2nd SUNDAY of Easter:16 April 2023
Saint Joseph’s Passionist Church
Tel: (01) 42 27 28 56 [Int’l + 33 1]
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Website: www.stjoeparis.org
Saturday: Vigil Mass: 6.30 p.m.; Sun Mass: 9.30 am, 11 & 12.30 pm, 6.30 pm
Confession: Saturday: 11.30 – 12.30 & 5 – 6 p.m. or by appointment.
Lenten Project 2023: A third transfert of €6000 made, a last count/ complement will be sent next week.
A huge Thanks for your Generosity!
Second collection 8/9 April : €1.078,32 (€508.32; ADP €570)
Grand total now: €19,119.73
NB: To get French Tax receipts: Cheques to “St Joseph’s ADP” & donations available directly from the website (please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. informing us it is for our Lenten project, so we can direct your donation to oeuvre d’Orient.
Teen Group this Saturday 15 April : 2pm till 4pm, “Jesuit Discussion”
Church Collections Holy Week & EASTER
Holy Thursday (for the poor) €1.196,56;
Good Friday (Holy Land) €758.83
EASTER: €6.315,07; ADP: €220; Coffee/Tea €49,11. Sincere Thanks!
If you pay Tax in France, you may use this Diocese Tax Receipt, 66% rebate on income tax.
CCD Confirmation Retreat: this Sat 15 April starting at 10am at St Joseph’s, includes day Mass & meeting with Monseigneur Gonon. Who will officiate on Confirmation next 28 May at 3pm
Bible Study: Wednesdays from 10:30 to 13:00: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://biblestudystjosephsparis.wordpress.com/
Marriage Preparation Course: Last session April 16th , from 4pm- 5:30pm
ACWO potluck : change of date, now Monday April 24 at noon. All welcome
Swahili Mass: Sunday 23 April 2pm
CONGRATULATIONS again to Daphne Ang and Elsa Hettiarachchige baptized at Easter Vigil and to Paul Fothergill and Jason Willense who entered in Full Communion with the Catholic Church, also during the Easter Vigil.
This Sunday we are happy to welcome Mark Frederick Indorf, our former organist, now living in Canada.
Thanks to Fr Brendan Mc Keever, C.P. who is assisting while Fr Martin is away.
Please Note Fr Martin will be returning on Friday evening 21 April.
Those first disciples were filled with light and they were shining!
We often have doubts and questions.
The poet, Mary Oliver, invites us "to go easy" and to draw nearer to "the hope of myself".
When I Am Among the Trees
~ Mary Oliver ~
When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me,
and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy,
to be filled with light, and to shine.”
