As part of our celebration of The Year of St. Joseph, our parish is pleased to have a St. Joseph Altar on Sunday, March 22, 2020! Please help us make this a success! The St. Joseph’s Altar is a Sicilian tradition dating back to the Middle Ages. A lengthy famine seized the island and the dry, cracked earth yielded no life giving crops. The starving farmers had only their deep faith remaining. So they prayed to St. Joseph, the patron saint of Italy, to intercede to God for them. Their prayers were answered as gentle rains fell to fill dry wells and streams, and their crops thrived. As a labor of love and devotion on his feast day, March 19, the altars were erected in homes all over Sicily, filled with breads and sweets and fruits, and all were welcomed to partake in the feast! Our St. Joseph Altar will be erected in the Commons on Sunday, March 22. Please bring delicious breads or sweets or fruits to share, and we will all enjoy the abundant blessings after Mass.