St. Joseph Catholic Church

Join our CCS SEWING BEE and help make 10,000 MASKS!
26 Apr 2020
Would you please help Catholic Community Services with a very important need? Catholic Community Services needs homemade masks for our staff working on the front lines and also for our clients who are living on the streets and/or in our residential housing facilities. For sewing instructions, video tutorial and to find your nearest CCS location where you can drop off or mail your mask donation see https://ccsww.org/sewing-bee/
Parish office closed for STAY HOME order. But you can still reach us.
25 Mar 2020
The mandatory STAY HOME Mandate has started and the parish office is now closed, however you can still reach Susan on her Cell at 360.961.9374 or via this email address bookkeeping@stjosephferndale.org
Mass Intentions during Coronavirus Pandemic
23 Mar 2020
Father Thumbi celebrates the Holy Mass privately every day. The Catholic Church has a long tradition of offering Masses for prayer intentions and for the souls of the faithful. Many people offer a Mass intention for the repose of the soul of a loved one, but it’s also common to request a Mass in thanksgiving to our Lord, for health and blessing or special intentions. Intentions can even be offered for someone on their birthday, anniversary, or wedding day. Whatever your intention may be, Father Thumbi will be pleased to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for your intention. … [Read more…]

KEY FIGURES OF THE REFORMATION – ELIZABETH I May 27, 2020
By Fr. Dwight Longernecker Very few historical figures have been as hated and admired as England’s Queen Elizabeth I. On the one hand, she is portrayed as “Gloriana” — Good Queen Bess or the “Virgin Queen.” She is the noble and virtuous heroine who led her country through times of crisis and threat to end […]
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
KEY FIGURES OF THE REFORMATION — ST. FRANCIS DE SALES May 23, 2020
Five hundred years ago, the Church and the world plummeted into crisis. The Protestant Revolution split Europe into warring factions. In the wake of Martin Luther’s preaching, Germany erupted in a revolt among the peasants that ended in terrible slaughter. England and the northern European countries gathered under the flag of the new Protestant […]
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
Pray the Rosary, Franciscan style May 20, 2020
There’s more than one way to pray the Rosary. If you have a special devotion to St. Francis of Assisi, whose feast we celebrate on Oct. 4, or if you’d simply like to explore a different angle on a familiar form of prayer, the Franciscan Crown Rosary may be for you. The Franciscan Crown celebrates […]
Barb Szyszkiewicz
KEY FIGURES OF THE REFORMATION – ST. THOMAS MORE May 20, 2020
By Fr. Dwight Longenecker high drama of King Henry VIII’s love life has provided material for a seemingly endless stream of books, novels, films, and television series. Henry VIII’s six marriages were swept up in the hurricane of religion, politics, finance, and power struggles of the tumultuous 16th century. Each of his wives had supporters […]
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
KEY FIGURES OF THE REFORMATION: PIUS V, THE PIOUS WARRIOR May 18, 2020
By Fr. Dwight Longenecker By the middle of the sixteenth century Catholics in Europe must have thought the entire world was falling apart. Nations that had been Catholic for a thousand years had broken away from the Church. Protestants and Catholics were at each other’s throats, while the Islamic Ottoman Empire threatened Eastern and Southern Europe. […]
Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Saying “I Do” to Financial Security May 26, 2020
Whether you and your spouse are newlyweds or approaching a silver anniversary, how you manage savings, retirement, and other personal financial issues is critical for both your family finances and your marriage overall. Here are five tips that will help couples build healthy habits and create a foundation of financial strength for their families that […]
Catholic Digest
9 Signs of a Healthy Relationship May 18, 2020
One of the most common questions I am asked as a Catholic psychologist relates to whether or not someone is in a healthy relationship. Often a young woman will give me a certain scenario and ask me to comment on whether it is a “make it or break it” characteristic. Other times a man will […]
Gregory Bottaro
The power of our presence to one another May 14, 2020
Here we go again, I thought to myself as I entered the care facility to visit “Margaret,” the woman to whom I was assigned to visit as a volunteer with a local hospice organization. I drew a breath, said a quick prayer, knocked on the door, and walked a few steps into her room. I […]
Steve Givens
‘Wasting time’ as a family May 11, 2020
You have probably heard it said that kids spell love T-I-M-E. Most of us know instinctively that this is true. But knowing doesn’t necessarily make it easy to put into practice. Time is the one thing most of us claim to lack, no matter where we fall on the economic scale. And yet, when we […]
Jeff Young
Coping with unemployment: ‘Be not afraid’ March 31, 2020
The Catholic Church has always extolled the virtue and dignity of work. Popes have written about it. Catholic social teaching explains the theological foundation of it. We even have a patron saint for workers in St. Joseph. So what are we to think when we suddenly find ourselves out of work? This is a difficult question […]
Aaron T. Martin