| Welcome |
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Your priest, the staff of our parish and your fellow parishioners are happy that you have joined us and we hope that you
have many spiritually fruitful years as part of our community of faith. This web page will provide you with some information about the organization and groups of the parish. Our parish depends on the involvement of its parishioners, and we invite you to become a participating member of our faith community. If you need further information about joining any group or activity, please call the rectory office at (212) 267-8376 Monday through Friday from 9AM to 12 Noon. |
| History |
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St. Joseph Parish was opened by the Missionaries of St. Charles, an order of
priests and brothers founded by Blessed John Baptist Scalabrini in 1887 to serve the
needs of immigrants. The cornerstone of the Church was laid in 1923 by the first
pastor of St. Joseph parish, Father Vincent M. Jannuzzi. Shortly after the
founding of the parish, the Scalabrinians were joined by the Apostles of the
Sacred Heart of Jesus, who helped open St. Joseph School in 1926. St. Joseph is a national parish which continues the mission of the Church of St. Joachim, a church founded by the Missionaries of St. Charles who arrived in New York City in 1889. Immediately after, Mother Cabrini was welcomed by the same Church as she arrived to the United States. Today, the Church and School of St. Joseph continue to welcome all people. |
| Mission |
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We, the Roman Catholic family of St. Joseph, founded by the Missionaries of
St. Charles, are a multi-ethnic parish rooted in a ministry toward migrant
groups, with a strong history and tradition in the Archdiocese of New York.
We are empowered to bring Jesus to each other and to our neighborhood and we
actively minister to the spiritual, physical and social needs of our community.
In a welcoming environment, together we pray, work and celebrate liturgies and
various traditional feasts. Through education and evangelization, we are committed
to sharing the love of Christ with everone and to making the community a better
place for people of all ages and nationalisties. "We, though many, throughout the
earth, we are one body in this One Lord." (1 Cor 10) |
| St. Joseph |
 The below passage is quoted
from the website above:"Everything we know about the husband of Mary and the foster father of Jesus comes from Scripture. We know he was a carpenter, a working man, for the skeptical Nazarenes ask about Jesus, "Is this not the carpenter's son?" (Matthew 13:55). He wasn't rich for when he took Jesus to the Temple to be circumcised and Mary to be purified he offered the sacrifice of two turtledoves or a pair of pigeons, allowed only for those who could not afford a lamb (Luke 2:24). Despite his humble work and means, Joseph came from a royal lineage. Luke and Matthew disagree some about the details of Joseph's genealogy but they both mark his descent from David, the greatest king of Israel (Matthew 1:1-16 and Luke 3:23-38). Indeed the angel who first tells Joseph about Jesus greets him as "son of David," a royal title used also for Jesus." |
| John Baptist Scalabrini |
Bishop John Baptist Scalabrini was born in Fino Mornasco (Como- Italy)
July 8, 1839. He entered the diocesan seminary and was ordained to the
priesthood in 1863. He longed for the missions, but his bishop kept him
as a teacher and as rector of the major seminary in his diocese.He was appointed Bishop of Piacenza (Italy) in 1876. His frequent and thorough visitations of his diocese exposed him to the problem of migration. Once at a railroad station in Milan he met up with a few hundred people going to the port of Genova to set sail for the Americas. Touched by what he saw, he decided to act and, in 1887, founded the missionaries for the migrants. he traveled to the USA and to Brazil to visit the migrants and his missionaries. Known and admired for his pastoral zeal, Bishop Scalabrini died June 1st, 1905.** In 1895, with one of his missionaries, Fr. Joseph Marchetti, and his sister, Mother Assunta Marchetti, Scalabrini founded a congregation of sisters, the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo. Because he admired St. Charles Borromeo, he chose him as patron of his missionaries. he named both his congregations "The Missionaries of St. Charles", but soon after his death they were referred to as Scalabrini's missionaries, hence "The Scalabrinians." **Bishop Scalabrini's Beatification ceremony was held on Sun. Nov. 9, 1997 in St Peter's Basilica in Rome. "For the destitute the place that provides him bread and opportunity becomes his country." (Bishop J. B. Scalabrini) "Where the people suffer, there the Church must be." (Bishop J. B. Scalabrini) |
| Mother Clelia Merloni |
 The below passage is quoted
from the website above:"Clelia Merloni was born March 10 1861, into a modest working class family of Forli, Italy. Two sisters died in infancy before Clelia was born and her mother died when she was only three years old. Clelia's formation was entrusted to her grandmother and stepmother who instilled a great sense of piety and goodness in the young child. Her father became an anticlerical freemason, who became increasingly absorbed in his work. He loved his daughter and gave her the best education possible, in preparation for her future role in the family business. Because of Clelia's suffering for her father's withdrawal from the Church, she decided to give a more noble and authentic meaning to her existence, offering her life to redeem him. Thus she renounced her father's plans for her in order to consecrate her entire being to Christ and to others." |