St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church

05/30/2026

05/30/2026

Please pray for the intentions for peace listed here today, and if possible the Rosary, in union with our Holy Father. 🙏📿

To accompany his constant calls for peace in the world, Pope Leo XIV will lead the prayer of the Holy Rosary on May 30 at 7:00 PM Rome time from the Vatican Gardens.

He will lead the faithful in Shrines around the world in praying the Joyful Mysteries, with each decade being dedicated specifically for those affected by war and violence and entrusting them to the intercession of Mary, Queen of Peace.

The first mystery prays for the victims of war, especially the most vulnerable, while the second is for those who bring words of hope and the comfort of faith to populations affected by war. The third recalls the medical and paramedical personnel and volunteers who bring humanitarian aid every day.

The fourth mystery prays for those who suffer the violence of war, for prisoners and for all who endure humiliations that violate human dignity. The fifth and final Joyful Mystery is dedicated to praying for an end to war and the establishment of lasting peace in the world.

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-preside-over-rosary-dedicated-to-peace-in-vatican-gardens.html

05/17/2026

05/13/2026

Make plans to attend!

Vitae Foundation Springfield Pro-Life Dinner
Friday, August 21, 2026
White River Conference Center, Springfield
6 pm - 9 pm

Keynote speaker Riley Gains, NCAA Swimmer and Advocate for Women

To register, scan QR code or visit vitaefoundation.org

05/11/2026

A huge thank you to St. Joseph the Worker in Ozark, Missouri for blessing our moms and babies with so many thoughtful Mother’s Day gifts! 💐

From baby clothes, diapers, wipes, and toys to practical storage containers for the moms, your generosity means so much to the families we serve at LifeHouse.

05/11/2026

Happy Mother's Day!

Today we celebrate the blessings and joy that the most important women in our lives have given us. For their nurturing and care, we give thanks. In a special way, let us be grateful for:
- Our mothers, by birth or adoption, who nurtured us and supported us through life.
- Our Church who takes on the maternal role of guiding us through life.
- And our Blessed Mother, who protects both the Church and all her children.

We share with you this Mother's Day prayer from Hallow:

Heavenly Father, thank You for the gift of our mothers. We lift up all mothers today. Bless them with strength to continue to care for their children, with the same bold, selflessness Mary showed Jesus. Help my mother and all mothers feel our gratitude and truly know their impact. May we honor them today and on all days as vessels of Your love. In Your name we pray. Amen.

05/10/2026

Most Holy Mary, Queen of the May, pray for us! 🌷🌹🌸🌼💐

The May Magnificat, a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ

May is Mary’s month, and I
Muse at that and wonder why:
Her feasts follow reason,
Dated due to season—

Candlemas, Lady Day;
But the Lady Month, May,
Why fasten that upon her,
With a feasting in her honour?

Is it only its being brighter
Than the most are must delight her?
Is it opportunest
And flowers finds soonest?

Ask of her, the mighty mother:
Her reply puts this other
Question: What is Spring?—
Growth in every thing—

Flesh and fleece, fur and feather,
Grass and greenworld all together;
Star-eyed strawberry-breasted
Throstle above her nested

Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin
Forms and warms the life within;
And bird and blossom swell
In sod or sheath or shell.

All things rising, all things sizing
Mary sees, sympathising
With that world of good,
Nature’s motherhood.

Their magnifying of each its kind
With delight calls to mind
How she did in her stored
Magnify the Lord.

Well but there was more than this:
Spring’s universal bliss
Much, had much to say
To offering Mary May.

When drop-of-blood-and-foam-dapple
Bloom lights the orchard-apple
And thicket and thorp are merry
With silver-surfèd cherry

And azuring-over greybell makes
Wood banks and brakes wash wet like lakes
And magic cuckoocall
Caps, clears, and clinches all—

This ecstasy all through mothering earth
Tells Mary her mirth till Christ’s birth
To remember and exultation
In God who was her salvation.

05/10/2026

Gospel of the Day (John 14,15-21)

Jesus said to his disciples: If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always,
the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it, because it remains with you, and will be in you.
I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me, because I live and you will live.
On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you.
Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him."

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day/2026/05/10.html