All Souls’ Day Mass of Remembrance Saints Mary & Joseph Parish will celebrate an All Souls’ Day Mass for those who died this past year on Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 7:00pm at St. Joseph Church, 40 Main St., Salem, NH. Invitations will be mailed to the family members who had...
Dear Parishioners of Saints Mary and Joseph Parish: Below is the parish financial report for fiscal year 2015—2016. Although we continue to run at a deficit, we have cut expenses over the past year by reducing the costs of both payroll and maintenance. Also, we are selling property to further...
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So, Who’s in charge? Are you tired of all the election rhetoric going on? Everywhere – television, newspaper, radio, facebook ; mud-slinging, lying, name-calling. Are you looking forward to the election being over? Well, I’d like to make a prediction. I predict, with confidence, that when we wake up on...
Listening to the Holy Spirit: A Testimony I awoke on a Sunday morning feeling tired and not willing to do much. I knew the 9:30 Mass was beginning soon and I needed to be there for “Abba’s Hands” prayer room. I had become mindful of how a member of our...
Beginning in the spring Sts. Mary and Joseph Parish will start a community garden. We anticipate having a plot 25ft x 25ft for our first year on the garage side of the building on the Mary Queen of Peace campus. The garden would be cared for by Fr. Bill and...
Please click here to view the September Pastoral Council meeting minutes: September 2016
Ten years ago, Jeni’s father Michael was killed when he was robbed at gunpoint by a 16-year-old. As Michael lay dying in the hospital, the family accepted the inevitable and donated his organs. Michael’s heart went to Arthur Thomas, a father of four who was within days of dying of...
Faith! There have been songs written about faith; movies produced featuring faith; poems, books, TV shows and the Word of the Lord proclaiming Faith!!!!!! What is it? How do we acquire it? How do we measure faith? Jesus is all about it. Because of faith, we hope, pray and believe....
For October, the Sts. Mary and Joseph book discussion group will be reading The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henry J.M. Nouwen. A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt’s The Return of the Prodigal Son, inspired Nouwen to write this reflection on the powerful Gospel story. Join us...