St. Joseph Catholic Church OCIA, Bowling Green, KY

06/14/2026

Happy birthday to our seminarian Hunter!

Happy birthday today to our seminarian, Hunter Dickens! May God bless you abundantly as you celebrate today!

06/12/2026

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!

06/08/2026

06/07/2026

Happy Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ!

06/07/2026

Friends, today’s Gospel passage (John 6:51–58) is one of the most shocking in the New Testament. Those who heard it were not only repulsed intellectually; they were disgusted, viscerally. For a Jewish man to be insinuating that you should eat his own flesh and drink his blood was about as nauseating and religiously objectionable as you could get.

So what does Jesus do? Does he soften his rhetoric? Does he offer a metaphorical or symbolic interpretation? Does he back off? On the contrary, he intensifies what he just said: “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.” As all the scholars point out to us, the verb used here in Greek is “trogein,” which indicates the way an animal eats.

So what do we do? If we stand in the great Catholic tradition, we honor these mysterious and wonderful words of Jesus. We resist all attempts to soften them or explain them away or make them easier to swallow. We affirm, with all of our hearts, the doctrine of the real presence.

06/03/2026

❤️ Sacred Heart Novena — Day 1

Today, we begin our journey toward the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The Heart of Christ burns with love for every soul. Bring Him your joys, your struggles, your hopes, and your fears. Let this novena be a time to draw closer to the One whose love never fails.

🙏 Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.

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06/01/2026

05/31/2026

Today, on the Feast of the Holy Trinity, we celebrate the day of the real love, because God is love, as Pope Benedict XVI reminded us in his encyclical Deus Caritas Est ("God is love")

05/31/2026

Friends, today’s Gospel (John 3:16–18) gives us the famous assurance that God gave his Son that we might have eternal life.

There is a terrible interpretation of the cross that holds the view that the bloody sacrifice of the Son on the cross was “satisfying” to the Father, an appeasement of a God infinitely angry at sinful humanity. In this reading, the crucified Jesus is like a child hurled into the fiery mouth of a pagan divinity in order to assuage its wrath.

What eloquently gives the lie to this awful interpretation is today’s passage, which is often proposed as a summary of the Christian message. God the Father is not some pathetic divinity whose bruised honor needs to be restored; rather, God is a parent who burns with compassion for his children who have wandered into danger. It is not out of anger or vengeance that the Father sends the Son but precisely out of love.

Does the Father hate sinners? No, but he hates sin. Does God harbor indignation at the unjust? No, but God despises injustice. Thus God sends his Son not gleefully to see him suffer but to set things right.