Basilica E-News
September 19, 2019 

Register Now for Adult Confirmation Program
Starting October 17 

The Alameda Deanery offers a 14- week preparation series for adult Catholics who are actively practicing their faith but have never received the Sacrament of Confirmation. This year Adult Confirmation will be celebrated at the Cathedral in February.    Submit completed application form (available online here or at the Parish Office) to the Parish Office by October 1.


Feast of San Lorenzo Ruiz - Sept 29, 2019

Join us in celebrating the feast of the first Filipino saint, San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila with a special celebration at the 11:30 am Mass.  Reception will follow after Mass (at the Lower Parking Lot) hosted by our Simbang Gabi Ministry. If you would like to share your favourite dish or help in any way, contact Alex Ramos: [email protected]

Novena to St. Lorenzo Ruiz, starting this Friday through Sept 28,  at 7:00 pm
  at the Parish Center.  Invite your family and friends for the Novena.
  (Note: Sept 26 & 27 will be in the Rectory Dining Room & Sept 28 in the Basilica).  






Parish Collections
Week Sept 14/15
Weekly Goal: $13,500
Cash/ check : $9,394
Faith Direct: $2,865
Total Giving: $12,259
Shortfall: ($1,241)

Diocesan Priest Retirement Benefit Trust Collections: $3,032.
Thank you for your support and generous donations.  Please keep all clergy and vocations in your prayers.


Children's Faith Formation is Back!

Over 170 children have registered for Children's Faith Formation classes on Sunday mornings.  At the opening ceremony on September 8th, Deacon Peter blessed the students and then led them in blessing their parents and catechists.  Late registrations are still being accepted; registration and information available on our website here. "God is good, all the time!" 

(image credit: CRS website)

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Response
to Hurricane Dorain Devastation

CRS is working closely with Caritas Grenada and Caritas Puerto Rico to help affected families.  Donations will provide the families with essential relief such as food, emergency shelter and safe water.  If you would like to make a donation for CRS's relief efforts, go tho their homepage here or contact the diocesan CRS office: [email protected].

October, the  Month of Rosary


During the month of October, we dedicate ourselves to the care and protection of our Beloved Mother and renew our devotion to the Holy Rosary.  At St. Joseph, we invite everyone the entire month of October to help renew our love and devotion to Mary with 31-days of Rosary Prayer.   Mondays to Saturdays: 6:30pm and Sundays, after the 7:30 am Mass.  If you would like to participate in leading the Rosary, please see sign up sheet at the back of the Basilica.
Please invite all your family and friends.


For more upcoming Parish events  here

Please note that the Elementary School 8:45 am Liturgy this Friday is canceled.

Catholic Young Adults Group events and  weekly newsletter available  here.
Young Families newsletter available  here

View last week's bulletin  here


Scripture Study Playgroup Starts Tuesday
If you're a mom or caregiver with young children and are looking for a chance to enrich your faith while the little ones play, consider joining the Moms' Bible Study Tuesday mornings 10:00 to 11:30 AM in St. Joseph's Parish Center.  On September 24 we're starting the series Lectio: Evangelization & the Acts of the Apostles from FORMED ( Here to website or register).  Drop-ins welcome.  For more details here  or contact Claire at  [email protected]  or here to 






News around the Block..

St. Joseph Notre Dame High School
Flight Plan weekly newsletter  here

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Support our Elementary School's Fundraiser, El Rancho, an annual Family Carnival that has been a tradition in Alameda for OVER 50 YEARS!  Stop by the school office to buy tickets or t-shirt.



For more St. Joseph Elementary School weekly news    here



Memorial Mass Announcement: Carl Franz Boeckenhueser, RIP 
(Date of death: May 8, 2019)

Mass details: Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 11: am, St. Joseph Basilica

Carl is the beloved brother of our long time parishioner, Ursula Apel, and uncle to parishioners Michaed & Julie Apel.


In your hands, O Lord, we humbly entrust our brother, Carl. In this life you embraced him with your tender love; deliver him now from every evil and bid him eternal rest.


25th Sunday Sunday Gospel Reflection:
Luke 16:1-13 
Readings here

GOD IS ON THE SIDE OF THE POOR Two of today's readings make it quite clear that God is on the side of the poor. Amos describes in detail the exploitation of the poor and needy. The psalm repeats that God acts to benefit the poor and lowly. But Luke turns things upside down, telling a tale of a conflicted steward, about to be fired, who demonstrates his cleverness and is rewarded. Like the community to whom Paul writes in Timothy, these readings are personal, directed to believers, members of the Jewish and Christian communities, who struggle to deal with personal choices about how to conduct their lives. They offer an outline for how God wishes us to live in a world as complicated and as confusing as our own.
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Children's Faith Formation - Registration Open. Classes for children age 4 through Junior High on Sunday mornings after 9:30 am Mass, starting September 8. For details here. Or email Anne Marie, [email protected]

Enrich your spiritual life through FORMED; register at www.sjbalameda.formed.org.   
Downloading the app?  Use Access Code 79QKNH.  

Interested in becoming Catholic and/or preparing for sacraments? The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adult (RCIA) is available year-round.  Click here for information.

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