Name of Church St. Joseph
Address 1813 Oakdale Road, Modesto, CA 95355
Phone number 209-551-4973
Webpage www.stjmod.com
Mass times Saturday vigil, 5 p.m. Sundays, 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m. (Latin Tridentine), 10:30 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 2 p.m. (Spanish), 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Daily Mass: 8 a.m. & 5:45 p.m. Saturdays, 8 a.m.
Confessions Monday – Friday, 4:45 – 5:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 8:30 a.m.
Names of priests Father Samuel West, pastor. Fathers Michael Brady, Suresh Ery, Benny Kottarathil Antoney, associate pastors. Fr. West is orthodox, and a good homilist (Listen to him on the parish YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUZquFvCx7o). He is a late vocation, coming to the priesthood after a successful business career, and encouraged to enter seminary by St. Joseph’s former pastor (also former diocesan vocations director) Fr. Joseph Illo.
School None, but the parish offers religious education classes.
Special features Military Support Ministry, TLC Ministry, Altar Guild Ministry, STJMOD Pantry and Help Line, Knights of Columbus, Catholic Legislative Network, St. Joseph’s Bread, bereavement group.
Music Depends on the Mass, cantors and choirs.
Fellow parishioners Mostly Anglo, some Hispanic and Filipino
Parking Ample parking around the church.
Cry room None, but you can bring your children into the vestibule if they get noisy. It has doors and is sealed from the main body of the church.
Additional observations This is a large parish of the Diocese of Stockton. It was established in 1967, and today serves nearly 7,000 families. Special features include its 24-hour a day Eucharistic adoration chapel.
Listen to Father Sam’s homily
Haha… I was trying to find my own parish on this website and it turns out it was the newest post!
Great sermon for these stressful times. Sometimes I want to go off into the “desert” like the monks of old just to get away from it all. Instead, I go out and look at the roses in my yard, which is nice now since they do not need so much watering or pruning until January, or just sit and eat some cookies and drink some hot tea. Simple things. Archbishop Sheen wrote a small book about that. I have it somewhere.
Nice post Anne
Very impressive— a TLM at a normal time (9:15 am, instead of 12:30 pm or later.
A TLM we will take it! Deo Gratias
I like that they do family catechesis. Much needed.
St. Joseph’s also has a good number of Indian and African members
My sister lives not to far from St. Joseph’s love going there I’m from Reno go there when I visit God Bless all the priests there I just love to stay there in for adoration in quiet time.