St. Joseph and Sons: 2017

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Recent St. Joseph & Sons Projects

The guys have been busy in the lasts few months. We have had projects at St. Rita-Rockford, St. Mary's Oratory-Rockford, and St. Anthony-Rockford

St. Rita Parish

Replace a fence covering the HVAC equipment.

Also involved with installing basketball posts for outdoor court.

St. Anthony Parish

Remove and replace a fence surrounding the rear of the Parish Center

More information coming soon.

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

What's been happening lately........

with the Joes from St. Joseph & Sons?

Well, a lot actually.

Father Keith Romke had been our Chaplain for over 4 years and we had been based at St. Bridget Parish in Loves Park, IL. In July, 2017, we bid adieu to Father Romke as he was assigned Pastor of St. Patrick in Dixon, IL. Father Romke had a very profound effect on the Joes. His leadership, participation, and spiritual guidance, allowed each of us to move further along our spiritual journey. We also want to thank St. Bridget Parish for their hospitality to St. Joseph & Sons.

Some of the major projects that we recently completed are:

St. Elizabeth Center Youth Building playground renovation

Poor Clares Monastery Mary Garden

Madonna Renewal Center-Freeport, IL chapel renovation

Bishop Lane Retreat Center work - Boylan HS Senior Boys Retreat

Father Ken Wasilewski has now been named our Chaplain and we are based at Holy Family Parish in Rockford, IL. Our monthly schedule at Holy Family is Mass at 6:30 am followed by 30 minutes of our meeting and 30 minutes of spiritual development.

Finally, we are updating this blog and Facebook site. Please bear with us as we make improvements to these sites.

Continue to check back to this site. We will be adding additional information, pictures from the projects, upcoming projects, and a lot more.

Thank you for your support.

Spiritual Corner

Relationship - Identity - Mission.

St. Joseph was hard worker who knew who he was and who he was called to be by God. He understood his relationship with God, which informed him of his identity, which in turn allowed him to see his mission. This is the order through which we all have to understand our lives: Relationship – Identity – Mission. The most important and fundamental key to who each of us is, is the fact that God has revealed Himself to us so that we might be in relationship with Himself. This relationship becomes a reality for each of us through our baptism, through which we become sons and daughters of God.

Very often we are faced with the temptation that the world offers us, which is to see things in the opposite order. The world looks at our Mission (all that we do, and whether or not we’re successful in our undertakings) and says that our identity is created by what we do. This then of course affects our relationships. What this leads to frequently is our doubting ourselves when things go wrong and when we can’t provide in the way that we would expect. Or to doing good simply for the sake of desiring to be notice and accepted. Had Joseph fallen into this trap, it certainly would have been difficult for him to have continued to be the humble man who quietly loved, served, and provided for his family.

All of the Joes are called to come and serve as Sons of God who serve humbly out of a desire to carry out their mission from God. We do not serve for the sake of building ourselves up, nor as a tool to create our identity. We all need to continue to delight in our relationship with God and to serve from a desire to spread the love of God so that many others can come to know their worth that comes from their own relationship with God.

Father Keith Romke

A Worker’s Prayer
St. Joseph, example for all those who work to support themselves and their families, obtain for me the grace to labor with thankfulness and joy. Grant that I may consider my daily endeavors as opportunities to use and develop the gifts of nature and grace I received from God. In the workplace may I mirror your virtues of integrity, moderation, patience, and inner peace, treating my co-workers with kindness and respect. May all I do and say lead others to the Lord and bring honor to God’s name.

Amen

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