercy on all who look for your gift of salvation. You sent Gabriel to give Mary your message of peace and joy, – give to the whole world the joy of salvation and your gift of true peace. Mary gave her consent, the Holy Spirit overshadowed her, and your Word came to dwell among us, – touch our hearts that we may welcome Christ as Mary did.You look with love on the humble, and fill the hungry with your gifts, – raise up the downcast, help all in need, comfort and strengthen the dying. Lord our God, you alone work wonders and with you all things are possible, – give us the fullness of salvation when you raise up the dead on the last day. Closing Prayer: God of infinite love, I thank you for this feast of our salvation, right here in the middle of Lent. I turn to you to beg for your help. I need the inspiration and help of Mary on this journey. Please grant me the grace to be humbly faithful to what you are calling me to do. Please give me what I need to be free and to be your servant. Please let Mary guide us in the path to peace in our world. I ask you this, in Jesus' name.May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen. Pope Francis in his homily on March 25th, 2017 "Even today God is still searching for hearts like Mary’s that are open to welcoming his invitation and providing hope, even when it’s hard. As in the past, God continues to look for allies, he continues to seek men and women capable of believing, remembering and recognising that they are part of his people and cooperating with the Holy Spirit.God continues to walk our neighborhoods and our streets, he pushes in each place in search of hearts capable of listening to his invitation and making it become flesh here and now.In the end, the Lord continues to seek hearts like that of Mary, disposed to believe even in very extraordinary conditions" www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/on-annunciation-pope-says-god-still-seeks-hearts-like-mary-42544 … See MoreSee Less

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It’s Friday off the Second Week of Lent today! We have Stations of the Cross at 5pm in English and 6pm in Spanish. ➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕➕Stations of the Cross/ Via CrucisLenten Season/ Cuaresma 2025Every Friday/ Casa Viernes5:00pm – English 6:00pm- Spanish … See MoreSee Less

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March 19, Mass on The Solemnity of Saint Joseph, the Husband of Mary⛪️⛪️⛪️⛪️⛪️8:30am- English6:30pm- Spanish ⛪️⛪️⛪️⛪️⛪️The Patron of our Parish! Protect us, Provide for us and Pray for us! Have a very Blessed day as we celebrate the Feast of our Spiritual Father, St Joseph. May he continue to watch over us and intercede for us all according to Gods will. May we always look to him as a most humble servant of God and continously strive to imitate him in the life he led as the foster father of our Lord Jesus.Final Novena PrayerDear Lord Jesus, I have specific requests that may only partially fill the infinite needs and desires that are in my heart. I ask that You answer me not only for those requests but also for a greater reliance on You to satisfy the needs and desires that You have given me. Please grant the prayers of all those who prayed this novena with me. Bless them with Your love and make them holy!May I seek You with a sincere heart knowing that it will profit me nothing if I gain the whole world yet lose my soul. So, help me to see Your good and gracious purpose in all my trials. Help me to see Your blessings in every day and help me to love You more. Thank You for everything, Lord Jesus! Amen.Feast Day PrayerSaint Joseph, guardian of Jesus and chaste husband of Mary, you passed your life in loving fulfillment of duty. You supported the holy family of Nazareth with the work of your hands. Kindly protect those who trustingly come to you. You know their aspirations, their hardships, their hopes. They look to you because they know you will understand and protect them. You too knew trial, labor and weariness. But amid the worries of material life, your soul was full of deep peace and sang out in true joy through intimacy with God's Son entrusted to you and with Mary, his tender Mother. Assure those you protect that they do not labor alone. Teach them to find Jesus near them and to watch over Him faithfully as you have done. Amen. – St Pope John XXIIIAmenLitany of St. JosephLord, have mercy on us Christ, have mercy on us.Lord, have mercy on us.Christ, hear us,Christ, graciously hear us. God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.God the Son,Redeemer of the World, have mercy on us.God the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us.Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us. Holy Mary, pray for us.St. Joseph, pray for us.Renowned offspring of David, pray for us.Light of Patriarchs,pray for us.Spouse of the Mother of God, pray for us.Chaste guardian of the Virgin,pray for us.Foster father of the Son of God, pray for us.Diligent protector of Christ, pray for us.Head of the Holy Family, pray for us.Joseph most just, pray for us.Joseph most chaste, pray for us.Joseph most prudent, pray for us.Joseph most strong, pray for us.Joseph most obedient, pray for us.Joseph most faithful,pray for us.Mirror of patience, pray for us.Lover of poverty, pray for us.Model of artisans, pray for us.Glory of home life, pray for us.Guardian of virgins, pray for us.Pillar of families, pray for us.Solace of the wretched, pray for us.Hope of the sick, pray for us.Patron of the dying, pray for us.Terror of demons, pray for us.Protector of Holy Church, pray for us. Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,spare us, O Jesus.Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,graciously hear us, O Jesus.Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,have mercy on us, O Jesus. He made him the lord of his household.And prince over all his possessions.Let us pray:O God, in your ineffable providence you were pleased to choose Blessed Joseph to be the spouse of your most holy Mother; grant, we beg you, that we may be worthy to have him for our intercessor in heaven whom on earth we venerate as our Protector: You who live and reign forever and ever.Saint Joseph, pray for us.Amen … See MoreSee Less

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9th Day Novena to Saint JosephDay Nine: Patron of a Happy DeathSaint Joseph, how fitting it was that at the hour of your death Jesus should stand at your bedside with Mary, the sweetness and hope of all mankind. You gave your entire life to the service of Jesus and Mary; at death you enjoyed the consolation of dying in Their loving arms. You accepted death in the spirit of loving submission to the Will of God, and this acceptance crowned your hidden life of virtue. Yours was a merciful judgment, for your foster-Son, for whom you had cared so lovingly, was your Judge, and Mary was your advocate. The verdict of the Judge was a word of encouragement to wait for His coming to Limbo, where He would shower you with the choicest fruits of the Redemption, and an embrace of grateful affection before you breathed forth your soul into eternity.You looked into eternity and to your everlasting reward with confidence. If our Savior blessed the shepherds, the Magi, Simeon, John the Baptist, and others, because they greeted His presence with devoted hearts for a brief passing hour, how much more did He bless you who have sanctified yourself for so many years in His company and that of His Mother? If Jesus regards every corporal and spiritual work of mercy, performed in behalf of our fellow men out of love for Him, as done to Himself, and promises heaven as a reward, what must have been the extent of His gratitude to you who in the truest sense of the word have received Him, given Him shelter, clothed, nourished, and consoled Him at the sacrifice of your strength and rest, and even your life, with a love which surpassed the love of all fathers.God really and personally made Himself your debtor. Our Divine Savior paid that debt of gratitude by granting you many graces in your lifetime, especially the grace of growing in love, which is the best and most perfect of all gifts. Thus at the end of your life your heart became filled with love, the fervor and longing of which your frail body could not resist. Your soul followed the triumphant impulse of your love and winged its flight from earth to bear the prophets and patriarchs in Limbo the glad tidings of the advent of the Redeemer.Saint Joseph, I thank God for your privilege of being able to die in the arms of Jesus and Mary. As a token of your own gratitude to God, obtain for me the grace of a happy death. Help me to spend each day in preparation for death. May I, too, accept death in the spirit of resignation to God's Holy Will, and die, as you did, in the arms of Jesus, strengthened by Holy Viaticum, and in the arms of Mary, with her rosary in my hand and her name on my lips!Saint Joseph, I, your unworthy child, greet you. You are the faithful protector and intercessor of all who love and venerate you. You know that I have special confidence in you and that, after Jesus and Mary, I place all my hope of salvation in you, for you are especially powerful with God and will never abandon your faithful servants. Therefore I humbly invoke you and commend myself, with all who are dear to me and all that belong to me, to your intercession. I beg of you, by your love for Jesus and Mary, not to abandon me during life and to assist me at the hour of my death.Glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, obtain for me a pure, humble, charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. Be my guide, my father, and my model through life that I may merit to die as you did in the arms of Jesus and Mary.Loving Saint Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, I raise my heart to you to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the Divine Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for my spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special grace I now implore:(Mention your request).Guardian of the Word Incarnate, I feel confident that your prayers in my behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God. Amen.MEMORARERemember, most pure spouse of Mary, ever Virgin, my loving protector, Saint Joseph, that no one ever had recourse to your protection or asked for your aid without obtaining relief. Confiding, therefore, in your goodness, I come before you and humbly implore you. Despise not my petitions, foster-father of the Redeemer, but graciously receive them. Amen. … See MoreSee Less

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