Saint Joseph Choteau

03/31/2026

Join us this week as we journey to the cross and to life!

03/28/2026

Palm Sunday Mass of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ will be celebrated at 6:30pm on Saturday, March 28 and 9am on Sunday, March 29 at Choteau. All are invited to enter into Holy Week with prayer, sacrifice and openness to God's amazing love and hope.

03/14/2026

5pm Mass in Augusta tonight (Sat. Mar. 14) is canceled due to weather & travel advisories. 6:30pm Mass in Choteau will still happen, but please make prudent travel choices. May God bless you!

02/24/2026

St. Macrina and her brothers are great examples of holiness in families - her grandma also named Macrina is a saint too. All you holy men & women, pray for us!
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She was born with every advantage—money, education, respect—in a Roman world that was slowly reorganizing itself around a rising Christian faith. Macrina could have done what women of her class were expected to do: marry well, settle into comfort, and carry quiet influence from inside a powerful household. For a while, that was the plan. She was even engaged.

Then her fiancé died young, and everything changed.

Instead of finding another match and moving on, Macrina made a choice that shocked people who knew how much was “on the table” for her. She wouldn’t remarry. She wouldn’t bargain for status or security. She turned her life in a different direction—one that looked, from the outside, like stepping away from the world.

On her family’s estate in Annesi, in Pontus, she began building something that didn’t fit the usual categories. The land and inheritance became a kind of living experiment: a community ordered around prayer, shared work, and discipline. Servants weren’t treated like servants anymore. Wealth wasn’t hoarded—it was redistributed. Days were structured by worship and labor. And women who normally had little voice or visibility found dignity through study, responsibility, and a life with purpose.

Her brothers—Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa—went on to become giants of fourth-century theology. But Gregory later made a striking confession: as much as the world praised the men, it was Macrina who shaped them. When grief hardened them, she softened them. When ambition crept in, she pulled them back to humility. When their philosophy drifted into something purely intellectual, she insisted it had to be lived—not just argued.

Macrina never preached from a cathedral pulpit. She never held church office. She didn’t collect titles. And yet the life she modeled—communal poverty, shared prayer, serious study—helped lay the groundwork for Eastern monasticism. In a culture that rewarded public authority, she carried influence in a different way: through presence, discipline, and a kind of moral weight people couldn’t ignore.

Near the end of her life, as illness wore her down, Gregory wrote about their final conversations. What comes through isn’t drama, but steadiness—clear-eyed, almost serene reflections on death and the soul. She met mortality the same way she met privilege: without clinging, without panic, without needing to be remembered.

02/13/2026

Some great ideas for Lent - Ash Wednesday is next week, Feb. 18. Hope to see you at 7pm Mass! (4pm in Saint Matthias Mission Augusta amd 5:30pm in Saint John the Evangelist Fairfield
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02/06/2026

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See you at the Pavillion on February 17!!

Coming up on Tuesday, Feb. 17, starting at 5 p.m., come to the Choteau Pavilion for the Annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Feed sponsored by St. Josephs Catholic Church. All are welcome. Prices vary per age.

12/29/2025

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Eternal rest grant unto her and may perpetual light shine upon her. May her soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, rest in peace.

View Arlene Wolbaum's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

12/24/2025

12/12/2025

If you are looking for a way to keep Christ in Christmas this in a great opportunity

12/10/2025

Watch all the way - a St. Joseph parishioner gets a feature second or two!! And mark your calendars to register for 2026!!!