St. Joseph Church Bradley

09/09/2026

09/08/2026

The first St. Joseph CCW meeting of the new year will be held Tonight (Tuesday, Sept. 8) at 7pm in the Parish Hall. As we celebrate the beginning of a new school year, the CCW will also be collecting donations to support Bishop McNamara Catholic School’s Bradley Site. Needed items include Post-it Notes; dry erase markers, erasers, and cleaner spray; construction paper in holiday colors; card stock or copy paper in various colors; and Amazon gift cards. Come help us start planning the CCW year!

09/08/2026

What if Tuesday evening became your time to pause, pray, and be with Jesus? ❤️

Our Tuesday Evening Mass offers a beautiful opportunity to step away from the busyness of the week and spend some quiet time with the Lord.

🕊️ Eucharistic Adoration
📿 Rosary at 5:30pm
✝️ Confession from 5:30-6pm
⛪ Mass at 6pm

Come for a few minutes or stay for it all. Spend time in Adoration. Pray the Rosary. Receive the healing grace of Reconciliation. And encounter Christ in the Eucharist.

Make Tuesday evening a time to slow down and reconnect with what matters most.

We’d love to see you tonight at St. Joseph! 🙏❤️

09/08/2026

🎉 IT’S ALMOST PICNIC TIME! 🎉

Our St. Joseph Parish Picnic is just around the corner, and it’s going to be an afternoon filled with good food, fun, fellowship, and plenty of St. Joseph hospitality! 🌭🍔🎶☀️

📅 Sunday, September 13
⏰ Noon–4:00 P.M.
📍 North Parking Lot

We’re excited to see our parish family come together for a great afternoon! ❤️

🙋‍♀️ VOLUNTEERS ARE STILL NEEDED!
It takes a lot of helping hands to make an event like this happen. Whether you can give an hour or help for the afternoon, we’d love to have you on the team!

👉 Sign up to volunteer:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904054AA5AA29A5F49-64856531-stjosephs #/

Come for the picnic. Stay for the fun. Help make it happen! 🎉❤️

We’ll see you there!

09/07/2026

Go to stjosephbradley.org to volunteer for the Mobile Food Pantry happening this coming Friday at St. Joseph’s or call the parish office. And, please spread the word about this event from 10-11:30am on Sept. 11, 2026, to receive food.

09/07/2026

Happy Labor Day! Here's the Parish Bulletin from the weekend. Have a great week!

09/07/2026

🇺🇸 Happy Labor Day! 🇺🇸

Today we give thanks for the gift of work and for all those who labor each day to support their families, serve their communities, and make a difference in the lives of others.

May this Labor Day be a time to rest, enjoy family and friends, and remember that every honest effort can be a way of serving God and our neighbors.

🙏 Have a safe, blessed, and happy Labor Day from all of us at St. Joseph Parish! ❤️💙

09/06/2026

"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that 'every fact may be established on the testimony of two or three witnesses.' If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church” (Matthew 18: 10-11).

This Sunday’s Gospel offers us very practical rules of dealing with our brothers and sisters in difficult situations when someone else did something wrong against us. Such a situation is a daily bread of our life. Jesus calls us not to be indifferent in such situations: neither be inactive nor overreactive. There are far-reaching consequences in Jesus’ simple use of the word “brother” in this Sunday’s passage. Because if it is my brother who has sinned against me, then I must treat him in response as flesh of my flesh, loving him despite his sin as I love myself. The whole process that
Jesus outlines here impresses us because of the considerable responsibilities that it places upon the offended party. Yes, offended party. In a worldly perspective, a person sinned against is seen to have full freedom to respond in kind, to hold rancor, to be vindictive, or at least cut off the offending party forever with a clean conscience.

Not so in the family of Jesus: the aggrieved brother must ponder the situation and make every effort to “gain back” his brother. My own hurt, even if real and not just imagined, is no excuse for my rancor or indifference, which could result in the loss of the offending brother from Christ’s Body. As in all other respects, so too here: if I am a follower of Christ, it is Christ’s interests, and my private concerns and grudges, that must between brothers determine my attitudes, words, and actions. It is also very clear, however, that reconciliation between brothers must take place on the basis of the truth. Jesus here calls a sin a sin, and the Catholic Church is not a mutual-admiration society. When I am sinned against, the Lord commands me to go and rebuke my brother for what he has done to me. Apparently, Jesus does not see this as haughty behavior incompatible with Christian humility.

Jesus is the Good Shepherd for the wayward sheep to come back to the fold. He reproaches only in order to enfold all the better. In this spirit St. Paul shows how to make a marriage of truth and love by saying: Convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching” (2 Tim 4:2) and “If a person is caught in some transgression, you who are spiritual should correct that one in a gentle spirit, looking to yourself, so that you also may not be tempted” (Gal 6:1).

Fr. Mark Jurzyk

09/06/2026

We're going live with our 11am Mass from St. Joseph Church on this 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Happy Sunday!

Sunday Mass on Sept. 6, 2026, from St. Joseph Parish in Bradley, ce...

09/05/2026

💪 Many Hands. One Parish. One Family. ❤️

Today, a group of our parish men put their muscles to work helping Fr. Mark get his baby grand piano situated in his office. And, as you can see, the kids were on hand to supervise! 🎹👀

We needed some strong backs, and our parishioners responded. But that spirit of “we see a need, and we’ll help” has been showing up all around St. Joseph lately.

🧹 Earlier today, parish women were busy cleaning the stairwells in church.
🌱 Yesterday, parishioners completed a landscaping project on our grounds—and now we need to keep it watered! 💦
🚜 Earlier this week, one of our parishioners took care of the mowing.

And the list goes on and on. Different jobs. Different people. All parishioners. All pitching in.

This is what makes St. Joseph Parish special. It’s not just a place we come to—it’s a community we care for together. Thank you to everyone who gives their time, talents, and muscle to make our parish a little better every day.

Many hands really do make light work! 🙌❤️