The Advent season is here! Please click here for a full Advent calendar of events at Parish Family 45, including Christmas Mass times. We can’t wait to celebrate this joyous season with you!

This Advent season, all three locations within our parish family will offer giving trees to help support St. Vincent de Paul. These Christmas trees will hold gift tags for children who do not have the usual luxuries we may enjoy. Please consider taking a tag and buying a gift.

Parish Family 45 will be offering inquiry sessions for people interested in becoming Catholic at all three of our churches beginning in September! Please see the schedule for upcoming inquiry sessions here.

On December 11 & 12 we will celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Joseph! Please see the details for these celebrations below, including a Novena leading up to the Feast Day beginning on December 3.

Please join us at St. Joseph on December 4 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm in the Church for a Healing Prayer Service!

Join us on the First Friday of each month for an evening of faith, fun and community at the Proto-Cathedral! This month's event on December 5 will be a Pizza Dinner, Benediction and Catholic Jeopardy!

Lay readers (lectors) are entrusted with proclaiming the readings from Sacred Scripture at Mass and sometimes announcing the intentions for the Universal Prayers when a deacon is not present. There are upcoming Lector Trainings across our parish family!

St. Joseph School is looking to do some yard work by the north side fence; rake leaves, clear brush along the fence, dispose wood behind pre-school, and remove weeds. We will be hosting a Volunteer Workday on Saturday, Dec 6th from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm to get this work done.

Please join us on the first Saturday of each month at St. Joseph in the St. Teresa Room in Marian Hall for a Men’s Bible Study. The next gathering is from 7:00 am – 8:30 am on December 6. This Bible Study is open to all men, we hope you can join us!

Each of our three locations have upcoming Knights of Columbus Breakfasts in December! See the schedule here!

On Monday, December 8 we will celebrate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is a Holy Day of Obligation. We look forward to celebrating will you all!

The Golden Fellowship Senior Lunch will resume on Wednesday, December 10! All 55+ are welcome to attend. Mass begins at 11:00 am, followed by a delicious lunch in Marian Hall, prepared by Chef Muggs and her team. Suggested donation of only $5.

Please join us on December 13 at 12:00 pm at Our Lady of Lourdes for our next Parish Lunch! All are welcome to attend.

Adults aged 18 - 39 are invited to a retreat on December 20th titled, "Patiently Waiting in Hope". This retreat will be from 11:00 am – 5:00 pm at the Our Lady of Lourdes Pastoral Center.