St. Joseph Catholic Church

Have you ever heard the click as the door locks behind you – and at that instant, you remember that you don’t have the keys? Have you ever gotten locked out of your car with the engine still running?
This week, the doorway to Lent clicks behind us and we face …

A duck walks into a feed store and asks, “Got any duck feed?” The clerk tells him, “No, we don’t have a market for it so we don’t carry it.” The duck says, “OK,” and leaves.
The next day, the duck again walks into the feed store and asks, “Got any …

Most of us remember a favorite game called, “Hide and Seek.” The one who was “it” had to be blindfolded and count to 100 while the rest scattered to find a good place to hide. The one who was “it” then removed the blindfold and went out to find the …

Imagine your car won’t start and you try to attach jumper cables from another car’s battery. Sparks fly at the first contact, and you realize that the unseen electricity is a powerful force. The beginning of Jesus’ ministry was like that. Like a jumper cable, his touch unleashed a powerful …

In the gospel today we meet a man described as having an unclean spirit. He makes an outburst at the synagogue in Capernaum, just as Jesus has concluded preaching.
We seldom encounter situations like this in our modern world, but if we did, we might decide that the person was suffering …