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St. Joseph Parish & Nativity of The BVM Parish

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St. Joseph Parish & Nativity of The BVM Parish

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SACRAMENTS

You will find information below about the following Sacraments:

Baptism

Reconciliation and First Communion

Confirmation

Matrimony (Pre-Cana)

Holy Orders

Anointing of the Sick

Receiving Communion at HOme

BAPTISM

The first and third and fifth Sundays of each month are reserved for baptism.  Parents must be active in our parish and attend the required Baptismal Preparation Class. (See below) This class is a part of our parish co-op programming and is offered every month at one of our area churches. 



NOTE: If you have been asked to be a Godparent at a Baptism taking place at a church other than St. Joseph or Nativity, we can only issue letters of recommendation to act as a sponsor (Godparent), to registered and participating parishioners.


Pre-Baptism Classes

These classes are a requirement for the parents preparing for the Baptism of their children. Classes rotate at St. Peter, (Lorain) St. Joseph (Amherst) and St. Vincent DePaul (Elyria) churches. The Baptism takes place at St.  Joseph or Nativity Church.


Contact St. Joseph Parish Offices at 440-988-2848 to register or for more details. 

Ministry Leaders:  Karen Schneider

FIRST RECONCILIATION and COMMUNION

Additional Information

St. Joseph Parish & Nativity of the BVM Parish is pleased to announce a new program from Dynamic Catholic called Blessed, that we are using once again to prepare your children (2nd graders) for the Sacraments of First Reconciliation and First Communion.

Blessed is an animated series  that engages your children and helps them understand the importance of  these two important first sacraments in their lives.

Parent participation in the process is  required and  for the 2022-23 academic year are expected to  attend the parent sessions for both First Reconciliation and First  Communion. You are the first teachers of your children and these  sessions are meant to help you teach your child about these very  important sacraments. Our role at the parish is to support you in this  mission and we do that by using this engaging program.


The First Reconciliation Parent Session which is MANDATORY will be held:   TBA


First Reconciliation date is still TBD, watch for details.


Visit: https://dynamiccatholic.com/blessed for more information on this program and to sign up for the parent component.


For First Communion we also use Blessed from Dynamic Catholic. Again, your participation in this process is critical.


Parent participation in the process is  required and all parents for the 2022-23 academic year are expected to  attend the parent sessions for both First Reconciliation and First  Communion. You are the first teachers of your children and these  sessions are meant to help you teach your child about these very  important sacraments. Our role at the parish is to support you in this  mission and we do that by using this engaging program.



First Communion/ Reconciliation Application click here. rev

communion_reconciliation-application (pdf)Download

CONFIRMATION

The Sacrament of Confirmation
 

Our Confirmation program for 2022-23 has been revised. Please direct any and all Confirmation Questions to the St. Joseph Parish office at 440-988-2848 ext. 201   

 Our parishes will celebrate  Confirmation on TBA.


  Watch for details to come.
 

Important Dates/Information

Confirmation parent meeting will be TBA


More information coming on the date of Confirmation for 2022-23.

forms for confirmation

Grade-7-service (pdf)Download
Grade-8-service (pdf)Download
confirmation-application1 (pdf)Download
SJ-Nativity-BVM-Confirmation-Guidelines1 (pdf)Download
Confirmation-Sponsors-2-pdf (pdf)Download

MATRIMONY (Pre-Cana)

Marriages: 

Diocesan policy requires a six-month period of preparation  before marriage. A couple is to contact one of our priests or deacons  to arrange for a particular date and program of preparation before any  date will be finalized. Attendance at one of the pre-marriage  preparation programs and a compatibility evaluation are required. Please  call the Parish Office for further information.


Pre-Marriage Preparation: After consulting the priest or deacon  assisting you in getting married, a couple will choose from several  programs. The Diocesan Web Site lists information for most of these:  www.dioceseofcleveland.org under Ministries, Marriage & Family.


Contact the Parish Office at 440-988-2848

RECEIVING COMMUNION at HOME

Communion is scheduled for  Sunday mornings to be brought to  those who are homebound,  hospitalized or in a nursing home. To receive Communion at home for  either yourself or a loved one, please contact Joe Siekeres info for Nativity (440-965-4001,  jsiekeres@zoominternet.net) and Antoinette Tsacoumangos at 440-864-5438 for St. Joseph.

ANOINTING of the SICK

 

The sacrament of anointing of the sick began  as a ritual of healing. Over time the emphasis shifted to the  forgiveness of sins on the deathbed, when such forgiveness would be the  final preparation for heaven. The Second Vatican Council returned the  original meaning to the sacrament by emphasizing that it is not only for  those who are at the point of death, but for anyone who is seriously  ill, including mental or spiritual illness. It also helped move the  Anointing away from a private service and back toward a community-based  one.

Today we are all aware that tensions, fear and anxiety about the  future affect not only our mind but our body as well. These illnesses  can be serious. They can move us to ask for the healing touch of Christ  in the Sacrament of Anointing. Persons with the disease of alcoholism or  persons suffering from other addictions can be anointed. So can those  who suffer from various mental disorders. The anxiety before exploratory  surgery to determine if cancer is present is a situation in which  Christ’s power can be invoked in the sacrament.

In these cases the person does not have to wait until the illness is  so grave that he or she is in the hospital or institutionalized to  celebrate the sacrament. Sacraments, after all, are community  celebrations. It is preferable to celebrate them in the context of  family and parish even before going to the hospital. The sick person has  a better opportunity to appreciate the prayers and symbols of the rite  when in her or his customary worshiping community.

At St. Joseph Parish we have an Anointing Service once per year,  usually in mid-October.  Here in the context of the Eucharist, all who  are ill physically or spiritually, are invited to attend the Service and  celebrate as community, the sacrament of the anointing of the sick.

Throughout the year, if you are faced with severe illness or impending serious surgery, you are encouraged to contact the Parish Office to arrange to receive the sacrament.

If hospitalized, please notify the Parish Office to request visitation.  Under the new HIPPA confidentiality law, hospitals are no longer permitted to notify parishes of parishioner’s presence in the hospital.  Be sure to alert the intake persons that you are Catholic and the  Pastoral Care office will see that a chaplain stops by to see you in the  hospital.

To arrange to be anointed while ill at home, or in advance of serious surgery, please call the Parish Office at 440-988-2848.
 

HOLY ORDERS

Humble yourself and you will find favor with God. Are you being  called to be a priest or deacon, brother or sister? Humbly ask the Lord.  (Luke 14: 1, 7-14)
 

Interested in either the Priesthood, Diaconate, Sisterhood or Religious Life?  Please consider serving the Church as a priest, deacon, religious sister or brother. For more information contact a member of St. Joseph Staff, you may also visit the Cleveland Catholic Vocations website.

Vocations website
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Saint Joseph Parish & Nativity of the BVM Parish

200 St. Joseph Dr., Amherst, Oh 44001

440-988-2848

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