St. Joseph Marello Catholic Church

7200 Auburn-Folsom Road

7/22/20 - Please note: Due to current COVID-19 guidelines the parish office is currently closed. If you need anything, please call 916-786-5001 or email sjmarelloparish@yahoo.com. Thank you!

Normal Hours:
8:30-2:00pm M-F

SUMMER HOURS:
June 8,2020 to August 31, 2020
8:30-12:30 M-F

Are you new to St. Joseph Marello Catholic Church? Welcome!
Please download a Parish Registration Form by CLICKING HERE (or pick one up at the Welcome Table in the vestibule of the church).

Are you interested in becoming Catholic? Please visit our Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults page.

Announcing St. Joseph Marello Catholic Church’s

Family Faith Survival Kit

Feeling disconnected from your faith?
Searching for ways to bring hope and joy to your family life?
Trying to make sense out of uncertainty?
Want to delve deeper into your Catholic faith together with your child(ren)?

   

We are excited to kick-off the school year and Faith Formation at SJM Parish with an indispensable, fun, and interactive set of resources to:

  Help re-center your family’s faith life
  Dedicate time at home to the liturgy &prayer
  Connect with each other.

This Faith Survival Kit will equip parents and kids with age-specific, hand-picked activities, books, and religious goods that will inspire your family, and sustain you through the uncertainty of the current times! Visit https://stjosephmarello.org/survivalkit for more information and to sign up!

Orders received by August 20^th will be available for pick-up the weekend of August 29^th and 30^th—just in time for our 2020-2021 SJM Faith Formation Kick-off Tailgate, scheduled for September 13^th at 10am. More details to follow.

What’s New at SJM Parish Faith Formation 2020-2021!

• Discovery with SJM: continue your survival kit adventure with Discovery Boxes throughout the year. Receive high quality, seasonal, Catholic boxes to bring your family's faith to life at home. Visit https://stjosephmarello.org/discovery First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion: launching in the Winter, 2021 tentatively offered in-person and virtual, using a captivating program to involve children & parents, Signs of Grace. Sign-up for Discovery and get prepared!

• EDGE & Confirmation: planning on meeting in person, according to local guidelines, as much as possible. More details can be found here: https://stjosephmarello.org/middle-school.

• High School Youth Ministry: providing a totally new and flexible youth ministry experience this year. Learn more at https://stjosephmarello.org/highschool.

• Register all of your kids and teens NOW under one Faith Formation Registration form at https://stjosephmarello.org/registration.

• Young Families - complements what faith formation for K-12th Grade is doing by providing support and enrichment opportunities for parents and families with children, infant and up. Learn more here: https://stjosephmarello.org/youngfamilies.

www.youtube.com/saintjosephmarellocatholicchurch    
Questions or New to SJM Parish?         

The link to register for 8:30 Mass this Sunday will go "live" at 7 am on Thursday, August 13:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/outdoor-mass-august-16-tickets-116349932781

Digital Missal for Sunday, 8/16/20:

The 8:30 Sunday Mass will be live-streamed.
8 am Daily Mass will not be live-streamed in most cases but will be posted to the YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/saintjosephmarellocatholicchurch - at 9:30 each day.  

Thank you to all who have registered, but PLEASE CHECK IN EVEN IF YOU HAVE A RESERVATION. This information will be needed in the event of the need for contact tracing.

As per the new July 13 guidelines from the state regarding the Covid-19 virus, indoor Masses are suspended, but SJM will have outdoor Masses at 8 am Monday through Saturday (on the patio of the ministry center) and ONE Mass on Sunday at 8:30 in front of the ministry center facing the parking lot. There will be no 5 pm Masses on Saturday and Sunday and no 10:30 Mass. Registration will still be required via the Eventbrite site to facilitate any future necessary contact tracing. Masks and social distancing are still required. Registration on Eventbrite will open at 7 am on Thursdays and attendees must check in upon their arrival at church. Chairs will be provided but you are also invited to bring your own. 
 

We are blessed to be able to continue receiving the Holy Eucharist, even in this challenging time. "Be not afraid" says the Lord!

We need your input to help shape our programs and ministries to serve you and your children's needs this coming school year. Please complete this survey so we can focus our efforts.  Thank you very much and stay tuned for more updates soon from Faith Formation, Teen, and Family Life Ministry.

Please click here for the survey.

Dear Parishioners of St. Joseph Marello,

We like to think of summer as being a relaxing, enjoyable time. But hurts, struggles, crises, and problems don’t take a vacation and neither has the COVID-19 virus.  Many times our difficulties seem even worse during the summer because everyone else seems to be enjoying life while you are feeling down. If you are experiencing a difficult time—emotionally, spiritually, physically, or relationally—you don’t have to suffer alone. Our St. Stephen Ministers are trained caregivers, ready to listen, care for and encourage you, pray with and for you, and provide one-to-one Christian care to help you through whatever it is that you are facing. Men are matched with male St. Stephen Ministers, and women are matched with female St. Stephen Ministers. It’s free. It’s confidential. And it will make a difference in your life!
 
To find out more about St. Stephen Ministry for you or someone you know, talk with one of our Stephen Ministry Leaders: 
Darlene McClure at 916-316-1816
Yvonne Von Brauchitsch at 916-764-1076

Please feel free to contact us with any questions via email:  sjmststephenministry@gmail.com

Yours in Christ,
St. Stephen Ministry Leaders
St. Joseph Marello Parish

Dear Parishioners,
 
We have hungered for the Eucharist and for our parish community during the pandemic. But there is good news. Weekend Masses have resumed. The decree issued by Bishop Soto on March 13, 2020, dispensing all the faithful from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass and Holy Days of Obligation remains in effect. 
 
Bearing the above in mind, please know the following:

• In preparation for the return of the public celebration of Masses, the Diocese has given guidelines to the local parishes to follow. These guidelines are in line with the recommendations of the civil authorities and are in accord with established norms for celebrating Masses. It will be vitally important that we faithfully follow these guidelines once in-person Mass celebrations commence. To review these guidelines, please click here.  Please also note that the guidelines have been updated as of June 4, 2020 such that masks are now required to be worn for the duration of the Mass for everyone 10 and older. Please bring your mask with you to church. 

• Communicants are to receive communion in their hand wearing the masks, step to one side, remove the mask to consume the Body of Christ then replace their mask. Those who prefer to receive on the tongue will receive at the end of communion. 

• In addition, physical distancing is to be observed by every person present (except for those individuals living in the same household who may remain close to one another). As a result, we’ve had to reconfigure the seating in the church such that capacity will be limited to 100 people including the priest, deacon(s), cantor and ministers of the Eucharist and the Word. 

• To ensure that we remain within the 100 person limit, registered parishioners and their immediate family are asked to reserve a seat. At 7 am on Thursday mornings, links will be published on the myParish app and our website which will enable you to reserve a seat or seats for the following weekend on a site called “Eventbrite”. This is a new system for SJM so we ask your patience as we implement. Please also note that while Eventbrite refers to ticket “sales” there is no cost for your reservation. If you do not have internet access there will be a limited number of reservations available by calling the Parish Office. Please sign up online and call only if you do not have internet access. The priest, deacon, cantor, ushers and EMs will be accounted for but their family members must have tickets.

• Collection baskets will not be passed; rather a box for your donation will be set up. You are also encouraged to give online at https://www.faithdirect.net.

• Bishop Soto has also indicated that those who fall in the vulnerable category, i.e. individuals age 65+ and persons with compromised health conditions, are respectfully asked to refrain from attending in-person Masses and are encouraged instead to attend a weekday Mass or participate remotely via the on-line streaming of Sunday Mass from our church at https://www.youtube.com/saintjosephmarellocatholicchurch

 


Father Phil Massetti, O.S.J.
 

 

My name is Lindsey West and I’m your new Youth and Young Families Ministry Coordinator. My husband and I have lived in the area for a little over five years. We have a 6.5 year old son and a 9 month old daughter. I have served in youth and young adult ministry at various parishes and the diocese for over 15 years and I’m very excited to be a part of the St. Joseph Marello Community.
 
Ministry is founded on relationships, not programs – our relationship with God, each other, and the world. So it takes a whole parish community to accompany teens in this way; to encourage, challenge, and celebrate them. Following the example of discipleship Jesus gave us in scripture, together, we will continue to grow a community that invites teens to belong, empowers them to take ownership of both their faith and parish, makes space for their God-given gifts and talents to be shared, and calls them to go out and make disciples in the world. We’re also going to allow ourselves to be transformed and enriched by who they are and what God is calling them to do.
 
To do this well, I need to hear the hopes and dreams of our teens – Teens, this is your parish community, too: What kind of community do you want? How do you want to serve your parish with your charisms? What is God calling you to do and be in the world? We’ll be there to support you through it all.
 
Young Families, it’s a fun and sanctifying phase of life that we’re in. Nap schedules (hahaha), developmental milestones, trying to pray as a family when the toddler is running around screaming Baby Shark…it’s a total joy and a challenge at times. We’re going to do ministry together that nourishes us in pursuit of being the Domestic Church, because Daniel Tiger doesn’t have a song for “don’t hit your brother or sister with those rosary beads.”
 
You might be thinking, ministry during COVID? Yes, we are adapting to current conditions. Keep an eye on the youth and young adult ministry section of the website over the next few weeks for more info. In the meantime, we want to celebrate our Class of 2020 – you all have worked hard and finished your high school career during an historic time. We will be putting together graduate celebration packages and a special virtual event to honor you and your achievements. We’d like to celebrate all of our graduating students, not just those who have been active in youth ministry, so we ask that all of our graduating teens and your parents please visit the website starting Wednesday for details.
 
More information and opportunities to dialogue about our youth and young families ministries will be coming to the website soon. Please continue to pray for our youth and young families, for me, our ministries, and know that I will be praying for all of you as well.
 
Thank you for allowing me to be a part of the St. Joseph Marello parish community and serve alongside you. God bless.
 

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